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roflcon pics

i’ll be adding to this through today and tomorrow.

One touch Betamax to HD-DVD converter

it has an unexpected feature. from thinkgeek. http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/betamaxhd.html?cpg=70H

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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too much booty

my jesus phone is rockin. the ziphone hack was very easy (thank you hackery ziphone guy). i’m using tmobile service, and i had to add some proxy xml config to get the tmo data access working, but everything is workin. now, with the terminal app installed, i can access the BSD OS directly from the phone. next is to install the gcc compiler and continue my c edumucation using the safaribooksonline bookshelf as my teacher.

my macbook came this morning. it’s pretty. that’s all i can say so far.

after sampling everything that came in yesterday from tearsofjoysauces, the feeling in my stomach is the opposite of good. ehh.. i’m holding mahalo daily responsible.

need to have a massive purge on craigslist soon, or my towers of stuff will fall and smush me. too much booty. i’m like a pirate. ‘cept i paid for it and did kill anyone.

oh man, i have johnson envy.

it’s battery powered!

i really do want an old casio. i like the 4 bit sounds.

caught the slimdevices (squeezebox) site while it was hacked today

i happened to be here at the right time to catch a short-term hack to the page. see the text that replaced the windows and mac icons.

the headless donkey is scary and i want to ride it

it freaks me out the most while it is scrambling over ice.

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/03/science-creates.html

random thought about the purely digital generations

some kid who has been raised solely on computers and teh internets is going to ask about the feature’s name in the browser….

“dad, why are they called ‘bookmarks‘?”

i’m pondering getting a mac

for so many years of my tech-aware life, i’ve heard the term “mac user” as negative… like a baby user that needs it’s hand held. after OSX, the system seems more robust and flexible. besides the general intuitiveness, it should allow me to satisfy my tweaking fetish. i’m becoming aware that there are apps for most everything i would want to do now, but, of course, the driver development for mac is still generally second priority to windows, and i might not be able to use all my peripheral toys.

i’d been looking for a non-partisan guide to mac for “power users” so i can apply my knowledge of other systems and just learn the new names and paths that are used for mac. this link seems to be what i need, but i’m only part-way through. http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx.

so, before i actually go buy another $$$ toy, i’m putting together a list of pro/con to making the “switch” (or rather merely adding mac to my electronic farm).

what reasons mac might work for me?

cons

i’m just rambling on, but i’ll come back to this to reexamine my motivations. my next system will either be a grey cheesegrater or an audio-studio optimized PC.

analog wins today

my old ARP Omni-2 sounds really good to me. i’ve been playing with new synths alot for the past few weeks.. mostly just listening to the preset patches and doing some basic tweaking… and it wears on my ears somewhat. most of it hasn’t been inspiring. i just found some samples of my old ARP (which i sold on craigslist for less $ than the audio cables i use on the new synths), and the sound is more rich by a level of magnitude. it was pure analog with lots of noise from the old, dirty circuits. the sound was more complex, warm, organic and tangible. each development in modulation sounded more like experiencing a sunset over the pacific than merely seeing it in a home theater as a wireframe 3d animation like my virtual analog synths produce.

damn.