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Friday, July 30, 2004

1932 Hoover did not believe that the depression would last - "Prosperity is just around the corner" is what he said to businessmen in 1932 when things were just about at their worst. Squalid cardboard campsites were created in cities to live in...called "Hoovervilles". The nick-name of the soup given out by charities for the unemployed was "Hoover stew". 2004 President Bush hit the campaign trail Friday to unveil broad themes of his agenda for the next four years. The Bush campaign says the president is using a new "we've turned a corner" campaign theme during stops in America's heartland. Somebody buy him a history book!   11:11:58 PM    comment []

Working on an impossible audio file tonight, one of my favorite aphorisms came to mind. I never heard it until a couple of years ago, yet it speaks with the wisdom of the ages:             “You can’t polish a turd.”   I deleted noises horizontally and vertically from the file, until it looked like chessboard on the spectrum analyzer. It was hopeless. I tried about three different times to slice and dice the noise out of the file.   Hopeless.   Then I mixed them together. Triangulated them, to use some 90s Politspeak. It sounded pretty good. Not perfect, but okay. Not bad. So then I came up with the obvious corollary:             “…But you can sculpt it.”   10:45:52 PM    comment []

Back in the jar and ready to share... 5:49:08 AM    comment []