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Pineapple Express

Fleeceman — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:44:16 +0000

[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

Dangerous Music

Fleeceman — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:37:45 +0000

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

Taser Laser

Fleeceman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:29:54 +0000

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

The iPhone

Fleeceman — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:06:55 +0000

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

Movies in Time

Fleeceman — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:17:30 +0000

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