Idiots and their money...

...are soon parted in some of the stupidest places. Why do people feel the need to throw coins anywhere they see water, and sometimes even where they don't. I've seen it in fountains, at the ferry dock in Disney World on the pilings of all places, in streams in the mountains, I mean really what do they get from it? I just was watching a show on the National Geographic channel about the Grand Canyon and they were talking about a condor that choked to death on a coin thrown from an overlook by tourists. From what I saw you can't even SEE WATER!! Why? What pushes people to throw coins? Where do they believe the coins go? Charity? I doubt it, probably goes into someone's pocket. I gotta find a way to put a pond, a fountain, some kind of water feature in public. I seriously doubt I'd ever have to work again.

From the iPod

This is the first post from my iPod, and quite possibly my last. What a pain to type on something this small. Well had to try it at least once I guess.

Didn't last long did it?

I'll have to find other uses for the blog, as the industry just doesn't have that many events any longer. No small tours, no "get togethers" everything is just announced on the web, very little human interaction. Got a question? Write support. You can check on a forum, and maybe you'll get the answer, or maybe you'll just get a troll trying to stir up trouble. I know tours, shows and the like cost money no one seems to have any more, and attendance always seems light, but there has to be some type of middle ground right? In some fantasy world maybe but its all or nothing in the real world.

Aldo Nova pick me up on your way out.

Back to the beginning

I started this blog to be able to update people about what I was doing, especially when I was out of town at tradeshows. In an attempt to get things back on track all the way around I thought I'd start doing the updates from industry events again at the very least, and so I present Mix Nashville, or wish I could. So many are missing from this years event it makes me wonder about the very industry itself. No Apple, NO Digidesign, no Logic, no Microsoft. I know this doesn't spell the end of the business but come on, Digi has had a rep in Nashville forever and they couldn't even muster a table or at least some brochures? Some of the panels seem interesting, and Cakewalk is here, so is Roland (they own Cakewalk) so not a total loss but things seem very different this year. I can't put my finger on what it is but I'm keeping a weather eye on the horizon for next minute or two for certain.

What - what maker???

Tilt Shift Maker! What fun, check out the website it's a blast. I've been playing with this website for a couple of weeks now and it's so addictive. If you'd like an in depth description of the origin of the effect here's the wikipedia entry for tiltshift . There's even a flickr group , so enjoy!

Been a while

Well the last post was when we elected our next President, and soon he'll be sworn into office. Maybe this is a new day for all of us, in our own way. I know I need a new start. in every way. Well the light of the dawn always seems to bring new hope.

History

For a while now I've been looking for something to blog about, and I guess this would have to qualify as something to write about. I've seen "history" made in my lifetime, not all of it good, in fact most bad, or at best just sad.

July 20, 1969 man lands on the moon, I didn't really see it I don't think, but I was alive. This was good. August 9, 1974 Nixon resigns. April 30, 1975 last choppers out of Saigon, the end of the Vietnam War. 4 November 1979 Iran takes US Embassy, hostage crisis begins. 8 December 1980 John Lennon shot. March 30, 1981 an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, and on December 25, 1991 the Soviet Union dissolved.On December 19, 1998 Bill Clinton was impeached and acquitted narrowly of the charges on February 12, 1999. September 11, 2001 is hard to think about even today. I could go on with the Iraq War, the War in Afghanistan, but I think enough time has been spent dwelling on the past.

Tonight, at 11:30 John McCain gave his concession speech, and another moment in history, one I can say I'm proud to have seen, occurred, an African American, a black man if you want, was elected President of the United States of American. September 22, 1862 the Abolition of Slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, was issued. 146 years later Barack Obama is our President Elect.