Time to finish packing I suppose, since I leave tomorrow afternoon. First stop is Statesville, then Friday off to somewhere in TN, then Saturday to somewhere, then Sunday to St Louis if were not there yet. Then it gets a little blurry after that.
A couple days to get to Sturgis, a couple days there, then the ride home with a few stops along the way.
Any spamassassin whiz kids in the house?
I have a couple of email address that forward into my main email account. One of these address makes up about 90% of the spam that gets through to my inbox. Is there a way to make spam assassin score one To: email address a bit more aggressively than another?
How could I forget THE REALLY BIG BUTTON THAT DOESN’T DO ANYTHING?
How could I forget THE REALLY BIG BUTTON THAT DOESN’T DO ANYTHING?
Buttons that do not do anything
Am I missing any?
I got the linux box talking to the phone over gprs. I had to remember enough of how these weird things called “modems” work to be able to configure it properly.
Trying to get the license plate bracket on the bike fixed before I leave Thursday. Need to track down a replacement tail light. I’ve got one on order, but it might not make it here in time. Got a replacement bracket rigged up, but would prefer a better constructed bracket.
I decided that I would make a run to Greensboro via “Greensboro Road”. A bit of a shakedown run in a way. Last time I tried this I dropped the bike. This time it wasn’t quite as exciting.
I got about 5 miles down the road and CLANK . My license plate bracket broke and my license plate fell off and into the wheel well. That would be the license plate bracket that got bent a few months ago when someone rearended me. I’ve been putting off replacing it. I guess I waited a touch too long.
Of course, it smashed the tail/brake light into little pieces again. Grumble.
Fixing it good enough to get home was interesting. I realized my rigging kit was a little on the slim side. I had only two components of the Holy Quadrilateral Of Improvised Repairs. I had a swiss army knife and vice grips, but no duct tape or cable ties.
So vice grips it is. Managed to catch some rain on the rain home just to top it off.
Now I need to somehow figure out how to get a new bracket/tail list, or rig one up. Hopefully the trip to Sturgis will go better.
I’m a dork. I now own notadumptruck.com.
Aside from touching upon a quickly fading internet meme, it also describes me well. I am not, nor have I ever been, a dump truck.
Played a house show at Badgerhaus tonight.
Show went well. Not a bad crowd for a house show. This was my first show as Automatic Caution Show and my first solo performance.
Got fairly short notice for the show, so didn’t have a huge amount of time for the show. I decided to give it a shot with an idea thats been in my head for a while. Basically, solo semi improv heavy ambient/dub/industrial kind of thing. Think Scorn or Godflesh. It ended up being a bit more improvised than I originally intended, but thats okay.
I think it went pretty well. The concept mostly worked, but I could probably use some time to work on song structure, mostly to make better use of dynamics, something that I sort of overlooked a bit tonight. I could also maybe use some work on the guitar sounds, but given the volume constraints, it didn’t seem to bad. In a louder environment, a half stack cranked to 11 would be nice ;-> Seemed to get a nice response from some of the folks there.
The Subliminator was pretty awesome. He has a very unique setup. Basically two alesis AirSynths and two AirFX for the music, plus a vocal processor and a Boomerang looper pedal. Vocals were processed, and heavily looped, building up dense vocal interswirling lines. It’s a small setup that he makes very impressive use of.
Oh, and as the last post would indicate The Subliminator tours on a customized BMW 1100GS. So after the show we spent a few hours talking about music and motorcycles.