I was following one of Aaron’s links and got to a post Peterme made a month ago about the term blog entering the OED. I missed that he’s apparently also going to be writing a book on blogs. Which is good, since he coined the term. 😉 While I don’t get too involved in this whole new vs old blogger thing, it does irk me a little when latecomers come in and act like they invented the thing. Well, that happens with every
Random: Doing audio recording and clean up now has sparked my inner audio-engineer nerd. I did some searching, and apparently, with some readily avaliable parts from Digi-Key, it’s possible to build some good and cheap mics. Here’s a 1994 post from the DAT-Heads mailing list on making a stealth microphone from a mic capsule, resistor and capacitor. Who knew it was that easy? (Multimedia Bluffer’s Guide to Microphones is a good round-up of microphone types and terminology)
Random #2: I’ve abandoned my silly ideas of getting a new car, especially since I’d be paying almost as much on insurance as on car payments. Looking around at used cars, it looks like I can get a ’96-’98 VW GTI VR6 for $6000-8000. I could practically pay for that out of pocket (I’ve been saving pennies in the cookie jar). That’s cool!