Archive for January, 2008
sound advice
Here are a couple great links to bookmark if you’ve ever thought of hooking up a turntable or cassette deck to a computer. First off, a good concise overview of the process at Macworld: digitize your cassettes and LPs. That article hits all the major points, with one glaring exception: cleaning up the pops, crackles, [...]
Heath Ledger, RIP
I grabbed this image off the web a week or two ago to write a post about this year’s upcoming Batman movie — The Dark Knight. Watching the movie will be bittersweet, however, as actor Heath Ledger — who played the role of The Joker in this upcoming film — was found dead this afternoon [...]
Ron and Top Hat battle to a stalemate
After running some errands this afternoon (cat litter, cigarettes, Home Depot — you know, the necessities), I thought I would treat myself to a quick game of Monopoly. I just bought the game a couple weeks ago as a daily deal on MacZot. I hadn’t played Monopoly in well over 10 years, and I used [...]
my debut album
This is a fun blog meme (found via Max): create your own album cover. And there’s my album cover to the right. Get your band name from a random Wikipedia entry. Get your album title from the last 4 words of the last quotation on a random quotes page. And finally, get your album cover [...]
a bad dream
I fired up my RSS reader last night after a long day at the office, and for the first time in memory the feed numbers in the “Mac” category outnumbered all other categories — to be expected, I guess, on the day of Steve Jobs’ keynote at Macworld, and the related new product announcements. I [...]
the logo gets wings
I wasn’t planning on redesigning the Leather Egg logo when I launched the new redesign, but after looking at the new design a few days, I decided the old logo looked too plain. So what started out as a leather egg (to the right, existing only in Photoshop, however), became an egg outline swoosh, and [...]