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Sunday, April 27, 2003 Mission Accomplished Julie's big birthday party is quickly approaching, and as we looked over our modest home bar deciding on what we would need for the bash, we discovered we were frightfully low on booze. More correctly, we had quite a few bottles of booze with barely 2 drinks worth of liquor in each. So we decided to have a few friends over for a "kill all the nearly empty bottles on the Verive's bar" evening. And I'm happy to report that even though nearly everyone we know was out of town for the weekend it was a complete success. And now our bar is very sad, as it only has a bottle of gin, half a bottle of Irish cream, and a bunch of those second string liquors that you've got to keep on-hand (vermouth, curacao, bitters, etc.) Friday night was spent visiting with my Brother-in-law over beers and listening to a bunch of records. And by records I mean 12 inch black vinyl disks inscribed with an analog data track and read via continuos physical contact with a mechanical pick-up head. Delightfully low-fi, and wonderfully grounding after a week of non-stop digital music. Speaking of digital music, tomorrow is apparently the day that Apple will announce its new pay-per-download on-line music service. The rumor mill has been working over time in recent weeks, churning out tidbits about dollar-per-song costs, and high quality MP4 encoded files. My views are if anyone is going to make the whole music-D/L service work, it will be Apple and their monstrous marketing machine. And I for one, will embrace the service with open arms as long as it has a fairly deep catalog, and it isn't hamstrung by too much DRM. Basically I want to be able to down-load tracks, put them on my iPod, and burn audio-CDs with them. If any of that is compromised then I'm really not interested. posted by JMV | 4/27/2003 06:33:00 PM | |
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