Okay you monkeys, listen up. I'm only going to say this once.
So, lessee.... Oh, to finish the story I was telling last time (when last we spoke...), I did eventually get that card working let Thursday night. I renamed teh ASIO folder to the name Logic was expecting, and there you go. It found the drivers, I plugged in a microphone, and recorded sound. It was like the moon landing. I had recorded sound. I felt like Edison.
I still have yet to finish setting the thing up or do anything interesting, but it's in the works. That thing was too expensive to lie fallow.
Weekend: Friday night Susan and Zach came into town and we met Liz's friends from Peru at The Ear Inn. A nice place, though a bit crowded at first, but with late-middle-age drunks, one of my favorite kinds. Not nearly as beligerant as 20 something drunks, at least not physically dangerous anyway, and likely to tell strange and senseless stories. One turned around and accused me of being a "Yankees Hater" out of the blue. He was sure he'd heard me whispering in his ear about the superiority of some other team.
Saturday morning was cold and rainy, perfect day for crossword puzzles and pancakes at home. The afternoon cleared up a bit and we went for a walk in Greenwood Cemetary. Liz and I then left with Luke for Point Pleasant, NJ to spend the night before playing in a beach volleyball tournament on Sunday.
The tournament was great, we only won 2 games, but it was great to play, get some exercise, and be in the sun all day. We spent the first night in the still as-yet-unamed bus, saw Spiderman in the suberbs, and enjoyed a beautiful sunset over a tiny harbor with tiny boats. I almost felt like I should have spelled it "harbour".
Tonight I subbed for Team Foo, and had a blast. I must say it was quite nice to be the best player on the team, with all humility. I felt a lot of responsibility to play well, and I think I did for the most part. We didn't win, but did very well considering the circumstances. The other team was huge, at least 11 people, and had a couple of decent players. At least one who could hit pretty hard, and a couple who could block. We played pretty well, and kept all the games close. In the second game we came back from 10-3 to lose by 2 points. It had me thinking how much fun it would be if Channel 61 moved down a division next season. Sure, there's something satisfying about playing at a higher level, and your game probably improves more, but it would be a blast to be the ass-kicking team in the division, to make the playoffs.
Liz and I had a nice conversation about the meaning of life; specifically the nature of motivation, free will, and the soul of animals tonight, and I came to the conclusion once again that I don't know anything. That's okay, I have plenty of opinions.
I finally renamed all of my photos, using my new naming plan, which promises to save me countless hours of irritating work. I'm now naming all of my photos with a simple sequential number. They're sorted into albums with descriptive names, but within each, just numbers. To know what the photo is of, you have to look at it. I really liked having descriptive names for each photo, but it proved unmanageable. It took way too much time to type in a unique name for each of thousands of files, and they would just sit in my "unrenamed" folder for weeks while I put off the dreaded task. Now I can sort them into albums and then just run a script that names them 001, 002, 003 , etc. Simple, boring, but necessary. Naturally, this change caused me to realize other changes I'll have to make to the system, since it relied on the names of the photos somewhat, or at least it displayed them, but now since they're meaningless to read, there's no reason to display them. They don't tell you anything. Now it will have to be all about the thumbnails, which requires a change to the layout of the photo album script. Changing my photo album script will surely make me start to think that I should really finish fixing and updating the admin script, which will lead me to think I should rewrite the whole thing to make it more flexible. You see how these things go.
I'm also revisiting the idea of replacing Blogger as the backend of this blog again. I spent a few days playing with greymatter a few months ago, but abandoned it pretty quickly for no particular reason, but now Luke has inspired me to check out Movable Type, so maybe I'll do that. Maybe later.
