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29 July 2010, 10:34
Had some fun making a few Rattlebrained Firefox Personas.
These, if you don’t know, “let you personalize the look of your Firefox browser!” I think you need Firefox 3.6 for this as well as installing a little add on extension. It’s cool and there are more to come so check back soon.
28 July 2010, 20:37
Not much info about these guy besides that it’s a Grateful Dead tune… And that there is absolutely great washboard playing by Paul Wolf!
I’m off this weekend to visit some family and take advantage of the Bluegrass festival that takes place each year in the town where they live… (http://web.mac.com/christopherhw/LRBGF/Welcome.html). We went last year and I was browsing through a selection of old lp’s at the market and asked if they had any bluegrass bands with washboard players. “Washboard, bluegrass? Y’a pas de washboard dans le bluegrass.” (It’s in France so it was French: “no washboard playing in bluegrass”)
Sure wish I had this video underhand to show him! :P
24 July 2010, 13:16
Swamp Train’s first concert (a marriage party) is later to day so I’ve been getting ready for it, as well as spend time helping friend Bill build speakers – more about that soon – two reasons among others the bogging has been slow… Hope everyone’s enjoying their summer…
18 July 2010, 11:54
St. Gingolph
Cloudy Alps
Menu Dame Du Lac
Château de Chillon
Montreux
A few picture from yesterday's boat ride around the east - upper lac - side of the Lac Léman (lake Geneva). We were invited for a birthday lunch on La Suisse, a hundred year old steam boat for this most touristic tour.
After three weeks of sun and heat it was nice that a sudden change of weather brought cooler air and even a few drops of much needed rain.
16 July 2010, 19:34
It’s been a while since we’ve all played together so it was nice to have what was supposed to be a relaxed informal outdoor lake side café gig to get things going again at the King Du Lac. And it was pretty much that if you remove “relaxed” from the list since there was a storm wind blowing Wednesday evening that threatened gobs of rain which didn’t come – fortunately – but which did make it very hard to set up the sound an actually hear what we were playing. Before you knew it the music was blown away over the waters never to return leaving me, for one, struggling to hear the little that was left. I’ve probably gotten too used to playing in a cellar in which my little drum set is far to loud too; fireworks! Outdoors it’s like a cheap little firecracker, pthiip…, did you hear something? Not sure, can you turn up the guitar?
And then the wind would change and I’d only hear the bass or the harmonica, just bizarre… and not the best to all be together now…
Dave set up a little camcorder as was possible, on a ledge above one of the bar’s windows, which only got three of us, Denis being too far to the left to be included. At least at first since each time a strong gust of wind blew, the tarp above the whole joint vibrated, hitting the cam and turning it somewhat. At the end of the first set, which was all we recorded, only Dave was left in the image! :-)
Poney Blues, by the Crawfish Blues Band during yet another sketchy night.
16 July 2010, 11:25
Now that the world cup is over, it’s time to get back to something a bit (excuse me) more serious: teach all the soccer fans to play their vuvuzelas in harmony, so that in four years the games will be even more exciting (if that is possible)! ::P
29 July 2010
Had some fun making a few Rattlebrained Firefox Personas.
These, if you don’t know, “let you personalize the look of your Firefox browser!” I think you need Firefox 3.6 for this as well as installing a little add on extension. It’s cool and there are more to come so check back soon.
28 July 2010
Not much info about these guy besides that it’s a Grateful Dead tune… Great washboard playing though!
24 July 2010
Swamp Train’s first concert (a marriage party) is later to day so I’ve been getting ready for it, as well as spend time helping friend Bill build speakers – more about that soon – two reasons among others the bogging has been slow… Hope everyone’s enjoying their summer…
18 July 2010
St. Gingolph
A few picture from yesterday's boat ride around the east - upper lac - side of the Lac Léman (lake Geneva). We were...
16 July 2010
It’s been a while since we’ve all played together so it was nice to have what was supposed to be a relaxed informal outdoor lake side café gig to get things going again at the King Du Lac. And it was pretty much that if you remove “relaxed” from the list since there was a storm wind blowing Wednesday evening that threatened gobs of rain which didn’t come – fortunately – but which did make it very hard to set up the sound an actually hear what we were playing. Before you knew it the music was blown away over the waters never to return leaving me, for one, struggling to hear the little that was left. I’ve probably gotten too used to playing in a cellar in which my little drum set is far to loud too; fireworks! Outdoors it’s like a cheap little firecracker, pthiip…, did you hear something? Not sure, can you turn up the guitar?
And then the wind would change and I’d only here the bass or the harmonica, just bizarre… and not the best to all be together now…
16 July 2010
Now that the world cup is over, it’s time to get back to something a bit (excuse me) more serious…
14 July 2010
Don’t forget to join us (The Crawfish Blues Band) tonight down at Neuchâtel’s lakeside for a wild evening of old and new blues tunes! Hopefully we’ll get a few decent recordings of a song or two to replace the dusty and poorly recorded one we have on our band website. As far as promotion’s is concerned this band has a lot to learn… but anyway… what can you expect of a bunch of old geezers. Which got me thinking of just how male/macho the whole blues scene is….
12 July 2010
The occasional search for bands with washboard players sometimes brings forth the coolest bands, and although I couldn’t find a video in which Johnny Hyena (credited for congas, bongos and washboard) is actually playing a washboard I’m posting this one anyway! Bluegrass meets punk with a head of celtic, or was it the other way around? No matter! These guy rock!
10 July 2010
Just a happy reminder, least we forget, that crude oil continues to “leak” into the Gulf of Mexico at a speed that in fact, it’s pretty hard for the human mind to grasp. Think about the whys of this disaster when you use your car to go to the corner store…
The David Wilcox Music Video Channel
Dot Earth's Continuing Coverage Of The Oil Spill
9 July 2010
I’ve been using an Intuos 3 8×6 for the last couple of years and really consider it the most useful tool for working at a computer so I guess it’s no surprise that I’ve been looking at the Cintiq series screen tablets with some curiosity and desire since I focused on them a few months ago. It also seemed that my mom, who is also an artist, could profile by using one. She tried a Intuos 2 way back when, but drawing on the pad while looking at the screen didn’t work for her so after some hesitation I suggested she try one… Which is why she asked me to install it on her Mac a couple of weeks ago, which I quickly tried to do (being in a bit of a hurry at that time), but wasn’t able too. Which led to it coming home with me so I could figure it out first… So here I am adapting, kind of, to a Cintiq 12WX.
Sticking it onto my Windows 7 machine worked fine and it didn’t take long to figure out that it had probably also installed perfectly on my mom’s Mac. The issue was simply that since it’s screen was set as an extension of her main screen I hadn’t realized that unless you set the “display toggle” to “pen display” and “force proportions”, when you switch between the two screens you can end up with the mouse pointer on the main screen but off to one side of it… As it was I couldn’t set anything up since whenever I toggled over to the main display the mouse pointer disappeared. So I’m like “where’s the pen? This isn’t working…” :P
Which is why “what I dislike about it” gets listed first.
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