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My time with Steve Jobs happened a very long time ago. It was early 1980, or perhaps late 1979, and I was a freshman at Stanford. I heard that Steve Jobs was coming to talk to some students in a small group session. I don’t actually recall why it caught my attention. I had probably heard of Apple computers back then, but I had never seen one. The only computers I had ever seen where in huge boxes behind thick glass windows.

Somehow, I decided to go to the event. It was over in Branner Hall across the street from my dorm complex, Wilbur. We met in a big room. It was kind of dark and had a fireplace. I did a quick search on Branner and found a picture of the room.

We all settled in with Jobs sitting down at the head of our circle. He was a young guy. Full of energy. I listened with great interest to what he had to say. The thing I remember was his vision of what computers would look like in our future and his excitement about the day his vision would come true.

His vision was not the Mac. What he talked about was a computer so small it fit in our hands. It would go with us every where. It would be our personal navigator. His enthusiasm was so clear and intense. Even though it sounded like science fiction given the computers we had at the time.

We had about an hour of Jobs’ time that evening, but his vision of a personal navigator always stuck with me.

I remember later breaking into the computer science building to get access to a computer with a modem, as I must have run out of hours at the computer lab. I wandered around a bit until I came upon a room with some computer monitors and modems. Sitting next to the terminal was another monitor. This one was way cooler. It was something called a Star computer. I had never seen anything like it. It had a completely different screen and you could move the arrow around on the screen with this thing attached by a cord. I didn’t know it was a mouse. I played with it for half an hour trying to see what I could do with it. It didn’t seem to be able to do much of interest. I couldn’t figure out how to connect it to the Dec System 20 which is what I needed.

Even though it was not much use, it seemed very cool and I remember wondering in passing if Jobs had seen this thing. It turns out that the Star was one of the inspirations for the Lisa and later Mac.

In the mid to late 80s, I would own a few Macs and use them all the time at work. They were great until they were not. In came the Thinkpad and I have been locked into Wintel ever since.

In the mid 90’s, Apple released the Newton. I thought then that Jobs’ vision might be coming a reality with a Jobs less Apple. Like other enthusiasts I bought a Newton. I used it for a while, but it wasn’t easy. It was kind of hard to use, it was too big and way too heavy. The Newton failed and the Pilot took its place.

But obviously, Jobs was not done. He gave us the iPod, the iPod touch and iPhone and now the iPad. He did it. He delivered on his vision from 1980. These cool devices have become our personal navigators in so many ways.

I never met Steve Jobs again since that evening in Branner Hall. It was a short, but memorable time.

Whatever Steve Jobs does next, I wish him well. It would be interesting to hear Steve give that Branner talk one more time. What would his vision be now?

BTW, if you haven’t seen Jobs giving the commencement speach at Stanford you should. It’s quite inspirational. You can see the video here – How to Live Before you Die.

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Your wedding reception is undoubtedly one of the most important times of your lifetime, but it may also be one of the most expensive. For the bride, perhaps the most significant item on the shopping list is going to be her wedding gown. With progressively more high quality, but discount wedding dresses currently available you’ll be able to possess the dress of your dreams without breaking the financial institution. Unfortunately it’s impossible to avoid it: weddings are costly. The typical cost of a wedding in the United States is a jaw dropping $30,000! Why not try to save money without losing quality by buying a discount wedding dress from Bride Couture.

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Sporting stereo XLR or USB inputs, the Yeti Pro is a versatile contender.

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First, there was the Yeti USB microphone from Blue. The ‘original’ Yeti broke the ice for a lot of people curious about USB microphones. It had the sought after features of a first class USB mic, such as zero latency monitoring and separate gain/phone volume controls. There was even a nicely padded mute button in front.

It seems the folks at Blue have one-upped their own original with the new Yeti Pro.

Dressed in stealth black accents, the Yeti Pro looks otherwise identical to its sibling with a hefty and unconventional base. However, a glance at the body bottom reveals not only a mini-USB and headphone jack but a strange 5-pin connection as well. Integrated into the body are threads to mount the Pro on a boom of your choice. The Yeti Pro body is large enough for improved digital capture resolution of 24-bits at 192kHz and the plumbing to bypass USB conversion and deliver stereo analog via a pigtail XLR jumper. Offering stereo X-Y, omni, cardioid and figure-8 patterns via a rotary switch, a single XLR wouldn’t work. The Blue people decided on a small jumper split into 2 XLR male connectors. It’s important to note that audio connection is via USB OR XLR. The Pro is not designed for USB and analog connections concurrently.

The Yeti Pro performs and sounds about the same as model one. I did notice that the front and back controls were much tighter than the original (that had just a little wiggle room). Also, I could use the Yeti Pro with my processing chain!

The Yeti Pro is, like most Blue microphones, one of a kind. How does the versatile Yeti Pro sound? Listen in as we try the Pro on its own terms (USB) and then tame it with the Studio1A processing chain

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1. The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
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2. Ghost Story: The Dresden Files, Book 13 (Unabridged) by Jim Butcher

The eagerly awaited new novel in the number-one New York Times best-selling Dresden Files series.
When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn’t doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin. But being dead doesn’t stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has no body and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own. To save his …

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3. Full Black (Unabridged) by Brad Thor
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor brings readers his darkest and most intriguing thriller yet – a terrifying story of espionage and betrayal – brilliantly paced with superb nonstop action.
Born in the shadows and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply don’t exist.

When one such mission goes horribly wrong, a wave of dramatic terrorist attacks is set in motion. Their goal: the complete and…
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4. Cold Vengeance (Unabridged) by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
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Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife’s betrayers – a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana – he is also forced to dig further into Helen’s past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen may have been a collaborator in her own murder.
Peeling back the layers of decep…
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5. Bossypants (Unabridged) by Tina Fey
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Before Liz Lemon, before “Weekend Update”, before “Sarah Palin”, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.
She has seen both of those dreams come true.
At last, Tina Fey’s story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from…
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6. The Hunger Games (Unabridged) by Suzanne Collins
Summary: Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don’t live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by 12 outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, wh…
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7. Go the F–k to Sleep (Unabridged) by Adam Mansbach, Ricardo Cortes (cover illustration)
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Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep.
Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach’s profane, affectionate, an…
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8. A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book I (Unabridged) by George R. R. Martin
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In a time long forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons off balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. As the cold returns, sinister forces are massing beyond the protective wall of the kingdom of Winterfell. To the south, the king’s powers are failing, with his most trusted advisor mysteriously dead and enemies emerging from the throne’s shadow. At the center of the conflict, the Starks of Winterfell hold the key: a reluctant Lo…
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9. Rules of Civility: A Novel (Unabridged) by Amor Towles
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A sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose.
Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising 25-year-old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York societ…
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10. A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 5 (Unabridged) by George R. R. Martin
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Dubbed the American Tolkien by Time magazine, George R. R. Martin has earned international acclaim for his monumental cycle of epic fantasy. Now the number-one New York Times best-selling author delivers the fifth book in his spellbinding landmark series – as both familiar faces and surprising new forces vie for a foothold in a fragmented empire.
In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance once again – beset by n…
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11. A Stolen Life: A Memoir (Unabridged) by Jaycee Dugard
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“In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation. On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I dont think of m…
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12. Portrait of a Spy: A Novel (Unabridged) by Daniel Silva
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Haunted by his failure to stop a suicide bomber in London, Gabriel Allon is summoned to Washington and drawn into a confrontation with the new face of global terror. At the center of the threat is an American-born cleric in Yemen who was once a paid CIA asset.
Gabriel and his team devise a daring plan to destroy the network of death – from the inside – a gambit fraught with risk, both personal and professional. To succeed, Gabriel must reach into his violent past. A woman wa…
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13. A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book II (Unabridged) by George R. R. Martin
Summary: A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war.

It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison …
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14. Iron House (Unabridged) by John Hart
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An old man is dying. When the old man is dead, they will come for him. And they will come for her, to make him hurt.
John Hart has written three New York Times best sellers and won an unprecedented two back-to-back Edgar Awards. His books have been called “masterful” (Jeffery Deaver) and “gripping” (People) with “Grisham-style intrigue and Turow-style brooding” (The New York Times). Now he delivers his fourth novel – a gut-wrenching, heart-stopping thril…
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15. State of Wonder: A Novel (Unabridged) by Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett raises the bar with State of Wonder, a provocative and ambitious novel set deep in the Amazon jungle.
Research scientist Dr. Marina Singh is sent to Brazil to track down her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, who seems to have disappeared in the Amazon while working on an extremely valuable new drug. The last person who was sent to find her died before he could complete his mission. Plagued by trepidation, Marina embarks on an odyssey into the insect-infe…
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16. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Unabridged) by Laura Hillenbrand
Summary:

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood.
Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.
The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyho…
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17. Angela’s Ashes (Unabridged) by Frank McCourt
Summary:

Frank McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, movingly read in his own voice, bears all the marks of a classic. Born in Depression-era Brooklyn to Irish immigrant parents, Frank was later raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. His mother, Angela, had no money to feed her children since Frank’s father, Malachy, rarely worked, and when he did, he drank his wages. Angela’s Ashes is the story of how Frank endured – wearing shoes repaired with tires, begging for a pig’s head for Chri…
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18. A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book III (Unabridged) by George R. R. Martin
Summary: Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against h…
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19. Catching Fire: Hunger Games, Book 2 (Unabridged) by Suzanne Collins
Summary: Katniss Everdeen continues to struggle to protect herself and her family from the Capitol in this second novel from the best-selling Hunger Games trilogy.
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20. Now You See Her (Unabridged) by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
Summary: The perfect life….
A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she’s built in New York – including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can’t let him pay for the real killer’s crimes.
The perfect lie….
Nina’s secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, an…
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The trusty Fostex 6301B. A professional and reasonably priced monitor that has accompanied me in the studio and on the audio test bench!

Most of us have been trained to think of multiples when it comes to speakers. Stereo, Quad (remember quad?) Surround, 5.1 etc. When I was revamping the VO studio, I grabbed a ‘pair’ of powered monitor speakers without even thinking about it. …then I did

Contracted for dry (voice-only) work means mono tracking. Why do I need two speakers? I settled on an old trusty friend and have never looked back. In the broadcast studios, it’s a different story, but in my cozy voice chamber, a single sample monitor works just fine.

Most of us have to watch money these days and good quality monitors are not cheap. While we ‘surround’ ourselves with speakers to watch the latest movies, consider what you’ll be producing in the studio or even the test bench. Maybe one isn’t such a lonely number after all?

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