I’m in the middle of ripping my cassette collection to MP3, and using Audacity to clean up the recordings, split them into individual tracks, and so forth.
One thing I’ve learned is that displaying a track as “Spectrum” rather than the default “Waveform” can be very useful in figuring out where one track ends and the next one starts, especially when the first track fades out and the next one fades in.
Here’s a perfect example I just ran across: Read More
I’ve often been struck by how much French humor relies on puns and wordplay. I suspect that this has to do with how easy it is to make puns in French vs. English. For instance, every time I pass the canned foods aisle at the grocery store, I think of how “ravioli” in French is a near-homonym for “delighted in bed”. And I just ran across the song “Aux sombres héros de l’amer”, meaning “To the dark heroes of bitterness”; but as TehPedia points out, this can also be heard as “O Sombrero of the Sea”.
Courtesy of FSTDT and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine comes 2007rapture.com, by Shelby Corbitt.
Back on Aug. 29, 2004, his site said:
The rapture of the church (God’s children) willl happen JULY 2007.
By Nov. 30, 2004, he had added the only copyright notice he’d need:
©
2004-2007 2007Rapture.com. All Rights Reserved.
By Dec. 6, 2005, however, the Word of God™ had become fuzzier:
The rapture of the church (God’s children) will happen during the SUMMER OF 2007. This could be anytime from June 21-September 21.
(emphasis in the original)
As of Jun. 29, 2007, he had a huge header reading:
THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH IS GOING TO HAPPEN DURING THE SUMMER, THIS YEAR
(JUNE 21-SEPTEMBER 21) 2007!!
To his credit, the site now says:
I SAID :
THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH IS GOING TO HAPPEN, THIS YEAR
2007!!
I WAS WRONG!!!
I THOUGHT THIS WAS A WARNING FROM GOD TO THE WORLD
Meanwhile, Yisrayl Hawkins (formerly Buffalo Bill Hawkins) doesn’t seem to have noticed that the world didn’t end on or about Oct. 13, 2007. Oh, well.
What with the new year, I’ve changed the name of this weblog from “Ooblog” to “Epsilon Clue”, which I like better.
All of the URLs, RSS feeds, and so on should stay the same, so no need to update your bookmarks.
Update, Mar. 25, 2008: In case anyone’s wondering, the name comes from this comment at The Daily WTF:
The designer must have had some clue about Web authoring, as he clearly understood complex Javascript, PHP etc. I can’t comprehend how anyone with even epsilon clue could engineer a pile of crap like this.