Our Persisting Memories

The new season of Top Gear premiered on Sunday. As such you can find it in the usual place , with a twist. Just like my music archive, I've decided to consolidate and organize my video archives. You can find instructions in the private downloads section . If you don't know the password, e-mail me and I'll get it to you. Otherwise you're stuck with torrents, newsgroups, IRC or some clandestine ftp site. Wordpress 2.1 is nice from what I can tell. I'll be back with more posts after the latest project from work is done.

I'm not sure what castrated Consumer Reports, but their rating system is absolutely horrible when it comes to electronics. Maybe I'm just irritated that Bose rates so highly on their headphone tests. I had the chance to listen to some Bose Triports via my ipod/amp combo (which is normally used with my Sony MDR-V6 or Modified Shure e2c iems) and couldn't stand the sound. Listening to a muffled dog being mutilated by a rusty chainsaw would have been preferable. It does however accurately portray the sound signature. Of course, this is a definite step up from the stock iPod earbuds, but the same could be said by some Koss KSC75 headphones (15 bucks from your local radio place, and the Koss' are actually good.) I do have a theory. Consumer Reports hates bass. They hate it with a passion. I agree with their winners in some of the categories, but I also feel that the Grado sound isn't right for me. They're too bright. The highs sparkle in those little cans bu...

See variety article here . I can't wait. This is, by far, my favorite fantasy series. I hope they can preserve the gritty detail without becoming exploitative.

Just search google. I'll do everything I can to help him win, but he isn't going to make it past the Republican primaries. His chances of winning overall are better than if he were running as a Libertarian, like he did in 1988. Too bad the Republican party has been hijacked by neocons. I do however predict a large unified grassroots campaign for the guy. I'll help. The media will hate this man. Oh Ron Paul, I am both happy and sad at these prospects. I am happy that I can put my heart behind a candidate and saddened that the floppy eared, limp brained denizens of the US will listen to Fox News, CNN, or MSNBC and give their vote to a lobbyist entertaining traitor to the US constitution. I'm going to be a frothing lunatic.

Here's a little Youtube video that explains the whole loudness thing.

My initial impressions of the iPod were a little lackluster. I received the 80 gig iPod as a gift along with a set of Shure e2c in-ear monitors (iems from here on out). I loaded some music on, plugged in my earphones, and pushed play. The shures give a very warm sound, with a distinct high end roll-off at around 10khz. I liked the tonal quality except for the lack of bass below about 50hz. Iems are finnicky when it comes to bass as you have to make sure you have a good seal with your ear (for those unfamiliar, the experience of wearing iem style earphones is much like wearing a rigid earplug. I actually like the shure e2c, specifically because I don't have to force them as far in my ear. The larger body of the e2c rests against the inside of my earlobe and keeps the entire thing in place. It seems my ears are perfectly shaped to take advantage of this). I double checked the seal and played some bass extension test tracks on my PC. The e2cs weren't the problem. So I tur...

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So all the Clarkson posts are gone. I made a backup of the DB before I pruned them. I'll restore them to another URL in due time, but for now this blog is all Atchley, all the time.

Sorry, my brain is addled right now from writing some client side html parsing scripts. Christmas and New Years have come and gone. Sophia made out like a bandit. While entertaining, the gifts seem to have increased her ability to hit something hard while falling over. There's a metal Jack-in-the-box that seems intent on maiming poor Sophia. There's some sort of gravitational field around it that only affects her head. She's quick to bounce back though. I'd punish the toy for hurting my daughter by melting it down or making a mouse launcher (reverse mousetrap) out of it, but she genuinely loves the little thing. So let's run down the things that have happened since I last made a real post here. Bekah (my sister) got married to Jonathan Griffin. He's the other half of the awesome post HERE Heather is pregnant and due on August 2nd Adrian (Spencer's Wife) is also pregnant and due in August Jennifer (Heather's Sister) is pregnant and due in August I ...