As many of you know, I hurt my arms this past spring by simultaneously cramming for the first performance with my new band (three days after joining it), preparing for my students’ Coffee Shop Jam (which happened two weeks later), and, in a fit of vanity, trying to do as many push-ups as I could at the gym. Writing that …
The 100 Dollar Challenge
What would you do with a website that got 6500 visits a day? I’ve been asking myself that question recently, wondering how I could translate my website’s traffic into income without compromising the integrity of the site, and have drawn a big fat blank. So instead, I’ve decided to draw a big fat $100 bill out of my pocket, and …
Electric Kool-Aid Amp Test: Day 118—It's ALIVE!
Some of you who’ve been reading this blog for a while might recall I’ve been playing Dr. Frankenstein in my basement, building a replica of the legendary Marshall 18-watt amplifier. You can catch up on the story here: Day 1 – The start of the project. Day 23 – Loopy from solder smoke, I have a mystical vision. In February, …
Electric Kool-Aid Amp Test: Day 1
I’m gonna build an amp. Not content to leave my fate up to highway traffic, rockfall, or old age, I’ve decided to go where no spacey musician belongs—into a box of wires, jacks, knobs, caps, tubes, pots, screws, nuts, transistors, transmogrifiers, thermal detinators, and crystal gravfield trap receptors; from which, if all goes as planned, I will emerge with a …
RSS Bug Stung
Here’s a quick note for all you feedsters: I believe I’ve fixed the RSS problem on the site. Subscribe away! I guess since this internet thing is supposed to be a web, it’s no surprise the bugs always have the upper hand….
