Wed - May 5, 2004
The ASCAP Poster Parody
I made fun of the anti-downloading poster over here
and here it is for reference purposes:
And here it is reborn:
And here it is reborn:
Posted at 03:21 PM Read More
Tue - May 4, 2004
Sun - May 2, 2004
Audio mystery
I have a reasonably nice stereo, with Celestion
speakers. It works just fine except that one speaker gets distorted whenever Jim
Hall is playing. What's that about? Is it some essential wonderfulness of Jim
Hall that reaches into some area of sound that the speaker can't deal with and
that no other musician enters?
Who's Jim Hall? Well, follow that link to buy some of his CDs. I asked someone who should know to say something interesting about Jim Hall, and he said, "Everyone says: He knows a lot of chords." I tried to Google my way to that quote, but couldn't find it. But I did find this : "Everyone knows that Jazz musicians like to play ideas one step above the tonal center." What possesses people to say "everyone knows" about something that unusual? Anyway, we got sidetracked into talking about whether Google needed to worry about the word Google becoming generic and losing the trademark. It occurred to me (as I assume it's occurred to a lot of people) that Google doesn't have to try to protect itself from the word becoming generic, because its competitors have no interest in appropriating the word. Since the competitors are on line, they must have a distinctive word. If they try to attract people using the word Google, it will only cause people to end up at Google, because they are only looking on line. That's an interesting benefit to doing business on line.
But back to my point. What is it about Jim Hall that is having a unique effect on my speaker?
Who's Jim Hall? Well, follow that link to buy some of his CDs. I asked someone who should know to say something interesting about Jim Hall, and he said, "Everyone says: He knows a lot of chords." I tried to Google my way to that quote, but couldn't find it. But I did find this : "Everyone knows that Jazz musicians like to play ideas one step above the tonal center." What possesses people to say "everyone knows" about something that unusual? Anyway, we got sidetracked into talking about whether Google needed to worry about the word Google becoming generic and losing the trademark. It occurred to me (as I assume it's occurred to a lot of people) that Google doesn't have to try to protect itself from the word becoming generic, because its competitors have no interest in appropriating the word. Since the competitors are on line, they must have a distinctive word. If they try to attract people using the word Google, it will only cause people to end up at Google, because they are only looking on line. That's an interesting benefit to doing business on line.
But back to my point. What is it about Jim Hall that is having a unique effect on my speaker?
Posted at 05:25 PM Read More
Thu - April 29, 2004
Prince last night on VH1
Confession: Writing the title for this entry, I spelled Prince, Printz the first time, and I just did it again. I love Prince and loved him years before the Supreme Court came out with Printz v. United States, but I am enough of a lawprof that I instinctively write Printz when I hear "Prince" in my head.
Posted at 07:39 PM Read More
Wed - April 28, 2004
What recording did you play over and over for days when you were really sad?
"Fool to Cry," by The Rolling Stones.
Posted at 04:40 PM Read More
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