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beta mission 2008

the museum of industry was fun. i’m amazed at the volume of precision metal in there. the lighting/rain storm on the way back was fun for some of us, not others.

stocking up on coffee this week

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i’ve nearly completed learning and configuring freenas for my home fileserver. i’m trying to move my noisy drives away from my room but still access them from my mac, squeeze-devices, and stepmania console. it’s finicky getting the various protocols all up and talking at the same time. spent a few hours last night trying to get a *UCKING windows NIC driver to work.) ..already sounding like a mac fanboy)

trying to sound fairly respectable on the maple leaf rag to record tonight on a mutual deadline with an old piano friend.

photo shoot tomorrow night for skunk art.

wednesday night … none of your business.

friday night, joining a group to shoot for the 48 hour film project with a break sat night to ride alpha-mission with scul.

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You’re out of touch. I’m out of time.

“But I’m out of my head when you’re not around.”

i noticed just now how i get socially weird when i haven’t had time with friends for a few days. last night with some sculers watching the worst star trek episodes ever helped cure my socialitis.

bye nosepicker.

boston gets smaller

a cute, geek girl i met for 15 minutes two years ago on a scul ride just walked in my door to set up for the frostbyte auction.

hi again, MOSFET.

new bike stereo battery

for the chopper stereobox. this one is much lighter, takes up less volume inside the box, will be easy to charge, super hardy, high dispersion rate, sexier, two year warranty. trust me. this is exciting.

chopper groove

i finished my new stereobox a few days back. it’s virgin flight on a scul mission was mostly successful. it only took a while to figure out that the cause of the amps cutting out was due to poor wireless transmission. … so i hung the transmitter out of my bag, over my shoulder. it’s great now. i’m surprised that these new amps don’t need a heat sink since they’re much for powerful than the previous radiobox that did need a heat sink. i consider making the old radiobox (pic, another pic) was one of the best things i’ve ever done. … you just can’t be upset or unhappy while riding around on your bike with your tunes blaring causing people to randomly sing and dance in the street.

components:

• Pelican 1430 housing | bearproof
• mb quart nka 169 6″x9″ marine speakers | made to withstand sun and saltwater
• amphony 1550 50w wireless monoblock amplifiers | class T, efficient and precise
• two 12v lead acid batteries wired in-line for 24v for the amps plus one more 12v for the transmitter | heavier than your mom but should keep this stereo playing at high volume for days
• iriver h320 audio source | has an fm receiver built in so i can pick up skunk’s transmission on scul missions

to do:

• add ac input jack for internal charger
• try different audio absorption materials to tune resonance
• possibly replace lead acid batteries with li-ion. it’s really heavy.