Giant Robot Store and GR2 News


For your iphones... this is just a test, but maybe if you want, you can read my blog via your iphone. Check it out, it feeds optimized. Pretty cool. It updates every 15 minutes! Eventually it'll be done better or right, but for now, this seems pretty decent. Any feedback on this would be great.

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For your iphones… this is just a test, but maybe if you want, you can read my blog via your iphone. Check it out, it feeds optimized. Pretty cool. It updates every 15 minutes! Eventually it’ll be done better or right, but for now, this seems pretty decent. Any feedback on this would be great. Here’s the link for your iphones.
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We attempted to make a podcast by using Garage Band on a Mac. Figuring that the quality of recording would be decent even with the on board microphone, I was wrong. We recorded everything with a huge hiss in the background. I tried to mask it with music, but the weird thing is that the hiss goes away when we don't speak, but once we start talking the hiss starts - and stops again during a gap....
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We attempted to make a podcast by using Garage Band on a Mac. Figuring that the quality of recording would be decent even with the on board microphone, I was wrong. We recorded everything with a huge hiss in the background. I tried to mask it with music, but the weird thing is that the hiss goes away when we don’t speak, but once we start talking the hiss starts – and stops again during a gap. It’s more annoying than having a continuous hiss.  I decided to order the Marantz 620 pictured above. In the past, I used an Ipod with a recording device for most of the past podcasts, but like all Ipods it seems, mine died. It wasn’t mistreated, but just died. With this Marantz, I’m hoping it’ll bring better quality podcasts and recordings of events and we’ll be able to share them with you. Keep tuned, I’m hoping to get this unit this week.
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At the so called "nut house" across from Giant Robot in LA. This is actually interesting, since I think it's one of the first "community events" in a while, and maybe the first at the psychoanalytic institute which has had a very closed door approach to the area. It was just a center that you know nothing about, but November 1, they'll open their doors to people to hear about the area from times...
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