Nuts

You know, if the ice is soft enough to leave footprints, you probably shouldn’t be walking on it. You know what I mean?

Frozen Pano

Every time I try to take a panorama of Forrest Lake it comes out looking like a squat little puddle. I mean, it’s not a big body of water at all, but it’s more impressive than this.

Best Anti-Science Rebuttal Ever

I don’t know if this will embed or not because it’s coming from Comedy Central, so if it doesn’t you can go to this link right here.

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The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
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Okay, so the video didn’t embed into the page, so just click the link and be amazed.

No, the world is not flat. This week is literally the third time in the last couple of months that I’ve heard people trying to convince others that the world is flat.

What the ever loving???

Fortunately, people who aren’t complete idiots have Neil deGrasse Tyson to bitch slap the stupid.

No One Swimming

No one is swimming in Forest Lake today.

Sunrise at Forest Lake

Sort of… The sun was just barely coming through the trees.

New Theme

What about featured images?

2016 Theme

Changed the theme again. The documentation says that large images will fill the screen. I wonder if they lied to me.

Nerd Alert

I often make a Google Document for keeping notes on my RPM Challenge progress. Start a new idea, add it to the doc. Write some lyrics, add them to the doc. I just sometimes need something to help me keep my thoughts in order. Sometimes I use a Google Spreadsheet to keep track of which guitars I use on each song, or which amplifier patch, or beats per minute, or really anything you can think of.

Today I upped my nerd game. I created a Trello board to keep track of this year’s project. There is a list for songs that are just in the idea phase, songs that are in the recording instruments phase, songs in the vocals/lyrics phase (lyrics and melodies are always the last thing I write), and songs that are in the mixing phase. Each time I start a new idea I will add a card to the idea list. Then as I add to it I can make notes on what I did in each card, and move it between lists as it progresses.

I’m waiving my nerd flag high this year.

Inspiration/motivation

I’ve probably shared this before. It’s the RPM Challenge Video from 2012. Yes it’s four years old, but it still applies. If you are thinking of trying it, let the words of a bunch of participants convince you. I know some of the people you will hear, and some of the people you’ll see in the pictures. I don’t know the guy who recorded his album in his car, but I clearly remember him writing a blog post on the site saying he did all of his work while parked in the same parking lot I sat in when I made all of the phone calls to put together my brother’s bachelor party. It’s a small world. Here’s hoping the link works…