Late last Sunday we got a lot of snow which gave me the opportunity on Monday to work from home. Â I think we got about six inches of snow which isn’t really that much but it was very heavy, as you can see from the picture below, a tree I park under was weighed down over my car and almost to the street. Â It was fun moving it.Â
One Sunday a few weeks ago I stumbled into a song. Â I thought it sounded good so I spent a couple hours setting up some mics and I put a rough mix together. Â Although it’s far from perfect I’m happy with how it came out. Â I still have a lot of work left on it but I feel this is a decent rough cut, especially for being recorded in a basement next to a water heater that was on at the time.Â
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  So in the song you might be able to count four guitar tracks and some drums.  I had to do the drums on a keyboard since I can’t afford a decent set and I don’t have the micing capabilities.  Surprisingly there is a lot of low end with no actual bass tracks.  Although the song is done with four guitar tracks I can play almost all of it in one take, I just wanted to get some good placement for the instruments.  Â
I have a feeling I’m not the only person that can say they were a little disappointed with the latest Apple keynote.  Well I guess I can say I’m more than a little.  I’m very surprised that they released the eight core Mac Pro and new X-Servers last week with them knowing this is all they had to offer this week.
MacBook Air
 
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 Cute and compact I think this is a decent attempt to make a smaller more portable computer.  But not for $1,700 – $3,098.  If your going to spend that much you should get a real computer.  For a 1.6GHZ Duo Core 2, an 80 GIG drive with 2 GIG’s of ram I feel like I’m getting robbed.  This computer would possibly considerable if it were ≤ $1000.  Anything more than that and your throwing your money away.  For that price get a Macbook with a much faster processor, more storage and more ram.  I feel like this item falls next to the Apple TV.  A for effort, D for suck.  Bring this back home and do it over.
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 Apple TV & Time Capsule
 
 I am a bit glad that they gave some attention to the Apple TV.  Finally making an interface to give it access to the iTunes store.  I’m not too impressed by their new movie rental service.  $5 for a new movie rental, and $4 for older movies.  Something like this isn’t going to take me away form Netflix, and if this was the case I would just go to Blockbuster and get the physical DVD. Â
As for Time Capsule, I feel like this can go either way $500 for a 1TB wireless N access point isn’t so bad. Â However something like this isn’t for me. Â I’d rather just get a cheap external drive to make my Time Machine backups. Â I rarely use wireless as it is. Â
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And that was it, really just leaving me disappointed.  I guess you can’t win them all.
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GOOD DAY SIR!
So I got to write a song earlier this week for the company I’m working with. It’s not good nor bad. I’m feeling pretty confident for having it done in three hours. You can listen to it here.