I'm Singin' In The Rain

I just faced down near-hurricane strength winds while standing in my bathroom.

This is pretty serious shit. You'd think they would have mentioned the possibility of a hurricane, even as much as an hour ago, on any of the weather sites.

All I can say is, I feel like I just had an Al Gore moment.

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The Definition of Mojo

Lately I've been wondering how to tell my lead singer that his performance on our latest tune is somewhat, well, "overextended", that if he dialed it back a bit, it would come over real, not melodramatic. And then being the dutiful Capricorn, I set about seeing if there were an established rule about this, involving geometry and percentage tables and fairly impressive 3-D pie charting.

However, having found none, I will say that in my opinion "the sweet spot", the boundary between honestly intense and pandering theatrics, lies at precisely 78% of the most extreme Broadway-style presentation.

Oddly enough, this is also the amount of surface area of the Earth that's covered by water, at the Equator.

And also oddly enough, the percentage human beings are of water as compared to everything else, at birth.

True art lies at 78%.

Now go... and sin no more.


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Totally Tubular

I was thinking... original audio recordings were made on tubes covered in wax. At some point, someone decided a flat disk would work better. And with the exception of tape, all audio which has since followed has been delivered disk shaped (even the stuff in your iTunes or iPod).

I wonder what would have happened had the tube idea worked out... would we instead be playing CT's , "compact tubes", little white cylinders about the size of a king-size Player's Light® ? There'd be a round hole in the front of your computer to insert...

Ahh, that's it. Tubes are dirty. :-)

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