There are many reasons why I don't have an ipod. But this list of 10 thing one doesn't know about their hearing brings the point home with number seven and eight.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/10/10/treasure.sound/index.html?hpt=C2
7. Compressed music makes you tired. However clever the technology and the psychoacoustic algorithms applied, there are many issues with data compression of music, as discussed in this excellent article by Robert Harley back in 1991. My assertion that listening to highly compressed music makes people tired and irritable is based on personal and anecdotal experience - again it's one that I hope will be tested by researchers.
8. Headphone abuse is creating deaf kids. Over 19 percent of American 12 to 19 years old exhibited some hearing loss in 2005-2006, an increase of almost 5 percent since 1988-94 (according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Josef Shargorodsky et al, reported with comments from the researchers here). One university study found that 61 percent of freshmen showed hearing loss (Leeds 2001).
Please be careful with your listening. Hearing music and sound is a wonderful thing.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Lyrics...
Okay, so to force myself to post here a bit more often I am going to comment on musical lyrics. Now those that know me can guess where 95% or more of the songs will come from. But, I will try to once in a while toss in a curve ball...
So, our first lyric comes from Rush's album Signals.
Losing It
The dancer slows her frantic pace
In pain and desperation,
Her aching limbs and downcast face
Aglow with perspiration
Stiff as wire, her lungs on fire,
With just the briefest pause
The flooding through her memory,
The echoes of old applause.
She limps across the floor
And closes her bedroom door...
The writer stares with glassy eyes
Defies the empty page
His beard is white, his face is lined
And streaked with tears of rage.
Thirty years ago, how the words would flow
With passion and precision,
But now his mind is dark and dulled
By sickness and indecision
And he stares out the kitchen door
Where the sun will rise no more...
Some are born to move the world
To live their fantasies
But most of us just dream about
The things we'd like to be
Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it
For you, the blind who once could see
The bell tolls for thee...
Now why this song? The first part paints an interesting picture. But it is really the second verse were this song really starts to shine. "The writer stares with glassy eyes/Defies the empty page/His beard is white, his face is lined" A better verbal picture of Ernest Hemingway doesn't really exist.
The song goes on to comment on once having an amazing ability to communicate your passion and to see that ability disappear.
The last three line call out to those artist (what ever their chosen medium) and gives them some small measure of recognition.
So, our first lyric comes from Rush's album Signals.
Losing It
The dancer slows her frantic pace
In pain and desperation,
Her aching limbs and downcast face
Aglow with perspiration
Stiff as wire, her lungs on fire,
With just the briefest pause
The flooding through her memory,
The echoes of old applause.
She limps across the floor
And closes her bedroom door...
The writer stares with glassy eyes
Defies the empty page
His beard is white, his face is lined
And streaked with tears of rage.
Thirty years ago, how the words would flow
With passion and precision,
But now his mind is dark and dulled
By sickness and indecision
And he stares out the kitchen door
Where the sun will rise no more...
Some are born to move the world
To live their fantasies
But most of us just dream about
The things we'd like to be
Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it
For you, the blind who once could see
The bell tolls for thee...
Now why this song? The first part paints an interesting picture. But it is really the second verse were this song really starts to shine. "The writer stares with glassy eyes/Defies the empty page/His beard is white, his face is lined" A better verbal picture of Ernest Hemingway doesn't really exist.
The song goes on to comment on once having an amazing ability to communicate your passion and to see that ability disappear.
The last three line call out to those artist (what ever their chosen medium) and gives them some small measure of recognition.
Friday, June 19, 2009
My turn... One roll of Velvia...wow
These three shots where taken from my parents back patio....
Just amazing to see the detail of the colors.
Just amazing to see the detail of the colors.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Sigh....
Today I found out that one of my good friends from High School died. I don't have details but what I do know is that there wasn't a kinder, gentler, funnier person than Gerald Potts Jr. He was always laughing and seeing the fun side of life.
Friday, January 23, 2009
25 years
25 years ago today the world changed. 25 years ago the world saw what personal computing could be, would be, and should be. 25 years ago the Macintosh was released on the world. Apple used what is perhaps the most iconic advertisement ever used at a Super Bowl.
The Macintosh showed what computer design should be. A simple to use interface (Not to say the software was simple, far from it!), that makes intuitive and simple to use computing the basic hallmark of what the pass, current, and future of computing will be.
I end with this simple question.... Are you a Mac? :)
The Macintosh showed what computer design should be. A simple to use interface (Not to say the software was simple, far from it!), that makes intuitive and simple to use computing the basic hallmark of what the pass, current, and future of computing will be.
I end with this simple question.... Are you a Mac? :)
Friday, January 9, 2009
1 1/2 years later...
WOW... Okay, so my last blog was June of 2007. Way to long, but way busy as well. Summer of 2007 was the start of 8 crazy months. As was mentioned in my last blog I had a rather large finance project that was a constant project for 3 months. Well that finance project as well as two other classes for my MBA kept me very busy for the summer. Then I decided to take three class over the fall as well. Why take 6 classes in the span of 8 months... so that the MBA was done!!!!
Needless to say, I finished the MBA in December of 2007 and timed it perfectly with the worst economic crises the U.S. has seen since the Great Depression. Brilliant timing on my part I must say!
I spent the first five months or so of 2007 wanting and planning on a continued soccer coaching carrier. After five long months and numerous phone calls with coaches I made the decision to move to sports business. Needless to say when you decide to move to what is for all intensive purposes an entertainment business, during a recession jobs become very hard to find.
All I have to say, is that I am so thankful and appreciative of my parents. I cannot say enough about how much their support has meant this last year.
Lets hope as the new year starts the economic conditions change and things move forward.
D
Needless to say, I finished the MBA in December of 2007 and timed it perfectly with the worst economic crises the U.S. has seen since the Great Depression. Brilliant timing on my part I must say!
I spent the first five months or so of 2007 wanting and planning on a continued soccer coaching carrier. After five long months and numerous phone calls with coaches I made the decision to move to sports business. Needless to say when you decide to move to what is for all intensive purposes an entertainment business, during a recession jobs become very hard to find.
All I have to say, is that I am so thankful and appreciative of my parents. I cannot say enough about how much their support has meant this last year.
Lets hope as the new year starts the economic conditions change and things move forward.
D
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
ibook to macbook
Last weekend I was sitting down to work on an old G4 desktop computer for my brother to use as a video/music editing computer. When my i book decided to start to kernel panic. This was just what I need considering that I had a very large finance project due on Tuesday. I spent all of Memorial day weekend at my computer trying to get it to work and survive. Needless to say, after a week of not having a computer and finally getting the word that the i book had died I was not a happy camper.
Now, I have a nice black mac book, but while I love this machine going though and up dating all my contacts, rebuilding what was an organized and effective education tool has been a chore. I was able to get most of the information off my i book's hard drive. I have loaded most of that information on to my mac book. But while it is on my mac book I haven't had time to really go through and organize how I want it stored on my computer.
Now that I have all the information on this computer, I will be spending most of my day tomorrow working on a late finance project. This will no doubt be a fun day.
Now, I have a nice black mac book, but while I love this machine going though and up dating all my contacts, rebuilding what was an organized and effective education tool has been a chore. I was able to get most of the information off my i book's hard drive. I have loaded most of that information on to my mac book. But while it is on my mac book I haven't had time to really go through and organize how I want it stored on my computer.
Now that I have all the information on this computer, I will be spending most of my day tomorrow working on a late finance project. This will no doubt be a fun day.
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