Seismographs around Yellowstone Park have recorded 16 earthquakes in the last 24 hours, most of them registering around a 3. Has somebody been skipping on virgin sacrifice duty? You people need to get some maidens thrown into pits up there stat before the whole place asplodes.
I’ve been fiddling with the DS-10 for a couple days now, having gone through the manual, then the online tutorials and even some of the old Korg MS-10 manual (the original synth that this “game” replicates). As my first real experience with synth/sequencing (aside from dabbling a bit in the audio engineering class I took [...]
Good Christmas this year — had Leslie, Cameron and Kyle over for food, games, and drinks. My special lady friend got me some new Grado SR-125s, (to replace my SR-60s, which had developed a buzz on certain bass frequencies in the right phone) and a copy of Korg DS-10. I managed to hook my iPod [...]
Number One: One of the board games Leslie, Cameron, my GF and I are addicted to: Settlers of Catan. I wasn’t a big board game fan til we started playing this — it’s so rad. I got it with the Amazon gift card I got when I bought Nina’s laptop for her. Best thirty bucks [...]
Portland doesn’t have the most amazing weather on Earth, but it’s leaps and bounds better than Wyoming. That seems to have changed this week when my first Portland snow experience hit, and it’s going all out. I’ve lived here for 14 months or so now and haven’t really experienced bad weather. Last winter consisted mainly [...]
I remember in my senior year of high school, Chris W. and I were out skateboarding when he decided he needed a pack of cigarettes — you know, nothing like inhaling hot fumes after a good workout — but he didn’t have his ID with him; I was going to have to buy them for [...]
I got distracted tonight watching “horrible band” and “horrible guitarist” videos on Youtube for an unhealthily long time. Here’s a selection of my favorites, with the best saved for last. Originally, I was trying to avoid videos with kids because… well, they’re kids, and they’re not expected to be any good at playing music. That [...]
So how is it that Rise Against released a new album, over two months ago, and I wasn’t informed? This is what happens when you step away from downloading music for half a year. Say what you want about post-”sellout” Rise Against, but those guys can still craft a pretty goddamn good punk song. Well [...]
My GF and I like puzzles, but can’t really afford to be spending money on them, so today I picked up a can of bread crumbs for about 75 cents and we assembled it back into a loaf of bread. The secret is to put all the crust pieces together first, then build from there.