HiR:tb Toots (@warwalker)

It’s Windsor, Ontario vs. The World

I know, I know, I just took the trouble yesterday to tell you I probably won’ t be blogging for a little bit, and now here I am. What can I tell you, I’m in a good mood after the Leafs shellacked the Atlanta Thrashers tonight. Positively giddy because of a five-goal second period outburst, […]

Please Stand By

You may have noticed it’s been a little quiet around here the last little while. Just trying to keep my head above water at work these days; it’s not that I’ve stopped writing, it’s just that basically all of my writing is being done at and for work. By the time I get home nowadays, […]

I Love the Smell of Egg Nog in the Morning

I have been pre-occupied with issues of civil defense, ever since the brazen assassination attempt of Sunday last. Clearly, Juniorvanian security forces must be augmented if peace, order and good government are to be domestically restored. Accordingly, although the Government of Juniorvania prefers the dove over the hawk, it is quite clear that the dove […]

Menagerie: Rogue Snake Department

Judging by the beret, this particular criminal must be French.

Let’s play a little game, shall we? Why don’t you tell me what species of reptile you see coiled in the leaves in the picture below. I should mention that the little cretin was, um, what’s the word, “rattling” his tail when discovered. By […]

Morning Visitors, Evening Intruder

I was up early Sunday morning and in a bit of a half-sleep reverie when it occurred to me that – most unusually – there was rather a lot of noise outside my bedroom window.

When you get right down to it, I sleep about eighty-five feet from the edge of a cornfield, often indoors. […]

Pass Your Papers to the Front of the Row

Believe it or not, this is MUCH tidier than it was before…

Pencils down, everyone, National Tidy Up and Reorganize Your Home Studio Day is over; just a lovely fond memory now for another year. Come now, no cheating, seriously, time is up!

My little corner of wired-up heaven isn’t perfect; […]

Don’t Forget to Pick Up a Greeting Card

Did you know that today is National Tidy Up and Reorganize Your Home Studio Day? Spend it with someone you love, and several hundred feet of cabling.

Birnam Wood Has Come to Dunsinane and It's Tangled With XLRs

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Pursuing Paul McCartney: My Little Home Studio

No T-Shirt, No Lonely Kid, No McCartney

Back when music used to come on large circular pieces of vinyl, I had a copy of one of Paul McCartney’s solo efforts entitled McCartney II. Now isn’t the time to get in to the debate of Paul vs. John as songwriters, or the relative merits of […]

Silent Here, Noisy Elsewhere: Bringing Peace to the Home Studio

Yes, yes, I know. I have been a very negligent blogger. I don’t want to say it’s been

Alesis MultMix USB 2.0 in its Peaceful Configuration

a while since I posted hereabouts, but…well, it probably wouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone if the header image changed to “rolling tumbleweeds.”

And no, my recent […]

Understanding Ubuntu?

I’m doing some repair work on Spouse’s mom’s computer. The sick toaster arrived on Thursday along with its disappointed users. It had a “virus” according to the folk at the computer shop who wanted to charge her big bucks for fixing it.

I doubted very much whether this was the case and – at my […]