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Sweet
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I cannot say exactly why, but this is about as cool as all get out. Knitting as graffiti
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Funny wet cats
Category: Geek
links for 2007-06-02
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Wow – this is cool to watch
links for 2007-06-01
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This is kind of interesting to me, though I tend to brush crap like this off.
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Reason 101 to go Mac – this stuff is built in. But, it’s easy on Linux, too, which makes me wonder why Microsoft hasn’t rolled it into windows…Interpoerability and all
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I don’t need, but this is cool.
links for 2007-05-30
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Cool. Beats the snot out of what i did on my summer vacations
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Sweet. I need me one of these
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Wow, I love this. It’s like Schoolhouse Rock, ‘cept even better
links for 2007-05-29
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“Even the crackles before the record starts sound good.” No lie.
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A fascinating quandry – when there’s a computer that can tap into the brain stem, do you chip your kid? What about the RIFD microchips, or tracking chips that are available and legal now? How ’bout tattooing your kid? Or are these things that should wait
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Infrastructure hacking – keeps me up nights. Especially when we were living in Houston, I’d worry prior to driving home that there’d be about 4 major accidents and a power outage on Westheimer, and the city’s streets would become effectively a parking lot
links for 2007-05-15
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Go Floyd Go
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Wow, I’d forgotten exactly how cool the island is. Much like the Texas Hill Country, provided you flooded it with the most amazing blue sea ever.
links for 2007-05-13
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The Giro’s starting this morning from a little island north of Sardinia, Caprera. There’s a Navy base between Caprera and Sardinia, LaMaddelena, where the Navy’s been overhauling subs since the end of WWII. Absolutely great place. Spent a couple of weeks
links for 2007-05-12
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Hey ATT – if FIOS comes to our neighborhood, we’re jumping
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Wow – only one more season of BSG. I think I’m pretty psyched that they’re not going to drag it out, but depressed at the same time that good TV will be ending. The other interesting bit is that Katee Sackhoff will be playing the Bionic Woman on NBC. Whic
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Wouldn’t surprise me in the least…
Podcast Workflow
Chris Brogan asked for podcast workflows today. Mine follows:
We use an Roland Eridol MP3 recorder patched into the PA to capture the audio feed. One of the chior members turns on the recorder as they go out at the beginning of the service, and turns it off at the end of the service. We capture audio at CD quality (44100 sample rate, 24 bit).
After coffee, I go grab the SD card out of the recorder, and take it home. I use Audacity and my MacBook to trim the file – start just before the Gospel reading, and end at the end of the post-sermon prayer.
Once the file is trimmed, I do a high-pass filter with a cutoff at 70 Hz to get rid of any 60Hz that we picked up from the electrical system, and a low-pass filter at about 3.5 KHz to get rid of any higher frequency noise. I’ve experimented with the “Noise Removal” effect, but it either
1) Doesn’t do much; or
2) Adds digital artifacts.
I then export the file as a 44.1KHz/24 bit WAV, and run it through the Levelator.
Re-import the output into Audacity, and use the Lame MP3 encoder to export as 11.5KHz/8 bit MP3.
Our platform is WordPress with the PodPress plugin. I use the FireFTP plugin in Firefox (Flock, actually) to upload the file.
Then, it’s a matter of New Post -> Include audio file -> Post; and we’re done.
The only trouble we ran into was trying to figure out why our initial posts sounded like chipmunks in the flash player included with PodPress, but that turned out to a non-standard MP3 bitrate on our part.
links for 2007-05-11
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To heck with them. If it’s the public’s dime buying the service, the public ought to be able to crawl all up in the archives of whomever’s doing the work.
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And life ought to be fair, and love ought to be free. ‘S all right, though – I’m working on digitizing beer. Maybe the computers will forget. But, more likely, we’re going to get to see this guy’s college pics whenever we want from here on out.
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This is why Scott Adams gets huge checks for writing comedy, and why I’m a mid-grade engineer:Pause to consider how much you would pay to see Nancy Pelosi kick Dick Cheney in the nuts on national television. I’ll bet it’s a big number. Imagine tha
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Basso. Freakin’ Basso and his “Hey, I only planned on doping, I never actually did it”. Fatty hits this one out of the park.
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If we all just send him $20 will he let us just remember the original trilogy in peace?
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Again I say – Hamiltoy served his time. Even if he’s implicated in Puerto, unless it’s from like last year, to heck with it. Let the man ride.
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I said it before, and I’ll say it again – broadband internet is as important in the 21st century as highways were in the 20th.
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This is pretty cool. I rode this over the weekend, sorry I haven’t posted. My pictures are over at my flickr account.