Dennis McDonald's LIVING WITH TECHNOLOGYLiving With Technologyhttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/2010-03-15T18:17:43ZSquarespaceThis Year's Halloween Musichttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/this-years-halloween-music.htmlDennis D. McDonald2009-10-31T21:30:53Z2009-10-31T21:30:53ZThis is what I’m pumping through the outdoor speakers tonight:

Ed Wood Soundtrack Music

Leonard Maltin’s Favorite Movie Themes

Shore, Howard

Empty Restaurant

Spirited Away

Hisaishi, Joe

Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone

Very Best Of Manhattan Transfer

UNKNOWN

A Perfect Evening For Flying Carpets

The Spell

Braheny, Kevin and Tim Clark

Total Halloween Terror 2 (short Version)

Best Of Total Terror Scary Halloween Music, Screams & Sounds

UNKNOWN

Nightmare Before Christmas Orchestral Suite

Leonard Maltin’s Favorite Movie Themes

Elfman, Danny

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Science Fiction Album

Herrmann, Bernard

Lothlorien

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

Shore, Howard

End Credits

Coraline

Coulais, Bruno

Halloween Horror Scary Sounds – Haunted House

Halloween Horror - Scary Sounds and Music

 

The Dark Knight (Aggressive Expansion)

Batmania

Zimmer, Hans

Total Halloween Terror 10 (short Version)

Best Of Total Terror Scary Halloween Music, Screams & Sounds

 

Cirith Ungol

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

Shore, Howard

Is That What Everybody Wants

Solaris

Martinez, Cliff

Contact: The Primer

Contact

Silvestri, Alan

Dreaming

Coraline

Coulais, Bruno

Vertigo - Suite_Prelude

Bernard  Herrmann - The Essential Film Music Collection

Herrmann, Bernard

Mars Attacks

The Science Fiction Album

Elfman, Danny

 

]]>Herons Nesting Near Our Househttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/herons-nesting-near-our-house.htmlDennis D. McDonald2009-04-17T17:32:02Z2009-04-17T17:32:02ZBy Dennis McDonald

Word on the street is that the herons will eat the crayfish that are in the creek, as well as frogs.

Copyright (c) 2009 by Dennis D. McDonald

]]>A Walking Tour of Georgetown in Washington DChttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/a-walking-tour-of-georgetown-in-washington-dc.htmlDennis D. McDonald2008-12-16T15:29:33Z2008-12-16T15:29:33ZBy Dennis D. McDonald

I took these pictures Saturday, December 13, 2008.

]]>What I Listen To When I'm Not Listening to Classical Music or Podcastshttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/what-i-listen-to-when-im-not-listening-to-classical-music-or.htmlDennis D. McDonald2008-12-04T18:11:39Z2008-12-04T18:11:39ZBy Dennis D. McDonald

Station (iTunes)

Genre

 Groove Salad on SomaFM

 Ambient Chill

 Limbik Frequencies - Radio Elektro[u]nique

 Ambient, Electronic, Techno

 Chill Out Lounge (1.FM TM)

 Chill Out, Lounge, Ambient

 Raunchy Rhythms Radio

 Dance Funky House

 Hot Mix Radio 80

 decades 80s pop

 Ambient Popsicle (from Groovera)

 Downtempo Adult Pop Neo-Soul

 SmoothLounge.com

 downtempo ambient smooth urban

 GotRadio - Piano Perfect

 Eclectic

 Clubbing and Dance

 House electro trance dance Top 40

 SoulfulClassicJazz.com Radio

 Jazz, Blues, Be-Bop

 ASCAP LATINO - Latin

 latin

 Batanga Jazz

 latin

 Radio Frequence Metz Woippy Relax and Smooth

 lounge jazz dub relax

 radioio BIG BAND

 Rock

 radioioJazz. Your world. Your station. No boundaries. (c)2007 ioWorldMedia, inc.

 Rock

 radioioStandards. Your world. Your station. No boundaries. (c)2007 ioWorldMedia, inc.

 Rock

 .977 The Smooth Jazz Channel

 Smooth Jazz

 Gotradio - The Big Score

 Soundtracks, New Age, Ambient Eclectic, Various

 Futuradio Sweet

 Sweet

 #MUSIK.CLUB - WWW.RAUTEMUSIK.FM - 24H MIXED HANDS UP TRANCE DANCE TECHNO HARDSTYLE HOUSE AND MORE!

 TECHNO DANCE TRANCE HOUSE

 1.FM - Bombay Beats

 World, indian

 

]]>Election 2008 Pictureshttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/election-2008-pictures.htmlDennis D. McDonald2008-11-04T13:14:51Z2008-11-04T13:14:51ZBy Dennis D. McDonald

]]>Halloween Music 2008http://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/halloween-music-2008.htmlDennis D. McDonald2008-10-30T00:52:09Z2008-10-30T00:52:09ZBy Dennis “The Slasher” McDonald

Ok, here’s what I’ve loaded onto the old iPod to play for the kids who come around Friday night hoping to get some treats:

 

Name

Album

Psycho - A Suite for Strings_The Knife

Bernard  Herrmann - The Essential Film Music Collection

Vertigo - Suite_Prelude

Bernard  Herrmann - The Essential Film Music Collection

Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Orchestral Suite

Leonard Maltin’s Favorite Movie Themes

Ed Wood Soundtrack Music

Leonard Maltin’s Favorite Movie Themes

Minas Morgul

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

Shelob’s Lair

The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

Isengard Unleashed

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

Main Themes {Jurassic Park}

Music of John Williams: 40 Years of Film Music

Intro Theme From The Twilight Zone

Soundtracks

The Day Of The River

Spirited Away

Road To Somewhere

Spirited Away

Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries: Ride Of The Valkyries -

Best of WAGNER

Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565

Johann Sebastian Bach - Berühmte Orgelwerke Vol. 2

Mars Attacks

The Science Fiction Album

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Science Fiction Album

The Imperial March {Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back}

Music of John Williams: 40 Years of Film Music

Beetlejuice

Music From The Films Of Tim Burton

Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone

Very Best Of Manhattan Transfer

Is That What Everybody Wants

Solaris

A Perfect Evening For Flying Carpets

The Spell

The Spell

The Spell

Hide And Seek

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

 

]]>Pictures of the "White City"http://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/pictures-of-the-white-city.htmlDennis D. McDonald2008-10-02T12:14:43Z2008-10-02T12:14:43ZBy Dennis D. McDonald

Thanks to 37signals’ Signal vs. Noise blog for pointing out photographs of the 1893 Columbian Exposition posted by the Chicago Tribune.

Seeing these picture brings back memories of one of my favorite “pop history” books, Devil in the White City (this links to my book review).

Here is a quote from my own review:

The entire book is fascinating. It crosses paths with other themes of American history, including electrification, architectural competitions, urban planning, mechanical engineering,  public relations, the Ferris Wheel — even Walt Disney is mentioned.

If you can think of other books that do as good and as entertaining a job in combining social history with the history of science and engineering, please let me know by commenting below!

Copyright (c) 2008 by Dennis D. McDonald


]]>When Animated Banner Ads Suckhttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/when-animated-banner-ads-suck.htmlDennis D. McDonald2008-10-01T07:01:56Z2008-10-01T07:01:56ZBy Dennis D. McDonald

Before you proclaim the ascendancy of community orientation, audience engagement, shared innovation, and online social partnership, you need to realize that good old contempt-for-the-customer is alive and kicking.

Thanks to Google Chrome’s inability (unwillingness?) to block animated ads, my eyes were recently drawn to this banner ad (this is a static screen shot; click it to display the full size image):


It took me a while to understand the message. At first I thought the little figures were spiders. Then I saw they were human figures as the image zoomed in. What I thought at first was the drumming of fingers is actually manipulation-as-marionette by remote strings.

That’s what this product is supposed to enable you to do — treat your customers like puppets?

If that’s the intention, someone at Adobe hasn’t gotten the message about social media and collaboration and is continuing with the same old “let’s see what we can make our customers do” schtick.

I guess I know what the metrics for this ad are — and they don’t have anything to do with actual purchasing behavior or customer satisfaction. Maybe that’s what’s intended.

Copyright (c) 2008 by Dennis D. McDonald




]]>Butterfly With Pumpkin and Mumhttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/butterfly-with-pumpkin-and-mum.htmlDennis D. McDonald2008-09-20T18:18:01Z2008-09-20T18:18:01Z By Dennis D. McDonald

Here is a late Summer visitor to our front porch:

It flew away right after I took these pictures.

Copyright (c) 2008 by Dennis D. McDonald

 

]]>Viburnum With Cathttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/viburnum-with-cat.htmlDennis D. McDonald2008-06-28T18:53:03Z2008-06-28T18:53:03ZBy Dennis D. McDonald

chindo_viburnum.jpg 

]]>Flying Penguinshttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/flying-penguins.htmlDennis D. McDonald2008-04-02T21:40:45Z2008-04-02T21:40:45Z ]]>8 Things You Didn't Know About Mehttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/8-things-you-didnt-know-about-me.htmlDennis D. McDonald2007-12-20T12:09:03Z2007-12-20T12:09:03ZBy Dennis D. McDonald

OK, in response to Luis Suarez’s “tagging game” challenge, here is my list of 8 things you didn’t know about me:

  1. My Confirmation name is Peter.
  2. My favorite firework is this one.
  3. I once built a phonograph out of spare parts.
  4. One of my children might be part Swedish.
  5. Sometimes when we are driving long distances I read out loud to my wife.
  6. Years ago I stopped working while on airplanes and started sleeping on them instead.
  7. Somewhere in my attic is a box of 80-column punch cards containing all my dissertation data.
  8. Being an independent consultant is fun but I would enjoy a long term gig!

Here are the rules of this tagging game:

  1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
  2. List EIGHT random facts about yourself.
  3. Tag EIGHT people at the end of your post and list their names.
  4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.

And here are the people I’m tagging:

  1. David Stephenson
  2. Paul Hyland
  3. Peter Turner
  4. D. Keith Casey
  5. Nik Kalyani
  6. Isaac Pigott
  7. Mark Scrimshire
  8. Wendy Harman

 

]]>GG's 100th Birthday Party Pictureshttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/ggs-100th-birthday-party-pictures.htmlDennis D. McDonald2007-08-20T20:11:08Z2007-08-20T20:11:08Z
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]]>My Blue Benchhttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/my-blue-bench.htmlDennis D. McDonald2007-07-20T10:27:26Z2007-07-20T10:27:26Z ]]>Podcasting Testhttp://www.ddmcd.com/living-with-technology/podcasting-test.htmlDennis D. McDonald2007-03-21T13:26:36Z2007-03-21T13:26:36ZBy Dennis D. McDonald

I have recorded a short file to demonstrate the speed and ease with which podcasts can be created. Click here to download the MP3 file I just created.

I recorded the short podcast, I saved it as a .wav file to my desktop, imported it into iTunes, used the simple "convert selection to MP3" command to convert the file format, then I uploaded the file to my blog's audio storage folder (which I had previously set up). I then created the blog post that you are now reading and inserted a link to the stored file. The entire process took about 5 minutes, total.

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