Happy Birthday Lego! Lego turns 50

Lego is 50. Thanks for all the good times my
plastic friend. My most ambitious project was
trying to build a robot that would stand up on
its own two legs. Now they have many kits
that make this quite easy. My design involved lots
of lego ingenuity and rubber bands. I can still feel them
between my teeth if I think about them, lego's that is.
I played tron on the Xbox 360 this weekend, the old tron the one
from the arcade. I didn't buy it or anything, but I played the
trail version. I'd probably be willing to pay around $1.50 for it.

It's weird to wish a corporate product a happy birthday. On the one hand
I gladly wish LEGO the thing, entity in my mind a happy birthday, and I
like to read about Lego, and I honestly hope the company is doing
well, it's just that anytime you think about these things, it brings up all these
weird dualities where you love the idea, but not the corporation. Corporations
are inherently selfish non entities. They exist so that people could invest in
speculative ventures without risking their personal net worth other than the
cost of their investment. That's fair enough. But when it comes to matters of
the heart, and matters of important cultural touchstones such as Lego's you have to seperate
those important things from the void that is a corporation.

Anyway happy birthday Lego.

One of the healthiest feelings is the feeling you get after eating a bananna.
I could probably do anything if banannas were involved. Defeat 15 Draculas with a
nothing more than a bolo tie clip? Offcourse! I missed it somehow and now need to get a copy of it, a Case Closed movie I directed is out on DVD, it's actually the second movie, Time Bombed skyscraper has been out for over a year. Anyway check it out. It's good and I hid some deeper meaning in the flick via dialouge changes. http://www.amazon.com/Case-Closed-Movie-14th-Target/dp/B000WE5I1A/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1201186802&sr=8-1

Eat more banannas.

chad

Well, that's just great!

Bananna Elvis Elevator Frequency or "BEEF" or B.E.E.F.

The power of the human mind
a 5 watt light bulb, a stich in time
carpet covered fruit fiber, the action
figure ryhme. The elevator harvest
of gravities effortless pull, earthbound
and weightless I start to think of you.
Frequency of action, waves on a
chemical shore, electrical vibrations
it is all a blur. Remember me like elvis,
All movie rockstar hawaii, televised and
laughter, bananna sandwich fried.
awaken to the feeling, shaking off a dream,
searching for the meaning, until morning hunger
makes me real again. Then Cereal, Then this.

Rocking it like Frank Sinatra

Hard to stay awake on the drive to work without coffee. I need to give myself another 5 minutes in the morning to make a TAZ before leaving. The Tassimo is such a great little device, I really love it. I bought a box of ultra high temperature Pumpkin flavored creamer at WalGreens, its the shelf stable milk product in the little white plastic trash cans that you don't have to refridgerate. So neat how that works, I wonder if I could get regular milk that way? You know how bad it sucks when you are out of milk, or being people I know, you probably drink rice milk or something, anyway when you are out of white milky fluid for your cookies and cereal it really sucks. Why aren't there milk men anymore, I would totally pay to have a milk man, but he would have to where the white suit, classy stuff, I would really like that, in fact one better, I would like to be a milkman. I would do my milkman stuff in the mornings, and then become an ice cream man in the afternoon. Captain Scrummy! remember Pete N Pete, that was a great show. I would drive around your neighboorhood delivering good times via the joy of mammal juice.

I meet a lady from Hershey, she works in the enviromental responsiveness unit up at Chocolate headquarters and I was complaining about the new packaging of the classic Hershey bar. I was telling her how the old packaging with the outer paper sleeve and the inner tin foil wrapper was a like a ritual with me and I really enjoyed picking one up and escaping to choco-town for a little while. The new packaging is rather lacking, being only a sealed plastic wrap, which exposed bare chocolate underneath. Anyway the funny thing was she basically told my I shouldn't eat that chocolate because it has a bunch of weird chemicals in it. I'm glad that Hershey pays her, I didn't really know how bad that stuff was. Good job Hershey, you should put that in a commercial.

Anyway the lesson is: Hershey's new packaging sucks, and don't worry about it, you shouldn't be eating that chocolate anyway. Eat something from whole foods instead. Unless you are poor, and then well screw it, go ahead and eat whatever. It's the food man! we gotta stop puttin this poison in. What goes in, what goes out, what comes down. It's a big circle and if you don't watch out, time for timer says it will be time out, and time up. Eat well friends, spend you money on quality food. It's my mission for 2008.

jeep needs bath

My jeep needs a bath. It smells like dog breath. Read a neat article about time, or specifically the fact that a lot of scientists think that time may not exist. See, I told you peoples 10 years ago that time didn't exist. You thought I was crazy. nope. Saw the movie Juno this weekend, a terrifcally pleasant film, dialog that flows like a pool of liquid tin solder. That movie is well done.
Just remembered the tag line I made up for WEGL in Auburn, it was a radio station, anyway, it was A Rare Medium, Well Done.

Back to the diet in a big way today with excercise starting at 6:45 this morning and lunch consisting of a Mcdondald Chicken sandwich which consisted of a piece of grilled chicken and two pieces of bread. On my second big ass glass of water.

Bought the new Douglas Coupland book, I'm not gonna link to it on Amazon because that would be really played out, and you would expect it. Everytime some fool talks about a book, you can bet your sweet ass he linked it to Amazon. Why? look it up yourself if you want a copy.

Does your DVR do really goofy stuff? Mine is kinda slow in the brain.

Have a great day, Chad

The only thing I like about flying is that it is a great time to listen to the ipod and play my DS.
Also I received the Handy Zoom H2 from Amazon.com yesterday and I'm bringing that and it instruction manual, to figure out how to use it. It's a high def portable audio recorder. Solid state, records up to 24BIT Depth 96kHZ Audio. I need to get a small microphone so I can discretely record some of my missions, but for the most part I will be interviewing people with their permission and or myself.

The main idea is to record interesting interviews with any interesting looking people I come across and also place recordings, audio field trips.

I get lost thinking about the complexity and beauty of audio recorded at 96 kHZ.

Here's a quick primer:
from: ( http://www.tweakheadz.com/16_vs_24_bit_audio.htm )
Check out TweakHeadz for lots of good info.

Bit Depth refers to the number of bits you have to capture audio. The easiest way to envision this is as a series of levels, that audio energy can be sliced at any given moment in time. With 16 bit audio, there are 65,536 possible levels. With every bit of greater resolution, the number of levels double. By the time we get to 24 bit, we actually have 16,777,216 levels. Remember we are talking about a slice of audio frozen in a single moment of time.

Now lets add our friend Time into the picture. That's where we get into the Sample Rate.
The sample rate is the number of times your audio is measured (sampled) per second. So at the red book standard for CDs, the sample rate is 44.1 kHz or 44,100 slices every second. So what is the 96khz sample rate? You guessed it. It's 96,000 slices of audio sampled each second.

It's Grape titfos

It's Grape, love the ape. Love Grape.

bubblegum and fun. Feeling better.

Not much sun. OK. not bad. Anway.

Titfos radio takes a step closer to reality.

Equipment being purchased.