With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

high fidelity

2005 July 06 22:35

I've been remiss about posting (again). There are photos that I want to post, but I haven't gotten them off the camera, because I haven't backed up the photos that are on the various computers in the house. So instead, I've posted nothing.

A couple of nifty links, though. I ran across an awesome article on wikipedia on records (musical, not sports). I've always pretty much been a digital recording advocate; I grew up listening to vinyl but CDs are pretty much what I've purchased music on. However, there's a scene in Laura Croft: Tomb Raider where Laura puts on a record to exercise to; the record player is a very expensive one known as a ClearAudio Master Reference turntable. After seeing the movie, I managed to find what turntable they'd used by searching the web. I never good get a good answer to how much one costs, but I think it was in the tens of thousands of dollars. I guess that's the sort of thing that real audiophiles would buy. To each their own, I guess.

Oh, speaking of movies. If you ever want to know what movies are playing in your area, go to movies.com. If you type in your zip code, it will list local theaters and what films are showing when. It's probably a product of over-corporatization of the film industry, but it's also very convenient.

I'm toying with switching to DSL so that I could have a web server at home. I'll probably poke around with the idea if the phone company lifts the $250 installer fee. I'd just as soon do my own network setup, thank you very much. Part of what I'd like to do is have a server at home and run my blog on slashcode. That way, I could have different sub-pages for different topics. People who are here interested in airplanes probably don't care about computer stuff that I'm doing, and vice versa.

Right. Laundry to fold.