“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”
— Shirley Temple
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Now playing: Jeff Healey Band - Angel Eyes
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The ability to levitate dead birds
Power to self-destroy
Turn Quarters into pennies
Ability to walk halfway through a brick wall
The ability to shapeshift, but you can only turn into an igloo and a hot dog
The ability to see one second into the future
The ability to fly for half a second at a time
X-ray vision that sees completely through everything, so you can see basically nothing
Being able to predict coin tosses correctly 50% of the time
The ability to fly, but only indoors.
Ability to detect losing lottery numbers from past lotteries.
The ability to talk to restroom appliances (hi Mr. toothbrush!)
The power to see through walls, but only ones made out of glass
Ability to run slowly
See like things like the kid in 6th sense but only murdered chickens
The ability to make fat people strip
The ability to make strippers get dressed
The ability to talk incredibly fast for long periods of time
Heat vision that can’t be turned off
The ability to become halfway invisible
Ability to count the number of Pringles chips in a stack by just one quick look.
The ability to morph into a lava lamp
Having all your fingers opposable, not just the thumb
Super hearing that only works at rock concerts
Power to see in to the past, and only in to the past.
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Now playing: Roberto Juan Rodriguez - El Polaco
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Now playing: Popa Chubby - No Trouble No More
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A few folks have asked about which process I go about producing my ‘Sunday Morning Jazz’ radio show on KRUA.
Below chronicles how I do it…please keep in mind there are a great many methods and tools out there…this is merely my method, though I’ve tried quite a few things over the years.
Firstly, unless I’m out of town on vacation or emergency business, my show is LIVE! Yes I’m really there, I take calls, and I play requests.
All my music is digitized and resides on an upgraded MacBook (320 GB hard drive). I will prior to the show date compile my shows tunes into a playlist and patch the computer into the station sound board for play over the air. Two great reasons to do this…1-I don’t have to tug loose media around for each show, and B-I have every bit of my music at my fingertips for any requests.
One of the tools I use to keep my digital library tidy. Though beaTunes is touted as a tool for the building of playlists (compiling like songs and such), I find it is most useful in the scanning and identification of music files finding dupes, improper labels, and misspellings.
From the Music Brainz website:
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections.
This is pretty cool tool to sync two platforms over a network. So here’s my scenario: I have a Windows desktop and rip everything onto it, but I drag a MacBook into the studio for the show…see what I mean? I had to transfer the music file from iTunes (easy enough) to an external hard drive and then onto the laptop. Again, not hard, but at 120 gigs, the transfer took about TWO HOURS…each way!!! This is a seriously cool program.
This is the program the station uses to produce anything for play, so I decided to spring for it to keep everything simple. I tried the free Audacity but it just wasn’t working for me. Others use Sony’s Sound Forge, Pro Tools, and even Garage Band by Apple.
Awesome for research of artists and of the tunes themselves.
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I plan soon to outline the various programs and help files I use to organize my music files and produce my radio shows. Stay tuned!!!
Please support and listen to University of Alaska Anchorage radio; KRUA.
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A first grade teacher collected well known proverbs. She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. Their insight may surprise you.
Better to be safe than………………..Punch a 5th grader
Strike while the …………………….Bug is close
It’s always darkest before…………… Daylight Savings Time
Never underestimate the power of……….Termites
You can lead a horse to water but……..how?
Don’t bite the hand that…………….. looks dirty
No news is…………………………..impossible
A miss is as good as a……………….Mr.
You can’t teach an old dog new…………math
If you lie down with dogs, you’ll………stink in the morning
Love all, trust……………………..me
The pen is mightier than the…………..pigs
An idle mind is……………………..The best way to relax
Where there’s smoke there’s……………pollution
Happy the bride who…………………..gets all the presents
A penny saved is……………………..not much
Two’s company, three’s………………..the Musketeers
Don’t put off till tomorrow what……….you put on to go to bed
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and…….you have to blow your nose.
None are so blind as………………….Stevie Wonder
Children should be seen and not………..spanked or grounded
If at first you don’t succeed………….get new batteries
You get out of something what you………see pictured on the box
When the blind leadeth the blind……….get out of the way
And the favorite:
Better late than…………………….pregnant.
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