May 2007
40 posts
“What is the feeling when you’re driving away from people, and they recede...”
– - Jack Kerouac, 1922 - 1969
April 2007
16 posts
Adam Mercado: finally updated my blog article http://influxxmedia.blogspot.com must get quicker at this..
Adam Mercado: “caucasian or poor asian, rascism is a weapon of mass destruction”
Adam Mercado: listening to Faithless on Morning Becomes Eclectic..wicked cool..wish I was going to Coachella this weekend
Adam Mercado: setting up some Quicksilver triggers, trying to force myself to use it more and more….getting the hang of it now
Adam Mercado: listening to Enemies Like This by Radio 4
Adam Mercado: watching/listening to Rosie Thomas on Morning Becomes Eclectic @ KCRW 89.9 http://www.kcrw.com/
Classic tunes at a discount price
Apple, in it’s unfaltering wisdom, has seen fit to offer classic albums from the ages (1920’s – 2000’s) at the discount price of $7.99. Looking through the list of albums on sale, there are some great, truly classic works available. Many of these I already own, particularly from the 80’s and 90’s, on tape cassette or vinyl.
Now I have been trying to get my...
Adam Mercado: Watching Apocolypse Now in HiDef….absolutely glorious.
“Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain, and all of the children are insane ”
– Jim Morrison, The End
The Sound of Music
Just added a FineTune playlist player to my Blogger site, The Man In Flux. This little doohickey is a sweet little player that links to the awesome FineTune music service. It pulls songs from a playlist I set up into a lovely little interface. There is a desktop player that too links to the web service and is very slick. You can pull from their database of thousands upon thousands of songs, ...
Ghosts of the Abyss
After making the Oscar winning Titanic, James Cameron was obviously so enamoured of the sunken ship that he spent the following 3 years making this documentary about it. I wanted to see this when it came out in general release, but it wasn’t until this weekend I caught it on HDNet Movies. The photography was quite simply breathtaking. They developed the 2 ROV-mounted cameras to get into...
“It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and...”
– Mark Twain
Notes on High Definition TV
Some observations on the merits and perils of HDTV having lived with our upgraded cable service for a couple of weeks now. MLB Baseball and NHL Hockey are stunning to watch in HD, just like being at the game. Every chip of ice. Every blade of grass. Clear as a whistle. Of course I exagerate some, but you get the picture. Or do you? In comparison, NHL Hockey in SD is total garbage. My team (the one...
Adam Mercado: NetNewsWire, I’m so glad I found you, You’re my best and only friend…(except for Twitter of course)
