Stereo Pranks/Fun

I assume that most of us have been audio nuts for many years. Has anyone else pulled off a sound-system prank or have an amusing audio story you could share?
I don't know the full details, but I heard that the Valkyrie
loudspeaker built years ago by GNP (Gross National Product of Pasadena) was named after a prank where Ride of the Valkyries was played extremely loud the night before Finals at the Cal Tech Dormitory.
I personally shut the power off in the dorm room of a guy playing Nugent's Stranglehold way too loud...he thought he blew up his system.

Who Will Watch Watchmen?

Who Will Watch Watchmen?

Well, <I>I</I> would&mdash;if Hollywood could get it as right as these amateurs. But then, <I>Amateur</I> means doing it out of love and that's where Hollywood falls down when it makes movies out of comic books, um, I mean graphic novels.
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It's a Matter of Perspective

It's a Matter of Perspective

I've seen lots of links to the article on <I>LiveScience</I> about ants counting their steps in navigating the shortest route between two points. <I>Ho hum,</I> I thought, <I>I had a cow-orker who did the same thing when deciding which route to take to the bathroom at work&mdash;and he was way dumber than an ant.</I>

Ken Kessler: So wrong about so much

Assuming that Ken Kessler's "International News Update" wasn't a parody, it is one of the most amazingly wrong-headed articles I've read in years. Life is too short for a point-by-point refutation but how do you grant credibility to someone who says: "Norway, Denmark, and Sweden have demanded that Apple meet their demands...Finland is expected to follow...this is amusing-those nations' combined population is smaller than that of Los Angeles."

Want One!

Want One!

The guy who invented TV-B-Gone ought to get a Nobel Prize. I don't mind being at bars or places where people are actually <I>watching</I> TV, but I resent being the only person in a waiting room with the TV blaring inanities. And when you ask the receptionist to turn it off, you get answers like "Other people like it."

Willie Nile's a Superstar

Willie Nile's a Superstar

No matter how you feel about the whole New Orleans fiasco—my two cents: Ray "chocolate city" Nagin’s lack of chops are now going to be exposed posthaste—there are parts of that town that cannot be allowed to go away, first and foremost the musicians, many of whom still teeter on the brink or have fallen head first into the abyss of financial ruin.

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