I’ve become quite a soundtrack fanboy over the past year or so. My responsibilities at work have shifted such that I’m spending much more time in my office and less in the lab. That said, my brain is wired in a fashion where music with lyrics is very distracting when I’m writing or reading. To [...]
First, a little background. I haven’t really played guitar much at all since my son Zack was born 12 years ago. I’d sold my cherished Gretsch electric and amp due to lack of free time (and impossibility playing with sleeping babies around). Before that, I’d been playing since I was 13. Back to the future, [...]
First off, I’d like to apologize to the incredibly long list of people out there that (don’t) read Ditlog for the lack of content. I was hoping that Ditlog would generate a little more buzz and interaction, but seeing none, I’ve been less than motivated to spend time writing. Moreover, I’m working on content for [...]
Our huge home town annual event, Musikfest, has come and gone a few weeks back. My friend Jon turned me on to an amazing musician and lyricist, George Hrab, with his excellent philosofunky band the Geologic Orchestra in tow. Awesome night – instant fan. Geo’s show was the highlight of my Musikfest 2006, even considering [...]
Using captured and choreographed World of Warcraft footage, Mike “Spiff” Booth has created some great music videos for a few of Jonathan Coulton’s funny, geek-centric songs, including “Skullcrusher Mountain” and my absolute favorite, “re: Your Brains”. Check them out on Spiff’s YouTube page, and be sure to visit Jonathan Coulton’s site as well of course, [...]
I’ve been feeling the age of my Wintel PC for some time – at least as far as gaming horsepower goes. With Windows Vista supposedly just around the corner though, I’d made the decision to wait and see what was going to happen regarding emerging DirectX 10.0 hardware and the new OS system requirements before [...]
While I’m touting music, I have to push one more band – Dark New Day. Our hometown has a huge annual 10-day music festival called, simply enough, Musikfest. My wife and I had volunteered to work as ushers at several shows, including Seether with Crossfade. The second opening band turned out to be Dark New [...]
Last night, my wife and I were watching the first season of Battlestar Galactica on DVD. We’d only seen the miniseries prequel so far, and holy cow! This show does *not* disappoint, or pale in any way compared to all the hype. Give me more! I digress though. While watching said delectable sci-fi goodness, I [...]