Lucky Dog Audio Post

Got a scanner? Yup. Oh how I love my HP Photosmart C5580 All-in-One Printer • Scanner • Copier. So, if you've got a scanner and computer with a connection to the internet and a writing implement and a printer and your scanner is connected to your computer so that you can upload your scan to the internet, well then now you can create your own font from your very own illegible handwriting. Thank you fontcapture! And thank you Beave (see previous post)!

And if for any reason you like this font and it's weird, pogo-ing e's, well, here ya go: Download myfont.ttf

Wherein a Leave It To Beaver fan transcribes a letter from the Beave's principal and catches a production coordinator red-handed, getting all kinds of stream-of-conscious creative with the copy:

Leave It to Beaver: 1958 | Shorpy Photo Archive via kwout

File this under dorky stuff.

Via MeFi (the "production assistant" title caught my eye)

In what has to be the most hilarious "technical difficulty" story of recent times, let me relate a little problem we had with an ISDN talent (who shall remain anonymous) the other day. Basically we had a couple of pickups to record and our gracious talent agreed to squeeze us in before another session. When we dialed her, the sound coming down the line was totally frazzled. We could barely hear her and then the audio completely dropped out. A few minutes later we got a harried email saying "I am having major technical problems...." Thankfully we had a little wiggle room with our production schedule so we told her to get back in touch with us when she got back online.
One day later, we finally heard back. Turns out that the day of our session, her spouse acquired a bunny for the family. Somehow the bunny got into her home studio and chewed up her audio lines. Nice bunny.

Pictured above: Hazel and Sweet Fur, two of the most ferocious bunnies I've ever encountered. Sweet Fur actually screamed at me once. If you have friends that ever ask you to take care of their bunnies for them, let me tell you from personal experience, DON'T DO IT.

I read Midnight's Children about 5 years ago at the beach. Looks like the book is new again! Like Nabokov said in his lecture Good Readers and Good Writers, it's only the re-readings that matter. Guess it's time to hit it again.

Re-reading the best of the Booker - Telegraph Re-reading the best of the Booker - Telegraph via kwout

or "Ways to make David Banner angry"

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year is the famous, gamer interjection w00t. More importantly, the same M-W poll gives up it's #8 slot to "Pecksniffian."

Trademork today lists the 11 Worst Word Mashup Trademarks. My fav is Blingkini. That's a mashup word you can actually say. Come on now. Say it with me: Bling-KEEN-ee. See? Easy. There's some others on the list that completely defy speech.

Of course, we came up with a pretty dorky word mashup on this blog awhile back.

Here's a big Lucky Dog Audio Post blog category climber - file under Advertising, Audio Goodness, Food & Drink, Music, Web Goodness, Words, and especially Luck.

(Originally we marked this only as Audio Goodness & Music.)