peak traffic has my download speed slower than my upload speed... O.o

couples echo-location fun: not YOU, dog...

slept from 4pm-9pm; let's call it a "nap"...

it's midnight and I am spent like a pumpkin...

fnck circular breathing, I'm getting a sustain pedal for this didgeridoo!

xmas earworms!!! ghak!!!

today is a new day...

Planetside, Tribes or Firefall; what shall I do? Sure do hope that PLATFORM market is big enough to sustain Dust 514...

it's not even 9pm, why am I so tired?!? O.o

whenever I walk on the balls of my feet, I feel like I should be wearing horns and furry leg warmers... O.o

low on blood sugar, high on accomplishment! waaahooooooooo!!!

Excision all day long on this end, folx!

reviewing double-entry bookkeeping, online accounting and the GAAP; labAccounting still covers the correct data.

best girlfriend evar. EVAR. now settling in for a week of impatient UPS hating...

who's making what noise now?!? oh, yeah, I just started the dish washer... O.o

decided I wanted to stop looking as old as I feel, so I shaved my beard off...

considering the wisdom of posting a sign on the door saying "turn down my bass - buy me an eq"...

Tanuki has allergies and is starting to have sneezing jags... proof who her daddy is, I guess... O.o

that persistent scratching noise translates roughly as "we-messed-up-our-water-please-fix-it-daddy"...

flying chankla vs doberman, pt.2: whooooose couch?!?

I've been up since around 5am. Just had a small latte. Look out world. O.o

love this weather: overcast but not too chilly. another beautiful day for a telecommute!

someday i will read the directions on food before cooking it and actually make something edible... O.o

can't sleep; feasels are rowdy, dog won't pee, and I have the odd urge to read about jQuery...

still on the fence about me feelings regarding superheros that can walk away from cratering into something...

briefly contemplating the wisdom of walking down to the store in my bathrobe and sandals...

time for some breakfast! who's with me for some chilequiles?!?

if the sky was really falling, there would be an error message...

haven't been to the movies in a while; thinking about taking Claire to see Skyfall tonight...

O.o

time for a break. Shazbot! O.o

quoted St.Ego: Know thyself, and then own that shit...

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quoted Chad: Ellipsis is my shiny.

defined effulgent on Ivory-Tower: radiant splendor. brilliance. to shine forth.

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pollen surf is up, Austinites, guard thy nose from all the dreaded floral ejaculum! O.o

...and now back to our regularly scheduled programming... er, scripting... code. stuff. um, writing... of the symbols... thing...

finally Claire found a computer game that she enjoys playing: Tropico 4. Can't tell ya how happy it makes me!

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don't bother trying to drive in Austin today; F1 traffic has every highway gridlocked!

default quantizing to whole notes results in "the machine is running slow today for some reason" mode...

just now finally worked out how to quantize my sample triggers on the Zoom R8! Sixteenth notes FTW!!!

how to invoke a client call: Tribes or espresso, what shall I do? O.o

who's ready for breakfast?! O.o

playing Tribes makes my phone right, guaranteed.

every year for Veterans Day I ask for the same thing: banks to stay open...

going to the bathroom while wearing a bathrobe always makes me feel halfway between a superhero and a flasher...

everybody in my complex is cooking dinner and it's making me HUNGRY smelling it all in the courtyard!!!

is that? can it be? the sound of another win for POTUS? prepare for the republican outrage and perpetual demand for recounts...

you can only register to vote by MAILING it in? Let me know when I can vote online and I'm there...

entertaining myself listening to the downstairs neighbors arguing in some eastern european language...

milking Zombie Pig for some extra quarters to put all the wet towels through the laundry... stat... O.o

Time-Warner has us back online at dialup speed until Thursday, but my older laptop just BSOD'd... FML.

IT IS SUNDAY NOW; WHERE IS THAT DAMNED TIME-WARNER GUY?!?

hiccups wtf!?!

Time-Warner needs a brick through the front window of their nearest office...

music equipment all set up finally!

broadband down since last night, but got back online by tethering my Droid... *w00t*

TWC basic internet: it automates the dialing for your 2400 baud connection!

waiting on my Claire-bear to get home from work so we can take a nice nap together!

still in a post-move fugue of pain and exhaustion...

broadband is significantly handicapped in the new unit; will have to upgrade soon to avoid dialup speeds...

it's lunch time... and time for a walk, if I want to eat... O.o

think reading isn't a workout? try moving a few hundred books...

all moved out of two apartments; hurting all over; need a masseuse...

okay, NOW we have a key! Commence migration!

it doesn't matter how much you plan in advance if your plans rely on other people...

wondering if the priests of St.Francis are furries...

no, Claire, that's not actually the dog snoring; it's the guitar from Sisters of Mercy... O.o

realizing that not every computer in the house has my Facebook account signed in...

it would be a lot easier to want an OP-1 if it came in colors other than white...

reading more about music than webdev lately; I'm starting to read "aggregator" as "arpeggiator"...

inspired by The Walking Dead. New millennium prenuptual agreements will read: in the case of an apocalypse, all bets are off.

finally just realized that major and minor key can be transitioned between mid-song to control emotional buildup!

imagining 3 midi-sync'd Kaossilator Pro's, each in a different key, so that they produce chords...

no fruit juice left, so going with a kaluha smoothie!

military time fail; it's 8pm, not 10pm right now... doh!

drastically improve your Pandora station: go back after each commercial and thumbs-down the song that played before it!

Johnny Depp is Tonto? ROFLMAO!!!

Turkey shoots back? Of course it did; Thanksgiving is still over a month away!

silent disco = aux out -> my phone -> [app?] -> [same app, but on your phone] no app?

Murphy restored the internet just as we started dialing Time-Warner. Win.

THE INTERNET IS DOWN!!! QQ

Pandora would like you to enjoy some Phish on your "dubstep" station and "oh look!" it's IMMEDIATELY followed by an ad...

performing my ministerial duties for the homeless... and preaching the gospel of bridge trolls...

want to get in touch with me? I may not get to the phone, but a Facebook message sets off my phone and both laptops...

Mitt is concerned about the direction of the country over the past four years; he thinks things were just fine before that...

sorry, Mitt, not everybody is a child of your god; congratulations on deciding to run exclusively on the bible ticket...

I need midol today...

noticing that sweeps on the Lydian scale sound like what is used for the song Noel...

contemplating a trip to Quacks for ham and cheese morning croissants...

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defined portent on Ivory-Tower: something that foreshadows a coming event : omen, sign. prophetic indication or significance.

going to start saying "portentially" instead of "potentially"...

working my way through a large hammerhead and feeling the capacity to be humane return slowly...

I can haz awake now... O.o

yes, it's Monday. qq

who's with me for a Saturday morning trip to Quacks for their famous turkey croissants?!?

Spotify knows which song you will dislike just enough to hit "skip" but YouTube, YOUTUBE, can't provide a better search? wth?

Pandora will deliberately serve you a song you won't like followed by an ad because they know you are paying attention when you click...

Tribes beta, Firefall beta, Dust 514 beta (had I a PS3) and now Mech Warrior Online beta... but I gotta work tonight. QQ

trying to establish whether being "beer snob" and "coffee snob" are mutually exclusive... Brett?

if you live in an upstairs apartment unit with uncarpeted floors, you don't need to move furniture at night, m'kay?

anything in Leviticus about screaming children or barking dogs?

worked so much this week that I don't know what to do with myself now that it's all done... like, actually done! O.o

Super 8 Mile: you only get ONE shot, do NOT miss your chance to BLOW UP THE ALIEN!!! O.o

I have THE BEST girlfriend. :-)

wondering how long my cell phone battery has been dead; waiting for it to recharge...

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quoted Chad c/o Claire: Those are all just dresses; I'm looking for some hoodrat shit!

quoted Claire Green: It's an animal shelter, not "pet rehab"...

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quoted Amelia: you can get your exercise bar hopping.

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was the end of the most recent episode of Hell on Wheels muted for anyone else? O.o

note to self: no more pool-side apartment units; nothing but screaming children every day punctuated by drunk holidays...

biding my time while I let the military work on next gen airship tech for me to use in another couple years...

passing out in the late afternoon and waking up at 9:30pm really throws off your schedule...

wondering if the US Navy is still so ultra retarded as to issue boondockers during boot camp. Most pointless footwear evar!

as many audio cables as I have, I still don't think I hold a candle to anyone setting up automated lighting...

learning to sell products in Eve at market value instead of just accepting the default station offer prices...

"I AM": the original third-person self reference. It's not a recent trend, apparently...

...and now I have to wait with the rest of the world for the next episode of Breaking Bad...

what is dead can never truly die... AND NOW FOR A FULL VOLUME COMMERCIAL!!!... then back to your streaming movie...

Tribes/Ascend: balanced teams by level means you can kick ass the entire match and end with a stalemate!

new nick: Chad Space-Kraeft

leaf blower guy needs an accident...

Winston would like everyone to know that he is ready to come out of the cage for a while...

okay, I give up: how do you add video tracers like in a golf instructional film where the club leaves trails?

working out details to use the Kaossilator Pro as an external controller for Masssive, THEN route back into the KP3...

I don't want to be a cult leader, just the spiritual patriarch of an intentional community!

still have a few samples that are too quiet to use... time to re-record!

trying out some new pseudo-profanity: "CHEESE IS CRISPY!" O.o

silacatessan: a gourmet chipware kiosk.

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dreamed of flying! score!

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getting around the Kaossilator Pro's monophonic limitation by assigning 3 notes to the KP3 triggers and resampling...

reviewing music key signatures and still trying to make sense of them...

export of planetary materials in Eve is too highly taxed to be profitable without posting sales at market price or higher...

paper thin ceilings and an upstairs neighbor that insists on hanging out in the bedroom, talking at volume have postponed sleep.

I just discovered that all three 5 minute resampling sessions recorded blank... guess they were practice... *sigh*

re-recording audio loops at higher volume; it's easier to lower it later than it is to increase on the ones I did already...

[3am] dear obnoxiously loud upstairs neighbor: Claire won't let me blast you out of bed with dubstep. You get off lucky.

started with a dream of sugar cookies and chocolate pudding for dinner... wound up with bavarian cream filled cupcakes!

lunch break! time to check for new episodes of shows and raid the fridge of leftovers!

converting WAV files from the Kaossilator to the Zoom R8 is a PITA...

will have to pre-record any loops since audio from the video will by coming through at the same time...

a 250 meg video limit?!? I'll be lucky to push 5mb... recording in higher quality lagged audio, tho.

determining which KP3 fx to use on my video: BPF+echo for most, grain shift unimportant parts, vocode the soapboxing...

video editing is a PITA... especially when it's video of yourself... *sigh*

University of Phoenix has it's own TED Talks style lecture series... available exclusively to student? Why share, right? O.o

listening to the thunder and thinking of dad; hope he and mom have a great time in New Orleans!

I've become largely disenfranchised with taro in anything but bubble tea...

nothing quite so homicide inducing as gas powered yard maintenance equipment in the morning...

my folx are in New Orleans right now... probably at Cafe du Monde enjoying chicory and beignets... *jealous*

apparently, both Japan and Australia offer sword licenses that let you carry an edged one in public... O.o

wish I knew what happened to my nice aluminum yoyo; haven't seen it in a while...

adding incense to the grocery list...

why, no, this gas mask is NOT for cosplay... it's because Zelda is a damned gas factory.

power washing AGAIN?!? am SOOO sick of yard maintenance machines running all friggin day...

finally managed to bust out a short jam that I was happy with...

completely wiped out from that walk; laying down to rest before I open my package...

starting my walk to the post office to pick up my birthday present from Claire-bear before the day gets too hot...

surely there is some type of restriction against power washing the sidewalk or driveway... ugh...

how long does it take for packages to arrive from Indonesia? It's been in transit for 6 days since it left...

if there was nothing for you to do and you didn't get anything done, do you feel oddly productive? accomplished, even? O.o

didn't miss anything by sleeping in today, apparently...

chatting up mom about the daily news...

bootleg trailers for Prisoners of the Sun have me excited for something that won't come out until next year... *sigh*

watching the meteor shower with my Claire-bear!

Retrievers are the way to go for solo mining in Eve!

I think that this is the last time there will be enough of this shirt left to wear...

ZOMG! dog fart! 'mergency incense, stat!!!

Firefall patch is out!

WES FIXED THE INTERNET!

need to find a way to power the modem off the excess heat from the Wii, instead of them trying to synergisticly fry each other.

after vacuuming a quarter inch layer of dust from the A/C filter, I would like to remind everyone to replace theirs periodically.

not as fast as the 3G USB stick that I had, but my Droid got me back online...

re-reading the manual for Massive... again... so many features that I can only learn a few at a time!

LATTE TIME!!!

can't seem to grab the flag today while playing Tribes, even in Pathfinder armor with Reach... time for a walk...

going through my Amazon cart and painfully clicking "save for later" until I can afford to check out...

dear Amazon, I do not own a Kindle and I have no use for the "Kindle version" of... well, ANYTHING!

telecommuting means being able to do your laundry while you work... not that it MOTIVATES you to do so, but...

morning trips to pick up whole bean dark Sumatra... THAT'S <3!!!

quoted Jenn O'Syde: In. My. Mouth. All the tentacles.

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all writers drink? good thing I only have to write a little bit...

catching samples from the Nausicca theme song in GRiZ's "Busta"...

my darkfield mouse works better on glass than on formica... which it runs very jagged on, actually.

listening to the wood flooring being torn up in the unit above...

finally identified the source of that restless feeling.. apparently I should eat something today, huh?

can't record video without the neighbor dog's barking getting recorded too... *sigh*

most epic birthday cake evar!!!

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SWTOR registration servers being down is the holistic heads-up not to bother trying to play...

they've gone and nerfed my Brute's fractal grenades! Noooooooooo!!!!

Tribes:Ascend patch is out! Downloading now...

making early morning hammerheads to kick the day off right...

going to try out Microsoft Movie Maker instead of getting Camtasia, and try it out for use in making my KickStarter video...

Prometheus is no longer available at the Alamo Drafthouse, and it won't be on DVD until September...

got my email back but none of the prioritization flags that were assigned... *sigh*

IMAP sounded like a great idea before I had to migrate to a new server... FML...

watching Faust have a Walinski in the ferret tunnels...

chanting teh native american indian version of Old MacDonald Had A Farm... mostly toning a lot of "Eeeyyyiii...yyyooooooo!!!"

Falling Skies: we humans rebel. if you invade us, we rebel against you. without you, we will rebel against ourselves...

the new season of Leverage has started! <3

my Claire magically conjured back the internet for me before going to work! <3!!!

the internet won't reconnect after switching back over from cable and my cellular broadband dongle won't turn on anymore; add a sick dog and all day rain, and you have a crappy day...

the Kaossilator Pro would work better in a live setup if samples would simply continue to track tempo when muted...

thankfully, Wes is on his way to save Zelda from the thunder...

stuck wondering if the audio-chain failure from my gear to my phone is due to the crappy unshielded 3.5mm cable...

learning Massive: use a Performer to modulate parallel Filters in order to produce two different looped percussion beats...

liking Aaron Sorkin has become part of the "Door Questions".

the first five minutes of Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom" proves once again why he is one of the industries best writers.

SWTOR may be free to play now, but their registration cue is backed up around the block...

SWTOR is free now? Beginning 10gig download...

turning my phone off and taking a bath seems like the only way I'll ever be able to make people call me back...

finally got Paypal to dig up my request to remove the rolling reserve and continue processing it after several months...

do government facilities with multiple security checkpoints let you clock in before going through them?

I'm speaking to 78757 here: GET OFFLINE AND GO TO BED; I'M TRYING TO STREAM MOVIES, AND YOU ARE HOGGING ALL THE BANDWIDTH!

the walking dead just arrived, slumped over a bicycle... apparently, it needed some cardio punishment after a rowdy night out...

watching Zelda run in her sleep... it's trippy...

okay, let me ask you guys: should I go with an MPC or break down and just get a Maschine despite my desire to remain OTB?

you will not be running an outdoor music event from portable solar power any time soon...

too hot outside to nurse a hookah...

I am a weather witch. Austin wind prediction: gusty, gusty, gusty... dead. Go fly a kite in some other city, I guess...

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I would rather be celebrating my independence from yard maintenance; it's a holiday! Take your leafblower and GTFO!

feel like I am the only one who knows "SIDHE" is a custom license plate...

quoted Claire Green: How big is a cubit? Two by two...

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today's unwelcome noise is brought to you by water sprinklers aimed at rain gutters... *sigh*

pausing True Blood until the dog is done drinking water loudly...

tweaking my IFTTT.com recipes to be more specific and adding a few new ones...

I never should have replaced my intestines with that giraffe esophagus...

huge fire approaching Colorado Springs, so cops closed Garden of the Gods and Manitou Springs and I can't show them to Claire...

on the road back to Austin...

people slept last night in hammocks while temperature was in the 40's... I was cold underneath three blankets in a tent.

Sonic Bloom Festival, midnight: lotta wattage in these woods! Going to be one incredible weekend with my Claire!

this drive ends with setting up a huge tent for the first time on no sleep; please make it painless! sure are a lot of dispensaries in Colorado Springs! *yawn*

about to reach Happy, Texas, on the way to Colorado!

I don't want trip search for am HEB by zip code, I want to search by guava!

about to decompress with some Tribes:Ascend!

Winston got to join Faust for a timeout in teh bathtub; now he thinks he is Charlton Heston, says they're "breakin' out"...

Faust has officially been grounded to the bathtub!!!

when the webpage asks for Hebrew text, it doesn't mean Hebrew words in english text, it wants the funny squiggles, man...

Austin exists on top of a limestone aquifer and it's full of weird people? Now, I'm not saying "aliens", but...

tinitus at the same frequency of a fly's wings is a serious pita!

watching YT videos of sand storms and pretending I was in Egypt on a camel... O.o

Pyramid documentaries are the new late nite infomercial. O.o

where is all night pho? Dreaming about more pho is keeping me awake tonight... will have to make do with microwave noodles...

I miss Hot Boiled and their amazing crawfish pho...QQ

save thousands of dollars by avoiding ER and spending the entire week sick as a goat on the couch!

I will make this computer cry if it's the last thing I do...

back among the living after a week of gastritis upset...

long online forms? new motto: save early, save often...

new nVidia drivers available now, and the new Firefall patch tells you it wants them!

404K: retirement not found.

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when would yard maintenance be appropriate? Try 100 years after the fall of civilization, okay?!?

top it all off with some yard maintenance noise! My day is officially shot to shit...

seeing what all I can break by storming around screaming at flies and desperately attempting to commit insecticide...

blowing off the rest of the week to get hammered and stay that way, damnit...

flat broke, no car, and my ping is 400+...

listening to Zelda slurp water to the beat...

Purple Drank: because Ambien requires a prescription...

I can almost count the network packets coming in one by one...

Time-Warner's internet has been out for days and Verizon's bandwidth is not conducive to heavy usage; Monday peak traffic sux...

enjoying a caramel cappuccino hookah and milk fill with my sweetheart! Life in Austin is good...

whomever coined the phrase "a walk in the park" was obviously walking in a very small park; I'm kinda exhausted...

time to fly kites at Pillow Park!

watching Genesis Climber Mospaeda and remembering better animation...

Time-Warner: down again. Surprise!

teh int0rw3bs are back again! hurray!

expressing my impotent rage at Time-Warners impotent data network...

"Time Warner": translated from the original Greek for "inadequate bandwidth"...

not used to hearing "How I Feel" unless it's Beardyman...

the pollen count is high today in Austin, take precautions, folx!

enjoying a guava hookah in the courtyard at Claires...

sugar crash...

video not available in your country? I'm in the United States, YouTube; where do I have to be to watch this video?!?

"Drive": the relationship didn't need to be in this movie...

got tricked into reading snippets from the Urantia Book again... wth?

wondering how many pictures and sculptures of "aliens" were really just created by crappy artists...

the bass thumping will continue until children cease to whine...

if your commercial interrupts my video, your company deserves to go under.

what is the countdown until the next IRL zombie apocalypse news story? O.o

YouTube: when I click "pause", guess what I want you to do! I WANT YOU TO PAUSE, DAMMIT, NOT WAIT 30 SECONDS AND START PLAYING!!!

pitch shifting commercials up into the chipmunk range makes them MUCH more bearable to listen to!

finishing my second beer and considering a catheter...

what do granite, basalt and limestone all have in common? O.o

just to humor customer service, I reproduced the exact same error in IE, since Chrome "isn't supported"...

telling customer service you want to escalate the issue is like telling a cop that you want your lawyer...

deciding whether or not to make a shofar the next bizarre musical instrument that I add to my collection...

early morning chats with Steve are always refreshing because he is always so excited, it's contagious!

after a long day of work, walking the dog to the park with Claire and Wes can be sooo relaxing...

trying to figure out how to get a 15-count arpeggiation out of a synth into a standard 16-count sampler...

just read that ferrets don't kill by snapping the spine but by cutting the brain stem where it goes into the skull!

tha Cowboy Bebop mini-marathon continues!

committing systematic insectide and gloating over a pile of corpses...

prepping to drive to San Antonio for Katie's birthday...

just now getting my ear trained enough to distinguish notes an octave apart...

accidentally collapsing waveforms is what I do best, apparently...

Haywire really is by Steven Soderbergh! Dontcha hate when you try lying and accidentally tell the truth without knowing it?

forced to explain myself to tech support monosyllabically...

finally got my Firefall beta key access, downloading the game at last!

drums have their own proprietary method of musical notation?!? wth? damned rabbit holes...

FAIL: apparently Dell's website only functions correctly in IE... wth?

done spanking everyone at Settlers of Catan.

successfully remembering my Facebook password on the 4th try...

not only did Medal of Honor fail to install, it failed twice uninstalling and took all of last night for the third round charmer.

got that "skin is going to be peeling like crazy by the end of the week" feeling...

turning on Language Immersion for Chrome with German...

catching up with the times by setting up my new Alienware laptop!

Tribes:Ascend - now I get bonuses and accolades for defenses that I upgrade! Finally! w00t! Shazbot time!

a weed eater just started up right outside the door; now I know why I bothered to stay up: I wouldn't've gotten sleep anyway...

happy to finally have my jaw slide back into place after getting it smacked outa whack while wake-tubing...

just conceived the idea of using the KP3's Pad Motion feature to sequence the Kaossilator via midi, since the KP3 doesn't use scale...

time for a mad rush to Yogurtland before it closes! They're open until 10pm, according to their website!

closing Facebook before I start looking for an obligatory picture of something only people my age would recognize...

anyone know where/how I can get a bigger line of credit on my karma? O.o

sunburned enough that, even colorblind, I can tell I got too much, cuz it HURTS!

YouTube+Chrome did not appreciate my attempt to upload a 700meg home video of a walk in the park...

watching technology fail in cascading relays of crashed software and hardware, driving me to go experience Cinco de Mayo and bbq...

going to San Francisco Bakery at 3:30pm on a Saturday can really throw a speedbump into your day...

worn out from hiking River Place Nature Trail with Claire-bear and Zelda; media uploads forthcoming...

demonstrating the use of opposable thumbs to the dog in a show of dominance to mark my territory: the bed.

when is Austin going to put a ramp from 35 south into 183 north?

can haz shazbot time.

watchin some Trigun with Wes...

FPS+z is the new black.

if this is your first night on Slashdot, you HAVE to moderate!

Studio Birds: give your performance that "where did all these birds come from?" ambience...

hello, Friday; at last we meet again...

worthless assed Austin wind will ONLY ever blow consistently when you try to light something, NEVER for flying a kite!!!

Austin is the single LEAST validating city to try flying a kite in... EVAR! QQ

I think I'm having a good day but it's too soon to be sure...

arguing with my tuner about whether the note being played is C-sharp or D-flat...

how to celebrate a web development victory? Tribes:Ascend! Shazbot!

don't know if I leveled up or not, but I just got a helluva lot of experience points from killing that last bug!

not registering that it's the weekend for some reason...

just spent ten minutes desperately searching for my phone... while talking on said phone... DOH!

Claire just called Nausicca "the bug-whisperer". ROFL

just now realizing that my samples are not all broken, I just left the LFO turned on downstream...

mixing stereo samples down to mono wav files in Audacity to avoid wasting tracks on the mixer...

I AM THE MIGHTY FLY-KILLER! A DOZEN HAVE FALLEN TO MY WRATH ON THIS DAY! RAWR!!!

stuffing socks in the rain gutter to keep condensation from dripping 20' onto metal all night...

filming for Enders Game finally began in February of this year!

going to make a song titled "This Is My First Video"...

connecting my laptop microphone jack directly to my laptop headphone jack to trick Audacity into recording YouTube...

watching True Romance with my Claire-bear. Unfortunately, every good quote in this movie has background music...

35 south is closed for cop traffic, stay away from teh gridlock. Good time to try speeding anywhere else in town, tho!

Mad Men: did Don actually kill her or not?!?

Music and Clarke's 3rd Law: "The diatonic harmonization of any major scale results in three major triads." wth? O.o

finally reclaimed my car after J&J Towing yoinked it...

my car got towed. qq

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quoted Claire Green: Jesus has risen and the stores are closed...

woke up at 9pm, proly crash before 9am. What's a "sleep schedule"? O.o

finally got my phone to charge...

waking up at 9pm on a Saturday just feels weird...

arguing the effects of strong violence on the appetite and whether or not to eat while watching the Hunger Games...

anyone know where I can get a copy of Macross Zero or Macross Frontier without having to spend $180 each?!?

imagine if DARPA was secretly being run by an A.I.

I'm still curious what the old Clinton presidential scandal was actually being used to cover up...

I still get confused when I hear about fracking and don't see any other BSG references in the article...

four ferret baths and 80 little nails later, we have clean ferrets! hats off to Claire!

auditing the synth parts available on the Kaossilator Pro...

stopped my set just in time to hear someone say "hardcore!" during the silence that followed...

emergency spinfuser practice session!

working before noon simply does not agree with my constitution...

there will be traffic and congestion, regardless of medium...

gridlock tragic in the middle of nowhere on 35 northbound around exit 205...

Verizon mobile bandwidth sucks gaping anus.

Time-Warner: now responsible for an increase in book reading habits among its customers due to the shoddy bandwidth provided...

mid-way through my second month without any nicotine. Viva las FPS gaming! *pew* *pew*

trying to find someplace decent to order Macross Frontier from, and having a rough time of it...

catching all the epic fight scenes from Karas with my Claire-bear!

publishing recent media from my phone after copying it to my laptop; it actually makes it more convenient, not less...

getting some counter-volume going with Drums of London's "Girls Girls Girls"...

yard maintenance has decided to rob me of my sleep today...

Tribes:Ascend - I would totally drop real cash here... IF they had buffed ANYTHING beyond just the infiltrator...

so Tribes releases all new stuff for the one class I haven't bothered picking up yet: Infiltrator... Just them? Really?!?

keep forgetting to manifest some espresso and starting to suffer the effects of withdrawal...

defined Titanomachy on Ivory-Tower: War of the Titans , was the ten-year series of battles fought in Thessaly between the two camps of deities long before the existence of mankind: the Titans, based on Mount Othrys, and the Olympians, who would come to reign on Mount Olympus. This Titanomachia is also known as the Battle of the Titans, Battle of Gods, or just The Titan War.

defined Theogony on Ivory-Tower: any description of the creation of the gods of any religion.

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Added the definition for Titanomachy to Ivory-Tower: War of the Titans , was the ten-year series of battles fought in Thessaly between the two camps of deities long before the existence of mankind: the Titans, based on Mount Othrys, and the Olympians, who would come to reign on Mount Olympus. This Titanomachia is also known as the Battle of the Titans, Battle of Gods, or just The Titan War.

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Added the definition for Theogony to Ivory-Tower: any description of the creation of the gods of any religion.

just now realizing that muslims aren't really facing Mecca, they are facing the Kaaba, that big black-shrouded cube!!!

midi tempo madness: one clock to rule them all, if only it can find them...

can't get any work done with all of you people using the internet today... qq

watching show times for the Hunger Games getting closed out like a parody of itself for anyone trying to see it...

today's prefix is "Mc-".

moved the RC-50 downstream from the KP3 so that I could capture longer loops...

one. more. cable. Another midi cable, from the RC-50 to the Kaossilator Pro, would really complete this setup...

finally chained a midi cable between the Kaossilator Pro and the Kaoss Pad 3 so that I can get tempo clocks in sync...

defined Bi-la kaifa on Ivory-Tower: An Arabic phase roughly translated as "without asking how." It addresses the theological problem in Islam of how to deal with verses in the Qur'an that refer to God as having human characteristics such as the "Hand of God" or the "Face of God." These verses are problematic because they give God human characteristics, something which is contrary to the Islamic concept of God as being transcendental.

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Added the definition for Bi-la kaifa to Ivory-Tower: An Arabic phase roughly translated as "without asking how." It addresses the theological problem in Islam of how to deal with verses in the Qur'an that refer to God as having human characteristics such as the "Hand of God" or the "Face of God." These verses are problematic because they give God human characteristics, something which is contrary to the Islamic concept of God as being transcendental.

wondering what type of Adhan remix I could make, and if anyone would be upset if I rewrote it...

getting a practice set in for morning entertainment, spending more time in major pentatonic, working at 100bpm...

I feel like this sidewalk that I tread: cracked and dirty...

decompression. from... waiting? Ooh, look, Tribes! O.o

and now it's time for some decompression!

good day for a hot tub; who's got one? O.o

just worked out how to use more than one octave at a time on the Kaossilator...

hello non-resident SXSW attendees, you can find your mandatory allergy meds at any local pharmacy, pls enjoy teh weather! QQ

audio equipment setup checklist: cable nightmare, set levels, get all bpm's sync'd, and set synthesizer scale...

Tribes:Ascend servers just went down... daily scheduled maintenance? Twitter is taking forever too...

what do you call your alternate reality?

discovering that my audio gear was set at two different tempos... 120bpm and 100bpm get out of sync pretty quick...

quoted Claire: Do not covet thy neighbors sour patch kids...

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Posted the following quote by Claire on Ivory-Tower: Do not covet thy neighbors sour patch kids...

experimenting with some kava tea, pomegranate juice and salt over ice for refreshment...

eliminating feedback loops in an endless chain of loop pedals, X/Y pads and other gear connected by a mess of cables...

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Posted the following quote by Claire on Ivory-Tower: It's all about submission poses this morning, isn't it?

quoted Claire: It's all about submission poses this morning, isn't it?

finding my warm center of calmness in a cup of kava tea...

Fraggles may get their vegetables, but is a constant diet of radishes really that healthy?

THE INTERNET IS DOWN! thx Time-Warner...

if I'm not watching Lie To Me, I can't tell if the character is lying or if they are just a bad actor...

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Posted the following quote by Mike Bryant on Ivory-Tower: You and yer danged spontaneity...

quoted Mike Bryant: You and yer danged spontaneity...

easing into my day and debating some kite flying...

feeling high on silence after the neighbor finally showed up to shut her dogs up...

what do you need an audio keyboard for? do you plan on playing chromatic scale for everything? pointless...

deciding that having midi-out on my next laptop might be a good idea after leveling up in Massive...

my girlfriend kicks ass!

inhaling your coffee is a metaphor; that stuff'll choke ya!

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someone fed the dog deviled eggs... I'm gonna pass out...

debating the merits of using a harmonizer...

researching the Amen break for a little music history...

since when did awkward become the new black?!?

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Added the definition for Insha'Allah to Ivory-Tower: an Arabic term to indicate hope for an aforementioned event to occur in the future. The phrase translates into English as "God willing" or "If it is God's will".

defined Insha'Allah on Ivory-Tower: an Arabic term to indicate hope for an aforementioned event to occur in the future. The phrase translates into English as "God willing" or "If it is God's will".

wondering if they make a CPAP for dobermans...

running low on caffeine; looks like an early night...

finally decided on a size for the Pelican case I'll need to haul my music equipment around in; now to budget for it...

reading Slashdot comments of people arguing the merits of a space elevator...

apparently, Wells Fargo still thinks it's a holiday...

the one time I have my credit card handy and I get the first payment system that takes extra time to prompt you for it first...

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Posted the following quote by St.Ego on Ivory-Tower: Phage-erg: the unit of measuring work done by a broken machine.

quoted St.Ego: Phage-erg: the unit of measuring work done by a broken machine.

trying to teach a doberman to relocate it's back end away from me when it has to pass wind...

going back to bed again, hoping for a nap...

reading about hunters in South Carolina shooting down an animal activist operated drone...

nothing says luv quite like a plateful of guava while you are stuck debugging CSS first thing in the morning!

waking up to ask the neighbor if he is planning to actually ride that bike or just use it as an community alarm clock?

about ready to call it a morning...

it's 1am and I just got handed a gourmet smoothie by the coolest girlfriend evar!

wondering how much of dubstep was inspired by the digeridoo...

debating the likelihood of Redbox having the first Twilight movie, since Netflix doesn't have it on instant...

getting ready for Temple...

snowing in Austin! Wonder if it will actually collect on the ground!

leveled up my Kaossilator skillz by overdubbing arpeggiated drum kits instead of using patterns...

a tryptophan bomb went off, took out Claire and Wes, but somehow missed me...

I need (want?) a pad controller. O.o

it's so late that I've started ending sentences in email with semi-colons...

The KAOSSILATOR PRO cannot use SDHC or
SDXC cards. Unquote.

just realized the full value of cue points for when you need to switch back to a track...

Noticify!

with this humidity level and comfortable weather, it feels like spring already...

Smurphy's Law: that which can be smurphy will be smurphy...

according to the IRS, they do not have the capacity to send email; anyone else see this as an inevitable problem?

jackhammering at 9am? JACKHAMMERING?!? KILL THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

defined calque on Ivory-Tower: An expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language.

defined alembic on Ivory-Tower:

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Added the definition for gymbal to Ivory-Tower: a device that permits a body to incline freely in any direction or suspends it so that it will remain level when its support is tipped.

no bandwidth during weekend peak traffic; time to find something else to do for the day...

if the movie features "zany antics", then I have absolutely no interest in ever watching it...

not only does Yelp need to default to "Open Now" but they need an addition setting for "not closing soon..."

could have slept another two hours; coffee just jumped to the top of the priority list... from 2nd place...

enjoying the gentle cascade of thunder across the sky and remember watching lightning storms with dad...

Flightpath is packed today! Am waiting on a better table to open up...

relocating my office to Flightpath for a while...

waking up to a hail storm...

Darkening Skies was the most craptacular sleeper film I've been put to sleep by all year...

no, really, Verizon, you just flat out suck...

apparently, Verizon forgot to provision the rest of south Texas with 3G... asshats...

apparently shopping around for a Kaoss Pad 3 is a waste of time, that I should just bite the bullet and order online...

things got quiet!

discovering that my feasels secret vice is stray dog kibbles...

watching Pitch Black, one of the all time most rewatchable movies you can ignore as background noise...

wondering if they make Beano for dogs...

finally unlocked the Technician/Engineer armor in Tribes:Ascend! w00t!

I have decided to find a cafe that will make me corn bread french toast one day soon...

still recovering from scorching the roof of my mouth at dinner last night...

defined dog robber on Ivory-Tower: Military slang for aides of general officers. The connotation is that a "dog robber" will obtain what ever their superior wants by any means necessary, legal or otherwise.
 

defined sub rosa on Ivory-Tower: The Latin phrase sub rosa means "under the rose" and is used in English to denote secrecy or confidentiality.

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Added the definition for sub rosa to Ivory-Tower: The Latin phrase sub rosa means "under the rose" and is used in English to denote secrecy or confidentiality.

today is a holiday?!? I'm ready to work!!!

wrapping up weekend client comm traffic before passing out... maybe after a round or two of Tribes:Ascend...