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It just hit me that CMU's OED subscription doesn't work from our new ADSL IP, so I either have to set up some VPN thing which I fear, or kick my old OED into working under XP, or shell out for the current version.
What happened last week? I forget.
I got zero work done because I am despising it and can't sit in my office chair without squirming.
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seanmcguire, woo!
Started Boswell's Life of Johnson, which I'd always sort of figured I would read twelve thousand years from now. But I've been on a "words written several centuries ago" kick; they're comforting.
Had a thing while making meatloaf one night where -- it's hard to explain, but sequences of noises all seem to fit together into phrases, and carry emphasis, like forcefully-spoken phrases in a language I don't speak. It happens occasionally, but this was longer than usual, and more distracting; noise-phrases would reiterate in my head, trying harder and harder to make themselves clear. It's an interesting effect, but unnerving.
Made a little track playing with FFT cross-synthesis of vocal sounds onto softsynth sequences. Also tried to program something in pd and decided its programming model is kind of weak.
Invited about eight people over for dinner, but it was DOOMED to a comical degree, in that one person accepted, everyone else proved one by one to be either sick or out of town, until Sunday afternoon it was down to a tête-à-tête, at which moment the one person called back and said he was going to have to be awful and cancel because he had forgotten about a committment. Excellently choreographed.
Brewed what was supposed to be an octuple batch of chai, so I could have it in the fridge and conveniently drink some chilled, but I assure you I do not know where the fluid volume went.
Dee got home. I'm happier now.
What happened last week? I forget.
I got zero work done because I am despising it and can't sit in my office chair without squirming.
Got to see
seanmcguire, woo!Started Boswell's Life of Johnson, which I'd always sort of figured I would read twelve thousand years from now. But I've been on a "words written several centuries ago" kick; they're comforting.
Had a thing while making meatloaf one night where -- it's hard to explain, but sequences of noises all seem to fit together into phrases, and carry emphasis, like forcefully-spoken phrases in a language I don't speak. It happens occasionally, but this was longer than usual, and more distracting; noise-phrases would reiterate in my head, trying harder and harder to make themselves clear. It's an interesting effect, but unnerving.
Made a little track playing with FFT cross-synthesis of vocal sounds onto softsynth sequences. Also tried to program something in pd and decided its programming model is kind of weak.
Invited about eight people over for dinner, but it was DOOMED to a comical degree, in that one person accepted, everyone else proved one by one to be either sick or out of town, until Sunday afternoon it was down to a tête-à-tête, at which moment the one person called back and said he was going to have to be awful and cancel because he had forgotten about a committment. Excellently choreographed.
Brewed what was supposed to be an octuple batch of chai, so I could have it in the fridge and conveniently drink some chilled, but I assure you I do not know where the fluid volume went.
Dee got home. I'm happier now.
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If you have an X server on your machine, you could fire up a web browser on a CMU machine and direct the display back to your own. If you use ssh and compression, it's actually not too painful (netscape over compressed ssh is only a little slower than local mozilla for me).
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