I was pleasantly surprised to find a good article in Rolling Stone about how the sound quality of recent album releases. In short, the dynamics (loud sounds vs quiet sounds) are compressed so that everything sounds loud. This is done so that the music stands out even when listening on the crappiest of laptop speakers. The problem is, even on modest ( Read more... )

For those of you on the edges of your seats... I made my flight connection. I'm home.

I rode the maglev from the airport in to Pudong. Totally cool. Too short a trip though. But hey, it's a muthafuckin maglev!

I had a chance to walk around Shanghai a bit on Wednesday. Yup, it's polluted. However, visibility isn't as bad as some photos would have you believe. Given the humidity (~90%) I would expect more haze. That's where the good ( Read more... )

I turns out that China blocks livejournal.com. I'm using BlogMailr to post. If you can see this, could someone reply to the post? Hopefully, I'll see your reply via email. Thanks.

OK Racerxmachina, do your worst.

I was up fairly late last night so it was tough to wake up this morning. While in the shower, I heard an extra hissing sound. At first I thought this was simply the toilet tank filling back up. Half way through the shower, I took a look at the faucet head because the sound was still there. Nope. Exiting the shower, I ( Read more... )

While walking past security on our way out of San Diego airport, I noticed a table that they had set up displaying items that had been confiscated today. This was one of the items.

Horrifying NYT article about melamine in animal feed in China.

The Schmidt Sting Pain Index.

Ouch.

Saying "fucking blow me!" to the Orbitz automated voice recognition system gets you to a human being immediately.

Saturday at work I spent about an hour chasing a bug that ended up being a loose cable. Ugh! But I managed to get things to work in the end ( Read more... )