continued my laptop reinstall last night. i literally spent the entire night watching progress bars and i haven’t even got half of the programs reinstalled yet. i never realized just how much software i actually use on a daily basis.
that having been said, i’m really digging the new operating system. it’s packed with tons of […]

last night i cleaned out my computer, repartitioned the hard drive into one volume and did a fresh install of leopard. it runs a lot smoother at the moment (with no programs on there) which is a good start. tonight is going to be taken up with installing all my software again. i’m sure the […]

so, this weekend’s gig went well. everyone seemed to have a really positive response to the visuals and for the most part it all went very smoothly. i should have some pics and a recording up here shortly, although carole and i have been talking about setting up a separate blog specifically for the amorphous […]

went to the apple store on lunch today to see what was going on for the launch of OS X Leopard. apparently the festivities don’t kick off until 6:00pm and go all night. my trip wasn’t a total loss though… the apple store was full of amish people. i’m not sure exactly what amish rules […]

i has an applesauce but none the spoon.
it r time 4 straw.
mmm, applesauce. (straw + bottom of container = noisy applesauce)

my subway ride home today was punctuated by an amusing event that i thought i would share. as we were pulling out of a station the train came to an abrupt stop, paused for about a second and then resumed it’s movement. a moment later, the train conductor (do they call subway operators conductors?) came […]

a ha!
last night i finally had a chance to sit down and work out the details on all the compression codecs we’ll be using for our upcoming visuals gig. as always, determining the correct codec (and various sub-settings thereof) was much more time consuming than actually setting up the compressor and outputting the clips. good […]