Herve's Bar & Grill

We all needs viagra to protect us against members like Bill Macin. Let they have a nice cup of tea with us and then cleaning the cubs.:p :D :rolleyes:
 
There is a packet for the university waiting for me from 25 januar. It might be books. They have informed me in the wrong mailbox. I have noticed it now. :confused:
 
phil - you're cut off. until you can manage a whole sentence again we're not serving you:D

symphonix - glad to see you got that mess cleaned up. sorry to have sent the coke thru your nose in the opposite direction. i had no idea it would be that funny. Sounds like the car is more therapeutic than a real project or anything. It also sounds fun to drive down to the store every now and then just for the looks you will get. I miss bodysurfing. I don't have any friends here to go with and i am no longer foolish enough to go out by myself. Getting tossed around on the bottom by a big crashing wall is half the fun of doing it. going to sleep at the end of the day after being out in the waves is so much easier.
ok, put your drink down and imagine the monkey on the bodyboard getting wiped out and jumping up and down, wringing water off, afterwards.:p
and good luck with uni, i've heard those loans can't be beat. even better than american student loans.

Herve you don't have to take out the garbage around here. i'll do it when i have time;)

sithious - you ok over there?
 
Naked at the Moscone: the MacWorld Expo Round-Up
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 11/01/2002 at 11:19 GMT


MacWorld Expo is like a naturist's semi-annual holiday trip to the nudist camp. All year you're poked and teased for your weird habit. You suffer: the shelves of CompUSA are filled with nothing but Windows stuff, except for that bit under the stairs marked "Freaks".

But for two weeks a year, you're surrounded by people just like you! Except they're nothing like you! But it doesn't matter!

For me the glory of MacWorld is not the hysterical keynote - which always disappoints, and I hate whooping, self-congratulatory mobs - but the excuse to go on an extended, four-day shopping expedition. It starts with a cable, and a replacement for that MMC-adapter you've lost, and by the end you've bought a beautiful port-replicator which you know would hugely enhance your computing life, if only you had the matching notebook computer to go with it.

Oh, and you can gawp at games: millions of them. This year's MacWorld showfloor has an impressive game collection, and you can almost forget that the Windows world gets most of the games many months before they appear on our Macs, if ever. That's easy to forget when The Return of Castle Wolfenstein is running at full pelt on a huge flat panel, as it was here. (I'm not a shoot-em-up fan, being much more of a Bugdom kinda guy, but this is the first time since Doom that I've wanted to get fragging. I want this for my Symbian phone).

But here follows a summary of the a few eye-catching, wallet-loosening new stuff seen on the floor, and some reaction to the Apple announcements:

I've been using Griffin's iMic to get analog audio into my G4 for ripping vinyl. Griffin's been showing off its PowerWave, adaptor, which is iMic on steroids. For $99 it has built-in DSP and a USB hub, too. Even more unjustifiable is Griffin's was also offering a stunning USB volume control which doubles up as a power on/off button. It looks beautiful in the web photos, but even better in real life, and although it's a decadent $45 for something you know you don't really, we'll challenge you to walk away from the store with that $45 still in your pocket. It's lovely. Other stuff that could nickle and dime you to death includes a split curvy ergonomic keyboard, SmartBoard/YSB, from DataDesk, and if you're an iBook owner, the BookEndz replicator immaculately matches the host.

There were a ton of software updates released to coincide with the Expo, too, although some of the most important - like Connectix's Virtual PC 5.0 for OS X - had been trailed weeks in advance.

It's easy to forget that proprietary cellular headbangers Qualcomm also do the most highly-regarded Mac mail client, Eudora, and they've shed a new version for OS X. The classic version is my preferred mail client in a strong field of contenders, but the X version has looked decidedly sickly. And you can fax from X now, too, thanks to Cocoa eFax which comes courtesy of local artist Ben Mackin, here. And backup too, as Dantz has a fresh preview - not the finished article - of an X version of Retrospect.

We've saved a round-up of Linuxes for the Mac until Friday, so stay tuned.

Stealth Studio
More interesting than any of the new stuff heralded in the keynote was the grassroots interest in Apple's own IDE for AppleScript, AppleScript Studio. This crept out in the 10.1.2 update to OS X over Christmas, but for us, it was the steal of the show. And not surprisingly. Getting a nice IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for AppleScript in the past has involved spending serious money for the third parties. But Studio combines not only a slick IDE only the ability to write genuine Cocoa apps, with of course, UI widgets like buttons sliders and scrollbars. And it's free.

What about the iMac, the centrepiece of the keynote? Well, reaction has been ambivalent. It's a cold and clinical design that has none of the warmth and charm of its predecessor. To this writer, it's damned plug ugly: it reminds me of a trip to the dentists, which being British, we try and do only once or twice in our lifetimes. iMac2 will have none of the cultural resonance of its predecessor, and as Stephan Somogyi says, you can't imagine key fobs being created in homage to iMac2. Apple has tried its hardest to anthropomorphize the new iMac by making it get on down and get funky in the ads, but it doesn't work.

Jonathan Ives and the design team seems to be obsessed with white, and the recent designs seem to have caught the same bug that bit Ken Russell from his final contribution to the Harry Palmer trilogy - Billion Dollar Brain - through to the The Devils. In all those terrible movies, everything was white, because... that's what the future would look like, right? The next step for Apple will be to kit users out in matching one-piece white tunics.

But, no matter. Although everyone knows the new iMac is ugly, no one seems to mind. That's because for Mac users, it's shockingly good value, and it breaks with recent Apple product marketing in giving the consumer models parity with the pro range. No more cut price G3s, or skanky ATI video chips: now you get a G4 and an NVidia GeForce.

Although we're skeptical about progress on the G5 chip (prove us wrong, dear leakers...) the iMac gives you everything the current Pro range gives you. And that suggests a G5 is nearer, rather than further, when Apple next has the opportunity to announce the refresh of its tower models. And given that the iMac2 instantly makes the Pro line look underpowered, that can't be too far away.

iPhoto
Overshadowed by the iMac launch, iPhoto deserves all the acclaim it's received. It looks slick and seamless, although that wasn't enough to stop Jobs ladelling on the syrup as he showed a photo slideshow of the designer's daughter accompanied by Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey. Jobs choked back a tear:

"That's why we do what we do," said the sentimental huckster.

No it isn't Steve.

You do what every other publicly listed company seeks to do, and that's get a decent return for your shareholders. iPhoto makes good business sense for Apple, providing a revenue stream and affinity from its users that Microsoft can only dream about. And hooking iPhoto to X is the best news X could possibly have, too, as it's a killer application. You can't get iPhoto in MacOS 9. Mac users needed some cheer in the face of the decision to make OS X - lacking a native Real Player, key drivers (for scanning, for example) - the default OS on new Macs. And hush now, we couldn't find a single Mac triumphalist, or read a single Mac article, saying this was the right thing to do just now.

Apple hyped this MacWorld Expo beyond all reasonable expectation in an attempt to lure the mainstream consumer press to the show. Despite underdelivering - there were no flying cars, let alone smartphones announced - it worked. They came, they saw, and the filed the copy. Veterans of the MacWorld Expo took it in their stride.

But then the trick with MacWorld has always been to get out before the end. After David Sedaris had spent a week in a nudist camp, he was appalled by the mismatched clothes people wore when he saw them at a train station, waiting to depart: a riot of garish tweeds and clashing colours.

"These people become nudists," he concluded, "because they have no dress sense."

Ah, well. Me neither.®
 
welcome klink - here's some juke box music just for you

Well, my dandruff is loose
An' my breath is chartreuse
I know I ain't cute
An' my voice is ka-poot

But that's awright people
I'm just crazy enough to sing to you
Any old way

I figure the odds be fifty-fifty
I just might have some thing to say ...


now what'll you have?

so you were in the music biz huh? tell us more. like did you ever work with anybody that anybody otside of nyc would have heard of?
 
Sure klink!

Just watch out for the huge trucker next to the stool. I think the tatoo on his arm says "DEATH". But I can't be sure. His arm is just too hairy.

Com'on over!
 
howdy all,

Herve thanks for putting on the briefs at least. Never cared much for those types of reviews but I got a kick out of the authors line "nudists have no dress sense". If you're not using your bike, how did you get to your car?

Thanks for the seat Matrix. I don't mind the hairy death tattooed trucker, as long as he doesn't take off his close!

Cool Ed you put Zappa on the Juke box. I can't remember when I last saw the record Rubin and the Jets in a carousel. Yeah Ed I think you would have heard of most of the artists. The recording industry in ny is largely global, as are other recording meccas like cali, nashville, florida, japan, europe, etc. The list is varied and I'm not one to boast, but to give you a taste I'll list a few that where special to me.
Samantha Fox, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Doc Powell Band, Art Garfunkell, the jersey boys; Southside Johnny &
The Asbury Jukes, Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Stevn Van Zandt, Chaka Khan, Brandford Marsalis, Keith Sweat, Lou Reed, Whitney Houston, Teddy Riley, Teddy Pendergrass, Talking Heads, Dr. John, Ted Nudgent, Ramones.


Nothing for me to eat at the moment, but I heard you have some bass ale hidden away. If I could get a pint of that, thank you.
 
If I wanna be a popstar,
If I wanna participate without doing anything,
If I wanna find someone,
If I believe I'm not,
There is no popstar without music.
 
one bass ale coming up...

Did you hear that herve? Klink worked with Samantha!! Maybe he will have a juicy story or two to tell about her.

that is a very varied list of artists. you must be very good at what you did. so is your name on any album/cd covers? And what is Lou Reed like? another semi-obscure performer i have always loved!!

i almost got to meet nugent one night, but he quit letting people backstage right when i was the next one. pissed me off. but i spent the next while partying with his crew and they all said he was a jerk and i didn't miss anything:p

did you ever meet Bo Diddley? He's one of the nicest 'stars' i ever met.

hmm. herve's article makes me wonder if bill gates is a naturist?
 
smack, smack, ahh... The bass hits the spot. Thanks Ed you're a great bartender.

Herve how'd you get passed me at the juke box?

Herve will not be surprised Ed, I've had conversations with him about my Samantha session. Unfortunately his favorite tune was not one of the cuts I had worked on with her. Honestly I can't remember the one I did because it was more than 12 years ago. She was my first though. It was with a producer named Jelly Bean Benitez. I think in 89 or 90 I was a green assistant engineer at the time and remember being very nervous and timid for the session.
Instead of being described as very good at what I did, I rather say I was very lucky at being at the right place at the right time Ed. You would see my name on about 40% of my body of work. The industry is notorious for lack of proper credit. The blame falls squarely on the producers. Now a days it's a complete joke unless you are working for the mega-platinum stars.
Lou Reed - intense is a good general description that others that have worked with him have used. I was very intimidated by him the first couple of days in our session. After he acknowledged my presence in the control room the ice began to melt and we became almost friends. Enough that he would trust me with his music after I had accidentally erased part of a master take during basic tracking. You should have seen the look on my face when that happened.
Nuge-That was a quicky session with him. The artist was called The Don, a rapper. I can't remember the name of the song but Ted played gtr on it. Ted was booked to come in, do his shtick and split. And that's basically what went down. I set up a rental marshall and and les paul for him, he blew in, literally yanked the guitar off the stand, turned all the pots up on the amp to 10 and ripped one out. He had 1 listen through of the song and left. He wasn't very polite or characterized as a people person Ed. If you've seen him in interviews, especially if it's something to do about anti-gaming or hunting, something he's passionate about, he's very much like that in real life. He's true to himself. Well, what I can gather for the time he was there.
Bo- I haven't met him but would like to. We don't get much blues up north here.

Enough about me Ed. I'd be hard pressed for a question for you since you're so revealing on these boards. It feels like I know a lot about you. I do have one though, how do coconuts migrate to Europe? Is it by African or European swallows?
 
I was listening to the radio, nothing. Sabam is much sheaper than a mac, unless they give something for nothing. The graduate is a very good paper as the exam that I have passed at my work. I have seen one guy in the train with the newspaper from Sabam, and I haven't received it. RockPower is Maxwell magazine, and is in reality mine. Maxwell has given my uncle a flight. Now he has suicided him. :(
 
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