How to suppress idle scan notifications in Norton 2010 (Permanent Silent or Quiet Mode)

How to suppress idle scan notifications in Norton 2010 (Permanent Silent or Quiet Mode) This post is going to be formatted a bit differently than previous entries, the good chunk of people that read this are going to be from search engines and not my serial readers. Norton 2010 was about the highest rated paid [...]

I thought I was following @BestBuyPaducah

Alright, I need to address this if I’m going to be posting on that particular Twitter account again. If you’re receiving this blog post via Facebook you’re more than welcome to ignore it. So from August last year to January this year you’ve been reading the Twitter feed from BestBuyPaducah, which has been my endeavor [...]

SoTW 1/31/10 – 2/6/10

Hello and welcome to Week 1 of the 2010-2011 Scent of The Year experiment.  This first week has been all about finding the simplest way to process all the data, and to figure out what exactly we’ll be tracking over the next year. So let’s take a step back, for the uninitiated.  Scent of The [...]

Dirty English: Me Versus The World

It was fairly early into my exploration of fragrance that I realized I particularly enjoyed a few notes, more than others.   At the top of the list was cedar, and I’ve come to enjoy it in all it’s shades and nuances.  Perfumery mainly uses two species, the Virginia Cedar, which is the sharp, resinous, woody [...]

Five Finger Death Punch – War Is The Answer

This sophomore offering from Five Finger Death Punch features the same line-up as the sound that gave you The Way of the Fist, which provided “The Bleeding” and “Never Enough”, the two songs that propelled them into regular airplay on rock stations.   If you’ve been in your local Best Buy recently, you may have heard [...]

How Music is Graded (My 100-point scale.)

Tone/Overall Sound: 20 pts How do the instruments interact with each other, and how is the end result aesthetically? This also includes vocal qualities, though not lyrics (covered under Theme). Melody/Harmony: 20 pts Does the artist display technical prowess by utilizing melody and/or harmony effectively? Rhythm/Syncopation: 20 pts Does the rhythm of the piece contribute [...]

Sounding The All Clear

Google has de-quarantined the site, and all should be well again.  Despite it, you should be watching for updates not on here, but on my newly relaunched thelegendofmax.net.  Gonna try to come up with some new ideas, and I do have another long-term project in brainstorming right now, and I’ll try and work on it [...]

Live From The Bunker

I’m working with my guys at Dreamhost to resolve the recent attack and clean up all affected sites. For now if you see the Google warning, don’t visit as I’ll have them check it when we’re finished with cleanup. You may be wondering, then, why I’m writing this if nobody is supposed to see it [...]

Sunday, January 9, 2005

Once upon thirteen drugs heady, as I rocked on slow and steady, To Squarepusher’s title track off the album Ultravisitor While I tripped out, nearly napping, suddenly I heard a yapping, As of someone loudly rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “Tis some wigger dude,” I muttered, “Rapping at my chamber door – Just a [...]

NEV2: Initial Impressions, Part Two

Okay, my nose has had time to recover, so I’m going to dive into the second half of these samples. Parfums 06130 Cedre: I’m reminded a great deal of Viktor & Rolf Antidote, which isn’t a bad thing but Antidote would be the cheaper alternative. May well do this one side by side with it, [...]