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“Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World” as recorded by Israel (IZ) Kamakawiwo’ole. Cover by Kyle Ringgenberg on Akai EWI 4000s. Audio recorded straight from instrument with minimal post-processing.
Download the MP3 here:
Over the Rainbow (EWI) MP3
Original song here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DKWlrA24k
The EWI master:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOEF7f2HGoE
Cover of Cee-Lo Green’s “F**k You” on Akai EWI 4000s by Kyle Ringgenberg.
Audio recorded straight from instrument with minimal post-processing.
Download the MP3 here:
F**k You (EWI) MP3
Original song (explicit lyrics) here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO04S1c23pU
Violin cover inspiration here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnTBPSJBwAg
The EWI master:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOEF7f2HGoE
I hurriedly slapped this video together this evening after getting the idea stuck in my head over the weekend. Sorry about the poor production values, hope you still appreciate the joke!
A little sacrilegious? Probably.
Rather amusing? I think so.
One of the stereotypical elements of the American Dream is owning land. I live in an apartment (which is fantastic for this stage of my life), but have had a growing desire to acquire a small plot of land on which to maintain a lawn of my own. So, a few weeks ago I decided to take matters into my own hands.
I’ve constructed a 2′ x 2′ x 6″ wooden box… sanded it, stained it, and waterproofed it. I then filled it with potting soil and sowed a healthy quantity of bermudagrass seed. After considerable watering, sun, and a few weeks waiting, I now have a 4′ sq lawn of my very own!
PS: Anyone have a lawn mower I could borrow? Self-propelled is preferred.
PPS: The pot contains newly-sprouted catnip.
Those thugs at Gerber Baby Life Insurance just won’t leave me alone! I’ve asked them nicely to stop sending me junk mail, but they haven’t… so I’m taking drastic measures. As it turns out, you can tape a “Postage Paid” envelope to a package and the soliciting company has to pay the bill. This time those Gerber Baby Punks are getting a tennis ball. Next time it’ll be a brick. See the pictures below.
PS: I checked with a postal worker before mailing this and was assured I wasn’t bending / breaking any laws or guidelines. I got the idea from here.
To the banded mammals that live off the flight line; when I’m walking home after a long day of work, please refrain from scurrying out of the bushes across my path. You may think you’re being playfully cute, but I’m running out of clean pants. Thank you for your assistance with this matter.
I’m on MSNBC, baby!
http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/04/20/6503821-10-slightly-cracked-ways-to-celebrate-easter
You can also get there by going to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ – “Tech & Science” – “10 slightly cracked ways to celebrate Easter”.
In the spirit of Easter, I’ve designed and constructed an audio-animatronic “Peep” Show. This is inspired by a long-running pun amongst of group of friends of mine. Total part count: 10 Servos, 29 LEDs, 1 Arduino, 1 Audio Decoder IC, 1 Push Button, 1 0.5 W Speaker, ~650 Lines of Code, 3 Sheets of Foamboard, 5′ of Balsa Wood, 3′ of Dowels, 25′ of Wire, & 11 Peeps.
Extra-special thanks to the SPYAG for the inspiration to do this, I couldn’t / wouldn’t have done this without y’all!
I’ll be playing in church again tomorrow, going to rock* the electric violin this time… should be a good experience. That said, here are a few more transcriptions I wanted to make publicly available.
*rock… is that the right verb? Also, just FYI, this is a continuation of the original post here.
I recently updated my copy of Finale to PrintMusic 2011 and was appalled to find that CodaMusic is still using their crappy 16×16 pixel file icon (see left) from the mid-nineties! Now, I understand that I’m nitpicking at this point, but is it too unreasonable to ask that the icon used on my *.mus files don’t look like something out of Windows 95?
So, I decided to do something about it. I created a new icon for the *.mus file extension (see right) and have developed a handy-dandy little batch file to automatically copy it into the Finale resource directory and (by tweeking the registry) set it as the default icon for Finale Music Files. This new icon scales all the way up to 512×512, so it should be pretty future-proof. If you want to set up the same configuration on your own desktop, just download THIS zip file, extract the contents, and then double click the enclosed MUS.bat file. Follow the on-screen instructions, log-off and log-back-on to Windows, and BOOM, you’re done. Enjoy!
