Tuesday, April 12, 2005

new toys!

Monday I went to my local Target store and purchased some index cards for 54 cents. While there I decided it would be a good idea to look at Digital Voice Recorders. Now, since I am a dork I should really clarify that "look at" means "stare at until I break down and purchase". I bought an Olympus DVR VN-120 for about 40 bucks. I played with it a bit while doing laundry and after work Tuesday, but the real test came at the Funny Bone. My set was pretty good. Paul Harris said that I started out a little slow, but I built speed and excitement and had the crowd at the end. He was right, about the slow part at least, the jokes I began with were kind of one-liner-ish where the funny depends on the delivery (which has lots of pauses and stuff). I did my dating problems jokes, tried out a couple new college jokes and ended with my Tetris bit. I helped keep time last night with Scott, which was pretty educational because I could really see how frustrating it is when people don't stick to their time.
Anyway, I got home, and using Audacity (an audio capture program), I was able to get my set from the DVR and upload it to the website. If you want to do something similar, download Audacity at the link provided, you'll need this Dynamic Link Library, Lame.dll. Anyway, you can listen to my set here.