http://seaofechoes.com insomnia unleashed Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:10:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 1:49 am and it's time I started writing again before getting sucked into a long twisty tunnel of code.  I'm on leave from Google for a week or so after the birth of my second son and now is as good a time as any to take stock and reflect ... http://seaofechoes.com/2011/10/18/sky/ Just finished watching this piece on Bradley Manning and Wikileaks: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/wikileaks/ They draw many connections I wasn't aware of, including the fact that Bradley was perhaps partly a misfit in the military because of being gay, and the possibility that the Arab Spring uprisings were in part enabled by the leak of ... http://seaofechoes.com/2011/08/08/wikisecrets/ http://seaofechoes.com/2011/02/16/the-bridge/ http://seaofechoes.com/2010/11/29/photo-wall/ Got home from a great dinner at Anne's folks house and decided to finish up some housekeeping that I've been putting off.  I can tell I totally need a vacation as so many thing have been piling up unattended to. One of the things I've been meaning to take care of ... http://seaofechoes.com/2010/11/22/paper-and-light/ So I just finished another three hour session putting Tycho to bed.  I'd say that these are rare and that a more typical time is 45minutes to an hour, but sometimes when I try to shorten it things spiral out of control. The doctor says that he should be able to ... http://seaofechoes.com/2010/08/02/tycho-bed-time/ I've been doing some mixing on headphones and getting awkward results.  To try to get to the bottom of it I thought I should see how bad the phones are coloring the sound I'm getting. First I tried recording a white noise sample played through mac speakers and headphones thinking that ... http://seaofechoes.com/2010/07/26/sound-test/ So we went through our final pass of mastering last Monday and have been letting the album sit for a while. Here's quick preview of 'The Scar' after mastering. Does this song work for you? Should we include it in the album? What about the details of the sound?  Anything we should re-track or ... http://seaofechoes.com/2010/07/24/preview-the-scar/ Just got back from Tycho's first "festival" show - Lilith Faire at Shoreline.  The crowd there was decent sized though not sold out and the music was pretty good.  We heard a couple of new acts and some older ones as well.  Here are some thoughts on the show, what ... http://seaofechoes.com/2010/07/05/lilith-faire-2010/ http://seaofechoes.com/2010/07/04/fireworks/