The gang I love
In response to Chris’ post from a few days ago, to which I finally had time to respond: Audio format: There is no doubt that Ogg Vorbis is the superior format for fidelity. However, there is equally no doubt that MP3 is the superior format for interoperability, and no good …
This was a fairly amusing personality test that purports to assess geekiness on a scale of autistic behavior. Many geeks are believed to suffer from “Asperger syndrome,” which is a low-level autism that affects people’s behavior in a way that prevents social enrichment. I scored a 19, which was marked, …
Geek stuff: A while back I posted about a problem with Nautilus’ handling of audio CD copies. In today’s news, that looks to be fixed in the upcoming GNOME release, which should by all rights make it easily into Fedora 8. More geek stuff: Today also saw the arrival of …
It seems that all I’m doing these days is chasing the tail end of whatever I was supposed to get done the week before. Most of my busy time has come from my musical life. Leah has a final show coming up in a few weeks, and inexplicably we have …
We gave my daughter a small radio/CD player for her sixth birthday a while back, so she’s been excited to get copies of some of our CDs that she can play in her room. Yes, we still get the majority of our music the old-fashioned way, by buying CDs. So …
There’s been a stifling mini-heat wave here in the mid-Atlantic states, with temperatures yesterday and today up around 100 F, with heat indexes closer to 110 F due to the humidity (or, as I like to refer to it, “soupy crotchness”). By the way, thanks Florida! Now I can thank …
The day with the kids was actually quite wonderful. They got along great, I played a game of Quiddler with my daughter Evie (it’s her current obsession, along with sudoku), and I took them out for dinner, which is a rather parentally responsible way of saying I chickened out from …
Yesterday Evie reminded me that I had a crate full of harmonicas in almost every key. I showed her a bit of how to use them — as much as a six-year-old could handle, at least — and then I found my harp holder and decided to strum a little …
I just wanted to say how nice it is to be able to see friends from 5,000 miles away once in a while. That is all; you may now return to your Various Labours.