I’m not sure if I told you all, but I’ve been on my holidays for 2 weeks and I’ve been having a blast! I’m really doing anything and I recommend it to everyone!
One of my side interests is about the history of religion. I like to understand what the hell happened a long, long, long time ago and why is everyone so pissed off at each other? I wasn’t around way back in 75 A.D., and I’m sure I would of just tried to get everybody to sit down and have a drink and mule over the things that are making everyone mad! It’s not that hard now is it?
Anyways, I’ve just about finished this book called “The Secret History of Christianity” by Malcolm Brocklehurst. It’s basically it’s about how the church has exploited the Myth of Christ, or so that is the idea that the author is trying to convey. It kinda ties things together and fills in the holes about the bible itself and gives over views of the ancient meaning behind things that are in the bible.
Anyways, while reading the book, I came across this website that is about the Last Supper” from you know who, Leonardo buddy. The author talks about some of the hidden meanings behind some aspect of the wall painting and by using this site you can zoom into the painting like you’ve never thought possible and see for yourself. Boy, he wasn’t kidding! So I’ve been checking it out for the past … dare I say hours!
The company is called haltadefinizione and they honestly outdid themselves with their super interactive HD pics on their site. If your an art lover and love to look at the finer details of master pieces that you can only get by going there and looking really close … then you may never go and see this wondrous creations in person after your significant other literally pulls your head from monitor! That’s what just happened to me!
I realize this is not what my blog is about, but the pics on this site is just out of this world. Check it out THROUGHLY!! It’s time not well wasted!
I’ve was talking to my buddy Rick from the now defunct G-Force Media, and we got to talking about Mixing equipment. He has this ancient Yamaha board and he swears by this thing! It’s very HUGE looking and kinda intimidating to sit down behind with tons of knobs everywhere on it.
As we were chatting on the phone he sent me this link that he found while searching online. He wanted to show me this company called hi-tech audio’s site. He is interested in getting one of these Yamaha Audio Mixing Consoles that was listed on the site. He says that he desperately needs a much smaller and flexible console to meet his needs of transporting it to and from gigs. I don’t blame him one bit, that puppy is heavy! The one he’s keen is the Yamaha LS9-32.
The first thing I noticed about the site was that it is very pleasing and easy on the eye as well as being quite easy to navigate. No pop ups and flashing lights to distract you from what your there to see. They specialize in Yamaha, Digidesign and Digico products, and Rick says they’re top shelf products. Who better to know that then Rick.
Hi-Tech Audio are Yamaha commercial audio/digital console/restocking and service dealers. They also seem to be a Digidesign Venue Dealer as well as dealers for the Digico D5 and D1. Doing some searching on the side, I was impressed by some of the line up that Digico has to offer. If I had a few extra bucks to throw around, then I’d make these guys rich. I’d also need a much bigger and more sound proof home to go with it.
The price for this particular board is well within his budget. I noticed that they also have in their Resource Center these digital Audio Training sections which I thought was neat! He even went as far as looking up some of this company’s clients and was impressed by what they did in terms of their products. He is one of those guys who actually reads the manuals (I must admit that I’m not one of those guys) and checks out a ton of forums online so the resource center may be of some interest to him. As he talked about the board, I decided to check out the rest of the site.
After talking with my friend about some of the pros of using Yamaha Mixing Consoles I stumbled upon one part of the site that discussed church sound systems. Oddly enough, my mother works at a church rectory and they are doing some major renovations to her church. While visiting my parents last weekend she brought up this topic and said that they are in the market for a new sound system and it just got my attention.
I know that in the case of Churches, simpler is better. The digital Audio Training will be a good selling point for the technically challenged church staff. The last time I went to see my mother at work, the video player’s screen kept on flashing “12:00″ … and it’s been that way for years. Come on, some of us here must be guilty of this one! So after we got off the phone I sent the link off to mom and hopefully she can pass it off to head priest there for further viewing. Who knows, maybe they’ll get one of the Church audio systems that I came across.
Rick just sent off an e-mail to these guys and hopefully he’ll get prompt reply. Stay tuned for the results of his search and maybe I’ll get him to reply to this post for a great detailed analysis of his adventures with Hi-Tech Audio.
This past weekend was the Buskers Festival 2008 event in the big city! It is held in the St. Lawrence Market District of Toronto, and it always looks like a blast to see.
We’ve seen all the news station reports on TV and I wish that I had time to go and check it out. There are all these way out there buskers, doing their thing, that kinda makes ya wonder, “how in the hell did they get an idea like that to pull off in public”? If I was a busker, then I’d probably be broke if that was my main form of income!
They’ve been doing this event for years and it always seems to have the best weather to hold an event like this year in and year out! Buster fest has everything for everyone of all ages! Check out the site for more info. and hilarious videos!
So if you can, get of there and see all the funky and unique buskers out there during this annual event. If you do see it, tell us about it. It may even make me make some time to check them out! If not this year, then there is always the next one.
Keep on Jammin’( or Busking if your not musically inclined!)
Well we got the old back yard, our pride and joy, finely manicured, the house is all cleaned up, the BBQ all tided up, the steaks are ready and all we need now is JON!
Well as luck would have it, Murphy’s Law is alive and at work again in my life there guys and gals! Jon has graciously bowed out! Big Jon has some unforeseen moving to do. This was truly a last minute thing that kinda fell into his llap and I do hope he has fun at it! He had tons of help to work with, and that is why I did not go and help him. BTW, I have helped him move around, oh around 10 times now, and he still owes me one … not that I’m counting there Jon!
So we are trying to get another date set up for another meeting of the Mensa minds later on this September so I’ll keep ya’ll in the loop!
Well, the weather in Toronto has been more or less shitty this past year, and it doesn’t seem to be over quite yet!
We’ve smashed the total amount of rain for a summer ever since recorded weather history. Our past winter was the second most accumulation of snow in the past 130 years! Now they say that we’re gonna have an early winter, in the words of Charlie Brown, “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”! How long can this go on for! We didn’t get hit with as much snow as Halifax, but it certainly felt like it!
So, howz it going weather wise in your neck of the world?
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