I never really thought of Drew Carey as a game show host. He's done Whose Line Is It Anyway, which isn't really a game show. He's got that "Power of 10" show coming up, and now he's the new host of The Price Is Right. Good thing I work at home so I can pop down to the tele and see what the shows are like. Well, not until the fall, anyway.
Here's my dispatches this week, which doesn't include what I wrote on phoneboy.com this week, nor does it include all the stuff I queued up on The VoIP Weblog and The Gadgets Weblog for later posting.
Over the past week or so, I started writing on two new blogs--ones that actually pay me some dosh!
The pay, which isn't great, is part of the reason I am doing this. The other reason is that I feel I need to learn some new stuff to improve my blogging. Working with an outfit like Creative Weblogging is very useful for that reason, as they provide tips on increasing traffic to your blogs and help when you're stuck.
Over the past week, I've written 20+ entries between the two blogs--some have already posted, others will be posted in due time. That doesn't even count my "personal" tech blog, where I've also started the practice of pre-writing posts as well.
All of this blogging elsewhere means other than a random posting here or there or a photo upload from a phone, my Vox blog is not getting much action lately. Unfortunately, I don't see that changing anytime soon.
I'm a little behind in reading my Wired, but today I read something about I Robot getting released in a 30th Anniversary edition. It made me dig up my CD of I Robot, suck it into iTunes, and give it a listen for the first time in ages. The album still holds up fairly well, 30 years later!Meanwhile, it made me think about the days when artists actually built their albums around a theme.These days, it seems the vast majority of artists throw a number of songs on a CD and call it good without regard to any central theme. I'm sure there are exceptions as I don't make a habit of listening to current music. Point them out in the comments.Even if there are artists that actually put together "albums" that are a coherent piece meant to be listened to from beginning to end, the way we listen to music has changed a lot. Instead of popping in a tape or CD and listening to it from beginning to end, we rip everything into iTunes, or Windows Media Player if you must. We "mix" the songs up with everything else, and listen to one "song" after another.While there are individual pieces of music from each of these albums--and damn it, I don't care what they aren't on vinyl anymore, but they're still albums--that one can listen to standalone, there are just some albums begging to be heard from beginning to end. They include:
People, including my son, got to walk on the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge today. It along with the accompanying toll booth will open to cars tomorrow.
