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New polls push Obama’s leads in both Massachusetts and New Jersey to more than 10%. This basically means these states are not only not in play, but are probably not even worth McCain putting time, effort and money into trying to put them back in play. Current Summary: McCain Best Case – McCain 313, Obama 225 And if everybody gets their leans (and Obama gets DC) – Obama 277, McCain 261 I’m home again. Exhausted though. Some day I’ll learn to book at least one additional day off after my flight gets me home. Arriving well after midnight, then getting up in the morning to go to work sucks. Plus I need to be in early because my work laptop started blue screening on boot about half way through the time I was gone, so I need to take it straight to the place that deals with that sort of thing so I can have a functional machine before the work day really starts. Bleh. I just want to be asleep right now.
I wasn’t sure if CNN would be doing more updates of their delegate counts, but indeed they have. In today’s update, Obama gains 43 delegates while Clinton loses 30. There are 131 Democratic delegates still unaccounted for.
And there were updates on the Republican side too. 58 more delegates for McCain, 16 for Romney and 3 for Huckabee. There are 221 Republican delegates still unaccounted for. The most recent Curmudgeon’s Corner is now fixed. Well, it ain’t a masterpiece, but it is a lot better than it was. If anybody tried to listen and gave up because it was unlistenable, force your podcast catching software to download it again and you should be good to go. Apologies for the problem. For anybody who cares, the issue is with Garage Band’s Autonormalize option, which is supposed to BOOST the volume to a normalized level if the highest volume in your audio is lower than full volume. For whatever reason, it instead decided to dampen the volume. And for that matter just completely ignore the differing volumes I’d put on different tracks, the filters I had in place, etc. I turned that off and the results were once what I actually heard while editing in Garage Band. Now, having said that, there was still an issue with my voice quality in the second half, as when I dropped Cynthia and went solo, unbenounced to me it stopped using my headset mic and started using the built in mic. But I knew that already when I was editing. I’d always basically trusted in the past though that what I heard in Garage Band was basically what would be in the output once I exported. Guess I shouldn’t trust that. Bleh. Also, let me just say, trying to troubleshoot and adjust things in Garage Band over a slow VNC connection from the other side of the continent from my desktop is a major pain. This is something I will try to avoid in the future.
A new poll in South Carolina… only the second poll there so far this election season… moves McCain’s lead in South Carolina to more than 5%. This moves it from my “Lean McCain” category to “Weak McCain” and takes it out of the swing state category. Current Summary: McCain Best Case – McCain 313, Obama 225 And if everybody gets their leans (and Obama gets DC) – Obama 277, McCain 261 I have now confirmed in two independant ways that the volumes in the Curmudgeon’s Corner I published yesterday are all screwed up and it is pretty much unlistenable. It sounded fine before I hit the “Save to MP3” button in Garage Band, so I’m not sure what is up. I didn’t realize something was wrong until I was airborne. I’m not at home, so I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to do, but in a few hours I’ll try to see if I can figure out something I can do remotely to fix and republish it. Sorry for any inconvenience.
I’ve “selected my seat” a bunch of different times for my flight Monday, but it keeps getting reset. I set them all when I first booked the tickets a few weeks ago. I selected again about a week ago. And I go now to double check the exact time of my flight and all, and two out of my four legs are reset again. Grrr…. here I go again. Less good seats to choose from now of course. And I bet when I actually get to the airport, I’ll have to select my seats yet again. Grrr…
The second disk is much like the first. Slow and plodding, with not much happening, and those things happening at a glacial pace. There is never a significant sense of menace. And the ending is very anti-climactic. I thought I’d heard some people point to this as a particularly good Second Doctor story, but I must admit I just don’t get it if so. I’ve certainly seen others I like more. This one was just… long. The first disk had the novelty of a few of the episodes being animated, because only the audio from the original episodes had survived, so they animated it to let you be able to watch a whole story. That was interesting, although it didn’t help the pacing obviously. The second disk had no animation in it, so it was just kind of there. Oh well. Next! |
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