Hmm. Not too bad of a week, though I did spend much of it depressed. I ( Read more... )

I woke up to a reply to Sunday night's email to C., and the discovery that she had taken me off her friends list. It was surprising how much that hurt.

(I am happy to report that I'm back on, now that she has finally been confronted with reality. There's still a lot of pain to go ( Read more... )

Monday was pretty good, except for a couple of red flags. Productive at work, for once, with a full afternoon of coding (writing a makefile that makes RSS feeds -- hee!). That was fun.

After sleeping on it, I ordered a TASCAM US-800, which Musician's Friend has on sale this month. Linux ( Read more... )

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Yesterday I ordered an SM Pro Audio PR8E 8 Channel Mic Preamp from AMS. Got the last one in stock, and free shipping. It'll go perfectly with the line mixer I got a couple of weeks ago, and one of the 8-channel soundcards. Has combination XLR/phone jacks, so it'll work for an arbitrary mix of either mics or instruments.

It's ( Read more... )

Specifically a Korg nanoKEY MIDI controller. It's tiny -- 12.60"W x 0.55"H x 3.27"D -- and USB-powered. Even Linux recognizes it as a vanilla USB MIDI device.

It was only $50 at Guitar Center; I got their last one :). They had one ( Read more... )

Went to Santana Row (the local very upscale shopping center) with the flower_cat and chaoswolf for their "first ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted to healthy_fen)

So that's what it needed! Went back to Sports Basement this morning and got a pair of Superfeet green arch supports. (I had a pair, but could only find one this morning, and in any case it was cut down to size 10. I'm an 11 these days. 7pm found it! In the trash, of course; I've been trying to clean the bedroom ( Read more... )

My order from Musician's Friend arrived today; the main item was the Extrene Isolation headphones. (Browncoats will appreciate the URL: SerenityHeadphones.com. Unfortunately, it immediately redirects to ExtreneHeadphones.com, but it's the thought that counts.)

The product page on MF claims 28dB of isolation; I believe them. They're ( Read more... )

A couple of minor annoyances with my current gaggle of gadgets:

• The Samsung monitor is fscking gorgeous, but with its 2ms response time and 3000:1 contrast the jitter coming through the VGA input is annoying as heck. I'll have to get either a graphics card or a motherboard with a DVI output. (The jitter could be coming ( Read more... )