Gary Smith, in convenient web-based form.
Caveat: in Real Life, I think Tebow is a fine young man (am I really old enough to say things like that) – looking back, I was mainly snarking about CBS announcers and their man-crush on Tebow.
Enjoy…
And the tweet that started me down the path of Tebow contrarianism:
Until recently, I had a minidisc recorder which I had used to record live music – mainly my own practices and performances – and which I had occasionally used to make digital recordings of public speaking. The latter were mainly sermons at church which I recorded off the sound board so that I, as the resident A/V boy, could transfer them to CD or mp3 recordings for their web site. I’d long since switched the church to other solutions, however, my music recording had fallen by the wayside because of the minidisc’s shortcomings. This post is mainly about the Tascam DR-07 digital recorder which replaced it, but a very brief trip down minidisc memory lane will help put my excitement about this new unit in perspective.
There were two main problems with the minidisc format. Read the rest of this entry »
For about the time it takes to mow the entire lawn, I worked on my weedtrimmer on a recent afternoon.
The last of the original line had spooled out, except for about a foot long piece. I looked forward to replacing the line with child-like anticipation. Because my new weed trimmer had a Speed Spool(TM), which eliminates the tedium of taking the weed trimmer head apart by allowing the user to simply insert one ten foot line through the two openings, even up the two ends so that about five feet are sticking out on each side, then start winding the line back into the spool.
This sounded easy enough, so I pulled out ten feet of off-brand weed trimmer line (same gauge as the line used by this weed trimmer), and went to insert it. Not so fast. The afore-mentioned foot long remnant was hiding inside the spool, requiring it to be disassembled after all. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve had a lot of opportunities to observe how members of the public behave when the national anthem is played or sung. It’s apparent they don’t know what to do, so here are the complete rules, as enacted by Congress. The ones pertaining to the anthem are at the top, for your convenience. If your feelings of TL;DR are kicking in, here’s the basics: Read the rest of this entry »
An Evening of Magic: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Chuck Mangione)
My brother worked at a radio station and got a copy of this on LP. I wore the grooves off of it.
Perhaps one of the good things about the LP format was it encouraged you to listen to the whole thing instead of cherry-picking the hits. The only bad reviews on iTunes come from people who only want to get “Feels So Good.” The joy of this album is in listening to the varied textures of Mangione’s band and orchestra. If some of it has gone on to become “smooth jazz cliche” and sound like waiting room music, that’s only because it’s THAT GOOD. This album helped inspire me to be a musician because the performers seemed to be having so much fun. Sit down with a glass of something and your best headphones and really listen to it. Bell bottoms are optional.
As the woman emerged from the audience today at the funeral, I feared that she would be the first of a line of people which sometimes form at such events. I call this part of a funeral “amateur hour” or “open mic night.” I feared that she would have some wandering, off-the-cuff remarks, and that she would be followed by a congo line of even more wandering, off-the-cuff people, some of whom would seem dazed, some of whom would be crying uncontrollably and some of whom would seem to be at the wrong funeral. My wife has instructions, should I pre-decease her, to block this from happening at my funeral, or I have promised to haunt her. Read the rest of this entry »
Two of my friends have lost close relatives in the past few days. It calls to mind the following excerpt from “At a Country Funeral” by Wendell Berry.
What we owe the future
is not a new start, for we can only begin
with what has happened. We owe the future
the past, the long knowledge
that is the potency of time to come.
That makes of a man’s grave a rich furrow.
rest in peace, Bro. Al Bond and Mr. Neprud
No, this site isn’t Joomla, but the work site is, as well as a development site I have. I think I need to learn what I’m doing a bit better. Off to buy a book…
I installed a wp plugin which gives me a mobile version of the site, including the admin interface. I’m typing this from a smart phone.
Troy University Clarinet Day March 26-27, 2010 in Troy, AL
Please take a look at the attached and forward to anyone you know who has high school age clarinet students. They have lined up some extremely high level clinicians, and it would be a great benefit at a very reasonable cost. For more information, click on the link below (takes you to a page where you can retrieve the PDF)
