Gecko Bloggle

• We never do this, but hit Taco Bell tonight, and I got some sorta “Big Box o’ FOOD” for $10, and it was 1800 calories. Burrrrrp. #

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• Getting mentally jazzed up to do today’s podcasting with JVancouver and Duncan. Always a good time, lots of new music! #

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• Either this is fairly unknown, or I forgot about it. Free DJ control using cheap timecode records and real turntables. #
• Arwen (quoting from SomeECards): “I miss feeling superior to the president.” Tate (Leaving the room) : “Buwok Obama’s WINning…” #
• Can’t wait for the new K-Os album. Also hoping Future Sound of London drops something new this year (we can always hope). #

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• I almost forget how much I love the DubSessionPodcast.com by ChillWill, and then I stumble across on and have my mind blown all over again. #
• Off to have sushi with Gramma Yaya and Tate. Woot! #
• Nobody say anything about BSG until we put the kids to bed and can watch it ourselves. Happily, I preemptively set the DVR to record it @ 7 #
• “Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.” #

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• Peter Gabriel remix contest again. This time it’s Games WIthout Frontiers. Shock the Monkey was a blast last year. #
• Does someone know where I can find a TV auto-gain? I’m getting tired of reaching for the remote every break due to 150% volume increase. #
• “Hylozoic Soil” by Philip Beesley sculpture in the winners list at We Make Money Not Art. Nice to see them post again. #

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• Peter Murphy – Cuts You Up is EPIC schmaltz. We just don’t get it quite like that any more. Thanks RadioParadise.com #
• I consider myself pretty keyboard savvy but when websites don’t have a proper tab-to-click setup, it makes things difficult. Dumb mouse. #

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• Yeah, so Tuesday is the new Monday. No interview with Radical (already filled the position). Haven’t heard back from *anybody* else. #
• Pretty pathetic when the only good thing you can see in the day so far is that you can apply for Employment Insurance online instead of IRL. #
• What do you do about it if you’re anti-logging, but a photo of you ends up promoting “second-growth?” forestry? #

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• I think I might have broken my own domain today via FTP thinking I’m attacking it, when I’m actually just trying to upload helpdesk. Ironic? #
• Digging Tweetdeck Gives a nice three/four column dashboard for everything that’s happening in the tweetosphere. Free. #
• Wow. Forgot how grating the 1987 album by Big Black was. Accidentally bought that album because I read review NEXT TO a Prince piece. #
• I think the tweetosphere’s going to think I only listen to Prince. I don’t. I haven’t in a long time. Honest! Not since about ’93, much. #
• Watching “The Big Bang Theory,” and can’t believe nobody told me about this show. It’s like XKCD on crack, in sitcom form. #
• Have I mentioned lately how awesome http://www.fusednetwork.com is as a hosting solution? I asked for a php extension enabled. 20 mins, done. #

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• From the “What the Bleep do Six Year Olds Know?” files: “Two months summer vacation? I guess time travels when you’re having fun.” #

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• Listening to the new Franz Ferdinand, and the big hit single Ulysses has the vocal moved forward by about a 16th beat. Was that intentional? #

Edit/Update:  So, this was really bugging me, because the album version vocal seemed so “slushy” compared to the single I downloaded a month or so ago.  I wasn’t entirely sure about the veracity of the album version I had, so Ripley and I wandered down to the HMV at Robson & Burrard yesterday and listened to the track on a listening post.  Same thing.  Sounded like their singer was off a bit, y’know?

So I threw both tracks into Sony’s Acid 7.0 and did a quick slide edit to put the music tracks together as closely as I could bother, and aside from a little flam on the percussion that isn’t there normally, I think I got them pretty tight.  Here’s an MP3 of BOTH tracks, and you’ll notice a distinct echo/doubling of the vocal that gets more and more pronounced as the track progresses.  Frankly, I kinda dig it, ’cause it gives the track this weird dizzy feel to it.

Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses (Both Versions)