http://www.telstarfalls.com Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:49:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry - long time no post. Been busy at work and trying to stay warm and get the bathroom finished. Finally got the godforsaken floor done (well, the subfloor, anyways).  We ordered the fixtures last Friday, they should be here this weekend. Then we can decide on ... http://www.telstarfalls.com/?p=119 So, the latest here at the chateau d'saster would be me completely redoing the framing for the bathroom floor. You'll recall I had to sister one of the joists, and install blocking between all of them to make the structure more rigid. Well... I spent most of today ... http://www.telstarfalls.com/?p=118 It's oddly apropos that bits are coming together, here on the eve of the (calendar) new year. Bits of technological, musical, and epistemological* flotsam and jetsam seem to be accumulating into useful shapes in my immediate vicinity. To wit - this person has posted a handful of schematics and sound ... http://www.telstarfalls.com/?p=117 After a most excellent holiday weekend with friends and family, followed by an unbelievably boring 3-day workweek, yesterday found me back at work on the 1st floor bathroom project. Between bouts of cutting, hammering, and cursing I would pop up to the studio for coffee/cigarette/surf breaks. One of ... http://www.telstarfalls.com/?p=115 Just think, this time next year you'll be listening to the OVO Christmas album... http://www.telstarfalls.com/?p=114 Something I've been meaning to do for several years is write a Yule tune, and this year I've managed to whip one up. Enjoy the holiday - in whatever way it pleases you to celebrate. the long dark has come the long dark has come the sun king dies, and in a star-field ... http://www.telstarfalls.com/?p=113 Now that I've finally gotten my head around how to deal with Gmail's horrifying lack of folders, and have discovered the joys of feeds via Google Reader, and have committed the majority of my writing activites to Google Docs, along comes this: RTM + Gmail And while I've tinkered with the lovely ... http://www.telstarfalls.com/?p=112 My dear friend Dan has blogged one of the funniest things I've read in a while.  See for yourself. http://www.telstarfalls.com/?p=111 Have at it, folks... http://www.telstarfalls.com/?p=109 Found a couple of interesting-looking pieces of ambient music/sound generation software: sounder ambient grains Anyone know of anything else cool? I'm looking for ways to capture the song of the ghost in the machine... http://www.telstarfalls.com/?p=105