I’ve discovered very recently that men and women are different in what interests them and how they communicate. I hope this statement doesn’t brand me as a sexist or, is taken as a hard and fast rule or, is taken to mean that one gender has special abilities over the other except in the matter of procreation. The difference is only important to me in the way I talk to people. Simply put, women like stories about people and men like stories about how to do something. When I’m conversing with my wife on long drives and I try to talk about how my various devices work my wife loses interest very quickly. However, I can get around that ennui by spicing up the story with how various people in my life helped me discover how these things work. I’m leaning toward a belief that our primitive ancestors, before we were even a species called homosapien, lived in groups which were dominated by females. The social hierarchy was the primary job of women and men only became leaders because some doting mother wanted her genes spread as widely as only a male can spread them.
Men and Women
November 6th, 2009Music From Bob’s Basement Part 5
November 1st, 2009I bought a new hard drive to deal with the massive amounts of memory required to produce the show. Steve and I spent a couple of hours trying to record a song he wrote on Friday only to be frustrated by a full memory. Time is turning into a very precious commodity in this project. Now, I look at the credits at the end of a commercially produced show and see how many people put in time taking care of all the little details that go into production and I see what doesn’t get done in my show. It certainly helps if you know what you’re doing. There are a lot of skills I have to learn before I add them to the show. There are a lot of details that I wasn’t even aware of 2 months ago.
Music From Bob’s Basement Part 4
October 31st, 2009I’ve been living Murphy’s law; If something can go wrong, it will. This time my hard drive filled up. Steve and I were recording a song he wrote and I suddenly saw on the screen a message telling me there wasn’t any more room. Inflation is running rampant not only in government spending but, in the bytes it takes to make entertainment. When I was young a million was a big number and I had heard of a billion but, I wasn’t really sure what multiple of a million it was nor did I think I would ever have to deal with a number that big. When I was recording just audio I bought an external hard drive with 160 gigs. That was probably 4 years ago. I copied the whole hard drive from the G4 mac onto it for backup and it barely made a dent. Everything BoScoDen recorded fit on it, all the music I created through a lifetime of creating seemed like a suitcase in an aircraft hanger. Barely one month of video for Music From Bob’s Basement and I’m wondering how many terabytes I need.
DKFBA 100thBD Part One
October 19th, 2009
Forms for Music From Bob’s Basement
October 17th, 2009These forms are in pdf
The station requires me to have people who appear on the show to sign a release form.
I need a synch license to put your music on the show. This license also allows me to put the songs on the web.
Music From Bob’s Basement Part 3
October 5th, 2009The premier broadcast of Music from Bob’s Basement was supposed to be October 1st but, that didn’t happen. Bright and early, Friday morning, I called Cablevision to find out why there wasn’t any show the night before. I was told that the computer didn’t have a destination for it when they did the season changeover; whatever that means. They apologized and gave me the direct number of the person in Yorktown that was responsible for it. With so many people apologizing for the mistake I have no idea what particular person screwed up. Walter assured me that the first show will be broadcast Thursday, September 8th.
Music from Bob’s Basement part 1
September 26th, 2009I don’t remember the exact moment or thought I had when I made that call to the cable company to make a local access tv show. It wasn’t obvious to me just how much work it would entail. I soon learned that I was to become a producer. They sent me a kit of 36 pages which included a lot of legalize gobbledygook and technical video jargon of which I had never heard. There was also the camera stuff in which my mac computer doesn’t like the windows based file format my camera produced. After struggling to get the performance right only to discover that I hadn’t turned on the camera and finally converting it to a format that I could put in iMovie without being reminded by an image plastered across my creation stating that win4mac is a trial version I finally got to the point where I was moving video clips and audio clips to a time-line. After days of struggling to get the movie looking and sounding the way I wanted it to I found that iDVD was no picnic either. After 3 weeks of work I finally got my first weekly episode on a DVD and delivered to the cable company. I’m going to have to work faster. I’m also going to have to get a lot more material. There are the songs I wrote and songs in public domain but, most of the stuff I’ve mastered I’m going to need a music synchronization license for.
Producing a TV Show
September 24th, 2009I apologize for taking so long to put up a new blog entry. I’ve been busy trying to produce a local access TV show called ‘Music From Bob’s Basement’. I suppose my newest endeavor could be attributed to mid-life crisis in that I’m exploring unrealized youthful dreams. The cliche of a sports car really doesn’t fit me; though, I have found myself eyeing Chevy 10 vans lately. My parents bought their first TV when I was less than a year old in 1954. I grew up watching TV and I attribute my overweight state as stemming from the anxiety I felt during that 3 month period in my late twenties when I tried going without television. Ironically, I now feel the need to snack when I watch TV which I didn’t before that life altering experience. Maybe, I should go back to eating at the dinner table. It would certainly save on stained shirts but, since I have to eat anyway and my newest endeavor of producing a TV show requires me to study the masters; I might as well accept that I’m probably eating while viewing because of all the food commercials.
Replacing a Battery on an Electric Razor
September 13th, 2009
Electric Razor in Pieces
I’ve had this razor for a lot of years now. It hasn’t gotten a lot of use so, the only thing that went on it is the rechargeable battery. I tried to use it but, the battery was dead. I immediately stuck the recharger into it and planned on using it the next morning. My wife saw it had been charging for a while and dutifully unplugged it. I probably would have gotten another minute or two of use if I used it as soon as it was unplugged but, that happened hours before I wanted to trim my mustache. When I took it apart I figured I would stop at radio shack and pick up whatever battery it used. I was delighted to find that it used a AA battery. I have a lot of them lying around. The orange battery is the original and replacement is to it’s left. I would have put the thing back together immediately except in the process of taking it apart there was this tiny little pointy piece of metal with a spring on it that jumped out from nowhere. I have to figure out where it goes before I’m ready to put those cutting blades next to my face.