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Lunch + Plumbing

July 19, 2006


Pad Namprik Pow
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There’s my tasty lunch, an order of Pad Namprik Pow from Bangkok Cuisine Express in Clinton Township, MI. Unfortunately its consumption was interrupted by the guys from Roncelli & Sons Plumbing coming by to fix the leak in my basement. Hopefully that’ll be all set… The connector which was used by the plumbers can be seen here. I’m not sure what I think of it, but I can say that it’s not leaking… for now. I’ll keep an eye on it for a few days.

Thus far this has been a nicely productive day… Hopefully it’ll continue. Perhaps I’ll go work on the synth some more now and try to get the LCD displaying exactly as I desire.

Oh, I also bought red chili papads, and some random other ones. And some desserty things. Hopefully they will all be good.

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Carrier 24ACA324A300

July 19, 2006


Carrier 24ACA324A300 outside my bedroom window.
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I have air conditioning again! And the installers seem to have done a pretty good job. Everything looks nice and orderly, and the price seemed pretty reasonable. Also, it’s amazingly quiet. Metered from 2′ from the front panel, about 1′ above the unit I was seeing 72dB on the meter.

It’s also becoming much cooler in my house. Yay!

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MIDIbox SID-NUXX

July 18, 2006


It works. Makes noises, menus work, etc.

It works. All of it. Everything on the board. Except for one little snag (one part label is printed backwards) the whole thing works as designed.

The input buttons, the LCD, the MIDI LEDs, the memory, all of it.

The voltage regulators run a bit hot (~150ºF when the LCD is connected) when using the 12V SID. Using a 9V one instead should make things a bit better. I don’t like this, but there’s really no easy solution short of using an external switching power supply and redesigning the board. Which I’m not going to do. It’s well within tolerances, though.

I think that next I’ll build a board to handle the 9V SIDs, then I’ll have two complete boards for myself. Then I’ll build either one or two enclosures. I’m also tempted to shove one into someplace interesting… Like a MIDI keyboard. :D

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MIDIbox SID-NUXX v1.0 S1

July 17, 2006


MIDIbox SID-NUXX Mainboard v1.0 S1 PCB – Top
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Well, they are here. This means that tonight I’ll be assembling the first of the MIDIbox SID-NUXX Mainboard PCBs. Hopefully they will work. :D

For now I’m going to get some cheese bread from Hungry Howie’s for dinner. I know it’s not healthy, but it’s cheap and easily obtained.

Oh, I need to keep sticking with cheap because I just committed to spending $2525 to have the central air conditioner in my house replaced. This new one should be more efficient and it’ll actually work.

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Hot.

July 15, 2006


A 12V PC case fan hooked to a benchtop power supply and blowing on my face. Yes, it’s hot here today.
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Ah. That keeps me a little cooler while down in the basement…

When I was little I had a bunch of 120VAC chassis fans salvaged from various bits of AT&T telecom equipment. I used to hang them in various places around my bedroom in order to make it cooler. Up in doorframes to move cooler air into my room, etc.

Also, yesterday after visiting Erma’s with Danielle I was forced to launder some money. At least it’s better now.

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Alaska Journal (2003)

July 15, 2006

Back in 2003 I went on a cruise in Alaska. Well, while I was there I wrote a journal of whatever happened to be going through my head. Since moving to the new site format I’ve neglected to post it. Until today.

Here it is, if you’d like to see it… I may still add some more photos, but for now I’m happy with it:

Alaska Journal (2003)

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MediaWiki & AdSense

July 14, 2006

I know I should be in bed, but I just made a change to my MediaWiki install which is very important. See, it’s my understanding that Google doesn’t like it very much if you are displaying AdSense ads on non-content pages.

Since MediaWiki has lots of these which I regularly use, I don’t want to upset Google by inadvertently serving myself a bunch of ads which are on these non-content pages.

The solution? Easy. Just don’t show ads on pages for users who are logged in. Since I’m using MediaWiki as a CMS, I’m the only person who will ever be logged in. So, to solve my problem, I wrapped the includes for the ad files in this:

<?php if($this->data['loggedin']!=1) { ?>
...
<?php } ?>

I know this is really basic, but I imagine others may want to know about it, so I’m documenting it here.

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Recipes – nuxx.net

July 13, 2006

Ah. I finally moved a big part of my old website over: The Recipes

All the recipes I had posted before have been republished under the Recipes section of the new site. These recipes include:

Appetizers
&middot Katester’s Crack Dip
&middot Hummus

Breads
&middot Rosemary Sea Salt Bread
&middot White Bread (Bread Maker)

Beers
&middot California Style Imperial Pale Ale
&middot Golden Ale

Beverages
&middot Honey Lemon Ginger Tea

Entrees
&middot Plain Old Omelet
&middot Roasted Corn on the Cob
&middot Veggie Chili #1

Baked Goods
&middot Chocolate, Toasted Hazelnut, and Almond Biscotti
&middot Dried Cherry and Almond Biscotti
&middot Everything But The Kitchen Sink Cookies
&middot Ginger and Spice Cookies
&middot The Chewy (Chocolate Chip Cookies)
&middot Pumpkin Cheese Coffee Cake
&middot Traditional Chocolate Chip Cookies
&middot Triple The Ginger Cookies

Other
&middot Emeril’s Essence Creole Seasoning
&middot Herb Dipping Oil
&middot Honey Cinnamon Butter

Now I’m working on moving the journal I wrote while on my 2003 trip to Alaska into MediaWiki. It will probably take another 20 minutes at most, if I could just get up the will to do it.

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Ahh…

July 12, 2006

Yay. All websites which I am going to continue to host and for whom the owners have contacted me have been moved to the new server.

Additionally, plans are in place to move all email over.

If things go as I’m hoping they will, I’ll have the server powered down this weekend. It’s too bad that I’m going to be wasting half a month of hosting fees with Waveform, but such is life, I guess.

I guess it’ll be back to my more ‘normal’ projects soon. :D

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