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July 2008 - Posts

Oh Wow, Dr. Horrible is AWESOME!

Someone just pointed me to http://www.drhorrible.com , which is Joss Whedon’s newest epic. The first two acts are up on the web (the final act will go up on Saturday). They are spectacularly cool, especially to a musical nut.  I knew that Neil Patrick Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:34 AM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments

Whatever happened to Wave Out Mix?

The Intertubes are all atwitter with reports that  Dell and other OEMs   colluded with the RIAA to disable the Wave Out Mix   option on new laptops. Wow, what a tempest in a teapot.  I just LOVE watching conspiracy theories as the Read More...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 2:54 PM by LarryOsterman | 18 Comments
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In which Larry goes back to college for the first time in over 20 years.

Last weekend we dropped Daniel off at Carnegie-Mellon for summer school (the CMU drama school’s pre-college musical theater program).  It was essentially the first time I’d gone back to CMU since I graduated (we visited for a couple of hours back Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:15 AM by LarryOsterman | 16 Comments
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BillG Memories, Part 2

Not surprisingly, as a peon, I don’t get to interact with Bill very often, so my few interactions are almost by definition memorable. I’ve posted this story before , but it deserves to be recycled in honor of Bill’s last few days. This happened back in Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:44 PM by LarryOsterman | 22 Comments
 
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