Now that the weather is in summer mode, what better way to make some margaritas for a party than to use a machine that can generate large quantities. Read this article for how it works.
Archive for June, 2007
Pass On The Passport
Ever since the governement decided to make passports a mandatory thing for all border crossings, the backlog on applications has been horrendous. This article might provide some clue as to why. Leave it to the Federal governement to require something and then not adequately prepare for the the increase involved. Considering the number of people I see on the bridges to Canada from here, did they really think that people weren’t going to bother? It’s not like everyone is going to stop crossing the border. The government’s dealing with contractors is very poor. The Iraq war and this situation illustrate the point very clearly.
Louder and Louder
Ran across this interesting video about the kinds of things record companies encourage producers to do on albums to make the music stand out more. It’s gotten to the point where all music sounds like fancy white noise or very overblown. Neil Young has said that the digital age is really the dark ages of music and I’m starting to see what he means. Watch the video below for a very dramatic demonstration. To me, much of todays music sounds very overblown and lacks all subtlety - even the stuff that should sound like ballads and such.