One of those late night discussions at work brought up old weird
tv shows.
My personal favorite old tv show was Probe.
Or here.
Kind of a cross between Mr Wizard and Macgyver.
The conversation was started when someone mentioned they are making
a movie of “The Greatest American Hero”
And now to torture folks…
Believe it or not,
I’m walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free-.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it’s just me.
Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names
Some nice ones:
And noticed more than a few existing bands: finger, breadwinner, giant, iodine,
acetone, etc
Sinus headache last night, think I took one too many nyquil tablets.
Conked out of work a little bit early, went home, couldn’t sleep.
Hooked up the mixer and a couple of pedals and made
some noise Merzbow style. The digitech muliplay (modulating
2 second delay) into digitech rockbox (chorus/distortion)
into a yamaha 10 band eq. The input of the chain was
the effect send on the mixer, and the output fed the input
of the mixer. ie, a feedback loop. And just for kicks, the
Vortex was in the second effects loop. With a little
experimentation, lots of fun noises can be made. (no
no actual instruments in that setup… fun!)
More up2date work. Cleaning up ui issues now.
So far, haven’t accomplished anything this weekend. Which sucks, because
I really needed to. Suppose I should at least buy some groceries and what
not.
Picked up a copy of Guitar Player magazine yesterday with the
cover story of “The 50 Coolest Stompboxes Ever”. I seem to
only own one item on the list. Oddly enough, the Snarling
Dogs Wah/Ring Mod made it.
Hmm, closed a couple of dozen bug reports, and updated about
60 bug reports in total. And got “up2date –undo” working
to some degree. Not a bad day productivity-wise.
Browsing the web isnt showing me any interesting shows
coming up this weekend. 2/3 of Morphine at Cat’s Cradle
could be interesting. And my friends The Finks and
Wafer Thin are playing ps211
saturday. But not much else. Probably all the better since
I have a lot of work to get done.
Plodding though bugs. After lots of profiling, I’ve mostly decided that up2date
isn’t actually all that slow. Turns out it was averaging just under a
second for each package, and just about two and a half second
for each package that was repackaged. Of course, that looks
really slow when your updating 1500 packages. The numbers look
even better without “dev” or “glibc-common” or “kernel-source”
throwing the curve (15-25% of the files on an average system
are in those three packages…)
Left work somewhat early (9:00pm ish…) to head over to
Durham to catch a show at Ringside with badger.
Just your typical tuba/cello/bass/guitar/bass clarinet/moog
improvisation group ;->
Got home and actually played a bit since I was in a
“make (hopefully)interesting improvised noises” mood. Of course,
thats pretty much all I ever do.
I need a good “Reply-To flamewars considered harmful” url.
While attempting to profile this stuff, I managed to create
a profile data file that includes a time delta of “-1” which
of course, breaks the stat generation modules.
Awesome, I cant even profile correctly!