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September 20th, 2005

12:19 pm Re: FedEx: I aced the shit outta that test, so hopefully I'll have no problem landing a proper interview. Plans for the rest of the week: Neil Gaiman book signing tour at South Park Mall tomorrow Berklee college fair at the Charlotte Convention Center Thursday (hoping I can arrange to attend in spite of work) Team Tournament Day at The Peaceful Dragon on Saturday - just spectating, not participating yet :) Adrian freaking Belew Saturday night! Current Mood: excited Current Music: King Crimson - Level Five Tags: employment, martial arts, music, reading

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January 12th, 2005

04:53 pm - Digest: I decided to continue taking Theory this semester and don't regret it. It's something I naturally enjoy, but I wish I had read ahead over Winter break as I told myself I would instead of letting the books (and the knowledge) gather dust. Slightly more disappointing, I think Very-cute-badass-pianist-girl has a boyfriend. Of course what she really needs is a manfriend. Curiosity having gotten the better of me (as well as an indulgence of my affinity for surveys and questionnaires), I took the personality evaluation at eHarmony. Unsurprising: no matches for Smeg. Surprising: the accuracy of my profile. Out of some 50-odd statements made about my personality, I only found one to be questionable. Man, I farted and it smells. I recently polished off Doug Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (initially typed: "Brain"). I enjoyed it tremendously, but have since been left longing for something similar to read. On somnium_lux's recommendation, I examined Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science while browsing at the library. Scared shitless, I ran away and instead checked out A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell. King Crimson's The Power to Believe and Gordian Knot's Emergent both come highly recommended, in the unlikely occurrence that someone reading takes me up on it. In the spirit of continuing this post's schizophrenia, here is an unadulterated suite of dreams experienced last week (NOT GAY). ( Cut because you don't want to read it. ) Seriously, NOT GAY. I always dug the Hell out of Rick Veitch's Rare Bit Fiends and have sometimes considered trying something similar. That last dream especially would be some fun material to use. Current Mood: full Current Music: Rush - Witch Hunt Tags: chicks, dreams, music, reading

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February 27th, 2004

10:06 am - Snow day The view out my front door this morning: I had to leave my car at work yesterday. I tried driving home, and performed a very tight 180. If it had been on purpose, it would have looked masterful. Alas, I really was attempting to move in a straight line. Being snowed in gives me some time to try and catch up on some reading. As part of my anti-procrastination declaration, I recently received three huge tomes of SAT prep stuff. On top of those, I finally got around to picking up The Sandman: Endless Nights (which is fantastic, of course) and am currently working through or have yet to start on The Complete Guide to Game Audio (not at all what I was expecting, but I intend to finish it regardless), Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician and Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (haven't even started it yet; it's rather intimidating). I've been exploring Foobar2000 this morning. I briefly encountered it months ago, when the foobar SPC plugin was the only one to properly emulate the uniquely compressed samples in Motoi Sakuraba's ridiculously awesome Hiouden soundtrack (snatch it from SNES Music if it interests you). There wasn't much to the program then, so I was a bit confused when I witnessed the regulars of #vgmix raving about it. This site can more properly explain why replay gain is such a desirable feature, but I'm already sold on the convenience of playing emulated file formats in Foobar. The "special" installer comes with a wide variety of emu plugins, and each index within a GBS, HES, KSS, NSF or SID file (as well as each SPC within a RAR) is listed seperately on the playlist, making song selection a breeze. I've never experienced such convenience when playing SIDs, and I'm really enjoying hearing a lot of great stuff for the first time. Current Mood: relaxed Current Music: Cobra Strike - 32nd Degree Tags: computers, photos, reading

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