April 21, 2008
AOPA Town Meeting Tuesday April 22, 2008
FYI, I plan on attending the AOPA Town Meeting with President Phil Boyer in Arlington Heights, IL on Tuesday, April 22, 2008. If any of youse guys are going to be there, send me an e-mail or let me know via twitter, username: Oblivion.
The Chicago Aviation Meetup Group is trying to meet and greet at the event, though I haven't seen specific plans yet. If you're local and haven't joined, look into it.
Hope to see you tomorrow!
April 13, 2008
Half Marathon Wrapup Interview with My Darling Rose
Click to listen, right-click to save -> Half Marathon Wrapup Interview with My Darling Rose - 15.3MB - 21:47
On Sunday, April 6, My Darling Rose ran/walked in the Go! St. Louis Half-marathon - her first ever such athletic event. This weekend, I interviewed her to find out just what the HELL she was thinking when she got herself into this. :)
In addition to this interview, she has also posted a cool write-up in her LiveJournal, so check that out.
If you'd like to join her in the upcoming Chicago Distance Classic Half Marathon on August 10, 2008, contact her via her LiveJournal or through me using the contact info on this page.
BTW, her time was 2:46:11. Not bad at all for a rookie. Congrats, babe, we're very proud of you.
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April 11, 2008
Olympia Phantom Riding Suit Review
Olympia Phantom One-piece Suit Review - 18.6MB - 26:25
Official web site for Olympia Phantom suit.
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April 10, 2008
Electronic Jam Night 3/31/2008
Electronic Jam Night, 3/31/2008 - 43.7MB - 22:46
JVonD talked me into doing his Electronic Jam Night again and here's the result.
The Electronic Jam night is audio and video stream fed into SecondLife (or any media player via the stream links on JVonD.com) and consists of 'electronic' musicians performing low-pressure live sets of whatever they can come up with. It's kind of like a digital coffee house open mic. I love it because though I've never played out in real life, I always get good response and encouragement from these digital performances.
In this 'jam,' I just played the Korg Karma straight through. Since it was really last-minute and I didn't have anything planned, I stuck with the EXB-09 Trance Attack presets in the "Tranzfer" set I bought from EJ2 Sounds a little while back after I got my EXB-09 expansion board.
Often I'll throw in some effect-heavy guitars, but this is all Karma. What is presented here has been compressed a touch in post. As for content editing, I cut out dead spaces, overblown speaking portions (they're still a little hot, but few and far between) and made a few transitions more elegant (something I still need to learn to do live), but it's presented in what I like to call "Pretty Much Live," warts and all. If there's any interest I might break this into individual tracks, but for now I'm just putting up the whole she-bang-a-bang.
Please let me know what you think - pro or con.
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April 02, 2008
R.I.P. Uncle Bob
It looks like I'll be in my old neighborhood soon. I just got word that a good family friend and deer hunting buddy passed away this afternoon. I have no details other than an ambulance was at the house around 1:00 p.m. and he was gone. The phone tree went into action from there. He was 62 or so.
Pisser.
Though we weren't particularly close, he's someone I've known my entire life. They owned the very first house on our block. He was "Uncle Bob." It was in his back yard that I fell off the monkey bars and split my head open - good for 22 stitches. His 4 sons were my best friends and sometimes "enemies" growing up. He was my Cub Scout Den Leader for a while. He was a quiet, stern-looking dude, but when he spoke, 95% of the time it was funny as hell.
The last time I saw him was on my birthday this year. Here's perhaps the last photo I have of him - livin' it up with the ladies:
Rest in Peace Uncle Bob.
