san diego
Well, I in fact got off my lazy butt and put up the San Diego Pictures. Only took a week, not too bad. I was pretty disappointed at the picture quality of my cell phone. I had the batteries on my digital camera die pretty early on. Not many of the cell phone pictures made the cut. Here is the link;
sonograms, cleaning, and pandora
I finally have the sonogram Lori took back in January online. Thanks to Chris' scanner the baby now has a web presence. Even *I* wasn't that advanced.. watch out. You can view the scanned print-out full sized at;
It took forever to do because of a massive mess in my office that I've finally cleaned up. Consider that there was a ton of Christmas stuff in here and you'll understand the full impact of the mess. I not only needed to clean it to keep my sanity, but also because this will be the baby's room before we move to the new house. I wanted to make sure everything was open for it's stuff well ahead of time so that was one less thing to be worried about later on. Now I just need to keep it clean.
I've been playing with this online music service called Pandora lately. Based on music you add and music you tell it you like or don't like it picks music for you. For instance, I added eminem, Yellowcard, Bob Marley, Smashing Pumpkins, Paul Oakenfold and others. Then it picks randomly a mix of those songs as a radio stream through their flash web interface. To give you an example, it's playing Foo Fighters right now. When I tell it to explain why it's playing that it says;
"Based on what you've told us so far, we're playing this track because it features hard rock roots, a subtle use of vocal harmony, electric guitar wall-o-sound, repetitive melodic phrasing and extensive vamping."
Then I click the album cover, and say I like it so knows to play more music like this. I've been pretty impressed so far.
The best part is you can tie this in to the squeezebox I mentioned a while back. It costs $36/year, but it may be worth it, we'll see. I can get a 90 day trial that I think I'll take advantage of. You can create seperate radio channels within your account so Lori and I could maintain separate lists as well as different genres we liked or moods we were in. For instance, Mike's Pissed Off Metal and Lori's Mellow R&B.
You can look at Pandora here;
and the squeezebox deal with them here;
http://www.slimdevices.com/au_press_pandora.html