SUPER COMICFEST!!!
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Expo in New Jersey!!!

JULY 21 AND 22 2007

Guests include Billy Dee “LANDO” Williams (“Empire Strikes Back”), Melody Anderson (Dale from “Flash Gordon”), Nicki Clyne (Cally from SciFi’s “Battlestar Galactica”), and Morena Baccarin (Inara from “Firefly”, “Serenity”).

Oh, and Soupy Sales (!!!) and THE FONZ himself Henry Winkler, and many more!

Woah! like seriously you guys, check out the full line up of guest appearances at SuperMegashow’s Super Comicfest.

Commencing at the Crowne Plaza, Secaucus
(Meadowlands 2 Harmon Plaza Secaucus, NJ 07094)

SATURDAY 10:30AM TO 7PM / SUNDAY 10:30AM TO 5PM

And so it is that another milestone in geeky date scenarios presents itself.

07.07.07.07.07.07

So first of all, later today check out The New 7 Wonders Foundation to see how the votes came out and what ended up on the list!

And here for your edification, some random historical notes on July 7th:

This is awesome.

Firstly, did you even KNOW that of the seven wonders of the world, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria, only the Pyramid still stands?!?!?!

All of these other magnificent man-made monuments were either destroyed by earthquake, maliciously burned down, or ceremonially ripped to pieces by Christians. (Jeez, literally!)

So, given that we have such magnificent and “still standing” testaments to our ability to build awesome things, why not elect some new ones?

Well, that is just what the New 7 Wonders Foundation is all about. On my favorite date of this year “07.07.07” the New 7 Wonders Foundation will be holding a party of olympic proportions in Portugal and will name the finalists.

I implore you vote HERE and make a stand for the new 7 wonders. Asia and the Mediterranean are off the charts with votes, but Europe and America are sadly lacking, with only a few days left, we got to get some votes in! You can vote by phone or Internet.

A fairly intensive introductory explanation of the intricacies of Digital Audio Workstations for the baffled, whose sole aim is to get more geeks making music.

Look it, If I can do this — Thistle Pinch — then there is surely hope for all!

D-A-W

You’ve seen that acronym before, haven’t you? (perhaps at the top of this page). A DAW is a dedicated piece of software built solely for recreating a professional recording studio in your computer. Go to any online music shop and type in “music recording software” and anything from 12 to 190 different options appear. Digidesign‘s Pro-Tools 7.3 (HD and LE systems), Ableton‘s LIVE 6, Steinberg‘s Cubase 4, Propellerheads Reason 3, Apple‘s Logic Pro, Cakewalk‘s Sonar 6 — I would like to go on and on and on as the options are boundless, and the only limitations are your software platform and your wallet.

A DAW is the mastermind behind controlling and recording audio. It works just like an old-fashioned tape-based 4-track, only with the capability to record as many tracks as your computer can handle. Your DAW will also handle its own brand, as well as third party plug-ins (effect units, Soft synths, drum machines, samplers, and engineering tools that operate from within your computer). It also (yes, also) houses the ability to control all your MIDI-based musical instruments, MIDI outboard effect units and, create and manage sequences. Not bad, eh?

Essentially, a whole recording studio can now live in your computer, giving you unprecedented and quite magical musical powers. What currently costs around $500 and is readily available to download from the Internet, ten years ago would have set you back $15,000, required a sound proof room, a lounge suite, an air conditioner, an engineer, a spaghetti junction of cables, a very understanding and patient partner (assuming you have the ability to procure one in the first place), a Lava Lamp, and a candy vending machine!

Prophetic numerations?

Geeks, hear me now. On Sunday the sixth of May, in the great year of our G.o.D two thousand and seven, at the best moment of the party – that being two hours, three minutes, and four seconds in the good old Ante Meridiem (as apposed to Amplitude Modulation) — this is what the date and time will look like:

This will never ever ever ever ever happen again (except elsewhere in the world where the day comes before the month as one describes the date — and I guess in 100 years).

Mind you, you could say that about any date and time down to the very second, but it will not seem half as interesting as this, will it geeks? (he said, rhetorically)

10.10.10.10.10.10 is the one I’m really waiting for!