By Fleeceman, on January 6th, 2010%
[Note: I wrote this over a year ago, then sat on it because it seemed trivial. However, since this blog has been incredibly glitchy for quite some time and I can't find the fricken code I need to contact my host, you'll just have to read a belated review, sans pictures, because hey, that's part . . . → Read More: Pineapple Express
By Fleeceman, on July 7th, 2009%
Itunes recently promoted some Library of Congress podcasts, one of which was about composing with the Devil.
Apparently, a musical interval called the tritone consists of starting on C then jumping up to F sharp, which is somehow tied to physics (and our brain). If you have a string for each note, the ratio of those strings . . . → Read More: Dangerous Music
By Fleeceman, on July 2nd, 2009%
I’m not normally one to complain about other people’s loud music. I like my music loud too, and some tunes are simply meant to be played at ear-splitting volumes: Ozzy, Jane’s, Metallica, … Chris Isaac.
I do, however, hold a certain angry, intense contempt in my heart for static: and on that note, a stereo went off the . . . → Read More: Taser Laser
By Fleeceman, on March 16th, 2009%
This finely feathered dude was captured using the camera on my iPhone. Fairly amazing.
I needed an iPhone about as much as I needed an elephant in my back yard, but since Amazon was fresh out of elephants, I opted for the simpler purchase of the phone.
Suffice to say, it’s pimp. As one fellow user . . . → Read More: The iPhone
By Fleeceman, on September 24th, 2008%
The limited braintrust of Hollywood.
I was meandering around The New York Times online this morning, and after getting disgruntled over the $700 billion buyout of the idiots on Wall Street, I ended up looking at an interactive graph of movie revenue from 1986 to 2008, adjusted for inflation.
The layout is what the vagina of a . . . → Read More: Movies in Time