I think this one slightly sharper.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Comet Holmes!
There you go. After observing it yesterday, today it's here, with all of its glory, the Comet HOlmes!
I uploaded a couple of more shots to Flickr, with various different settings, they all look more or less the same: A fuzzy grey blob.
With the 30x60, I can just see a greenish tint but it might be my eyes fooling me.
I uploaded a couple of more shots to Flickr, with various different settings, they all look more or less the same: A fuzzy grey blob.
With the 30x60, I can just see a greenish tint but it might be my eyes fooling me.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Olympus OM2
I got a nice Olympus OM2 from a gentleman in Freecycle.
It's a nice piece of equipment, I'm in love with it. I'm in love with all full manual cameras in any case but this one is a very nicely engineered device.
I'm going to clean it up, put a roll of film in it and see if everything works fine. If it does, I'll find someone who will use it and give it to them.
IMHO, they don't build cameras like this anymore...
It's a nice piece of equipment, I'm in love with it. I'm in love with all full manual cameras in any case but this one is a very nicely engineered device.
I'm going to clean it up, put a roll of film in it and see if everything works fine. If it does, I'll find someone who will use it and give it to them.
IMHO, they don't build cameras like this anymore...
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Exercise required...
Damn... I need to plan some exercise plan and stick to it. This is not good.
Grrr...
Grrr...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Promises
I am going to
I need to keep my spirits high and my mind busy.
Promise.
- write at least one SF haiku a day,
- blog once about what I am doing a day,
- walk for at least an hour every evening,
- almost forgot - at least record 15 minutes of podcast episodes, for practice and for real,
- write an SF short story per week.
I need to keep my spirits high and my mind busy.
Promise.
blogging is hard
It is incredibly hard to blog regularly. At least for me. When I was on holiday, I tried to make notes of what I've been upto and what I've been doing. Since I wasn't online, I couldn't post them immediately. I am back, I've been online for the last two weeks but I haven't written anything down.
I am gearing to get ready to write stuff. I wrote a couple of scifaikus last week, if I can find the notebook I scribbled them on, I shall post them. I was checking the haiku blog and the last time I blogged one was in May. I was planning to write at least one a day.
And there's the NaNoWriMo. This time I want to get active. I might even make podcasts out of it.
I managed to order two microphones (an AT-2020 and an Shure SM58 with a mic stand) finally. I hope they arrive quickly. I am also setting a PC with the Studio64 amd64 version. I've already plugged the PCI M-Audio interface to it. I am going to plug a couple of the channels from the desk to that machine and make that one the recording machine. It will be easy. I might have to get a couple of more (and longer) balanced jack cables since that machine is on an other desk, I don't want to use the other mixer for now - that has a separate owner. I still have to think about the routings but it will be OK, there's four buses on thix mixer and I haven't burned any new channels recently. :( My Behringer mixer sucks.
Anyway... I need to keep my spirits high, I am planning for a lot of changes in my life in the next couple of months.
I am gearing to get ready to write stuff. I wrote a couple of scifaikus last week, if I can find the notebook I scribbled them on, I shall post them. I was checking the haiku blog and the last time I blogged one was in May. I was planning to write at least one a day.
And there's the NaNoWriMo. This time I want to get active. I might even make podcasts out of it.
I managed to order two microphones (an AT-2020 and an Shure SM58 with a mic stand) finally. I hope they arrive quickly. I am also setting a PC with the Studio64 amd64 version. I've already plugged the PCI M-Audio interface to it. I am going to plug a couple of the channels from the desk to that machine and make that one the recording machine. It will be easy. I might have to get a couple of more (and longer) balanced jack cables since that machine is on an other desk, I don't want to use the other mixer for now - that has a separate owner. I still have to think about the routings but it will be OK, there's four buses on thix mixer and I haven't burned any new channels recently. :( My Behringer mixer sucks.
Anyway... I need to keep my spirits high, I am planning for a lot of changes in my life in the next couple of months.
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade
Finally I have it! Found it in Fopp today (strange, didn't they go bust a couple of weeks ago?).
Ripping it now to listen it with the mp3 players while travelling. I listened the first couple of songs and it's good. Wonderful cover art, all in green and grey tones, an insect and a couple at the back of the dust cover. When you take it out, there is no writing at all. When you open it, there's a good illustration of a girl and a young man, are these Coheed and Cambria? Maybe.
I thought I had the Coheed and Cambria comic somewhere, I hope I can find it.
These guys are great - they should be known more, be famous and produce more albums but since they're falling apart, that's not really possible.
This is supposed to be older than "In Keeping the Secrets Of Earth" but the audio quality, especially drums and the guitar sound seems to be worse, somewhat expected. I thought this version might have been re-engineered but it appears not to be, at least to my ears - I'd do something about the drum's sound, the snare is very very thin, I'd prefer a much fuller snare drum voice. On the other hand, the guitar work is really good and so far I've listened to the CD (track 5), it's been extremely good!
Ripping it now to listen it with the mp3 players while travelling. I listened the first couple of songs and it's good. Wonderful cover art, all in green and grey tones, an insect and a couple at the back of the dust cover. When you take it out, there is no writing at all. When you open it, there's a good illustration of a girl and a young man, are these Coheed and Cambria? Maybe.
I thought I had the Coheed and Cambria comic somewhere, I hope I can find it.
These guys are great - they should be known more, be famous and produce more albums but since they're falling apart, that's not really possible.
This is supposed to be older than "In Keeping the Secrets Of Earth" but the audio quality, especially drums and the guitar sound seems to be worse, somewhat expected. I thought this version might have been re-engineered but it appears not to be, at least to my ears - I'd do something about the drum's sound, the snare is very very thin, I'd prefer a much fuller snare drum voice. On the other hand, the guitar work is really good and so far I've listened to the CD (track 5), it's been extremely good!
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