New Rig
It's been a while since I've posted anything. I've been undergoing some major changes to my studio, including a computer upgrade.
I'm running an asus m2n-sli deluxe board with a
AMD Phenom 9600 (2.3GHz). 3070MB RAM and about 340 gigs of hard disk space. Sound card is M-Audio Delta AP192 1/2.
Posted by Chris.Laponsie on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 02:14PM
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I'll need to see your ID.
I've been completely sober for the last 3 months. I don't usually think about it, but sometimes after a really stressful day at work, I get the desire to drink something again.
I don't really feel I was ever an alcoholic, but that's another story. The point is that I promised somebody very close to me that I would never drink again. Since then, I haven't.
Last night was one of those really stressful nights. So as I go through the checkout line with my O'Doul's (Non-Alcoholic beer), I notice that I must have left my ID at home.
She wouldn't sell me the non-alcoholic beer. I understand she was just doing her job. But I am clearly over 21 and the beer has less alcohol in it than a number of medicines and mouthwashes that I keep in my bathroom cupboard.
Fine, whatever.
Posted by Chris.Laponsie on Saturday, May 10, 2008 07:20PM
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Quick Update
I haven't been around in a while, as my band and work have consumed most of my free time as of late. However, my goal for this month is to complete the next installment of Home Grown Music.
I'm working tons of overtime at work so that I can save up money for our cruise ship wedding. Luckily, my job allows me to pretty much work as many hours as I'd like (but also as many as I wouldn't like).
I have many ideas for projects I'd like to work on programming-wise, but they all require me to learn a bit more about scripting languages and neural networks. I've half-finished a pascal interpreter, but I really need to revisit that before I start my project.
MUD-Dev hasn't seen much light, so perhaps I'll write up an article for that guild as well.
I have my hands in too many projects :-(.
Posted by Chris.Laponsie on Friday, May 09, 2008 05:29PM
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Sucky Day
Man, today was crap. I woke up and went to take the dog out, and found that she decided her sleeping place was the best place to go potty, AGAIN! I take her out plenty. I try not to let her out of her crate until she goes outside, otherwise she'll just go somewhere in my house. Frustrating.
Then, on my way to Kalamazoo, my car died a couple times. I just put a new cold air intake on it, and I think there is a leak before the air-flow sensor. They didn't supply me with the right straight hose to connect the air intake, so I'm sure that's the problem. I'll have to order one tonight.
Then, before I headed into work, I couldn't find my keys! I still can't find them. So I just said, "Screw it. I've worked at least 8 hours for 15 days in a row, I'll just take the night off."
The good news is that, for once, I can afford to take a night off, so it's not too bad. I have one more sick day I can use and a couple vacation days.
And now I have time to play with the new toys I got, and the reason why I drove to Kalamazoo! I bought two new condenser mics today:
MXL 990 and 991. I also got a shock mount and pop filter for it. My vocal track recording should improve immensely.
My next buys will be an
M-Audio 1010 and a
Behringer MX9000 Eurodesk hopefully. Then I will be able to record pretty much everything, including drums. Time to save up some more money. Did I mention I need a new guitar amp?
Posted by Chris.Laponsie on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 08:53PM
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Video: Symphony X - Sea of Lies
Posted by Chris.Laponsie on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 03:41PM
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