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By Ryan Van Etten on 03/27/2011
I love loved email. Now I think it may be the death of me. IMO email has gone out of fashion. Lately when I look in my Gmail inbox I’m a deer in the headlights. I try to reply to everyone who writes me, but, at the same time I don’t want to spend my whole life writing emails.
Posted in Editor Notes, Editorial, Media/Journalism, Randomness, Visual | Tagged communication, culture, email, gmail, gmail search operators, infographic, life, openness, productivity, Ryan Van Etten, stats, story, time, tips, transparency |
By Ryan Van Etten on 01/26/2011
For years I joked that my New Year’s resolution was to get into hard drugs, and have good posture. Well, luckily for my health I never followed through with the former. Actually it might be luckier for your sanity too. I have to say though that my posture has stayed pretty straight. Hell, I think I’m still getting taller at 31. I know it’s already a month in. It felt like a 25-day jet lag »
Posted in Boundless, Editor Notes, Editorial, Narrative, Randomness | Tagged be edgier, challenge the status quo, choose life, edgy, inspiration, life, mantras, New Year's resolution, push the envelope, resolutions, Ryan Van Etten |
By Ryan Van Etten on 12/23/2010
Anyone who’s already finished their Xmas shopping is an overachiever! Okay so I obviously “planned” to write this post a little earlier. I even planned to write it last year. ;) Giving gifts can be really hard, but if you really know someone, it’s much easier. Everyone is different. POLL. Extra: Get it on tape—not literally. Get it on bits.
Posted in Discussion, Editorial, iPhone Apps, Music, Randomness | Tagged alcohol, Apple, bandzoogle, bits, books, cloud, fun, get on bits, gift ideas, Grooveshark, holidays, humor, Indaba Music, iPad, iPhone, ipod, iPod Touch, iTunes, Kodak, last-minute, list, MOG, musicians, Next Big Sound, poll, products, promotion, Rework, Rhapsody, services, software, SoundCloud, streaming, xmas, xmas gifts for musicians, YouTube, Zi6, Zi8 |
By Ryan Van Etten on 10/25/2010
You’re driving—what’s the first thing you do when you hear a siren? You take your foot off the gas, you (hopefully) scan your mirrors, and you might even put your foot on the brake, right? But there’s no police, no ambulance, no fire truck, no motorcade, and no Polish parade. You’ve realize you’ve been duped by a lame sound effect in the latest Z100 hit.
Posted in Discussion, Editorial, Music, Randomness | Tagged car radio, dance music, DJing, driving, humor, police, pop music, production, safety, siren sound, sirens, traffic, traffic jams |
By Ryan Van Etten on 06/20/2010
For the last few months I’d occasionally been hearing mini-explosion sounds like those bang snaps that I remember from my semi-pyromaniac youth. I finally figured out they were coming from my computer—a custom PC that I built in 2007. After another explosive pop yesterday, the graphics on my screen started to look like they were drunk. I opened up the PC case and my 2 SLI graphics cards were literally like a million degrees!
Posted in Editor Notes, Narrative, Randomness | Tagged blown capacitors, custom PC, donate, electronics, EVGA, exploded, GeForce, GeForce 7300 GT, graphics card, help, NVIDIA, overheating, photos, video card |