Entries Categorized as 'General'

Les Paul: The man with the musical broomstick

July 24, 2008

The Guardian has a great article about Les Paul today.

When he was about 13, he played at a barbecue stand outside Milwaukee. By then he had found a way of rigging up his mother’s telephone, singing into it to the speakers of the family radio. “People loved it. Except one guy at the back of [...]

Nano Guitar

July 16, 2008

The world’s smallest guitar is 10 micrometers long — about the size of a single cell — with six strings each about 50 nanometers, or 100 atoms, wide. Made by Cornell University researchers from crystalline silicon, it demonstrates a new technology for a new generation of electromechanical devices.
The guitar has six strings, each string about [...]

Drummers

April 17, 2008

It’s been awhile since my last update, so here are some stupid drummer jokes.
What’s the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?
You only have to punch the information into a drum machine once.

How do you know the drummer is at the door?
The knocking gets faster and louder.
How do you know when the stage [...]

New Theme

February 28, 2008

So I finally found a theme I can live work with. The theme is based on Adam Walker Cleaveland’s excellent “widgetized” Cleaker 2.1 theme.
I still have a lot of work to do, but it’s getting there.