Just Inept

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Oct 31, 2009 1:04pm

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We spent the morning finishing up on the mixing of the Tount album. We’re quite pleased with how things have turned out. Here’s a taste of what is to come.

Oct 30, 2009 11:23am

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songparts:

But did you hear the other thing? They’re SO EXCITED to play this song, and to KICK IT OUT, that they just skip a fucking beat. The last measure before the chord change only has three beats. And in doing that, they’re shouting LET’S GO, PEOPLE, GET ON WITH IT, LET’S LIVE HARD.

So here’s JBJ’s (and our) advice to you: if you’re excited about something, sometimes it’s OK to skip a beat. Don’t wait for dessert to arrive before you propose to her. Get in the hot tub with your pants on. Retire at 54. Submit the short story before you get your MFA. Hit the streets of Madrid before you’ve read the guidebook. Tell your best joke first.

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Oct 29, 2009 9:06am

merlin:

(via thememegeneration)

Oct 28, 2009 10:04am

“ Here, Norphel is using what is abundant — stone — to conserve what is precious — water. The idea is simple: Divert the unneeded autumn and winter runoff into a series of large, rock-lined holding ponds. As the days grow colder, the ponds freeze and interconnect into a growing glacier. He has built 10 glaciers across the region. His largest stretched more than a mile before an unusual week of rain wiped it out in 2006. ” - Indians decide to make their own glaciers (via kottke.org)

Oct 21, 2009 1:10pm

Why "Balloon Boy" Could Never Have Been

nostrich:

The case of “Balloon Boy” Falcon Heene cost emergency services a signfcant amount of money and resulted in considerable distress to cable news viewers. This paper sets out the physics behind a helium lifting balloon and explains why it should have been obvious to both emergency services and news organisations that Falcon Heene was never aboard.

Oct 19, 2009 9:24pm

“ You are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither high church nor low church, Fox nor CNN, citizen nor alien, capitalist nor communist, gay nor straight, beautiful nor ugly, East nor West, theist nor atheist, Israel nor Palestine, hawk nor dove, American nor Iraqi, married nor divorced, uptown nor downtown, terrorist nor freedom fighter, paedophile nor loving parent, priest nor prophet, fame nor obscurity, Christian nor non-Christian, for all are made one in Christ Jesus. ” - http://peterrollins.net/blog/?p=128

Oct 7, 2009 8:48pm

Make: Online : Mechanical reproduction of digitized speech on a piano

Oct 5, 2009 9:20am

Vernazza, Italy. July 5, 2009.

Three months ago this is what Sarah and I woke up to. We would spend that day hiking between the towns of the Cinque Terra and creating one of our fondest memories of our trip through Europe. Thinking back on this makes it hard to get motivated to do much here at work. That being said, you never do know how your going to look back on today three months or three years from now.

Oct 4, 2009 4:12pm