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General blog stuff.
A Trip Down (Magnetic) Memory Lane
I cleaned out a closet recently. That statement doesn’t adequately express the magnitude of the undertaking. This was a closet in my office/studio into which I would toss things when I couldn’t figure out where else to put them. I’d been operating in this manner for five or six years, and the closet had finally reached a sort of critical mass such that nothing more could be put into it, and nothing could be removed from it without a good deal of wrestling. Much of the contents seemed to be bound together with cables: audio cables (including instrument cables, mic cables, and eight-channel snakes of both the balanced and unbalanced variety), MIDI cables, RS-232 cables, AC cables, SCSI cables, VGA cables, Macintosh ADB cables, Ethernet cables, RJ-11 phone cables, and even the cable for the Lexicon Core Studio interface which I discarded some time ago.
Cool Animation
Click here to see something nifty. No, I don’t know who did it, or how, or why.
Paging Brian
Hey Brian–I’m not sure that I have current contact info for you. Email me or give me a phone call. No, it’s not an emergency; just wanted to say Hi. If you remember whining at Mrs. Woody, then you’re the Brian I’m trying to reach. (Come to think of it, I don’t know that many Brians.)
Two Looks at the Future, from the Past
These have been up for a little while but I ran across them at about the same time and thought that the juxtaposition was interesting. I’ve always been kind of fascinated by how people envision the future and whether those visions turn out to be accurate.
The 1939 World’s Fair is probably the most famous past version of the future. Wired recently put up a nice photo gallery emphasizing its architectural influences here and an article about the General Motors “Futurama” exhibit here. It’s interesting to consider the influence that this exhibit had on the next few decades of this country’s economy and infrastructure when you consider that, at the time it was on display, most Americans did not own automobiles and there was no interstate highway system.
Springtime in the Rockies, Exhibit Three
If I’d known that this was going to happen last night, I wouldn’t have bothered posting my previous “Springtime in the Rockies” entries:
The peonies are a little unhappy about this situation:
I don’t think that they actually froze, though, so they should be okay. Time will tell.
Radio Shack Nostalgia
I just learned of this excellent site, an archive of reproductions of Radio Shack catalogs throughout history. I recognize most of the covers from the catalogs issued in the early 1980s, which makes sense since I spent a fair amount of time in Radio Shacks in the early 1980s. Back then Radio Shack was still cool, i.e. it was still a useful source of electronics parts, kits, tools, etc. Sadly, those times have passed, but now I can gaze with nostalgia upon oddly familiar pages of simulated wood-grain stereo components.
Computer-Geek Humor
If the very notion of making jokes about programming languages strikes you as incomprehensible, you won’t find anything at all funny about this.
Springtime in the Rockies, Exhibit Two
It’s May 7th. Those colorful pots are planters in which Tracie planted dahlias last weekend. That white stuff is snow which fell last night.
The dahlias should be fine, but this is why the local rule of thumb is to not plant any frost-sensitive plants until after May 15.
Springtime in the Rockies
I have to interrupt my (admittedly sluggish) coverage of our Japan trip to post a brief video I shot earlier today. Heavy rainstorms in April are not uncommon here. Heavy snowshowers like this are less common: