Studies that measure ocean temperature rather than air temperature are more accurate in determining whether the climate is changing, scientists say. And the newest studies conclude that the planet is warming up, and people are to blame for it.
(Via Wired News.)
My home stereo system consists of the following elements:
1. Macinstosh G3 laptop computer – a 5 year old (?) 400 Mhz Pismo running the latest iTunes software and sending the tunes out via a PCMCIA card that handles 802.11G Wi-Fi. You can pick up one of these PowerBooks used for $400-600.
2. LaCie 250 GB FireWire drive – silent/fan-less – containing around 7,000 songs at present time – ripped as Apple Lossless or AAC 224kbps files. Figure on paying around a buck per GB storage.
3. Apple AirPort Express Wi-Fi installed near each of three stereos in the house
4. The AirPort Express near my main stereo is plugged into the Digital input of an old Parasound D/A converter belonging to a CD player I don’t use much anymore. Choose any D/A converter based on your ears and your pocketbook. This part of the set-up will vary the most in price. You could use the AirPort Express’s built-in D/A converter, and I do that for the other two stereos, but they certainly won’t be as good as a dedicated converter.
Music: Guitarra Gitana – Tomatito (not available from amazon)
This is my view of the new carpet I installed yesterday – from my chair …
The texture is nice on bare feet and the pattern is interesting to the eye.
My Sound Devices 722 recorder should arrive next week. I have heard the rumor that after testing, a couple of movie companies such as Lucasfilm declared it the finest location recorder, period. My engineer told me the other day that the mic-pre-amps in the SD 722 beat the mic-pres in the Midas board in a straight comparison! Very cool. Can’t wait.
It is raining again. The spot where my dog Arko sleeps every night is marked by quite a bit of sand, which he carries into the house in his thick fur every night. I am tempted to figure out mathematically how many thousand years it would take until theoretically the hill my house is built into has been moved into the kitchen by Arko and from there to the garbage pail by me…
PS: the carpet is deep black with some dark brown speckles.
Driving a super-sized sport utility vehicle on Maryland roads could cost $750 more a year, under a bill being considered by Maryland lawmakers.
Excellent. You want a bigger piece of the road – pay for it.
Thanks Salma
Sometimes my working is play and sometimes my playing is work. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Received two Moleskine notebooks for my birthday which I will use for Up Close and Tears in the Rain. Each book to be filled with ideas, concepts, descriptions of sounds, titles etc. I imagine it will be nice to have such a book documenting the progress rather than having a file on a computer. I only use pencil on these books…
Discussed education in America with a friend yesterday. As the information age turns into the conceptual age, kids who do not have art and music classes will be ill-equipped to think in sweeping concepts. Accounting and code-writing is getting out-sourced and if countries like India teach their children the Arts, they could very well make the transformation to the conceptual age in a couple of decades, while American children might struggle to make that transition. Watching MTV does not count as getting a music education!
Santa Feans are enjoying the rain and snow we have been getting this winter. To remember this much moisture we have to look back to the early eighties!
A chief judge… faces a drunken-driving charge after he drove off a dead-end road in southwest Santa Fe about 1 p.m. Friday with an open bottle of vodka in his government-owned minivan, police said.
Only in New Mexico.
Received my new Treo 650 on Monday and am loving it. Although some early reports claimed that there were problems with the phone’s bluetooth hooking up to Toyota and Honda cars – mine connected to the car on the first try. The reception is great as well. I am donating my Tungsten C to Canton, who will use it to write music while he is in Mexico next month… I hope he will share some his “Palm Music” in our Listening Lounge…
I watched about 4 minutes of the Grammy show on TV on Sunday? Does anybody else think it is a complete embarrassment?
