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Text All right… there is enough snow on the ground… I am taking the golf clubs out of the car.

I fire up Adobe Premiere, and this poops out… Enjoy!

Text House going back on the market. I am moving into the basement now so the upstairs will show better.

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All-Request Photos: Aurora Borealis, Blue Frogs, Spacewalks…

Yesterday our resident photography whiz, Alan Taylor, decided to try an experiment: he solicited reader requests for news photos. The response was great, the subject matter varied, and he says the task of finding the images and composing the entry was great fun — images ranged from massive solar flares to tiny insects, taken in places from Thailand to outer space, and much more. Read more.
[Image: Alik Keplicz/AP]

All-Request Photos: Aurora Borealis, Blue Frogs, Spacewalks…

Yesterday our resident photography whiz, Alan Taylor, decided to try an experiment: he solicited reader requests for news photos. The response was great, the subject matter varied, and he says the task of finding the images and composing the entry was great fun — images ranged from massive solar flares to tiny insects, taken in places from Thailand to outer space, and much more. Read more.

[Image: Alik Keplicz/AP]

Text Ostensibly corporate speak

A good corporate-speak article. I think I will use the word “ostensibly” all day today, just to piss people off.

Let’s try, “The goal for third-party publishers is to forge new consumer-facing technologies that ostensibly build openness and efficiency with the right inventory and audiences for their business.”

This is where you shoot me.

Text Retro Auto-tune

Back in my day, we didn’t have auto-tune. We had what we called, backing vocals. Below is a perfect example. Dave Stewart (half of the Eurythmics) is a guitarist, not a singer. That didn’t stop him from pursuing a solo career. He hired a female backing vocalist that could carry a tune, and went forth and produced music. Not really meant to be a criticism, Dave Stewart did produce some good music. Below is an example.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/p75zFvnvKGs

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Notes John Tyler’s Grandsons Are Still Alive!

My Grandfathers were born in 1887 and 1898. Not quite as impressive as this feat. On the flip side, I have talked to a 42 year old while he fished with his 7 year old grandchild.

mentalflossr:

Born in 1790, John Tyler was our 10th President. He took office in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren!

Not great-great-great-grandchildren. Their dad was Tyler’s son.

How is this possible? The Tyler men have a habit of having kids very late in life. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, one President Tyler’s 15 kids, was born in 1853. He fathered Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler in 1928.

[Source: Genealogy of John Tyler]

(via joshsternberg)

Text Mixtape Madness

I received my first boom box in 1980. I then proceeded to record off of the radio for the next couple decades. The results were what I called “junk tapes”. I think the general public would call them mix-tapes. So that’s how I will refer to them to you folk.

I am embarrassed by the ones from the 80s. I was mainly into hair bands and 70s classic rock during that decade. But then the metamorphosis from moving out to Rapid City occurred when I became involved with the college radio station out there (KTEQ). So that is where I started my digitalization project.

So here is my media upload page. These are from tapes, recorded off of radio. On occasion I was slow on hitting the record button, and missed a few seconds off of a song. I was a fan of Bob Yates Radio Basics, a talk show on KSTP AM 1500 in the Twin Cities. Also a fan of Saturday Morning sports talk on the same station, so you will here the occasional babble from these sources.

Text Experience Bettering! http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/16319862525/mm-experience-bettering

Text Beginning to think it is the Republican’s goal to give Obama a 2nd term.