Category: Personal
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No Longer a Digital Download Virgin
In this post, which I just published a few minutes ago, I mention that I just purchased Acoustic Sketches by Phil Keaggy. In that post I said that I would write separately about how/where I purchased that “CD”. This is that tale… I have purposely avoided the seduction of purchasing music for downloading online, even…
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Phil Keaggy Acoustic Sketches “CD”
If you read this post, then you know that I intended to purchase Acoustic Sketches by Phil Keaggy. Today, I did just that. How/where will be the subject of my next post. I listened to the entire album today, I like it a lot. Just Phil, no complications with other instruments or musicians. While I…
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Phil Keaggy CD Arrives
On October 25th, 2007, I posted my impressions from the night before’s Kathy Mattea concert at Joe’s Pub. In that post, I highlighted my amazement at Bill Cooley’s guitar playing, stating that he was possibly the best acoustic guitar player I had ever heard. That led to a comment by Eric Sink that he would…
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Last Headphone Post for the Year
I promise! 🙂 I know how incredibly subjective all of this nonsense is, and that I’m not an audiophile, so I don’t even know what to listen for, and probably couldn’t hear it if I knew. But, still, I can’t resist, since Lois found a bag of my old headphones today, so I broadened the…
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November 2007 Poker Summary
Very short post this time around. I didn’t get to play too much this month, but a reasonable amount nonetheless. I already reported on the one live tourney here, with excellent results in that one. 🙂 I’m posting this early because we have dinner plans tonight so I know I won’t be playing again this…
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CMA Writers Series at Joe’s Pub
On Tuesday this week, Lois asked me to check if anything was going on at any of our favorite clubs for either Wed or Thu, the only two nights this week that we didn’t have plans yet. This was highly unusual for Lois, given that we both tend to be home-bodies unless we are aware…
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Grado vs Bose Quiet Comfort 2
I’ve written about my new Grados a few times already, so this might feel like piling on a bit. I mentioned in a post about my new iPods that I own a pair of Bose Quiet Comfort 2 headphones, courtesy of my genius gift-giving friend Ed. I only use them when I travel on airplanes,…
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Decent Result in Sunday Poker Tourney
Well, the title gives it all away. You don’t need to read any further. 🙂 Seriously, a minor cash, but even the worst prize in the weekly tourney is a good one, when you don’t pay full freight to get in. This is my third post of the day, and all three end with success,…
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Experimenting with Bit Rates in Ripping CDs
In this post, I discussed my new Grado headphones. In that post, as well as this one, I mentioned that I am most definitely not an audiophile. The new Grados were so far superior to the crappy ear buds included with the iPods that I started to question my choice of ripping all of my…
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My Hughes HDVR2 Gets Resuscitated
In October 2003, I bought a Hughes HDVR2 from Weaknees.com. It is a Tivo Series 2 device, which has DirecTV tuners (two of them) built in. I ordered two disks (each 160GB) which at the time, was a large system. Today, they build terabyte (and greater!) systems, so mine is pokey by those standards. In…