Thomas the Tank Engine DENIAL!

So I have a friend with a young son (and a couple more on the way.) The kid has a Thomas The Tank Engine set, but like, it’s a tiny little oval, and he needs more trackage. You’ve got to have some serious trackage. That’s how I roll, anyway. Literally. So while I was out I [...]

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Monday, Monday (la laaa, la, lalaaa.)

So. It’s be a leisurely day off. I babysat for a bit… actually, more like a babysitting errand; picked up kids at school and dropped them off at home. I’ll be doing that Wednesday too. Went to the bank to deposit a show check (yay!) and then came home to find my new laptop power adapter [...]

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Why We Fight

…wait, no: it should be, ‘Why We Check Ebay”….  —————————————————————————– I’ve bought one of these: a Buffalo Linkstation Pro 500 Gigabyte NAS (Network Attatched Storage) It’ll solve my backup/music/data issues in a stroke… I’ll be able to 1) put all my recording multitracks (there’s got to be over 150G of 24 bit/48k Wav files on my data drive that [...]

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Friendly Advice For Ebayers

If you’re a seller: spell your listing correctly. If you’re a buyer: search for likely mispellings and/or more general terms. I just got a second one of these (it’s for controlling my music software, and you can daisy chain them) for $62 delivered. List price is $200 and they usually go on Ebay for $120, if the past [...]

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Unvampire Part Deux: Cleaning then Sleeping.

Well, it took three days, but I’m among the living again. I stayed awake from 9pm Sunday night to 10pm Monday night (right after Tom Green.) Then I crashed hard. Just woke up about an hour ago. I wrote a blog entry just before I shut off the lights but I guess I was too out of [...]

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Quite a chassis…

…. if I do say so myself. Came UPS today. An Antec Take 4 rackmount computer case (or ‘chassis’). Looks gorgeous. Size seems to be perfect to fit in a standard full-size audio rack, as I was repeatedly assured by a number of people. Not too heavy, in spite of it’s solid construction. Actually lighter [...]

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Odd sort of limbo

…is what I’m in. I’ve looked carefully at my finances and it’s clear that I can’t simply buy new parts and build the new computer (the old one died). I’m going to have to do it slowly and carefully, laying in the tall grass for a part to be available at the lowest possible price, and [...]

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