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Friday, September 26, 2003

Congratulations to Rebecca Onion for nailing down Salon Blog number 3000! 6:19:12 PM    comment []

This weekend, Twyla and I will be dubbing this LP to audio CD, using Cool Edit 2000, GoldWave, and Nero Burning ROM. Besides the computer, equipped with an Audigy 2000 sound card (with front bay breakouts), I'll use an RCA LAB 2000 turntable that I bought at Radio Shack for about $100 a year ago. The turntable has a built-in preamp, which is essential to get line level signals into the sound card. I plan to document most of this process, especially any tricks to get the highest quality sound. 5:55:59 PM    comment []

Ted's Adventure... San Carlos man reunited with his cat after 10 years Microchip implant allowed Humane Society to reunite feline with his dumbfounded owner By T.S. Mills-Faraudo, STAFF WRITER When Chris Inglis of San Carlos was told the cat he lost 10 years ago was found, at first he was in disbelief, said Malu Trehan, outreach coordinator of the Peninsula Humane Society. "At first he said it wasn't his cat," she said. But when he saw Ted in the Peninsula Humane Society on Wednesday he was giddy, Trehan said. "It's pretty monumental," Inglis said in an Associated Press story. "It's almost surreal." Named after the movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," Ted was found on Sept. 18 on El Camino Real and Selby Lane in Atherton -- 13 miles south of where he used to live in Burlingame. He was brought into the Peninsula Humane Society where a microchip implanted in the cat led officials to Inglis who has since moved from Burlingame to San Carlos. 9:35:33 AM    comment []

I spent an hour at the new A Southern Season in Chapel Hill yesterday. The store is so large that I got lost! Gazillions of chocolates, jelly beans, hot sauces; row after row of exotiv imported things ending in "aki", wines, coffees, teas, cheeses, mold-encrusted old world sausages. Free samples everywhere. It didn't matter that I couldn't find my way out. There's a Radio Shack in the same mall. I was on a mission to buy some 45-adapters so I could listen to some hot wax by a promising group called The Chumps (featuring a guy named Mark Hoback). I asked a youngish clerk if they had any, but he didn't know what I meant. He brought over an older guy. I took one look at him and said "He'll know what I mean." He said they used to have them, but they were out. He walked over to the very rack where they should be and pointed to an empty hanger. Then he told me that AVS in Durham carries them. I thanked him and continued my egress. Stopped by A Kitchenworks, long one of my favorite kitchen stores. A few paces down the aisles between the packed shelves I realized this was a dead store walking. A Southern Season has high line kitchen equipment and no one will bother coming here. So sad. It was here I bought the trussing needle that I used to sew up the turducken for Christmas and the turkey breast a few weeks ago. A Southern Season doesn't carry stuff like that. Probably won't. I walked out quickly, like you leave a hospital after visiting a terminal friend. 6:28:39 AM    comment []