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Entertainment

Prehistoric Park is a very cool new 6-part series, courtesy of the BBC, running on Animal Planet right now. Imagine “Walking with the Dinosaurs”, crossed with “The Little Zoo That Could” and “Stargate.”

It’s played as a straight documentary, featuring the specimen acquisition and housing travails of a Zoo which happens to have a time [...]

Saturday, November 4th, 2006. Posted in TV | No Comments »>

RIP, CBGBs

I’ve posted about the CBGBs saga before, but it’s appeared that the end is near. Actually, I think it’s perfect that they are going to take everything out and build a replica of the original in Las Vegas. That’s just so strangely ironic, yet cool, at the same time. The home of [...]

Monday, October 16th, 2006. Posted in Misc, Music | No Comments »>

Cubicle song

Pretty funny stuff.

Thursday, May 25th, 2006. Posted in Humor | No Comments »>

Jackie Greene: Sweet Somewhere Bound

Sweet Somewhere Bound Artist: Jackie Green Rating: 5 out of 5 Media: CD Genre: Folk Rock Favorite songs Emily’s in Heaven My friend John Palmer introduced me to this record on a trip to Florida in February, and it’s been a favorite even since. It didn’t really grab me until the 3rd or 4th listen, [...]

Thursday, May 11th, 2006. Posted in Music | 1 Comment »>

Music: Let Her Go

This one still needs some work, but I haven’t posted any tunes of mine in a while, so I figured I’d go ahead an throw it up. So, without further ado, my GarageBand rendition of the Louvin Brother’s Let Her Go.

[audio:Greg_Pierce_Let_Her_Go.mp3]

Monday, April 24th, 2006. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Kolchak memories

This Washington Post column rings true in a few too many ways for me. (Thanks for the pointer, Dad!) I would say I’m a bit more resigned to it that this guy though. I don’t even bother to buy the DVDs.

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends, TV | No Comments »>

Fun job

My friend Jim just IM’d me…"Hey, I’m on Jeff Tweedy’s tour bus." That’s Jeff Tweedy of Wilco.

"O," I say, "is it nice?"

"Yea, 42 inch plasmas in the bunk beds. How can you have wireless Internet in a moving bus?"

His job definitely seems more fun than mine at the moment.

Friday, February 3rd, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends, Music | No Comments »>

Lazy Sunday, revisited

Ok, I have to admit to being a huge fan of the SNL Lazy Sunday video. And, amazingly, seeing it remade with two 5th graders is just as funny.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006. Posted in TV | No Comments »>

Pandora

Pandora is the best music-related technology I’ve run into in a long time. Simply put, it’s custom streaming radio based on your musical tastes. Doesn’t sound that revolutionary, but the “Music Genome” project underneath it does a really good job of coming up with new music that fits your tastes, based on seed [...]

Monday, January 9th, 2006. Posted in Music, Technology | No Comments »>

Jon Kulp: Conciones para ninos

On a note tangentially related to my previous post regarding the Library of Congress, my friend Jon Kulp, whom was the other “fellow” in the Music Division when I was was there, has released a set of MP3s of new recordings of one of his song-cycles. It’s an excellent performance of some quite beautiful [...]

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006. Posted in Family and Friends, Music | No Comments »>

Five Little Monkeys

Here’s a bit of GarageBand fun I did with the boys a couple of weeks ago: Five Little Monkeys. As usual, certified loop-free.

[audio:Greg_Pierce_Five_Little_Monkeys.mp3]

Friday, December 16th, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>

Character Disorder

I’m hooked on Character Disorder. It’s got that Tetris-like way of nagging me.

Monday, October 24th, 2005. Posted in Games | No Comments »>

New SMS delivery option

To heck with SMS, I need this for email.

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005. Posted in Humor | No Comments »>

MPFreaker and AudioFaucet

MPFreaker (Mac only) is a way cool app that searches a variety of Internet sources to locate the correct information and artwork for the songs in your MP3 collection, then updates the tags with that info. Sweet.

Also, the beta of AudioFaucet is finally out. It’s a renamed and updated version of iSeeiTunes, which [...]

Friday, September 23rd, 2005. Posted in Music, TV, Technology, TiVO | No Comments »>

Keyboard

I ordered an M-Audio Keystation to complete my “home studio”. I debated getting a Yamaha with speakers and sounds on-board in case the boys want to play with it, but decided to go for the more compact MIDI-controller. We have a piano, after all. This should make it a lot more fun [...]

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