http://tombrandt.net/blog Because no one gets the last word. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:19:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I recently picked up an Apple iPhone 3G, and for the most part I really like the phone. It does many things well, but some things it does badly, and some things are downright ugly. For most of the bad and the ugly, there are workarounds. Complete review after the ... http://tombrandt.net/blog/2008/08/17/apple-iphone-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ For all my trip photos, check out the Photo gallery I took a short vacation last week to Boston and New York for no other reason other than to get away for a few days. My friends Cheryl and Joe, their daughter Katherine, and another friend of ours, Tess, were taking ... http://tombrandt.net/blog/2008/08/13/the-getaway/ Hollywood descended upon Ann Arbor, if only briefly, these past couple of weeks. It was in town filming Youth in Revolt, starring actors you have actually heard of: Michael Cera, Justin Long (Mac in those Apple commercials), Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta, and others. This was a direct result of a ... http://tombrandt.net/blog/2008/08/02/hollywood-in-ann-arbor/ http://tombrandt.net/blog/2008/07/29/how-it-works/ Button for sale at the state convention of the Texas Republican Party. (Via Marc Ambinder) http://tombrandt.net/blog/2008/06/18/assholes/ Tis a map showing the generic names for soft drinks by area. Interesting that "soda" is bi-coastal, but not much used in the interior. I once visited a client in New Jersey who asked me what I wanted to drink. I told her I wanted a pop, which prompted her to ... http://tombrandt.net/blog/2008/06/16/pop-or-soda/ The group I sing with is leaving shortly to perform JS Bach's Mass in B Minor with the Wilmington, NC Symphony, so we are in heavy rehearsals to prepare. In the bass sectional today the song Fly Me to the Moon came up (don't ask), and our director remarked that ... http://tombrandt.net/blog/2008/06/07/fly-me-to-the-moon/ Spring is coming ... http://tombrandt.net/blog/2008/03/24/truck-vs-bridge-iv-back-after-a-hiatus/ Peter Neubäcker, who developed Melodyne, the premier pitch-correction program, has new software out which can take a music recording of, say, a piano or string quartet, separate out the individual notes in all the chords, and allow you to change them at will. Want to change a major chord to ... http://tombrandt.net/blog/2008/03/14/friday-music-blogging-direct-note-access/ Steve Novick, a junior high dropout who enrolled in the Harvard Law School at age 18, is running for Senate in the state of Oregon. He has the most, umm, startling political ad I have ever seen. Take a look: http://tombrandt.net/blog/2008/03/09/a-beer-with-steve-novick/