Month: June 2005

Okay, we’ve got Matt, ben, Sam, Arthur, and God knows who else here who will have an opinion.. and I want them all..

I want to buy a (non digital) 88 key upright piano, but I don’t want to spend a lot of money. I know I can walk into a store and pay 3K for an OK piano.. and I’m not looking for perfection.

I also know I can go on Ebay, and pay 400 dollars.. but I’m not looking for something that will suck.

What I am looking for is something inbetween, and I need anecdotes, “where to start”s, opinions and advice.. (and boyoboy is this the place for opinions and advice).

So, c’mon people.. where DO I start?

So AOL’s running the Greatest American contest. Nominations have been ongoing for weeks, and it’s down to the last twenty-five. Click the “read more” link to see who I voted for 🙂

Albert Einstein. Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think it’s slightly skewed due to these only being famous great Americans. I chose

• Albert Einstein for his lasting contribution to scientific understanding,
• Rosa Parks for standing up for herself by refusing to give up her seat, and lighting the flame that swept the nation to rid us of a great injustice,
• And Martin Luther King, Jr. for showing us how we can bring about massive, relatively peaceful changes. Without revolution. Without violence. And today, we are a nation without institutionalized racism.

On the other hand, I was appalled to see Oprah Winfrey, Billy Graham, and Bill Gates on there as possible nominees. Television talk show host, populist charlatan televangelist, and billionaire who’s fortune was founded by theft of the CP/M code? No thanks.

Should women be allowed to drive?

It was only eight-five years go, in 1920, when the 19th amendment was passed, allowing women in the US to vote. At least one right-wing extremist politician from Kansas thinks that allowing women to vote was a mistake, and the amendment should be repealed.

Ironic to see a modern country, with modern amenities, fighting over something as basic as driving a car. And then I realize we were in the same place not long ago, and but for the efforts of left-wing extremist groups to balance out the right-wingers, we’d be there today.

Can anyone recommend a cool podcaster?

I’ve been hearing about the new podcasting rage but have been unsuccessful at finding a quality podcaster (or two). The providers I’ve located have ended up being too amateur for my tastes. Most podcasters I’ve found tend to follow the conflicting-personalities format, which quickly becomes stale.

I bought my Mom an iPod two years ago so she could tote around the latest in audio entertainment gear. My Mom reveled in having a superior gadget than her senior friends. However, when it came time to buy an mp3 player for the fiancee, I decided an iPod wasn’t worth it. Instead I picked up a Creative Muvo TX, which was 1/3 of the iPod price, has replaceable batteries, has no moving parts (so you can workout while listening), offers a radio, and contains enough capacity to put on the equivalent of 6 albums. Although the iPod offers more storage space, the size of the Muvo was fine. Size has never been an issue in our household (ba da BING!!!).

I was intriqued once I realized that Podcasting was player-agnostic. Originally, I was under the impression that pocasting only worked with an actual iPod player. So I started searching but uncovered lamecasters.

Help a brother out.