http://www.till.com/blog/ Copyright 2010 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:51:01 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss (Wow, third in a tight series of accurately predicting the future...) Alembic has just built a prototype run of active guitar cables. 'Looks impressive. I published my version of the active cable here over eight years ago: Don Tillman:... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/12/new_alembic_act.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/12/new_alembic_act.html Music Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:51:01 -0800 http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/12/happy_christmas.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/12/happy_christmas.html Family Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:00:44 -0800 Is the darkness of the afternoon this time of year getting you down? Well, buck up. December 8th (roughly, depending on your specific latitude) was Analemma Day. Analemma Day is the day of the earliest sunset in mid-northern latitudes,... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/12/happy_analemma.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/12/happy_analemma.html Fun Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:42:45 -0800 An article in the New York Times, September 27, 2009, Solar Power, Without All Those Panels by Anne Eisenberg, describes solar panels that are remarkably similar to what I proposed in this blog 20 months in my post Solar... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/10/new_solar_panel.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/10/new_solar_panel.html Tech Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:05:12 -0800 With iTunes 9, Apple introduces a feature called iTunes LP. It sure seems like the folks at Apple's iTunes group have read my article A New Business Model for the Music Industry, and taken it to heart. Good!... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/09/itunes_lp_seems.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/09/itunes_lp_seems.html Music Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:07:56 -0800 [added a couple more articles, needed to reformat...] With socialized medicine in the news these days, I'd like to draw your attention to these articles which present some important reasons why it's a bad thing. The authors all accomplished... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/08/on_health_care.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/08/on_health_care.html Politics/Economics Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:26:56 -0800 An addendum to my Cash for Clunkers Post... There are a lot of recent articles about the "success" of the Cash for Clunkers program, as indicated by the number of applicants and the money being dispersed. But the goal... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/08/cash_for_clunke_1.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/08/cash_for_clunke_1.html Politics/Economics Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:45:38 -0800 The Obama administration's "Cash for Clunkers" program has been dominating the news lately. This program has some serious problems. One is that it's easily scammed. Sell your old car, buy a Prius, get $4500, sell the Prius on CraigsList... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/08/cash_for_clunke.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/08/cash_for_clunke.html Politics/Economics Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:42:08 -0800 It'll take some time to finish listening through last week's order from CD Universe: Bill Bruford / Ralph Towner If Summer Had Its Ghosts Chase Chase / Ennea / Pure Music Larry Coryell Lady Coryell Jerry Goodman and Jan... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/05/what_are_you_li.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/05/what_are_you_li.html Music Tue, 12 May 2009 19:52:06 -0800 'Been away from the blog for a while, so here are some random bits. Facebook: I finally joined Facebook. So now I get to say, "I am so adding you to my friends". Facebook Fun: And to celebrate, here... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/04/various_bits.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/04/various_bits.html Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:18:36 -0800 http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/04/zappa_drummers.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/04/zappa_drummers.html Music Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:12:08 -0800 Paul Lamere provides an amazing little tool that can tell you if a drummer is using a click track. Very cool. Check it out here: Music Machinery: In Search of the Click Track... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/03/its_a_click_tra.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/03/its_a_click_tra.html Music Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:23:07 -0800 http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/02/economic_facts.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/02/economic_facts.html Politics/Economics Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:58:51 -0800 Just listening to one of my favorite radio shows, Memory Select on Stanford's radio station KZSU FM, and Wedge is playing a piece by Frank Rothkamm called Opus Spongebobicum, forty piano variations on the Spongebob theme song for piano.... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/02/opus_spongebobi.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/02/opus_spongebobi.html Music Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:12:22 -0800 Oh wow, look at this... "Mellodrama", a documentary film about the Mellotron by Dianna Dilworth. Mellodrama Trailer on YouTube Mellodrama Article on BoingBoing Mellodrama Mellotron Movie web site Interview with Filmmaker Dianna Dilworth Don's Mellotron Resources Apparently the premiere... http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/02/mellodrama.html http://www.till.com/blog/archives/2009/02/mellodrama.html Music Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:54:07 -0800