Floating and Dreaming

Created 7/11/04 on Apple’s Garage Band. Initial song took about 20 minutes to put together. Tack on about another hour for tweaks. The song uses 6 virtual instruments which is about all you can get out of a 1.5-GHz G4. That may not sound like much (and...

Monday Monday

We visited Joe, Carol, and Ella up in Battle Ground before my soccer game. Caught Robyn up there as a bonus. Ella’s looking great as are the new parents. (And while I’m at it, Robyn looked good too!) =) We had to leave for the game sooner than I would have...

Mystic (The Jonah Mix)

Created 7/6/04 on Apple’s Garage Band. Initial song took about 45 minutes to put together. It would have been faster, but I’d never used the software before. I spent another hour or so tweaking, mixing, and goofing. Good times. 2:35 / 2.4 MB AAC [QuickTime...

Mystic: PowerBook G4 part 2

Now that I’ve a little more time to play with the G4 PowerBook, I feel like I can speak with a touch more authority about my experience rather than having to blather about how great it looks coming out of the box. Though of course it does look great. =) Despite...

Mystic: PowerBook G4 part 1

The 15.2″ 1.5-GHz PowerBook G4 arrived via FedEx this afternoon. As usual, Apple’s superb packaging starts everything off right. It is immediately obvious that this is a product that has been crafted, not slapped together like some other companies I could...