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A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a kickstarter project that I want to see happen.   Filker Gary McGath is trying to get enough funds together to get a book on digital archiving published.  He is talking about ways to preserve your data, so that it WILL last for future generations.  


And from the previous post -

Gary McGath is writing a book on digital preservation.    It is
scheduled to be published as an ebook and is for the average user vs the
academic fields.  

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/garymcgath/files-that-last

This
is one of those resources that I want to take advantage of and make
sure I am preserving tapes that I am converting in the best format
possible.  

Also, Gary's blog on the kickstarter project
including a song  about the project (day 8) in mp3 and lossless .wav
format for digital preservation -

http://filesthatlast.wordpress.com/

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Update 1/16 - The project reached its goal and funded!

Unfortunately, due to work scheduling 6-7 new offices opening in January and February, I had to cancel my plans to attend GaFilk.   3 offices are opening on the monday after the convention.

I will not be there this year, BUT I do plan to be back at the convention in 2014.   (If by some miracle I can get the weekend off and plane tickets are cheap enough combined with good weather, I may make an attempt at a very short visit to the convention.) 


My membership is available to be purchased by someone who is attending the convention, who does not have a membership yet.   I have a great deal for someone if wanted.  You can attend GaFilk 2013 for FREE on my membership.  The catch is I would like you to purchase me an attending pre-registration (@ the con) for GaFilk 2014.

12/27 - The membership has been transfered.

Now that things have slowed down a little in the recovery from Sandy @ work...

I have been working lots of long hours for my day job dealing with disaster recovery.  I got lucky and had power the whole time.   Work did not and got it back on Saturday morning. 

My parents got power back last weekend.    The gas lines that I have seen have been very long.   Fortunately, I have manged to not need to deal with them yet.  That is next week's challenge.  And I just heard they are supposedly doing odd/even gas days here on Long Island.  (I hope it helps.)

The weather in the NYC area has been fun...  First we had the Wash and Blow Dry (Sandy), then we had the agitation.  (A 2.0 earthquake in NJ) and now we have had a rinse cycle with extra air included (Nor'easter - Athena).

As for the kickstarter, I found this a few weeks ago over on Kickstarter.com.   

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1908437872/give-midnight-monster-movies-a-new-end-credits-son

Someone is trying to raise enough funds to hire Tom Smith to write them a song.  (Tom knows about it.)

I am off to Philcon this evening to run filk for the second year in a row.   (The con starts tomorrow.)  I will see some of you there.

batyatoon was dropped off safely around 5:30p.   I had a call during the second part of the drive from work about getting the mail system up and running and after the drop off, I got a call about a possible visit to Manhattan to move computers.  (Which happened.)  I turned around and picked up a coworker in Brooklyn, drove into a very dark manhattan (VERY weird) and I had not seen manhattan that dark since summer 2003.

jslove should be home soon (if not already) with T.   He was picking her up before heading home.   Watch facebook for his updates.

Update at 12:20a.   JSLove is home.  (Saw on facebook.)


I should be home in a few hours and seeing if I can find a way back into NYC to deal with the work emergency.

Update @ 2am.... I am spending the night in the office.  Its faster than going home to unload the car.   (Fast food across the street was still open for me to get something for dinner.)

Signalboosting Good news from the filk LJ.
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I am just wondering on this one...

I will publishing another CD for Roberta Rogow this fall and have recently looked into the idea of doing a small professionally duplicated batch of CDs (about 100 or 150 copies) and a larger batch of download cards.  

What I am wondering is - should I do the download cards or do you prefer purchasing CDs?  Both the discs and the download cards will be made available to the filk dealers.    Pricing on the CDs will likely be about $10-$12 depending on the duplication and song royalty costs.   Download cards will be priced a little lower.

Should I bother with the download cards?   I have seen 1 album on filk dealer tables (Ookla The Mok's Nerdvana) as a download card.  (This was available both at Worldcon and at ConCertino 2012.)  The rest of the albums on the tables from both filk dealers were CD only. 

9/21 update -
I held off on the responses for a few days while waiting for 1-2 people whom I know run a few days behind on LJ.   The planned print run will be CD only and possibly making the album available for download purchasing somewhere with the same music.   The print run is going to increase slightly (so I have stock for a while, but not as long as one of Roberta's earlier CDs... I still have over 100 copies of an earlier album in my basement.)

Chicon was a lot of fun.  I got to see people I have not seen in a while plus getting to meet a couple of people I only have heard before on tape.  I also gave them digital copies of the tapes they are on. 

I mostly saw the filk track and did not even see the art show, but I found the consuite (and found out the art show was right next to it during the dead dog party.)

The concerts were great.  I got to record a few people I had only had heard on tape/CD before.   The operetta was good and worth attending.  Great job on the Operetta, Brenda!

I got in from 7Pi-Con about an hour or so back (affter a short visit to my parents on the way home.)

I got to see a few NEFilkers that I don't get to see unless I get to that area, plus a couple of good concerts that I was able to attend.  (And in one case, surprise!  I was running the sound board.  Fortunately, it was pre-setup by the head of the sound for the room and the concert was accapella and not using amplifcation.)  Recordings on those two concerts have been given to the performers.  At least one of them is going to likely be used by the performers.  (It already was used for the recording workshop this morning.)

I just submitted the CD to the CDDB via iTunes, so hopefully it will turn up on your end, soon.

Also, I mentioned this last week, but I never posted this information.  (Its a lot easier to read on the computer screen than the j-card.)

Here's the liner notes from the CD, including the corrected credits, behind the cut. 
( Window On Time )

Cover art may get online, when I get a jpg version done and I finally update my web page.  Also, a mistake slipped thru the proof-reading and accidentally credited "Les Barker" as someone else.  This was caught before anyone got their CD and was corrected by members of the concom.  This list includes the correction.