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Archive for October, 2006

Happy Halloween

Halloween’s almost over so this post is a little late, but I still wanted to put up this photo of the front of our house:

The spider’s name is Hank. Hank first appeared on our roof last Halloween and was something of a hit with the local trick-or-treater crowd. This year, though, Hank hasn’t had much [...]

Shameless Exploitation of Leeks

I have no idea what this person is singing, or what she’s holding under her arm, or what it has to do with a leek. (Thanks go to Chris for this one.)

Whoops

Gee, it would be kind of embarassing to have to post this article.

Nifty PIC-Based Synthesizer Modules

There’s a fellow with a website here that documents a clever idea for building LFOs and ADSRs using PIC microcontrollers rather than the usual handful of analog components. I’m quite sure that this would be a less expensive way to build these modules, and one could build exotic things like DX7-style rate/level EGs instead of [...]

Naughty Apple

It seems that Apple isn’t above monkeying with its stock options to polish its financial image a little. There’s an article in the NY Times here that says while current employees have been cleared of any wrongdoing, the investigation is still in progress and Apple will have to restate its earnings. Nope, it just never [...]

Good Old Weird Al

Here’s a great video of a recent Weird Al song. It’s nice to see that he’s still as brilliant and funny as he was 20 years ago.

Somewhat fittingly, Tracie found this video just as I was on my way out to the garage to work on my retro-arcade game controller, and I’m typing this on [...]