I know how you feel, little dialog, I really do.
]]>But to the point -- just added a show for this coming Wednesday (July 9th), at the Iron Post in Urbana, with Eleni Moraites.
Showtime is 8pm, I'm on first, and the cover is $3.
Details, as ever, at paulroub.com/gigs
]]>Monday morning announcements:
“Dear 20 classes full of high school students, here are some highway patrol officers to tell you the names of popular friends and classmates killed in a drunken driving accident this weekend.”
(a few hours later)
“PSYCH! Not really, we’re just teaching you valuable lessons. Man, we’re awesome. Nothing to apologize for here.”
Words fail me.
]]>The former seems like much more fun.
So, three weeks from tonight (Thursday, May 29th), I'm at Aroma Cafe in Champaign. 8pm, followed by Carl Hauck at 9.
Updates, address, etc. are at paulroub.com/gigs, as always.
]]>or Ben?
Ben Lee was just amazing — despite, or perhaps a little because of, ongoing equipment issues. No guitar in the PA? Just walk to the front of the stage and serenade a packed house unamplified. And continue to be amazing. No problem. He was just loads of fun, and impossible not to love.
And Ben Folds?
Was Ben Folds. And then some.
Being an old guy in a large crowd of UI students, it's easy to start off smiling nostalgically at the puppy-like quality of the bouncing, shouting, crowding-the-stage kids... until I realize I'm bouncing every bit as much, doing all my crowd-vocal jobs, screaming my head off when "Philosophy" started up...
In summary, music continues to be the best.
Oh, and who was better? Easy. Ben was.
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I know how you feel, little dialog, I really do.
]]>This fixes the gIeviewBundle error when certain other extensions are installed; if you're seeing that error message you'll want to grab this right away.
]]>A test build working around this problem is attached to the bug in Bugzilla. If all goes well, this will be released as v1.3.7 within a day.
]]>It's that "certain users" part that's the problem. More specifically, I'm not one of them, under various Firefox installation on Vista, XP, etc. — I can't reproduce the problem.
If you look at the bug (Bug 18727: gIeviewBundle error in 1.3.6), you'll see that the problem is a "TypeError: gIeviewBundle has no properties" error dialog when right-clicking a link and asking for it to be opened in IE.
You'll also see that I need someone (preferably more than one person) with this problem to:
And of course, your Firefox version, environment, etc. I'd definitely be curious to know what other add-ons you have installed, as well.
If you're having this problem, I'd love to solve it for you, but I need your help. Comment on the bug] or drop me an email at paul@roub.net.
Update: probably fixed. Look over here...
]]>More explanation at the work blog.
]]>HA!
Heh. Actually, you'd be right. For a variety of reasons — most of my family spent significant chunks of this month sick; an air travel nightmare or two; and the fact that I've had just enough of a cold the entire time to prevent a decent vocal take — have kept me from wanting / having the time to record.
And can we talk writer's block? I've written, I think, 10 choruses for the new song. I wish I could say they all suck in their own unique ways, but honestly they're a big, shapeless, boring blur to me. And the in-the-mail deadline is Saturday. So I was gonna quit.
But quitting is even more frustrating than all that. So...
I decided to look at the rest of this as though I were just demoing, or recording a gig. Tonight I sat down, set up a couple of mikes, and threw down "live" takes of:
I need to do the roughest of mixes before posting them, or at least edit out the squeaking chair, tuning, etc. at the beginning of each track. That's tomorrow. I'm tired.
Are they perfect? No. What I originally planned? Nope. Is this the version of "Closer" I've been wanting to get on tape? No. Do I have the faintest idea how to EQ a vocal? More than yesterday, yes. Slightly.
But am I happy with how it came out? Yep. Like a decent gig, on a night when I'm fighting a cold and temporarily winning. Nothing I'd try to package and sell, but that wasn't the plan, anyway...
Which isn't to say you shouldn't expect better, or at least more-polished versions, in the coming weeks. I'm getting the hang of this now.
And that chorus can't hide from me forever.
To recap: Bloglines (beta) has a My Start Page feature, similar to old-school Bloglines "Playlists", which lets you pick a selection of your feeds as an at-a-glance front page. Nice, except it displays both read and unread headlines; for me, this makes it kind of useless. Why do I need to see the same Groklaw post I read three days ago?
Edit or create userContent.css (details on finding that available from Mozilla), and include the following:
div.quickviewTemplate div[ismarkedread="1"] { display: none; }This just tells Firefox to hide any headlines in the Bloglines Beta Start Page which are already marked as "read".
You'll need to restart Firefox to see the results.
]]>Well, I did plug one hole in the list -- another unrecorded oldie, "Idiot". And for no good reason, that's the one I've started with. It's one of probably two I'll actually do a full "band" recording of -- which is to say, me, a drum machine, bass, various guitars. So all the solo acoustic stuff should seem trivial. Ha.
Actually, part of the reason is that my voice is a bit out of whack this week, so I'm doing instrumental things as much as possible at the moment.
To that end, "Idiot" now has a full "drum" track and a rough guitar track which meshes nicely with same. Nicer guitar tracks plus bass in the next day or two.
Recording at home, by the way. The gear lineup is:
]]>How about a service that allows you to seamlessly switch from reading a book on your digital device to listening to the same book read aloud as you get in the car, or if your eyes are tired, or if you simply want to hear a crucial scene acted out? And then to switch back to the printed page?
And they mention the Kindle in there somewhere.
C'mon, guys -- take the logical next step. I'm still on board to buy the first one...
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