http://www.flasshe.com Life, Minutiae, Toys, Irrational Phobias, Peeves, Fiber Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:07:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Warning! Spoilers for Game of Thrones!! The theme to HBO's Game of Thrones is one of the best instrumental TV themes ever, especially when paired with the stunning interactive ever-changing map of Westeros in the beginning credits sequence. The theme was constantly going through my head last night after the season ... http://www.flasshe.com/2011/06/20/winter-is-coming-like-a-football-to-the-face/ It's been a long time. I stopped blogging around the same time that I realized most of my blog entries could be summed in Twitter-sized microbursts and were just as entertaining to me. All of the self amusement with only 1/20th of the time spent doing it. Win-win, especially ... http://www.flasshe.com/2011/01/17/sometimes-it-all-just-comes-together/ Conversation overheard today at Wendy's between two guys standing next to me in line (verbatim): Guy 1: "Are you an actor?" Guy 2: "Huh? No." Guy 1: "Because you look like that Snoop Dogg dude." Guy 2: [Who, actually, did not look to me like Snopp Dogg: Silence, shakes head slightly] Guy 1: "He's got ... http://www.flasshe.com/2010/01/30/a-microcosm-of-modern-america-in-the-wendys-line/ One of the positive benefits of digitally archiving all my CDs is that I get to hear a lot of things that I haven't heard in (literally) decades. The iPod in my car is set up with a random playlist of things added to iTunes in the last year, ... http://www.flasshe.com/2010/01/29/kink-in-america/ Yes, even though this blog is, for all intents and purposes, dead (or at least the approval rating has dropped like Leno's ratings), I feel I must mark the anniversary anyway. Six years, woo hoo! Of course, there hasn't been much going on here for the last year. The ... http://www.flasshe.com/2010/01/20/zomblog/ This past weekend, I went out and saw the disaster-porn flick 2012. I know, I know... but I have some gift cards to use up, and it looked like pretty eye candy. Well, if you consider the end of the planet to be eye candy... which in ... http://www.flasshe.com/2009/11/16/and-i-feel-fine/ I've just reached a milestone in my CD Archiving project. You didn't think I was still doing that, did you? Actually, with everything else going on, that kind of got put by the wayside. I've been starting it back up again lately. And guess what... I ... http://www.flasshe.com/2009/11/12/cd-archiving-5-milestone-a/ Yeah, I know. I thought I was getting back into this whole blogging thing when I started in with the CD Archiving posts. But then there was a family crisis (ask me for the password), and the aftermath of that has been taking up a lot of my ... http://www.flasshe.com/2009/11/04/fielding-the-sound/ An essential part of my CD archiving adventure is not only having sufficient disk space to store the FLAC and MP3 files, but also enough space on a separate drive to store backups of them. Heaven forbid I should lose all the files in a hard drive crash and ... http://www.flasshe.com/2009/09/16/cd-archiving-4-adventures-in-modern-mass-storage/ This series could go on forever, so I figure I should list up front the process and tools I'm using. That way, if anyone wants to jump in and emulate what I'm doing, this can be used as the go-to guide. I'll go into the details in subsequent ... http://www.flasshe.com/2009/09/13/cd-archiving-3-the-write-tools/