vixyish points her readers to two more cases of people without health insurance; Cheyenne Wright, the colourist for Girl Genius, who recently had an "alarming" hospital stay (without insurance), and, worse, an SCA fan whose family needs help with funeral expenses following his death, a result of loss of medical coverage and job. (Diabetes+inadequate money ( Read more... )

So this happened to our HP 1200 (clickie) yesterday morning. I tried talking to HP about repair services, and this is what happened:solarbird trolls around for a long time on HP's website trying to find ANYTHING about repair services and finally finds a phone number. No other contact methods allowed. 866 234 1377
solarbird oh for the love of FUCK HP DO NOT GIVE ME ( Read more... )

Go help annathepiper repro this annoying bug. Details at the link.

So! Anybody taken two instruments somewhere by airplane at once? (In this case, I'm talking about mandolin and Irish bouzouki. The former is the size of ... hum, a very large violin? And the latter is roughly the size of a guitar.) If so, how'd that work?

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Hey, Lazyweb! What do I need to know about cheap midi keyboards? (As in, midi keyboards to be used with a digital audio workstation, not home keyboards that happen to have midi in/out pairs.) I am strongly considering one for studio work because I can't afford, you know, an orchestra. I'm seeing things like Miditech used for <$100, is this any good ( Read more... )

Anybody have experience with the M-Audio Nova studio condenser mic? I found a pawn shop with a couple. Reviews on the internets think they're good for the dollar, but in this field I don't know who are real reviewers and who are shills. Clues, anybody?

Okay, so, except when airplanes are around - and yeah, this is a legitimate issue, what with Kenmore Air Harbour down the hill - the ambient noise level on my SM57s is metering a little above -80db. I don't know how big a deal the airplane noise will be, but at least it's transient. There's also some traffic noise from Bothell Way, also down the ( Read more... )

Hey, anybody in LA know of an open venue in late April? s00j and yuki_onna haven't been able to nail down a location for the last stop of the Palimpsest book-and-music tour yet, and they really want to hit Los Angeles. S00j is accordingly looking for venues there akin to the one she describes in this post. If you know of a useful venue of the right type, please ( Read more... )

Macbook dropped off: sucks to be me until next week. Or later. NNngh.

I've been working with kimo trying to get that machine to have a new HD and dual-boot WinXP and Linux. I think, or thought, I had all the partitions set up and the Windows partitions from the old HD copied over, but only one of them mounts properly under Linux and I have no idea ( Read more... )