I've owed these answers for, um, a while. Sorry about that!
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I was surprised and a little weirded out, the other night, when I typed ( Read more... )

Ah. Sometimes a piece of music just clicks.
My congregation is having a talent show at the end of this month (for the ( Read more... )

I discovered two differently-embarrassing things while processing some old audio cassette tapes today ( Read more... )

The interview meme is going around again, and in starting to respond to my questions from hrj I stumbled upon a way-overdue set from ichur72. Oops! And, ironically, there's some overlap. :-)
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The latest batch of music to be digitized came with challenges. This was a pile of tapes, most of which were copies of tapes that in turn were recorded from various albums and tapes, not always in pristine condition. I'm pretty pleased with the job I've done in cleaning them up, which I have mostly done with judicious use of Amadeus Pro's wave- ( Read more... )

It's entertaining when malware distributors are both bold and stupid ( Read more... )

Pesach has been going well. Tonight/tomorrow is the last day, which is a holiday like the first day was. Yesterday Rabbi Symons led a beit midrash on the "pour out your wrath" part of the haggadah; more about that later, but it led me to a new-to-me haggadah that so far I'm liking a lot. (I borrowed a copy ( Read more... )

MP3s ripped from CDs or bought digitally (usually) come pre-tagged ( Read more... )

Purim was this past weekend. We continued the tradition started ( Read more... )