http://jayshaffer.com Jay Shaffer's Blog and HomePage Thu, 01 May 2008 19:41:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm somewhat hesitant to write this post, for fear of the RIAA goon squad. But sometimes you've got to say "fuck it" and just go for what you think is right, even in the face of legal intimidation. I'm hypothetically testing the waters at being an internet broadcaster. I am ... http://jayshaffer.com/2008/05/01/under-the-radar-radio/ It's May Day in Golden Colorado. Big fluffy flakes of snow today, and to think it was 80 degrees yesterday. click here to see some video http://jayshaffer.com/2008/05/01/may-1st-snow/ I have a good friend and colleague by the name of George Sanger, AKA The Fatman. That's him over on the left. Besides being talented and charismatic, George is one of the wisest people I've ever met. He has this theory that he calls Good/Bad, this isn't a really new ... http://jayshaffer.com/2008/03/17/the-goodbad-theory/ The company I work for CleverMedia Inc. is reorganizing and I'll be jobless as of Thursday, March 13, 2008. "Beware of the Ides of March" to quote Shakespeare. Gary Rosensweig is the owner and principle of CleverMedia, which he founded in 1997. I worked for CleverMedia from 1999-2002 as ... http://jayshaffer.com/2008/03/09/no-clever-way-to-say-laid-off/ I teach two classes at Front Range Community College in Westminster, Colorado. I teach a Sound Design class on Tuesday nights and I teach a Music Technology/Production class on Fridays. So the interesting thing is that in the Friday class I have both a profoundly ... http://jayshaffer.com/2008/02/09/the-music-of-silence/ Apparently the dog, Iggy Pup, found a rat and brought it in the house last night So when I got home from work this evening, Iggy was scratching under a bookcase, and I looked under and there was an injured rat. Animal control is closed, so my wife calls the vet and ... http://jayshaffer.com/2008/01/28/never-a-dull-day/ Greta Garbone has left this world. She was a 90 pound (big Boned)Weimaraner , which is to say she was the most beautiful of all dogs. A German Bombshell. The story begins when we adopted her. I think it was 2003, Whe had lost our Shar Pei named Truffle to ... http://jayshaffer.com/2008/01/27/the-dog-that-loved-me/ When the phone rings at 2 AM it's never good news. Our phone rang and my wife's sister was calling from the hospital, my wife's mother was having an emergency appendectomy. At five we heard that she had had successful surgery and that she was in recovery. We all ... http://jayshaffer.com/2008/01/09/really-bad-day/ If you Google Jay Shaffer,there are three other Jay Shaffers that have some internet notoriety. There's the chef that owns the Shaffer City Oyster Bar and Grill in New York City, then there is the business consultant, who runs the "Jay Shaffer Speaks Out " website, and then there is ... http://jayshaffer.com/2008/01/09/a-fistfull-of-jays/ I haven't flown in a small aircraft since riding around in helecopters in the Army the 70's. So i was excited when my uncle Dave who is a pilot and flight instructor suggested that we fly out to eastern Colorado from Denver to meet-up with my parents, who are ... http://jayshaffer.com/2008/01/04/skylane-71178-cleared-direct-to-wray/