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I always look forward to Denny Hatch’s newsletters (which have been slim lately. . .) and this article from Jan 13 on creating and making use of a private archive of data stuck out to me as noteworthy.  How does one collect, maintain, and use a great deal of research and data?  Denny provides a…

I’ve had a piece of Crown Financial’s advice on my mind for some months now as a “to-do” item—create a want-need-desire list to evaluate my use of money.  Wanting first (before creating the list) to re-read the intent and meaning of these three terms in this context, I dug up Crown’s article here.  I really…

http://www.diyphotography.net/ And, a few links found off that site: http://pixsylated.com/2008/12/smashing-pumpkins-with-high-speed-sync-gan… http://digitalprotalk.blogspot.com/2008/09/technique-tuesday-my-cheatin-…

After moving to Winterset in 2005 after graduation, Stacy and I visited the Winterset Public Library‘s summer book sale, and while there I picked up a respectable stack of Biblical Archaeology Review magazines from the early ’90s.  Fast forward a few years, and I’m sitting in the basement cracking open the covers of these magazines…

I know we’ve all read them, but after stumbing upon a list of Chuck Norris jokes in my email archive I found that many of these jokes facts still bring a smile to my face. I hope you enjoy—http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

The summer before my senior year of high school I stopped in to a fundraising sale at the Four Square Gospel Church in Winterset and for some pocket change stumbled upon something which provided a visual reference for something I’d find myself unsatisfactorally curious about—the analog modular synthesizer. The dusty Pickwick album has little critical…

I’ve made it on MatrixSynth! http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/12/sequential-circuits-prophet2002-… MatrixSynth is a blog I visit multiple times a day to see what’s happening in the synth world.  Little did I suspect that the morning after posting some cut-and-dry “how-to” clips on YouTube of using disks with the Sequential Circuits Prophet 2002 that I would find myself gracing the…

Stacy and I are both having trouble thinking of what to gift this Christmas for a few of our friends and family.  In the event you’re deep in despair, uncertain of what gifts I’d like to receive under the tree, I thought I’d prepare a list and save you some trouble 🙂  Links may be…

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” —Letter from John…

A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music. The songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of Manchester. The recording has been unveiled as part…