Published on
May 7, 2004 in
Music.
I have a whole bunch of audio cassettes and vinyl records that I rarely listen to because I'm just so used to playing CDs now. So I went looking for a way to digitize my analog audio collection and found this. Now the question is whether it's worth $70 and the time it'll take to digitize them or whether I should just dig out the cassettes when there's something I want to hear.
HFLI1-X1 $69.95
So, you've got a stack of LP records and tapes sitting around gathering dust. Some of those you probably can't even buy as CDs. With Xitel's INport, you can now record all your favourite vinyl and tapes back into your computer with crystal clear fidelity. Archive them, turn them into CDs, or even turn them into MP3s.
Unlike a computer soundcard, the INport has been designed using the latest professional recording technology. That's what enables it to perform so much better than a soundcard. The inclusion of an advanced rendering engine and full ground loop isolation ensures outstanding performance with full dynamic response. It even comes as a complete kit with absolutely everything you'll need to get up and going. There hasn't been an easier way to record back into your PC and digitally save the natural vibrance of all your music!
Check out these cool features:
� Record from your home stereo using your desktop or notebook as a piece of high fidelity recording equipment.
� Save LPs, tapes and other music digitally on your hard drive as high quality wav files. Edit them, convert them into MP3s, or even turn them into CDs. (you'll need your own burner and burner software to make CDs)
� Bypass inferior soundcards with advanced USB digital rendering technology. Utilize the INport's professional gold plated RCA inputs to enhance all your audio.
� Includes full ground loop isolation to ensure your recordings remain crystal clear and free from hum.
� Comes with revolutionary CFB Software that makes recording back into your computer an absolute breeze. Watch as levels are automatically set and tracks are divided into individual songs. The INport runs with all other Windows compatible recording and editing software, so you can also use your own favourite recording programs.
� Custom input sensitivity fine-tuned for the specific needs of high fidelity line level recording. Connect mini-systems through to state of the art amplifiers with exactly the right level of gain.
� Installs simply by plugging into a USB port � watch the INport automatically load without the need for any special drivers.
� Comes with all interconnection cables, including 30 feet of studio grade RCA audio cable for free!
Everyday, people park their cars on Belmont Street in front of the Oakley Country Club and catch the #73 bus into Harvard Square. Often someone parks right up to the corner of Commonwealth Road and Belmont Street. If you are making the turn from Commonwealth Road onto Belmont Street, those cars parked at the corner block your view and you have to inch out until you are directly in the way of cars speeding down the hill from Cushing Square.
So I decided to ask the Belmont police (because Belmont Street is in Belmont) if they would enforce the ordinance that prohibits parking within a certain distance of the curb.
Sgt. Hamilton of the Belmont Police told me that for them to enforce it there needs to be a sign that says “No Parking from here to corner.” But the sidewalk is in Watertown and so Sgt. Hamilton told me I had to go to the Watertown Police to get a sign put up.
Officer Morley of The Watertown Police Traffic Division said the Watertown Department of Public Works is responsible for putting up parking signs and sent me to them.
The Watertown DPW said they need authorization from the Watertown Traffic Commission before they can put up a sign. So they sent me to the Traffic Commission which is headed by Sgt. Pugliese of The Watertown Police Traffic Division.
So I called the Watertown Police again and spoke to Officer Morley again who checked with Sgt. Pugliese who said that because Belmont Street is in Belmont, the Watertown Traffic Commission has no jurisdiction over it. He said the request to the Watertown DPW must come from Belmont. And he sent me back to Sgt. Hamilton of the Belmont Police.
Stay tuned.
Published on
May 5, 2004 in
Movies.
The movie Laurel Canyon left me frustrated. Everytime the dialogue got to a crucial moment the scene ended. It was as if the writer decided that when the writing got difficult it was time to move on. Compare that to something like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Kathleen Gilroy who loved the movie and saw it twice called it “atmospheric.” The last movie I saw that qualified as atmospheric was Lost in Translation and with that one I felt strangely unsatisfied as well. Nice to look at but left me wanting much more and better writing. So, is making an “atmospheric” movie just an excuse not to write the hard parts? I'm asking Chip Phillips, an expert in film criticism to weigh in here.
Review of Snow White
in which Ilyse played Toot, one of the seven dwarfs. It closed Sunday.
Abigail saw it six times and still wanted to play Snow White before bed
tonight.
Link to Ilyse's blog: www.ilyserobbins.com
In the course I am taking through Harvard Extension, Managing Workplace Performance, we talked about Difficult Conversations tonight with most of class devoted to watching and discussing two difficult conversations from the movies.
In the first, from The Bridge on the River Kwai, Alec Guinness, commander of the British POWs threatens to report the commander of the POW camp, Sessue Hayakawa, for forcing POW officers to work on the bridge in violation of the Geneva Convention. The two talk past each other, focused only on positions, never getting at one anothers' interests even though they both provide ample clues as to what their positions are.
“Do you know what will happen to me? I will have to kill myself. What would you do?”
“I would have to kill myself.”
The Japanese commander makes concessions – only junior officers must work – but the British commander won't budge and eventually the Japanese commander throws him out in frustration.
The more interesting conversation was between Brick and Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Big Daddy (Burl Ives) comes upstairs from his birthday party to Brick's (Paul Newman) room. Big Daddy just keeps pursuing Brick, trying various tactics to draw him out. He tries bullying, he tries promising the reward of the estate, he tries empathizing – I've lived with mendacity, why can't you? – but it's not until he simply describes what happened in a non-judgmental way – This started when your friend Skipper died – that he gets Brick to open up and engage in the conversation.
Prof. White said it was difficult to decide where to cut the clip and we watched it all the way through the exchange between Brick and Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor)in which Maggie reveals what really happened between her and Skipper the night Skipper killed himself, and then back to Brick and Big Daddy.
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