I made one. Why not?
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I never procrastinate when mixing down audio recordings. What never? Well, hardly ever. Okay, I guess I’m running 33% late. Anyway, I finally got around to finishing up the HMS Pinafore sitzprobe recording with Lyric Theatre. Being in rehearsal for The Pirates of Penzance might might have provoked me to get around to it. Links […]
Python seemed like a fun language, so I put together a little animated pumpkin face, on the grounds that it might, possibly, get me out of some carving. (A small video is available for watching. Source code for those of you with Python, GTK and pygoocanvas is on SourceForge.)
With Siri only $199 away, I feel that now is the time to share Don Norman’s thoughts on this distopia from his 1992 book Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles: Let’s assume we’ve reached the time when the power of information technology has increased enormously, with the whole country—nay the whole world—wired so […]
I’ve been playing around with Asterisk, the free PBX. And I’ve found that IP phones go for close to 10cents on the dollar on eBay/Craigslist. Hence, I picked up some Polycom IP500s and the Nortel 1535 video phone. I wanted the Nortel because of the inexpensive video phone part. There’s also a Video Supervision mode, […]
I recorded The Sorcerer sitzprobe for Lyric. This is so that we could have a recording for next time we do a Sorcerer promo where we own any rights. Since “pro”-audio is great fun, I had picked up a few new microphones to play with. A pair of M-Audio Pulsar II mics (used in X-Y […]
iTunes suckage with error 3259 was Windows’ fault
Published June 11th, 2011 in Computer nitpicks. 1 CommentI was getting weird “unknown error occurred (-3259)” from iTunes for the Freakonomics podcast. There are many web solutions to this. Unfortunately, mine was not among them. It turns out that my Windows 7 Pro 64 had set the MTU size to 1504 bytes. Why, I do not know. Solution was to run a command […]
I accidentally volunteered to make a 30 second audio promo for Lyric Theatre‘s production of ‘Carousel’. Oops. So I dragged out my E-Mu Darwin 8-channel digital recorder (and a spare external 4GB SCSI drive) along with anything that looked like a microphone cable, connector, or something vaguely audio related and threw them in the car. When […]
The blog has been a bit quiet, because Sara and I have two crazy kids. Ashton, at 20 months, loves himself. Brennan, now 3 months, when not sleeping, drinking, and many other less pleasant -ings, does this.
Finally after 445 days, with the addition of two new bookcases… … we are unpacked!