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Making, baking, and (un-)breaking things in Southeast Michigan.

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For Sale!

July 27, 2004

Hey everybody… I finally got some things listed on eBay today, so I thought I’d post the links here:

· VNV Nation – Advance And Follow v2 2 – Sealed New
&middot PAiA FatMan Analog Synthesizer – New – Assembled – MIDI

Oh, and yes, that’s the synth I was building a few months ago. It works great and all, but with all musical gear I acquire, I just can’t use it.

Oh, I’ve also got a Xircom PCMCIA 10/100 network card available, if anyone can use it. I’ve got no use for it, so if you’ve got a use for it, let me know.

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Afie!

July 25, 2004


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Yep, that’s Afie, my parents dog. I’m watching after her for the weekend while my parents are up north visiting my grandparents.

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July 17, 2004


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Wow, we just got nailed with an absolutely amazing storm. I managed to get some pictures as the pea-sized hail was falling. At one point there was a crack of lightning which made me jump and left my ears ringing. Wow.

Photos Here.

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June 30, 2004

Yeah. So I get back to work and as pull up to my car, the rear view mirror is hanging by the wire. Suck. I guess it let go… Well, a quick trip to Murray’s on the way home provided a $4 mirror adhesive kit, and a bit of time got the mirror rehung. Sucks, but another one of those need-to-do-it things. Bah.

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June 30, 2004

Well, I just emailed the Shelby Township Historical Committee to offer them some free webhosting. Currently they have their site hosted at Tripod, with the rather unprofessional URL http://shelbyhistory.tripod.com. The photos for the site are also hosted at an ImageStation URL which requires you to log in. Interestingly, the login they provide for you has rights to add/change/delete photos. Not good.

I just offered them some free hosting, a copy of Gallery, email, etc. You know, the normal.

I sort of hope they take me up on it, as it’d be neat to host something on that scale.

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June 29, 2004

Does anyone who reads this have any experience with Jabber? I’m trying to get a third party client (for use on my home machine) to connect with the corporate servers here, and it’s just. not. working.

So, please? Anyone who can throw some ideas my way?

Thanks!

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June 24, 2004


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Well, it’s finally done. I got the PAiA FatMan finished. yay! It turns out that the problems with it were related to a bad EPROM, the bit that holds the program for the MIDI to CV conversion. I got a replacement chip, and everything was (eventually) good. There were only a few additional bumps, namely the replacement chip having it’s pins bent as hell. Fortunately it made it here, as the package it was in hadn’t been sealed. But, it’s here, assembled, and all is good. Take a look at just over a page of wonderful construction pictures here.

Or, there’s a few treats for you to listen to. Namely…

· PAiA FatMan Filter Jam (Just some random filter masturbation…)
· Eric playing the Super Mario Brothers 2 Theme Song

So, yeah. It’s done. I’m all happy about it and stuff. Now, as long as it gets good use and happy tunes are made with it, well, woo!

Also, it makes a surprising variety of sounds. You can tune it all different, have the two oscillators offset by all sorts of nifty amounts, all sorts of neat wacky filter goodness, etc.

Now, time for Luna! Woo!

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June 23, 2004

Well, the FatMan works. I’m waiting on the replacement eprom, but in the mean time I decided to tune it up anyway. My friend Eric brought by his proper, hardware chromatic tuner so I wasn’t tuning the thing to another synth. After getting we got it all tuned, he played this:

Super Mario Brother 2 Theme Song on a PAiA FatMan

hehe…

I’ve already had it sounding all Boards of Canada-ish. This thing rocks.

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