CES Countdown: 358 days to CES2009
It must be the week after the Consumer Electronics Show: I'm all written out on consumer electronics, my feet hurt, and I have a cold. All three happen every year.
Changing Tastes
In my last post (and the story of why it was so long ago is an epic which I won't go into now), I observed that the listener I am today is a completely different critter than the one I was years ago. It's inevitable that time, experience, and liff its ownself change us—and change the way we perceive art.
Chaos = Order
Introducing random behavior stabilizes systems. In other words, the only way to establish an orderly system is to introduce something unpredictable. My role at Stereophile has now been justified empirically.
Charlie Parker Video
With Coleman Hawkins, Prez, Ella, Bill Harris, and Buddy Rich—need I say more?
Chatanooga Choo Choo
Glenn Miller Band with Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers.
Cheating Without Cheating?
Is it cheating when athletes use the placebo effect to their advantage?
Check Out These Ears, Monkeyboy
Huckleberry reminds me that I don't have the big ears in this household. Plus, his swivel.
Cheetah Crashes
"More common than you'd think," says National Geographic. Makes sense—they can run 60mph over broken ground and, if Huckleberry is anything to judge by, a cat in full jetpack mode pays scant heed to obstructions—even walls.
Cheetos Lip Balm
Does it turn your lips orange?
Chiaroscuro
Bagheera prefers lurking in the shadows, but every once in a while, she imitates a puddle of black on a light background.