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    Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
    3:18 pm
    Hmm, Are you going back there?
    "

    Spirit work on new Airbus jet will be done in North Carolina

    BY MOLLY MCMILLIN

    The Wichita Eagle

    Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
    3:33 pm
    Oops
    I think maybe I'm doing something wrong....she has to be mad at me, she thinks I'm trying to confuse her or something.

    Pandora just played a Kinky Friedman song. 
    Monday, May 12th, 2008
    7:43 pm
    Something like this?

     Hella torque
    1:12 pm
    Rumors of new technology

    This could be the solution to our portable energy issues.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEstor

    Sounds al little hard to swallow. The secrecy is enough to make me skeptical, kind of like the morketing done for Segway.  

    Keep watching the news for an actual working prototype.

    Friday, May 9th, 2008
    12:04 pm
    L4M3
     No one on my friends list has posted since Tuesday. Punks

    I just wrapped up week 3 at Scarebus. I'm starting to egt useful arouns here. I've been brushing up on my (almost nonexistant) Excel VBA skillz.. In the process, I've learned a ton more shortcuts and tricks for working faster/better. For instance, one can select a range of cells, press shift, and then the edit menu. A couple of new options will be available that allow you to copy the cells as an [non-bitmap?] image.  

    Lara and I are going to order our invitations today, and wrap up our Bed, Bath, and Beyond bridal registry. We both hate it,  but can't think of another way to avoid getting 12 toasters and 100 towels.

    Snippets of text.; It's a good call, per my technical writing professor, Bob Kneivel.

    I'm getting more bike rides and jogs, and the winter weenieness is going away. That's happy.

    I have a ton of files and paperwork to file and make decisions about.  I hate that. 

    I think I'm going to put the top down on my Jeep this weekend sometime. I have not done it at all this year.

    I'm tired because I didn't get to bed early enough all week. It makes my writing boring.

    I'm 28 now. That's exciting. It's only 12 years away from 40.

    THERE! something has been posted.  
    Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
    9:00 am
    Pandora Frustration
     Good giref, I've been trying to build a decent Crash Test Dummies station all morning on Pandora, and can't get it right. I don't care if it plays stuff that isn't CTD, but the songs seem to be all over the map. Maybe there is nothing quite like CTD. that band never got the respect it deserved.
    Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
    7:14 am
    meme, you know which one
    The Rules
    "1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
    2. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
    3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
    4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
    5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions"


    Monday, April 14th, 2008
    6:56 pm
    Is this close enough?

     
    Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
    3:16 pm
    BWAHAHAHAHA!

    HA! HA HA! YEEEEEEE-HAW!!!!



    Current Mood: ecstatic
    10:42 am
    Monday, March 31st, 2008
    9:48 pm
    Late at work, listening to Pandora

    Tangerine Dream's “Pilots of Purple Twilight” is more avant garde, yet surprisingly similar to, Some Assembly Required in instrumentation and styling.
    Think about it.



    Does Pandora's audio stream hurt anyone else's ears? Seems harsh for some reason.

    Current Music: Are You Experienced - Toadsuck Symphony
    Saturday, March 29th, 2008
    1:49 pm
    Someone was bored


    Thursday, March 20th, 2008
    2:18 pm
    Some Assembly Required #2

     Who else missed the double entendre of this band's name?? I defend my slowness to pick up on it because I was less than 10 years old when I first knew of the music.
    Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
    4:39 pm
    Monday, March 10th, 2008
    12:11 pm
    That brings back memories

     
    Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
    4:43 pm
    Oh, Mike Rowe, you'll bury us all

     




    Friday, February 8th, 2008
    2:03 pm
    My Own Creation

    A treat for you who know the history of this music
     
    Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
    6:01 pm
    With people like us around, civilization is safe from Armageddon
     This Frenchman has accomplished something that has little more than flited across the back of my subconscious.

     

    http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/make_your_own_vaccum_tube.html
    Monday, January 28th, 2008
    12:18 pm
    Homebrew Shorts, I love 'em

     
    Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
    7:32 am
    Revamped V-Amp Eliminates Audio Cramp
     

    Success! I pulled the destructolated  V-amp (http://www.tweakheadz.com/review_of_the_V-Amp2.htm) apart again, grabbed a beer, a soldering iron, and some 32 gage stranded wire, and got to work.  

     

    It turns out I was lucky, and the fine circuit traces leading from the input jack acted as a fuse before any other components were damaged. I used an Exact-o knife to peel off the crispy-fried filaments of copper, and soldered in the fine wire with silver solder. I glued the wires down with Loctite since the traces looked like they might continue to delaminate, and then put it all back together. A test run revealed full functionality.

     

    As promised, my next task was to knock together a quick transformer-based isolating circuit.  I used one of the 10K to 2K signal transformers I had laying around from the stockpile of parts I got from Ryan High School’s old PA system. I wired a 0.01 uF capacitor in series with the signal to the xfmr, and also put in a 5K trim pot voltage divider to attenuate the signal. (come to think of it, I better make sure that the R-C-L doesn’t affect the tone too much…) . I wired the secondary of the xfmr to another jack with the GROUND ISOLATED from the other.

     

    With all the components in place, I fired the rig up and everything worked great. There is a little noise from the unshielded signal connections, but I set the Vamp’s noise gate pretty high, so at least it’s only annoying when a note is played at lower volume levels/

     

    I also hooked up the other channel for super stereo rotary speaker effect goodness. It was all I had hoped for.

     

    Good times.   

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