http://www.keithhandy.com/internets AND VARIOUS PROJECTS THAT MAY EVENTUALLY SEE IT Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:48:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, the internet is dead today. But I guess that's to be expected, since most of the blogs I read are by Americans, and today is the day we're all out celebrating our liberation from those silly British folks, what with their nasty teeth and quaint figures of speech. This ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/07/04/happy-74/ I just left a YouTube comment that I'd like to repost. The video was an edit of some short clips from cartoons depicting racial stereotypes, or at least animals where "you can tell what color they're supposed to be". Having myself already seen some brow-raising doozies from the 1930s, most ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/06/24/quick-note-on-racism/ That's my excuse. For now. See all y'all as soon as the bug hits again! http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/06/19/less-blogging-more-doing/ A quick rant to a group of people that aren't reading this anyway: When you hang out with a group of people, physically or virtually, and you finally realize what it is about the group that bothers you, good luck expressing or resolving it. Maybe it was impossible to understand ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/06/09/my-problem-with-sucks/ My first tera... Hooray! http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/05/31/my-first-tera/ Some "blogging music", maestro: [audio:soco.mp3] Thank you, sir. I doubt many of you happen to know the 1998 version of TFBD forwards and backwards, but this is the backing track from Scratched Off, Called Off -- or, on earlier versions, Listed Black -- right off the old worn-out tape, before I've ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/05/31/pieces-parts/ Here are a few of the acquisitions that I've funded so far with my "stimulus incentive" rebate... ...just so you don't think I'm spending it frivolously. No, I'm not going through an "Elton John" phase, but it's a good guess, and it's sort of in the right direction... Thanks to Sassy for the ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/05/24/investments/ I'm not that far from having a refurbed Leave of Absence vol. 1 for all y'all. (Refurbing volume 2 was one of my side projects last year, so I'm sort of working backwards.) I finally resolved a certain gray-area type copyright issue. The new mix of the ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/05/20/subliminal-messages-are-for-the-birds/ It's never fun to lose a fuzzy buddy. She just couldn't make it through another surgery. Think a happy thought for her the next time you eat noodles. She loved them noodles. http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/05/14/rip-emily-junior/ After a quick Googling of "keep guitar in tune", it seems like there are too many incomplete answers out there, so I'd like to address a specific case of the problem that I've put up with for years. If the guitar's intonation is basically decent overall, and the strings have already ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/05/10/string-binding/ I whipped this spectral analyzer up this weekend. Unfortunately, like everything else coded in Handyland, it doesn't run in realtime; it has to be rendered as a movie first and then re-synced to the music. I think it's fun to sit and watch when it's done, though. Sometimes, if ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/05/05/homegrown-spectral-analyzer/ Like Chevy Chase says just before jumping in the pool, "this is crazy, this is crazy, this is crazy." One great thing about life at the Village Gate is that you can walk out to the parking lot with an old jacket, and stand there spray-painting it silver, and no one ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/04/30/coat-of-paint/ This is a short snippet of a song that was excluded from the 1998 CD of the rock opera, and is being re-included on the restoration: [audio:frankenkim.mp3] That is Kim's voice... what's particularly neat about it, though, is that she never actually sang that. Not even some rough version. She ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/04/26/the-sound-of-somebody-not-actually-singing-something/ Awesome quote alert: We only pretend to be addicted... Until we become addicted to pretending. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=truYme-0C4w[/youtube] What brought this on? I mean, in all total seriousness, I was one of the lightweights. A couple of these things a day. Maybe a couple more than a couple sometimes... and every so often ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/04/24/make-ciggysinkers-not-disease/ I have to admit, Turbotax has made leaps and bounds in the enjoyability department since my rantings of a couple years ago. Not only didn't they take all my money, they managed to not take all my time either. Great jaerb, guys! New York state is a ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/04/11/death-taxes-and-nazis/ Since my studio has the approximate brightness of a cave (after sundown anyway), my best bet to get a pic of my newly painted bass tonight was to take it out in the hall, under the flourescents. (Having flourescent lights inside my studio is something I'm sort of dead ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/04/06/basslift-or-bacial/ So, according to Wunderground, March will in fact be going out like a lamb. It's just waiting until the last minute to put its lamb suit on. And if I'm waiting until the last minute to have my car inspected (we have to do this once a year ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/03/29/sound-atoms/ "Crazy", when used to describe someone's mental state, is not a nice or modern term. But that aside, what does it mean? Can I say I was leaning farther that way than usual during a period roughly between 1990 and 1992? That's what I tend to do, ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/03/26/does-that-make-me-crazy-possibly/ What if I wrote a blog post every single time I did a recording session? It would be sort of like a "what I learned today" thing, like at the end of any given episode of Fat Albert or Davey and Goliath. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlmK0FwV0BQ[/youtube] I didn't really intend to replace the bass ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/03/23/what-did-we-learn-today-kids/ In innocenter times, while my mom, dad, sister and I were on one of our summer road trips, we jointly composed "Bubbles" as a game to pass the time: Bubbles are the Wonderfullest Because they're (or "they are") Round and poppable But my friend Henry says He hates them Each day [audio:bubbles.mp3] The idea (I don't know whose it was) ... http://www.keithhandy.com/internets/2008/03/15/anatomy-of-a-family-through-the-lens-of-song/