I'll Be Attending CES
Starting on Wednesday, I'll be blogging from CES in Las Vegas, so posting here will be sporadic—although I'll get a few items up each day, I won't guarantee how many or by when. Go to CES">http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2006/">CES Blog for our minute-by-minute coverage.
I'm a Bad Boy
I probably shouldn't be linking to this, but it really made me laugh.
I'm a Professor
And I play one on TV, too. Why some academics can hit it and others have to quit it. Yes, we're still talking television.
I'm Napping Here!
"No treats, no cuteness," said Huckleberry. "We're strictly on a pay-for-play system from now on."
I'm No Physicist . . .
. . . but I've read enough comic books to know you shouldn't go mixing matter and antimatter. However, that's exactly what these guys have done in producing positronium.
I'm Not Sure I Want to Read the Unedited Version of Anything
But I might make an exception for the unedited scroll of On the Road.
I'm Thinkin' Think Denk
I've just discovered Think Denk (thanks to a link from Alex Ross' The Rest Is Noise). Billed as "the glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist," it's a good read—and Jeremy Denk is good company. Now I have to hear him play.
I've Spent the Weekend Being Put In My Place
So I don't mind if you think I'm a hopeless dweeb for loving last night's West Wing. After all, when I asked my flight attendant for a special service on Saturday, I said, "you'll probably lose all respect for me . . . ."
I've Suspected This For Years
What? The writers who post blurbs on book covers haven't actually read the books? I'm shocked, shocked.
I've Suspected This For Years
Does HT surround-sound only need to be "good enough?" According to a new NIH-sponsored study, "the circuits in the brain that process auditory information are influenced powerfully by the circuits that control where the animal is looking—the animal's direction of gaze." Umm, the animal being, for the purposes of this study, a barn owl.