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These were taken with a rather long exposure at night – interesting what a Canon PowerShot SD1000 can do.

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I don’t understand today’s music selections. The “Top 40″ list seems to be some eclectic mix of rap and pop, and very few of those do it well. I wonder where the attraction comes from. It’s strange, really, how all the popular songs follow some set formula, along the lines of this:

pop (15sec) + rap (30 sec) + pop (15 sec) + rap (until 15sec before the end) + pop (15 sec)

For example:

What’s so pleasing about a man yelling out the lines to a badly composed poem? What happened to melodies, to an actual tune, to the background instruments? Sure, the beat from the big bass drum is nice, and quite catchy, yes. Is it worth three minutes of wasted time? As far as I can tell, the only music that’s really music these days comes from movie soundtracks, because you just can’t have the dramatic effects without an accompanying orchestral arrangement.

Come on… just think about Inception’s soundtrack

It’s not fancy, it’s not complex. But without it, would Inception be nearly as good?

Today’s music is a combination of a drum set and autotune. There’s very little redeeming about it, and yet it still is a huge industry in this country… What’s wrong with the world?

Also, somebody want to tell me what the point of all the DRM stuff is about? It’s not like they’re ever going to get rid of the analog hole… It’s not really possible to, either. So long as there’s a mic input and a speaker output, a crossover cable will easily get you a full recording. If thats the case, why bother? People who like the artist will buy the songs, all others will use YouTube or torrent it.

Take a look at this video:

It’s more than a little bit intriguing, no? It’s all about perspective.

Today I received a pair of 808 Keychain Cameras (#3), available on eBay for cheap. They’re tiny little things, using a microsd card for storage. Their image quality is surprisingly good, but I have yet to find a way to change the timestamp on them.

Sample video:

Yes, my sister’s piano skills could use a little bit of improvement, but that’s not the point of the video. The video is slightly lower quality than the original, due to the flash reencoding. It’s good enough, anyways.

One strange thing about this camera is that it records 720x480px files, but the sensor itself is 640×480. Thus all files must be converted to 640×480.

So today’s date is kinda interesting. Notice how its August 9, 2010, or a rather significant sequence… If you didn’t get it yet its cause its

8-9-10

To compound that, this post is published at 11:12 AM, so the full date and time would be…

8-9-10 11:12AM

8, 9, 10, 11, 12 =)

Happy sequential date day!