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Sunday, October 25th, 2009The last couple weeks, I’ve been slowly but surely ripping all the CD’s I have into FLAC format. It’s a little different than MP3′s in that it’s not a compression format, but an encoding format. Nothing really is removed or compressed, so it sounds identical to the original CD, and the sound is incredible. As [...]
Fact Check Tuesday: Did Dr. Pepper promise a free soda if Guns N’ Roses released their new album in ’08
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008This one is ripped right out of the headlines, and it’s rather amusing having watched the story unfold… Apparently, the company that makes Dr. Pepper decided on a promotion in March of ’08, where if Guns N’ Roses, one of the more (in)famous bands of the ’80′s and early ’90′s, released their album “Chinese Democracy” [...]
Cable… Armstrong Cable
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008After yesterday’s little adventure sans connection to the world, I called up Armstrong Cable, the local provider where I’m moving, and got several pleasant surprises. First off, they do come do installations on weekends (woo hoo!), so I went ahead and scheduled them for December 6th. Also, they had a wicked package deal, where I’d [...]
Exactly…
Saturday, October 25th, 2008I must say, I do like Exact Audio Copy. For those who are wondering what in the Devil I’m taling about, it’s a program I use to encode my CD’s onto my computer. It uses not only the LAME MP3 encoder, regarded as the best MP3 encoder in the world, but also FLAC, which transfers [...]
Fact Check Tuesday: Van Halen & The Infamous Rider
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008I’ve decided to start putting up a few more items for people’s enjoyment, including one thing I rather enjoy, finding out random trivia, and when possible, the story behind it… The first one involves one of rock’s most celebrated bands, Van Halen. Having been around as long as they have, in almost as many incarnations, [...]
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