The school board is heading into March Break. This guy isn’t. Instead, I’m pulling solo duty in the office. And I can handle that. Here’s how it works; I’m the support guy, for a building that will be almost empty. What can go wrong? I’ll come back in a fortnight and bring you up to date.
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The online course I’ve been following deals with sound synthesis. As the material is presented, I keep discovering that this isn’t new content for me. Some of it, I’ve been playing around with for years, albeit without the vocabulary to describe it to others. This evening, we’ve had an overview of bandwidth filters. Low pass, high pass, band pass, notch; although this is a course about sound, the analogies to radio are constant (and a valuable review of my electronic fundamentals).
posted in computing, media | Comments Off on Reviewing and renewing with synthesis | 262 words
Trying to get my head around the coverage of the Grammy Awards. For something that is “all about the music”, the attention to dresses and shoes is, shall we say, exaggerated. Akin to praising the clouds during an airshow. Why can’t we have an awards show that is musical (and that doesn’t mean the Bieb).
posted in computing | Comments Off on Doomed to bouts of coughing? | 264 words
Today, I spent my time falling forward. Thankfully, the earth rotates, and I never actually tripped. Good thing. What should have been a restful period was anything but.
posted in computing | Comments Off on A sense of falling forward | 254 words
While looking through some old photos this afternoon, I spotted a former neighbour. Little matter that I hadn’t seen the man in four decades, because in the photo, he looked just the way I remembered him. Maybe that’s how memory works; a frozen gallery, not subject to the rigours of changing morphology. In case science hasn’t got this one figured out, I’ll claim credit in advance.
posted in computing, history | Comments Off on Tired of the cap | 255 words
Something else to add to my list of “probably impossible” tasks: applying one of those plastic screen protectors to a tablet computer. Not the application, per se; the application without introducing a whole 3D layer of bubbles.
posted in computing | Comments Off on An impossible task, probably | 270 words
What seemed like a good idea at “oh dark thirty” lost appeal through the night. We were awake, hours before the start of the annual Boxing Day sales. Why not just carry on until six in the morning, when the line would move. So close. Wiser heads prevailed, and there was a short period of shut eye before the box store safari.
posted in computing, travel | Comments Off on A hard drive shuffle | 259 words
He jumped from the cab, tore a bill in half and handed it to the driver. “Wait for me”.
Fast forward to 2012. Try to tear that new $20 in half. I dare you. Give up? Want a pair of scissors? With the introduction of new media for our Canuck currency, we’re bringing an end to certain images. No more setting the gap on your telegraph key. No more setting the points on your hotrod. No more lighting that cigar with a bill from our mint. Might melt and burn your fingers, badly. And yes, I could see through the bill I received this morning; holey money!
posted in computing, economy | Comments Off on Plastic cash and quality maps | 264 words
It was inevitable. Anybody who has two autobiographies before the age of eighteen has a plan. The Bieb has made the cover of the most recent issue of MacLean’s with a quote: “I want to be the next Michael Jackson”. Don’t think I’ll hold my breathe waiting.
posted in computing | Comments Off on Feeding an XML file, over and over again | 258 words
Part of my role involves “running” the repair desk. That is, I place the requests for stuff (mainly laptops) to be repaired. As quickly as possible, with no loss of data, in mind…
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