I just learned about a band that broke from the record companies and is offering all their music as free downloads. Please check them out:
Hopefully more bands learn that they are not going to make any money from a record company. Did you know that zero of every dollar made goes to the band. I was reading a report that broke down where every penny of each dollar goes. Did you know that the caterers get royalties! (STOP THE MADNESS! There is the real evil.)
Man I was sore today. I guess I was using muscles yesterday pulling out all the muck. I still have a leak somewhere, but it is a lot slower. I will take a look at that later this week.
I spent most of the day scanning in cat photos. These are photos from before the days of digital cameras. I have an awesome HP scanner, but it doesn’t work on the mac. So I have to keep around my PC/Windows system for that.
After that was done, we decided to go do some cloth shopping for our vegas trip. Many every store, but the department stores were jammed packed. Mostly with kids!
Ok, today was a messy day. I decided to go out and start cleaning out the pond. It started well, but then I realized how bad it is to plant egyptian papyrus in water unconfined!
The roots grow into a mass of muck that were almost 5 inches thick. that’s about 1/2 the depth of the stream and upper pond.
I was able to clear out the connection stream, and cleaned out about two thirds of the top pond. The roots did me in. I will have to go back out tomorrow and finish up the job.
Pictures of the finished work to come later.
Well we decided to remove the Torrey Pine tree out of our back yard. This tree, while gorgeous was a big pain in the neck. It woudl drop needles like crazy… Clogging the pond and cover the entire ground. The tree was well over 60 feet tall. The scary thing is it’s not even half the height it would grow to.
The removal process was incredible. The guys climbed up the tree and started removing limbs. They would swing them around using ropes and creative cuts making them land in the exact spot they wanted. It took them about three hours to bring it all down.
I now have lots of firewood now. I have to rent a log splitter though so I can break it up into smaller pieces. Anyone that wants to come over and help, is more than welcome.
We left the stump in the ground because it may make a decent base for my train bridges. It’s too awkward of a hill to grind it out. Once we clear the hill we will have a better idea of what we have to work with.
I had great hopes for this tool. It is a device that lets you play video/audio/photos from your mac. The concept is perfect; the implimentation is horrible.
It has a remote that is impossible to understand. I had to keep looking at the quick reference guide to know what the buttons do. The remote performed poorly, unless I had it sitting right in front of the unit. There is no quick skip or quick back, so when you fast forward you end up going way past, then have to rewind. The one positive was it allowed you to change the screen ratios on the fly. This was a very usefull feature. The multi-media features were pretty good. But for Video it was a poor performer. Also, the composite video required a very tight connection to work. (I think it was a bad connection on the unit).
I think they have a long way to go before they will be ready for prime time or replace my ReplayTV. I rarely give up on a device after 25 minutes, but I lost my patience with this unit very quickly. Thank goodness I bought this on amazon.com, so returns are cake.
The search continues…
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