Redwood Asylum (emeritus)
...by the inmates...for the inmates...
Saturday, October 19, 2002
Me, Socialize? Bah, Humbug!
Maria and I attended the annual neighborhood picnic today. Although some folks find this hard to believe, I've become more reluctant to attend social events as I get older. Don't feel I have anything interesting to say. So why the hell would I start a blog? Beats me. Luckily, Maria drags me along anyway and I usually have a good time.
My parents, on the other hand, are very social critters. They participate in dinner groups, volunteer at their church, the local hospital, and the local wild animal park. Maybe the gene responsible for socializing skips a generation.
Greetings To The East Coast
Thanks to JoAnn W. in NY for requesting this web address again. If you missed it, you were mentioned in my post titled Another Wedding last Sunday.
Blogging Intro
One reader wondered what 'blogging' means. This web site is organized as a 'web log', a term shortened to 'weblog', and eventually to just 'blog'. The act of regularly posting items on a web site, organized in reverse-chronological order, comprised of comments and links to other articles of interest, is called 'blogging'. There are many software packages which assist in the task. The software I use is called Radio UserLand. The introductory links mentioned below might be helpful.
Another View Of RIAA Stupidity
The full article is worth the quick read.
I Am Not A Link Whore
In the last few days I found three items in my RSS feeds referencing posts from this, my sad little backwater blog. Those who have blogged since 'the web was young' have probably forgotten the thrill of first seeing your site mentioned somewhere. Goggle doesn't count. You can find all of us in Google; robots will read anything. But people (kind, wonderful people) saw fit to re-post something mentioned here.
Thank you to Don W. Strickland for the re-posts in his RadioFAQ category. I find many wonderful things there, which I stash in my own RadioFun category for off-line access. The same applies to his main dws site.
Thanks also to Joe Jenett for his re-post. I enjoy his site as well as his themes. Although the main Redwood Asylum site has a Userland theme, my RadioFun category and my Radio personal web desktop use his jenett.radio.simplicity.v2.1 theme. I also use his randomizer button. See the little blue-grey button
at the top of the left-hand navigation column? Try it. You'll be automagically transported to another site in the Radio randomizer network. What have you got to lose? Or try the button right here!
The Rule Of Unintended Consequences
My favorite 2L in Boston has a few words about not pushing the envelope too far.
Ground-hugging Fog
When you really want to impress those Halloween visitors, bury them in a blanket of cool ground-level fog. Go on... you know you want to.
11 vs. 6 megapixel digital camera shots
I'm not ready to spend the money, but the pros among you might be. The new 11 megapixel Canon EOS-1Ds is looking pretty interesting.
...by the inmates...for the inmates...
Saturday, October 19, 2002Me, Socialize? Bah, Humbug!
Maria and I attended the annual neighborhood picnic today. Although some folks find this hard to believe, I've become more reluctant to attend social events as I get older. Don't feel I have anything interesting to say. So why the hell would I start a blog? Beats me. Luckily, Maria drags me along anyway and I usually have a good time.
My parents, on the other hand, are very social critters. They participate in dinner groups, volunteer at their church, the local hospital, and the local wild animal park. Maybe the gene responsible for socializing skips a generation.
11:44:50 PM
Greetings To The East Coast
Thanks to JoAnn W. in NY for requesting this web address again. If you missed it, you were mentioned in my post titled Another Wedding last Sunday.
11:05:20 PM
Blogging Intro
One reader wondered what 'blogging' means. This web site is organized as a 'web log', a term shortened to 'weblog', and eventually to just 'blog'. The act of regularly posting items on a web site, organized in reverse-chronological order, comprised of comments and links to other articles of interest, is called 'blogging'. There are many software packages which assist in the task. The software I use is called Radio UserLand. The introductory links mentioned below might be helpful.
Weblogs?. Sarah Lohnes of the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College has started to compile some good introductory links on the topic of Weblogs. [Seblogging News]
10:46:08 PM
Another View Of RIAA Stupidity
The full article is worth the quick read.
Rules for the RIAA. Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper weighs in on the music/copyright debate with a scathing column about the music industry's foolishness:
Be sanctimonious: Claim to be more concerned about the artists than about your profits. You are selfless; your only interest is paying the musicians, without whom you would be nothing. Pray that nobody remembers countless rockers who signed away their souls on recording contracts and were dumped the moment their sales started slipping.Link Discuss (Thanks, Kevin!) [Boing Boing Blog]Misunderstand your market: When you count the songs being swapped on peer-to-peer networks, do not notice that most are moldy oldies. It's still theft, you argue, even if you yourself stopped paying royalties for those songs in 1961. Blame piracy, not taste, for your inability to sell new songs that no radio station will play.
Lie: Go on Kazaa, count the MP3 versions of songs you produced, old and new, and multiply that number by the current retail price of a CD; howl that you are losing a fortune. Forget that a Buddy Holly album sold for $2.95 in 1958; you sell records for much more now, and that's the price you use when calculating your losses — it's more impressive.
10:27:23 PM 
I Am Not A Link Whore
In the last few days I found three items in my RSS feeds referencing posts from this, my sad little backwater blog. Those who have blogged since 'the web was young' have probably forgotten the thrill of first seeing your site mentioned somewhere. Goggle doesn't count. You can find all of us in Google; robots will read anything. But people (kind, wonderful people) saw fit to re-post something mentioned here.
Thank you to Don W. Strickland for the re-posts in his RadioFAQ category. I find many wonderful things there, which I stash in my own RadioFun category for off-line access. The same applies to his main dws site.
Thanks also to Joe Jenett for his re-post. I enjoy his site as well as his themes. Although the main Redwood Asylum site has a Userland theme, my RadioFun category and my Radio personal web desktop use his jenett.radio.simplicity.v2.1 theme. I also use his randomizer button. See the little blue-grey button
at the top of the left-hand navigation column? Try it. You'll be automagically transported to another site in the Radio randomizer network. What have you got to lose? Or try the button right here! 9:07:02 PM
The Rule Of Unintended Consequences
My favorite 2L in Boston has a few words about not pushing the envelope too far.
More Geek!
...We get everything for free ... but we lose something that a lot of people don't think about -- massive centralized repositories of case law. Maybe that doesn't outweigh the benefit of free or new searching, but it's something to consider. What happens when one state's server goes offline (or gets hacked)? What happens if the building catches on fire and that state didn't want to spend the money on off-site backups ... There are a lot of valid reasons why free isn't necessarily better... [a mad tea-party]
8:41:59 PM
Ground-hugging Fog
When you really want to impress those Halloween visitors, bury them in a blanket of cool ground-level fog. Go on... you know you want to.
Fun with Fog Generators [Slashdot]
8:19:28 PM
11 vs. 6 megapixel digital camera shots
I'm not ready to spend the money, but the pros among you might be. The new 11 megapixel Canon EOS-1Ds is looking pretty interesting.
On high resolution digital photography....
Canon EOS-1Ds vs. EOS-D60. Dave over at Imaging Resource has just posted a side-by-side comparison of the eleven megapixel EOS-1Ds and the six megapixel EOS-D60 posing the question "How much difference does it make?" [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] [Ye Olde Phart]
8:04:49 PM