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Tuesday, June 4th, 2002
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2:52 pm - This is good
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| Friday, May 31st, 2002
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12:28 pm - Learn something new every day
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"Myth: Digital sound doesn't loose quality when transferred."
http://www.johnvestman.com/digital_myth.htm
Highlights:
"Different cdrs sound different...My favorite: Maxell 700 MB silver top for more detailed highs, Maxell Music gold for a fatter, more solid mid-to-bottom."
"If you're cutting cds on a home computer, to get fewer errors, don't use the gold ink-on-the-bottm cdrs - use the green ink ones."
"Make sure if your first-generation master mix is onto cdr, burn it at 1X."
"I've experienced transferring a sound file from one hard drive to another changes the sound slightly."
Well, shit, this blows a big hole in my digital fetishism. I wouldn't even believe it normally, but this guy sounds like he knows what he's talking about. This stuff is harder than I thought...
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| Thursday, May 30th, 2002
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5:37 pm - Don Norman is the man
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Geek warning...kinda. It's an interview with Don Norman about his new book where he talks about the effect of emotion on cognition and relates it to how we use our everyday things. And goes off on some other tangents about games as a new form of literature, robots that experience emotion.
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/d_norman_2.html
I know I'm a dork, but this kinda stuff really interests me. It was my major in college, actually, before I dropped out haha.
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| Wednesday, May 29th, 2002
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3:07 pm - This is awesome
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| Monday, May 27th, 2002
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5:55 pm - This week
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Well, I haven't recorded my nex mix yet. I got my styli, but not my new headphones yet, and my old ones are on their last legs. I spent a while yesterday rearranging the set a bit, too, and it's still not 100% final, but it's getting closer. Sometimes I wish I could just bang out a set and record it and be happy with it instead of having to plan out my CDs for months. Hopefully they sound better this way and it's worth the effort.
I did have a very relaxing vacation, though. And I managed to get a good amount of productive stuff done, too. Lots of stuff that I've been putting off forever. I think the best part was knowing that I have another, longer one coming in only a few weeks. I hope this will make work more tolerable when I go back tomorrow.
Monumental last night...eh, wasn't really. It was OK. I can't say there was anything particularly wrong with it, but I was kind of bored the whole time (all of the two hours that I was there). Skylab 2000 was pretty good. I can't get all that hyped about DJ Swamp. People think I'm crazy, but turntablism tricks just don't really excite me all that much. Like, it's kinda cool, and I can of course respect the skills...but I see it as more like going to see a juggler or a circus acrobat than like going to see a musician. *shrug*
I think maybe I'm just going through a major rave-scene burnout period. Maybe. Who knows? Hopefully Starscape will be fun.
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| Monday, May 20th, 2002
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8:19 pm - YAY! VACATION!
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Woo I have the rest of the week off! With next Monday being Memorial Day, that gives me a whole week of no work. I haven't had a week off since October of 1998, so I'm pretty happy about this. :-D
I finally get a chance to seriously work on music for a while. I'm planning to record a new mix CD as soon as my replacement styli come in, and I've started work on a remix of a Tweaker song as part of a contest on ACIDplanet.com. I'll post when it's done so you all can tell me how much it sucks. ;-)
And I got a big order of records in today too...happy day!
current mood:  happy
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1:24 pm - Dan Savage on Trevor Palmer
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| Thursday, May 9th, 2002
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2:11 pm - Yay!
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1:09 pm - PARTY ON, DUDES!
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Somebody wrote "SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!!!" on the whiteboard in the hall. :-D
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12:52 pm - I feel dirty
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<geek>
OK, so at work they're trying to train everyone on Microsoft .Net crap, because Microsoft gave the company a lot of money and basically the management just sold out. For a long time I was bitching about this, because I'm no big fan of Microsoft, and I don't like being bribed into making (possibly bad) technical decisions with no say in the matter, and I just don't want to have to relearn everything I know and rewrite everything I've done here in an effort to suck up to the "Evil Empire."
So for a long time I was just skipping the training seminars and grumbling about it at department meetings. Eventually my boss started putting a little pressure on me to go to the training, so for the last two weeks I have.
It's actually pretty damn cool. At least as far as web application stuff goes, it's years ahead of anything in the Java world, which itself is years ahead of anything else. I have yet to really see this stuff in practice, so maybe it won't actually work that well...and maybe there are problems that people won't run into until they start doing complicated stuff with it, and obviously if Microsoft can manage to control this sector as well, that would be a Bad Thing. But from the perspective of developer productivity and job enjoyment, it's pretty appealing.
I'm still not sure whether I should try to get a new job or not...
:-\
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current mood:  dirty
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| Tuesday, April 30th, 2002
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11:25 pm - there's a party at my house & i wasn't invited
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| Sunday, April 28th, 2002
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3:01 pm - Ride
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OK, as you all know I'm a big tree-hugging hippie. I dislike cars and driving, and if it were up to me, I wouldn't even own one. Unfortunately, that's just not practical for me right now, so I've got a cheap little Civic hatchback, which I chose partly because of its low cost, fuel efficiency, and relatively low environmental impact.
If the hybrid gas/electric cars were around when I bought it, I might have gotten one. The thing is, the Insight I find to be kind of ugly; it's probably underpowered for highway driving, and it's way too small. The Toyota Prius is better in those respects but not great—it's not quite as good in the fuel economy, and still not all that great looking either. And I've had enough good luck with Honda that I'm kind of inclined to stick with them anyway.
Then today I found out that Honda is making a Civic Hybrid.
It's a little pricier than the Prius, but cheaper than the Insight. Its city fuel economy isn't as good as the Prius, though the highway spec is better...the Insight beats it on both counts, though not by much on the highway. It does have more power than either of the others, and better brakes, which are the main complaints most reviewers seem to have with the Insight and the Prius. It looks pretty much like a standard Civic sedan, which is good. Also it's available with a way-cool continuously variable transmission.
I dunno, I'm not looking to replace my car anytime soon, but this is pretty sweet. I entered in a drawing to win one haha, so maybe I'll be lucky! :-)
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3:19 am
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You are Electronica!
Living a life as active and colorful as the strobe lights of the dance floor, you are electronica. Your life is a party, or at least that's how you'd like it to be. Your main themes are energy, excitement, and playfulness. You figure: life is short. You only get one shot at it, so why waste it being miserable? You're mostly concerned with immediate pleasure and are very outgoing. Even when you're sad you seem to find a reason to smile. To many this trait is very pleasant, but to those inclined to bitterness it can seem obnoxious and annoying.
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Take the what music genre are you quiz by  PsychosisX!
Surprising, eh? ;-)
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| Monday, April 22nd, 2002
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11:14 pm - This is incredibly rad
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| Saturday, April 13th, 2002
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4:06 pm
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Stolen from the vegan_people community:
They're saying you get 50 cents off the new chicken wopper at BK if you cluck. I wonder how much they'll take off if you cut off your nose, live in your feces, force feed yourself, and suffocate your male children in plastic bags.
Thanks to surf_ninja
current mood:  awake
current music: Justin Smith - Give Me the Music
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| Friday, April 5th, 2002
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12:07 am
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zsoltizsolt: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/04/04/lost.asteroid/index.html
zsoltizsolt: we're all going to die from an asteroid impact
zsoltizsolt: in 900 years
DJ Resistor: oh yes i saw this this morning
DJ Resistor: 3 to 1 odds right?
zsoltizsolt: no
zsoltizsolt: 300:1
DJ Resistor: oh yeah
DJ Resistor: i have every reason to think we will have extincted ourselves by then anyway haha
zsoltizsolt: well in 900 years we'll have all kinds of phasers and gravity bombs and death stars and shit
zsoltizsolt: so a pansy ass asteroid will mean nothing to us
DJ Resistor: lol dath stars
DJ Resistor: death
zsoltizsolt: what, you don't think death stars are feasible?
zsoltizsolt: I'll bet they're working on building one right now
zsoltizsolt: prolly the chinese
DJ Resistor: haha
DJ Resistor: i'm not saying they're not feasible
DJ Resistor: i'm just laughing at the idea
DJ Resistor: even though i guess it's really not funny
zsoltizsolt: that's for sure
zsoltizsolt: a death star is no laughing matter
zsoltizsolt: especially when it's got its ion blasters pointed at you
DJ Resistor: lol
zsoltizsolt: you're laughing now - just wait until your descendants find themselves on tatooine one day
zsoltizsolt: and moff tarkin gives the go ahead
zsoltizsolt: we'll see who'll be laughing then
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| Tuesday, April 2nd, 2002
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12:08 am
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Holy shit, the news coverage of the College Park rioting is the funniest thing I've ever seen.
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| Monday, April 1st, 2002
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11:46 pm - Katya's poem
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katfishdc (11:34:07 PM): T to the I to the M to the MOORE
katfishdc (11:34:19 PM): mysterious as a character
katfishdc (11:34:23 PM): in mythic folklore
katfishdc (11:34:41 PM): he hates his job and cheese whiz too
katfishdc (11:35:01 PM): he'd rather eat some hippie stew
katfishdc (11:35:39 PM): he'd rather roll around in poop
katfishdc (11:35:55 PM): with hippies and treehuggers and ian's dog snoop
katfishdc (11:36:08 PM): than ever run over a poor little cat
katfishdc (11:36:10 PM): oh wait...
katfishdc (11:36:14 PM): he already did that ;-)
katfishdc (11:36:34 PM): tim likes to spin
katfishdc (11:36:40 PM): that funky trancecore
katfishdc (11:36:52 PM): all day long cuz he's Mr.Moore
katfishdc (11:37:33 PM): when u ask whats up
katfishdc (11:37:37 PM): he says apparently...stuff
katfishdc (11:37:52 PM): but just watch out cuz his neck is ruff
katfishdc (11:40:20 PM): werd to your mother
DJ Resistor (11:40:47 PM): it wasn't a cat it was a possum :-(
current mood: happy
current music: Tim Taylor vs. Thor 54 - Over the Hill
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