Request for help

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Over the last few months, I've been building up the resources to start doing my own recordings at home. I have a new computer, recording program, and I recently bought a headphone/microphone combo. Everything's in place, but I can't get the recording to work.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I'm using Audacity to record, which program came highly recommended. I know the headphone thingy works because if I play a sound file, I can hear it just fine. But I can't get anything recorded. I imagine it has something to do with the Audacity settings, but since I know nothing about this kind of program, and I don't know anybody who can just come over and show me how to do it, I'm at a loss.

Does anybody know this program? Do you know anybody who does? I feel like I'm bashing my head against a wall here. Help?

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Over here you can listen to my reading a section of "A Conspiracy Unmasked" from FOTR. lbilover got the idea to have a number of us read sections as part of Celebrate Middle Earth Month 2008. Her post bringing all the sections together is over here.

Okay, this?

Had BETTER be good, damnit.

Watch on YouTube

Speed Racer - trailer


I was a CRAZED Speed Racer fan when I was little. Followed the show religiously and had a MAD MAD crush on Speed. I'm more than a little invested here.

The trailer looks crazy and weird, but it does capture some of that manic, over-saturated, Japanese gameshow/anime sensibility. The casting looks good in some cases - John Goodman as Pops, yeah; Matthew Fox as Racer X, WHOA YEAH. Mom? When did a mom get written in? But hey, Susan Sarandon, so okay. Trixie looks a bit bitchy, but we'll see.

So, considering that I'm STILL pissed at the Wachowskis for how royally they fucked up the Matrix sequels (NO, Larry, your dick is NOT worth killing the world's coolest trilogy over), my bar is set pretty damn high. They had better NOT fuck this one up.

Parable of the day

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Gacked from Harlan Ellison:



Rene Descartes walks into a bar.

The bartender asks, "May I serve you, sir?"

Descartes answers, "I think not," and vanishes.

Get the word out

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I think we can all agree on the Unmitigated Asshattery that is John McCain. But a lot of people in this country are being bamboozled by his "straight talk" bullshit. This is a neocon shell game artist who supports every warmongering trope imaginable; voted (and still votes) for every possible way of reducing, outsourcing and destroying as many American jobs as he can; and wants to cut, drown and take away every public benefit Americans receive, benefits such as Medicare, Social Security, etc. etc. etc. (You know, all those things everyone except the super rich will eventually NEED.)

But some people are fighting back. The AFL-CIO, bless 'em, have put together a webpage called, appropriately enough,

McCain Revealed,

which details McCain's voting and lobbying record. All the above and more are on there, in glowing detail. You could do worse than pass the link along, so that others may be informed. Every little bit helps, and it's about time we stopped concentrating on the Clinton/Obama sandbox games, and started working to get this deceitful, hateful hack as far from the White House as possible.

Because his kind of shit our crippled, exhausted country does NOT need.

Does not compute

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Okay, so I'm watching HIC play Jesus, and it's causing something of a cognitive disconnect. Especially since he doesn't look any different on Lost. (see icon)


But it is making me feel distinctly...religious. In fact, I think I feel a bout of ecstasy coming on.



Worship at the altar of Desmond, all ye faithless and accursed!!!