Anyone who has been in Unity on a Saturday night in the summer knows how awful the noise from the racetrack is. It's so bad in fact that it forces us to leave town on Saturday nights and go out and get a life. This old photo from around 1915 shows what the track used to be. And I say, bring back the ponies! I maintain a site for the Unity Histerical uh Historical Society and I'm starting to put their old photos up. I got into making stuff look old, like the sepia toning on the pictures. The next thing I'll do at that site is make their database of all the headstone info from the nearby cemeteries searchable. It seems there are considerably more dead people in Unity than live ones.
Here's a photo of our house from that same era. And don't we wish the barn was still there. While we're wishing, let's undo Dutch Elm disease and bring back the elm lined street. Nerd note: the UHS site lives on an NT server at Unity College, so I take my Unix scripts in C and with no changes compile them to an exe and use them there.
Say what it is? Spinner is a little free program you can download at spinner.com. When you run it (and you're online) it streams audio to your computer. "Streams" means it plays it as it gets it. As they say at the spinner site, "Sure work sucks, but now you've got a sound track." There are a gazillion channels. I start off with Baroque in the morning and get funkier as the day goes on. It usually runs in the background while I'm working, and I flip to it only to identify something that's playing. Kind of a cool thing. Give it a try.