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jonderneathica - 2007-03-19 20:40:26
I use Audacity to clean up and tag mp3's that I have ripped from vinyl.
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Paula - 2007-03-19 20:55:00
Someone else just emailed me about a similar practice.
Does anyone use it to record from scratch?
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2fs - 2007-03-19 22:22:20
I've never used Audacity to record - my silly little laptop is not fully functional in terms of inputs, so I have to use my little Tascam USB/Midi box, which seems to work only with the Cubasis thingy. But I'd gotten used to using GoldWave for editing audio (and its sibling product, Multiquence, for assembling multiple tracks) and so never got used to Audacity. I've never really explored it - probably should, in case it's simpler (plus which it's free).
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Paula - 2007-03-19 22:30:54
It's the "free" part what got me.
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Greg - 2007-03-20 05:20:42
re NO!: It never ceases to amaze me just how misguided some animal rights activists can be. How would this Albrecht guy feel if it were a human--perhaps a sick relative? Isn't a good part of science and medicine really human intervention in the "natural order?" re YES!: When activists called for Euthanizing Tom Hanks after Bosom Buddies debuted it was somewhat less misguided, but he managed to find his way in the natural order after that. Knut, being much better equipped, will be just fine. re Audacity: I am familiar with it, came by it free as well, but mine is Audacity 1.1 for Workgroups, best used in social and professional situations where everybody else is using the application Obnoxious 2.1 for Snobbery.
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Paula - 2007-03-20 08:21:56
In all seriousness, though, the animal activist who made that claim had his reasons. Basically, Knut will NOT be able to live a normal polar bear's life, and I think that was what they were focussing on. I'm not outraged, especially since no one is really going to put the little guy to death. I just thought the headline was amusingly melodramatic.
Also, if you haven't seen Bosom Buddies, it was a funny show! Silly premise, of course, but good writing, good performances, etc.
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iwombat - 2007-03-20 11:13:37
unfortunately, it looks like the normal polar bear's life ain't gonna be so cool, swimming around wondering where all the ice went, gettin' hungry...
I like the Maimonides quote, it amazes, almost worries me, that the wisdom of yore is just as wise now, just as apropos, even after hundreds of years we, and our culture, still can't say, "oh that's nice!, remember when we still needed to hear that?"
Audacity: I've downloaded it a few times, just took a look at it again, never used it much because I've always had other stuff.
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Greg - 2007-03-20 11:18:18
Yeah, I understand, but I think that self-professed naturalists and animal rights activists have bizarre double standards that are as inexplicable as any other sort of extremism. I should be fair to Bosom Buddies though--a girl I work with, btw, was until recently living in one of those all girls residence houses--which of course we all fondly referred to as the nunnery.
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Paula - 2007-03-20 12:07:07
self-professed naturalists and animal rights activists have bizarre double standards
Yeah, that's true.
all girls residence houses
That sounds kind of fun.
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grigorss - 2007-03-20 12:13:41
The only thing I can remember about Bosom Buddies is that Wendie Jo Sperber had a supporting role on the show, and I had a vague crush on her (at the time). An underrated actress, unfortunately she passed away a couple of years ago. I've managed to completely repress all memory of Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari in drag, however -- fortunately...
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Greg - 2007-03-20 12:19:15
"That sounds kind of fun."
It sure does!
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Bina - 2007-03-20 12:44:33
I lived in "all girls residence houses" for the four years I was at a women's college. Ask me if you want the real scoop.
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Jim Teacher - 2007-03-20 14:34:43
Ah, Audacity, the poor man's ProTools. I downloaded this thing for work, and have been putzing around with it, creating ringtones from NES video games and other such silly stuff. I got my brother to download it, but he's having a hard time getting decent sound quality--but that might be 'cause he's using those free Sam Ash mics. Still, awesome program. For free.
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Rebecca - 2007-03-20 17:02:57
I don't remember that line being in "The Wasteland," but "Marie, Marie" is my favorite Blasters song.
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Greg - 2007-03-20 19:04:45
Rebecca--that song absolutely kills! Love it!
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2fs - 2007-03-20 22:24:42
The animal activist's argument is properly applied in advance of actions: it's perhaps arguable that people should not "adopt" a bear that would not otherwise survive, and certainly arguable that we shouldn't make a practice of it (not that that's likely). Of course, the real problem is whatever aspects of zoo life caused the mother to reject the bear cub. And the even realer problem is that in many cases, unnatural though they are, zoos are the only reason many species are even alive. While it might be playing God to save a bear that would otherwise die, it is most certainly playing God to allow our own species' actions to obliterate entire species.
Relatedly, I've often wondered, re vegans, what would happen to domesticated cattle: it would seem their existence is tied inextricably to their role in humans' lives - and if everyone turned vegan tomorrow, what would happen to that species? (Not to mention that *not* to milk a cow - even granted that we've bred cows to yield far more milk than would have been the case before our breeding programs - is certainly cruelty as well. Or so my wife, whose grandparents ran a farm, would tell me.)
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Paula - 2007-03-21 05:01:11
I love that Blasters song, too, but I also am reminded of a great, moody song my brother wrote called "Marie, Marie," which I haven't heard in ages.
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2fs - 2007-03-21 05:23:54
There are definitely complicated arguments afoot--Humans tend to discuss the natural order of all other living beings, including plant life, but rhetoric often puts any and all human behavior outside the natural order. Certainly industrialization, including industrialized farming has upset natural orders etc. I can't figure it out, but I think the answer lies somewhere in what you said about our relationship with the natural order of all other life. And basically, I believe we discuss "natural order" only ever very subjectively when it's something that has always been adaptive and variable. We can impact it but it exists independently of us.
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Mr. Oops - 2007-03-21 05:26:00
Um.. Greg here... I meant to address 2fs... not to call myself 2fs.
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Baby Party - 2007-03-21 10:57:41
Two comments: 1) I got the impression that that animal activist's position in regards to Knute is not representative of most animal rights activists; and 2) I had a crush on Peter Scolari in the Bosom Buddy days. I always thought he was sexier than Tom Hanks. Who is not sexy at all. Hanks is like a Ken doll sexually to me - smooth between the legs. Unlike Jimmy Stewart, to whom he's often compared, who had that weird undercurrent of passion/anger/whatever under his folksiness (It's a Wonderful Life, the telephone scene).
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Paula - 2007-03-21 11:51:12
BP: 1) Yes and 2) Yes!!! And I always thought Scolari would be as big as Hanks someday, but his career kinda tuckered out.
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anne - 2007-03-21 15:44:31
for some reason i've seen Peter Scolari several times on the UWS recently, out and about with his family. Maybe it's fate, since Henry/ Hildegarde's last name was Desmond.
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Greg a/k/a Mr. Oops - 2007-03-21 16:09:45
For a moment there I thought I must have gotten so drunk I don't even remember getting drunk and then posted a comment I didn't even remember writing. Not that I do that sort of thing. Then again, if I did, by definition I wouldn't remember.
Maybe I'm really...Dick Cheney?
I do know that I'm not Greg - most likely, I'm 2fs.
And we're confusing you all! Bwah-ha-ha!
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Not Really Flasshe, but I think he would say this - 2007-03-21 16:43:39
"Get a room, you two."
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Mr. Not 2fs Nor Flasshe - 2007-03-22 07:41:20
I'm sure 2fs is cute as a button but I don't know that I'm ready for such a change of luck yet. Thanks for the thought though. (Here's the place where I wish I could put a cute yellow smiley face.)
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