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July 24, 2004
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Ahh, so while I was making tonight’s dinner, I consumed the aforementioned pretzel bread and dill havarti snack. But, that doesn’t make up my food pr0n wanking for tonight.
Cookies!
July 17, 2004
[This is cross-posted from
Would you like to play a game?
>y
Which game?
What is the name of player one?
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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.
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June 30, 2004
Yeah. So I get back to work and as
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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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June 22, 2004
Well, it seems that it’s time for liquid-related repairs. My car is currently over at Belle Tire at 23 Mile and VanDyke having it’s water pump replaced. See, this morning I went to go to lunch, and there was a good sized pool of DexCool beneath my car. I checked the coolant levels, but everything seemed all right, maybe a tad low. Went to lunch, came back, parked in a different spot. While driving, the temperature never got above normal, and there was no low coolant lamp lit.
After work, again, no apparent coolant leak. That’s good, so I headed home-ish, with a stop to get my oil changed and tires rotated. A few minutes after sitting down to read, the service guy told me there was coolant steadily flowing from the water pump.
Well, that was it. I guess the leak was my car… So, I called my parents and was able to procure a ride home from the shop. I’m also in the process of making arrangements to get over to the shop at noonish tomorrow, when the work is scheduled to be completed.
So, a bit of cash later, and I’ll have rotated tires, a new water pump, new coolant (for the second time within the supposed life of DexCool), and fresh synthetic oil. Should be about… Oh… $300 or so, when all is said and done.
Now it’s off to disassemble the outside faucet and retrieve the washer, so that I can pick up a new one tomorrow. Yay!
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June 20, 2004
So, Friday morning, or was it Thursday night, I received a bunch of information (two massive pieces of email, in fact) from Scott at PAiA about troubleshooting a FatMan. After running down voltages and checking to be sure I didn’t have any cold solder points, I decided to swap EPROMs with another FatMan I have here. (It’s a friends and I’m looking into fixing it up.) I had tried swapping the microprocessor earlier, because I had suspected that to be a problem, but it wasn’t. This time, on suggestion from Scott at PAiA, I did, and poof, the problem was gone. So it looks like either I have a blank, or at least misburned, EPROM.
I just sent off some email to PAiA asking for another EPROM. Hopefully this one will work fine… Thus far I’m finding them to have great customer support and nice kits that are easy to assemble, but a bit of a problem packing the orders. Missing parts, unburned EPROMs, etc. They seem good about replacing bits as needed, but it still shouldn’t happen in the first place.
So, as soon as I get the new EPROM, I can get the thing tuned up and ready for use. Whee!