UMI's Pinata Fest

If you guys like piñatas, you like this podcast. I saw a post on Techannounce about Unidos por un mismo Idioma (the Spanish Speaking Society) and their piñata fest and I couldn’t pass up the story. I met with Jose Luis Calvillo, UMI’s secretary, in the student union building while he was making a piñata. He gave me some great info on the organization and their Piñata Fest event. If you have some time after Carol of Lights, I’d definitely recommend checking it out.

As far as the quality of the podcast, this episode suffers from buyer’s remorse as much as I do. To make sure I’d have a audio recorder on me at all times, I went off to Best Buy and picked up a voice recorder that touted an extra high quality setting, one more than any other recorder I saw. Extra high quality really isn’t all that great as I’ve learned, though. To make up for the downfall, I used audacity’s noise removal feature, it’s actually pretty easy to use. To use this feature, just highlight a part of the recording that has no voice, but still has the background noise you want removed. Then, with the noise removal feature on, press “get noise profile”, and then just highlight the rest of the recording and press “remove noise.” This did remove much of the background noise, but it also gave the recording a high-pitched sound. To counter this, I highlighted the recording and used the “bass boost” effect. What was produced isn’t perfect, but definitely an improvement.

Clay Club

I'm sure many of you recently saw the sign outside of the Art building advertising the Clay Club's pottery sale, if you just didn't have the time to stop on in, I'm here to fill you in on the details.

I interviewed the vice president of the Clay Club, Matthew Wiederaenders. Matthew fills me in on the purpose of the pottery sale, the kinds of students in the club, and activies that the Clay Club participates in.

If podcast 5 hasn't been uploaded yet, check back soon.