Balsa Racers Music http://blog.balsaracers.com Music Musings More Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:08:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New songs! Valentines Day and My Baby Is A Scientist http://blog.balsaracers.com/2012/02/14/new-songs-valentines-day-and-my-baby-is-a-scientist/ http://blog.balsaracers.com/2012/02/14/new-songs-valentines-day-and-my-baby-is-a-scientist/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:08:24 +0000 Oscar http://blog.balsaracers.com/?p=200 Valentine’s Day written for a songwriting challenge on The Skeptic Wire podcast (http://skepticwire.blogspot.com)

And
My Baby Is A Scientist written for my girlfriend on her birthday

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If the embedding doesn’t work (which sometimes happens, curse it all) it’s the 29 Sept 2011 clip here:

http://www.woai.com/content/blogs/cleto/default.aspx

]]> http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/09/29/part-of-a-song-on-woai-with-cleto-rodriguez/feed/ 239 Oooh broadband back in business http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/07/11/oooh-broadband-back-in-business/ http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/07/11/oooh-broadband-back-in-business/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:57:58 +0000 admin http://blog.balsaracers.com/?p=183 I’m giving the next step up broadband a shot. And I just uploaded a new “Injudicious Ramblings” Episode 013 to the site. Wow. It’s a 2 hour podcast this time- mainly due to laziness of editing on my part, but hopefully some interesting discussioning. But the 40.6MB file only took 5 minutes to upload, as opposed to the nearly 45 minutes it was taking. I’m wondering how much of that was the broadband upgrade and how much was the new cable modem for which I exchanged, today? I know it’s a good part of the extra bandwidth, but as the old modem was on it’s final shaky…um…legs, I think a little can be attributed to the new modem.

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1) Skeptic Wire : skepticwire.blogspot.com and iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-skeptic-wire/id434251897

 

2) Injudicious Ramblings : injudiciousramblings.blogspot.com and iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/injudicious-ramblings/id435520148

 

Yeah. I’m rude and a nasty person. But I shower everyday (mostly) and treat my pets (companion animals, if you must) well.

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Full size (H: 68″, W: 32″, D: 33″…ish), bottom freezer section with ice maker, Hinges on the right side. White.

Refrigerators and I have been through a lot and it is sad to see this one leave the nest. Why, I remember my first refrigerator: ’twas just a small dorm fridge, keeping my carbonated high fructose corn syrup-y beverages cold, and the occasional beer. OK, let’s be fair: it was always beer. And then the small apartment fridge, with the discolored shelves from the exceedingly dirty prior tenants. And finally blossoming into this monstrosity: a full-blown, real, honest-to-goodness ginormous refrigerator. But a brief two years overseas (where I had a smallish European style model..very classy when it wasn’t covered in the sand and dust that leaked through the doors and windows), caused this guy to morph into a garage refrigerator, holding those items that simply didn’t fit into the daily nutritional requirements a newer-y refrigerator would contain. And so it sat in the garage, keeping the guest beers cool, the popsicles, ice cream, and left-overs frozen, and the…no I think that must be pretty much everything it’s done for the last few years.

Asking $150. I think it’s worth it. If I were looking for a used, working refrigerator that’s about what I’d expect to pay.
Will consider delivering for an extra $528.42, cash, exact change only. No pennies. In other words: please have your own vehicle, tie-down straps, rope, tape (to keep the doors closed), and assorted refrigerator transportation type equipment. If I recall correctly, this refrigerator has been known to fit on its side in a Ford Windstar with all the back seats removed.

Call/ text [information redacted]

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I did make a sweet musical intro tho. If we can decide what to call the podcast, that be even better.

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So I didn’t get too much testing of X1b as I was doing some actual work which didn’t require much of the new features. They did appear to fix some of the small bugs, like tracks and their associated waves and MIDI date not matching up when going back and forth between Track and Console views. They also appeared to have fixed a problem with the screensets losing their settings when going back and forth between them, which was extremely annoying.

So good  on ya, Cakewalk!

Last, I am finally getting some more songy ideas and at least semi-humorous lyrics. And while I am not really disappointed, the latest one really sounds just a wee bit too much like Roy Zimmerman. That’s not a bad thing, but it’s so….obvious. You should really check out his youtubes. That sounds way more lascivious than it is.

On another good note: the sun revealed itself through the cloud cover, so ’tis a good day.

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