my evil plan to save the world

Seriously, it’s stuff like this that makes me advocate for smaller government.  I know the government is trying to protect us from improperly made toys, but this is unacceptable.

Someone should point out that the reason American businesses are failing is because none of them can do anything with all this damn regulation.

I swear, some days I feel like a Libertarian

The rest of the article is interesting, but in my opinion the best part was right at the end, and completely unrelated to the rest of the article:

Selig, in perhaps his most disingenuous moment of the entire press conference, said, “These fans obviously came and bought tickets for a night game, so they deserve to come back and see a night game.” Right. Because the scheduling of World Series games is done taking into account, first and foremost, the convenience of the attendees. Because fans have demanded 8:30 local time starts for years. Because when World Series games are played in the Pacific time zone, MLB gives a rip about those people’s work schedules. The game will be a night game because Fox says so, and for Selig to sit there and say what he said insults everyone’s intelligence. Just be honest and say that the game will be a night game because MLB doesn’t control its own scheduling. As if the city of Philadelphia, and people holding tickets wouldn’t be perfectly happy with a 7 p.m. start. Or 2 p.m. Or 9 a.m. That comment, to me, was the worst thing said last night, and goes a long way toward letting the world know who runs baseball.

I’ve only done a moderate job of keeping in touch with many of the people I shared ATech classes with in college, but I’ve been working with some software that I thought I’d share with people.

If you’ve got a great job in the field and are enjoying it, then don’t worry about this.  However, if you’ve got all your advanced audio knowledge and haven’t figured out how to get paid for it yet, I thought I’d share an alternative career path that wasn’t touched on while I was in ATech.

Biamp is a company that makes digital audio products.  Their Audia and Nexia lines are both digital audio processors that take a configurable series of inputs and outputs, and then give you a big virtual sandbox to play in and do anything you want with it.  There are tons of filters, mixers, dynamic processers, delays, meters, tone generators, and more.  You can do almost anything with these systems.  They are most commonly used for conference room and theater applications to do audio processing “in the box”

The reason I thought people would find this useful is that Biamp releases their software for free.  You can download the Audia and Nexia design programs from their website and play with them.  You can explore different configurations and play in the sandbox with no financial investment.  If you do, and want to see some examples, email me and I’ll send you a few files you can play with.

Like I said, this is a completely different career path than what we thought we were getting into when we took ATech classes, but if you’re working in retail or something, and really want to get back into the Audio side of things, this might be a good way to start.

This makes me sad.  You’ll notice that England and Germany actually made the banks, y’know, help consumers when they gave them money, but here in the US we wouldn’t want to upset big business, so we’re just asking nicely and trusting them.