Yearly Archives: 2002

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also, discovered my beloved Kodak DC-290 seems to have stop
working correctly. Photos with the flash or fine, but the auto exposure
stuff seems to have gone haywire for outdoor photos and the like.

Might be looking for a new digital camera soon.

And just as I was about to take some photos of some cranes..

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took Friday and Monday off. The weekend activities I was intending didn’t pan
out at the last moment.

Spent most of the weekend cleaning up and whatnot. And doing as
much of nothing as I possibly could.

Bought a new faster cd burner, burnt some beta isos and installed
them on my home machine. Seemed to work fine. Attempted to
use nautilus, konqueror, gmc, krusader, rox-filer, and a few
other file managers to clean up my home dir. Decided that my
hatred of all things “file-manager” was still justified.

Bought a handful of books. Algorithms
in C parts 1-4 and 5. The more I deal with rpm, the more I realize my computer science knowledge
is nonexistent. Also a python/xml book, and User interface design for programmers.
Also a discount copy of Earth To Spirit.
It’s filled with new-agey “spiritual” nonsense, but I’m a sucker for a book with pictures of weird houses.

Also picked up another Andy Goldsworthy book from Nice Price Books.

Watched “Crossing Jordan” on tv lastnight. Network tv could use more
hot cynical atheists.

Looking forward to the Japan Air/Trans Am show at ps211 this
weekend.

Anyone going to the Rush show in Raleigh? Trying to
decide if I want to go here, or in Charlotte. And yes,
I admit it in public, I am a Rush fan.

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Songs in the key of F12
Wired article about laptop based music creation. Never actually caught a show by someone
doing that. Seems like it would be awfully boring to watch. But then, it cant be much
worse than seeing yet another alt.country band stand there and play 10 boring songs.
I like the idea of it, even if the relatively low barrier to entry means it’s that much
harder to figure out the stuff that doesnt suck.

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hmm, signed up for a payed lj membership and everything seems to
be drasctically slower now. Awesome.

Went home last night and the music viz videos I had ordered arrived.
Watched them. Woke up this morning with an insane headache. Wonder
if thats related.

Took a hanful of sudafed like they were skittles. Possibly
not a good idea.

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fixed four bugs reported over the weekend in three hours, updated translations,
and added some new images to up2date from our new graphics artist.

I seem to have amassed enough gear now to setup a very
small home recording setup. I dont really have anything to
record but I always wanted to try it. So far, I learned alot
just getting stuff setup. All the random commentary
in TapeOp and the like is suddenly begining to make sense.
Nifty.

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Tommy Gun was good. Hadn’t seen them play in a long time, and they had improved
alot.

Listened to Primus – Frizzle Fry the whole trip up and down. What
a great album.

Was informed of another cd/album that I “must have”. Apparently
the “United States of America” is pretty cool, though I havent
actually heard it yet. Web searching on that doesnt look like fun.

Vaguely looking around for a good cheap keyboard for making
lots of noise. After fiddling with the ms2000 and a roland jxp8
for a few days, I’m intrigued. Preferably something with lots
of knobs and buttons to tweak. I’m not all that well versed with
the value/cost of keyboards though.

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got a hair cut. Our as one of my old high school teachers
used to say “I got them all cut”.

I think my beard is longer than my hair now.

Off to winston-salem again to see a friends band play. This
time it’s Tommy Gun at The Garage