Category Archives: Commentary

Thank You Ken Wilhelm

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 26, 2009

During the last half of 1994 into the first half of 1995 I was enrolled in a night class called Audio In Media at my alma mater, The Evergreen State College. Our instructor was a unique and somewhat legendary fellow named Ken Wilhelm. The class was for audio engineers and A/V geeks and Ken was [...]

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Upgrade Season 2009

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 23, 2009

While I was at work today I noticed a tweet that ever so casually mentioned that Apple announced, nay, was shipping both Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio upgrades. So I’m like “woot” and spent part of my lunch scanning what’s new. There are a lot of joyous tweets and surprised blog posts, all fo [...]

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Giggles

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 23, 2009

Fatherhood at seven and a half months, taken by my wife Kathy.

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IE6 denial message for Momentile.com

By Eric Peacock | Published: June 15, 2009

IE6 denial message for Momentile.com. This is just too cool.

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The Floppy Isn’t Dead…

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 29, 2009

…until Microsoft updates the “save” icon in their Office suite toolbars.

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Adobe Creative Suite 4: A Sinking Feeling

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 12, 2009

Or, How I become afraid of future software releases from Adobe. I recently took a trial spin of Adobe’s CS4 suite and it’s looking like some of my favorite tools are in jeopardy of becoming less polished and annoying. As nice as every Creative Suite upgrade can be, the quality has dropped off of each [...]

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How Does Income Tax Work?

By Eric Peacock | Published: March 5, 2009

The Obama administration’s promises to level income tax have naturally brought about debates and fear from the wealthier class. Even as a home-owning, child raising parent I can’t really say I understand how income tax works, but I feel that the Republican-sponsored tax cut for income over $250,000 is really odd given that the cost [...]

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The Economic Stimulus Act 2009, in detail

By Eric Peacock | Published: January 30, 2009

The nifty Open Congress has the full text of the highly debated economic stimulus that just went through Congress. I suspect that most critics among the common population haven’t looked at it in detail. It is over a thousand pages so that’s to be expected. However I’d say take a look, scan it, whatever. It’s [...]

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