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Independent “Indie” Games
I’ve been a big fan of low cost, low-to-medium content games for Steam lately. Steam has these sales every few days with games for $5 or less (they seem to have found the sweet spot in pricing for not-quite-new games). … Continue reading
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Another Proflex Elastomer/Elastometer fix
David E posted a comment about another fix he’d found for a replacement on his Proflex Elastomer, in the comments section of my other post on fixing your Proflex elastomer shock. He said he’d used the rubber portion of a 1 … Continue reading
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Old Super Computers vs Modern PCs
Someone had linked to a 1/10th scale Cray-1 super computer, so I googled that, found out that the Cray-2 held the computing record for 10 whole years before being upsurped by the ETA10 a year later in 1989. So what was … Continue reading
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Steal this Plot
That’s the name of a book I checked out from the library today. Good artists borrow. Great artists steal. Or so the saying goes. True art and writing don’t share a whole lot in common. That philosophy however, applies to … Continue reading
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Leaving Rio
This post has been sitting in my queue to finish and publish since March. What happened here occured between Dec 29 2009 and ~Jan 7th, 2010. One of the more interesting experiences I had on my trip was leaving Rio. … Continue reading
Posted in travel
Tagged beach, brazil, bus, florinopolis, passport, ponte del diablo, rio, rio de janerio, southamerica, travel, uruguay
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Espresso Book Machine
I’d just come up to Vermont from Texas for a distant cousin’s wedding in Burlington. After unknowingly driving halfway across the (tiny) state in search of the Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream factory, we decided to drive to New Hampshire … Continue reading
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Harp Mics (pt. 99)
I am still trying to figure out how to order a “replacement part” for the microphone element of a Shure Green Bullet. And then stick it — ah, here it is. The part number is “R198″ from Shure and it … Continue reading
Posted in music
Tagged dispatcher, green bullet, harmonica, harp, instrument, lee oskar, microphone, shure
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Beginner’s equipment for learning Guitar
I had a friend ask me today what I would recommend on a $300 budget for a guitar and amp. Someone else said the guitar is more important, spend more on the guitar. I’m not entirely sure I agree with that. In … Continue reading
Macroblogging
That’s macro, not micro-blogging. i.e. the antithesis of twitter. Something longer than 140 characters and conveys a complete thought. I just “spent” two and a half “tweets” describing this idea on twitter: is there an anti-twitter? i realize twitter is … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, digg, kiro5hin, macroblogging, microblogging, reddit, slashdot, tweeting, twitter, woofer
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Fixing Ubuntu 10.4 Window Buttons
For whatever reason they decided to break window buttons in the gnome GUI for Ubuntu 10.4. I dual boot Windows and Ubuntu and can’t be bothered to have such inconsistencies. Here’s how to “unbreak” this. push Alt+F2 type ‘gconf-editor‘ without … Continue reading