Mike’s DJ Headphone Review
Over at DJ Tech Tools I’ve completed my latest article, a review of four major players in the DJ headphone market. Now my challenges in finding a decent pair of headphones are pretty well documented at this point, so its nice that something good finally came out of it. Head over to DJTT and read it, maybe it will prevent you from having to bite your headphones in half.
P.S. The Sennheiser HD-25s were not reviewed so if you plan on leaving a comment about that, don’t bother.
So according to the AP, CNN, and a whole slew of others, California is bankrupt and apparently screwed. Being from Connecticut, I don’t always understand what going on out on the left coast [oh ya I said left coast, I’m old school baby] but this is just wild. Apparently voters there shot down 5 of 6 measures designed to reduced the 21 billion dollar deficit. Of course even if all 6 passed, it would have only shrunken the deficit to 15 billion so big f*n deal right? The one that passed was a measure which bars state officials from getting a raise when there is a deficit. Good for you California voters!
How does a state so big that if it were a country it would have the world eight largest economy go bankrupt? After the jump are some highlights I think we need to discuss:
Its Just the Flu… Relax
Lock your doors, wash your hands, close every school in Texas, and slaughter your Egyptian Pigs, the Swine Flu is coming. Thats right kids, from the same creative minds that brought you Bird Flu and Sars comes the newest reason to seal yourself in a hermetic bubble. Why I don’t buy stock in those companies that make those sh*tty flu vaccines, and are wrong about which “strain” of the flu will hit this winter 50% of the time, I’ll never know. Every time one of these things pops up someone is making a TON of money.
Alright, on a serious note; by most estimates there are at least 300 million people living in the United States. There are currently something like 100 confirmed swine flu cases. I had to greatly exaggerate the red portion of this graph just to make it visible. If this graph had been accurate, you would have just seen a solid blue circle. To put it into perspective the current amount of the US population that has swine flu is 0.0000364%. This is not a pandemic, heck this doesn’t even meet the definition of an epidemic. Lets all relax a little and not let the 24 hour news networks stir everyone up into a frenzy.
Oh btw, thanks Mexico, you are the best beard America could ever ask for.
Living in the greater NYC area, I hear a lot about what is going on in the big apple. US Airways Flight 1549 has been in the local news from the minute that plane made its first splash in the Hudson. You’ve probably heard by now the absolutely spectacular job Captain Sully did landing the plane in the river after both engines we taken out by a flock of Canadian Geese. Today the NTSB confirmed that both engines did have bird remains lodged in them. In order to confirm this, the NTSB had to fish the engine out of the bottom of the Hudson, where it came to a rest after detaching from the plane.
We are now living in a time of global economic crisis, massive tax payer funded bailouts, and constant budget cuts to federal and state infrastructure. Yet for some reason we’ve deemed it necessary to spend who knows how much money on pulling an engine out of the river, just to confirm what a true hero already knew. Now if the pilot was high on crack, or harassing a stewardess at the time of the crash, I could see a reason to investigate further. However in this case, we’ve got a man who pulled off the unthinkable, and safely executed one of the most difficult landings possible, saving 155 lives in the process. So why can’t we just take the guy’s word, and save ourselves a few bucks in investigation costs? Its pretty clear to me that Capt. Sully is competent.
Also, the Wall Street Journal reports that the plane salvage is now in New Jersey, where the full investigation could take up 18 months, to confirm what the Captain knew in 18 seconds. I’d love to see a figure of how much this is actually costing tax payers.