How to Handle a Live Shot
The Wrong Way The Right Way? I don't usually post stuff like this, but I just couldn't help myself.

Old Recordings
As I may have mentioned before, when I was in high school, I wrote some music.I recorded several CDs with a few of my friends, just for fun.This week, I decided it might be fun to try to clean up some of the recordings and post them on the interwebs.Turns out, that won't be happening.First of all, the recordings are really pathetic quality.I never learned the first thing about audio mixing, so everything is overdriven, there are nasty pops all over the place, and in more than one case, the audio rapidly pans back and forth between the left and right channels for no reason at all.But there

Stuff
I've come to realize that I have a lot of stuff.The ratio of stuff I own compared to places I have to put stuff is unbalanced, and that is bad news.In our culture, we are defined, to a large extent, by our stuff.How much stuff do we have?How much is our stuff worth?How do we acquire stuff?Do we pay for it ourselves?Does someone else buy it for us?Do we have the "right" stuff? (Brand names, etc.)I am not my stuff.I don't want to depend on my stuff.If all my stuff went up in smoke tomorrow, would I be upset?Should I be upset?Sure, it would be inconvenient, but would it ch

4 Years
I signed up for facebook 4 years ago today (when it was still lowercase). I'll just leave this here. Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:45:44 -0700 To: patrick.hawks@gvc.edu From: facebook.com Subject: confirmation email Patrick Hawks, You are receiving this email because you just registered at facebook.com. To complete your registration, please follow the link printed below: http://gvc.facebook.com/confirmation.php?id=99000278&code=704350221 Thanks! the facebook team