By Bruce van der Kooij on November 11, 2009
The picture below is of a OSP DD-502 electronic drum kit which is demonstrated in a video review by Your Sound Shop and is descriibed as “an outstanding kit providing excellent quality at an entry level price”.
However, before I’d go off and buy a particular drum kit I’d be sure to do my research (a [...]
Posted in Entertainment | Tagged music, pure awesome, toys |
By Bruce van der Kooij on November 11, 2009
A little bit more than a week ago I was at a friend’s place and for his birthday he had been given the video game Guitar Hero including a guitar controller.
Up until that day I had been a bit reluctant to actually pick up the guitar and play the game out of fear for “looking [...]
Posted in Entertainment | Tagged music, video games |
By Bruce van der Kooij on November 11, 2009
This is closing credits theme (also referred to as the main theme) from the movie Enemy of the State, originally composed by Trevor Rabin and Harry Gregson-Williams, played by Gustavo Vieira using a Roland XP-80 keyboard with an extra Orchestral Soundboard and recorded/mixed using its build-in sequencer.
Posted in Entertainment | Tagged music |
By Bruce van der Kooij on November 9, 2009
Yesterday evening Canvas/Panorama broadcasted the VPRO/Tegenlicht documentary “De Ijsland-ervaring” (The Iceland-experience).
The creators of the documentary travel to Iceland to try and answer the question: What happened? An economist, a philosopher, a comedian, a young activist, a fisherman and a coffehouse owner answer the question in their own way.
They also interview Eva Joly who, at the [...]
Posted in Real-life | Tagged media |
By Bruce van der Kooij on November 9, 2009
I got a bit annoyed with NoScript last week due to the continous white-listing while randomly surfing the web, so I reluctingly decided to pick the dangerous Allow Scripts Globally option. However, this has introduced me to an annoyance far greater and that is: websites overriding copy/paste functionalty using JavaScript.
Yes, this is actually possible and [...]
Posted in Technology | Tagged please kill me now, take back the web, usability |
By Bruce van der Kooij on November 8, 2009
I wanted to comment that I don’t think it’s entirely fair that the commentators from ESPN in the video below completely neglect to notice or mention that the BYU players involved also didn’t quite play by the books.
If you’ll look closely you’ll notice that Carly Pain from BYU elbows Elizabeth Lambert in the chest, though [...]
Posted in Procrastination |