Done yesterday (20110709 Fr)
0709 Fr * up 7:45; W=196.2; drugs, teeth, nose, dishes, light,...,laundry @ Google + and the Future of Avatar Identity @rowanf @ Scientists Discover That Antimicrobial Wipes and Soaps May Be Making You (and Society) Sick @foxipher @ Why I'm Loving Google+: Perspective of a writer, illustrator, musician/songwriter and board gamer (plus tips for newbies) - Inkygirl % rather absent-minded this morning @ Social networking requirements | Geek Feminism Blog (ysabetwordsmith) ? put google+ on mdlbear or ssavitzky? I'm inclined to use the latter, but my YouTube stuff is already on mdlbear. ssavitzky keeps it connected with my real name, so I could use that email addy for facebook, etc. as well. @ quotes about space travel (ysabetwordsmith | Thoughts on the Last Shuttle Flight) @ Gluten-Free Trading Company ( wyld-dandelyon) @ Actually Awesome Things to Say to a Cancer Patient @annathepiper ~ YD needs trip to phone store, Fremont DeVry campus bookstore need to diagnose phone first (try different charger cable) bookstore closed on Saturday, at least in the afternoon :P -> went to B&N; bought @ An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks @ The Power of Body Language by Tonya Reiman the first one I've seen that's actually a how-to book & bought a MicPort Pro at Guitar Showcase for $69; passed on a CAD e200 mic for $200 (Guy said they're $150 with the clip on EBay, though I don't see any there for less than 200.) Based on this review I might be happier with an NT2A. Tempting, though. * buy: coffee * buy: pantsu * buy: ALA * buy: laundry detergent, tomatoes, and fish at Lunardi's ! laughed when Colleen failed to notice the chocolate truffles I had put on her table. (I handed her the wrapper later. She grumped because it was empty.) Laughing is good. % An extra 10mg of cope is also very good. * micport pro works perfectly in Audacity. 1 channel, so perhaps perfect for adding tracks. * splat around 11:30
I seem to be easily distracted this morning. I think I've been chasing links for about an hour after starting this post. (I make these posts by copying the "raw notes" from my to.do file.) I see that yesterday I felt "scatterbrained". On the other hand, my mood seems to be trending upward; I actually found myself laughing yesterday. Laughing is good. So is an extra 10mg of cope.
I made two shopping trips: one with the YD to get books she needs for her English class, the other personal. We started out at the DeVry campus in Fremont, where we found that the bookstore was closed. Wonder whether it's open Saturday mornings. Anyway, the campus seemed pretty dead, and out in the middle of nowhere. I think that if she wants a college social experience she's better off at DeAnza, or even City. Given her schedule, the two are not incompatible.
So we went from there to B&N. The YD found one of her two books; I found two: An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks and The Power of Body Language by Tonya Reiman. The latter is the first book about body language I've seen that actually has enough detail about reading and presenting to be useful to me.
The second trip was nominally for coffee and fish, but a stop at Guitar Showcase's consignment shop netted me a CEntrance MicPort Pro for less than half price -- it seems to be the only XLR-to-USB converter out there with 24/96 converters. When I got it home it Just Worked with Audacity on Debian. So now I have a recording studio I can carry in Minnie, at least if I add a suitable small mic. That's not really the point, of course; what it really means is that I can get on a plane and record tracks wherever I'm going. At least if they have a mic stand.
Dinner was a caprese-type salad, broccoli, and two kinds of fish: pan-fried lingcod, and tuna sashimi. I couldn't decide.
I also accepted somebody's offer of a Google+ invite, though it has yet to show up in my email. On the other hand, neither has the test message I sent a few minutes ago. Weird. (Now performing further tests. Hmm. Can't send to either gmail account from either home or work. Silent spam filtering? Greylisting? We'll see.) OK, config on the workstation is just plain WRONG. :( :(
Um... I've been dribbling (driveling?) into this post for at nearly three hours now. Growf.
See the notes for links, while I go fix email on my workstation.