Tonight was the one year aniversary of Turntables and Beer. A weekly thing dedicated to friends, good tunes, food, and of course, beer. We’ve been getting together at the current location for quite a while, and after a bit of a break for the summer we’ve started up again. I made a brief appearance tonight, but plan on bringing my records next week. It’s good to have a weekly chance to practice spinning.

So I guess I’ll be at this thing. Both days even. Keen!

Being a huge fan of ribs (and being quite picky about them too), I’m always on the lookout for new places to try. So when I saw a link to Uncle Pete’s over on Halley’s Comment I knew I had a new place to check out. It sounds amazing. I think I must grab one of my BBQ loving friends and make an excursion soon.

Fran Lebowitz: “Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.” [Quotes of the Day]

This weekend I finally got around to doing a test run for a project I’ve been wanting to do for a while. You see, my dad has a ton of old Jazz records and someday it’s just not going to be that easy to listen to them on vinyl. In some cases it’s possible to get the stuff on CD, but in others it isn’t. This weekend I gave a try at ripping two of his records. Dave Brubeck’s Dave Brubeck At Storyville: 1954 and Old Sounds from San Francisco. Both came out quite well. The one thing they’re really missing though is the notes from the album covers. A lot of these old records have a lot of text on them talking about the music and the songs on them. Unfortunately there isn’t as easy a way to get that information on the computer. I could scan it, but it would be quite a job to get it all looking right since album covers are pretty big. Maybe if I feel so inclined I could type the information in from some of them. But there still really isn’t a great way to store all this information together. I could put it in the same directory as the files for the album, but I’d love something that mp3 software could easily choose to make available as you are playing a song (beyond the info field that mp3s allow).

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: “First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.” [Quotes of the Day]