Category: music

07/07/09 09:36 - 62ºF - ID#49223

Physical Thing Is Physical

Akai APC40 is back ordered!

That is the problem with physical contraptions, as opposed to code/mental things.

Toys take weeks to arrive. It is the really frustrating thing about working with electronics, too, realizing 90% of the way into construction that I needed a 50 cent chip that would take a week to get here and cost $5 shipping. At least this is ONE thing one time, just back ordered until the end of July.

My wrist hurts from using the mouse, I can't wait to use this instead.

P.S. Paul zip up those sound files and email them to me :)

P.P.S. This is what the APC40 is for:

drew writes at 09:48:49 07/08/09 - Comment #49802: very cool toy. I want to play, too!

jason writes at 08:31:25 07/08/09 - Comment #49800: My God. I had no clue you were interested in music. That is one awesome, beautiful toy.

tinypliny writes at 10:09:09 07/07/09 - Comment #49784: Cool - I will be dropping it off @ the 24 tomorrow. Check it out for a week.

jim writes at 10:04:38 07/07/09 - Comment #49783: Both I think :)

tinypliny writes at 10:01:53 07/07/09 - Comment #49782: Ah, that is wise. I can't do that at all. I end up with ultra-cramped wrists. Give the tablet a shot? Or the controller a shot?

jim writes at 09:57:56 07/07/09 - Comment #49781: Tinypliny: moving from the elbow/shoulder instead of twisting at the wrist. I pretend my wrist bones are fused together... If I move the mouse with my wrist I get pain within about 30 minutes so I know when I do that :)

jim writes at 09:56:26 07/07/09 - Comment #49780: I'd like to give it a shot if you don't mind, despite my concerns.

tinypliny writes at 09:56:07 07/07/09 - Comment #49779: Keep us posted on how this works out! I would be really interested in hearing about it. :)

I don't know how you can operate a regular
mouse without lateral motion??!! Do you have some kind a rollerball mouse?

tinypliny writes at 09:52:47 07/07/09 - Comment #49778: But that's just it. You don't write. Writing requires precision control, constricted grasping and pressure for making the mark on paper/surface. With the stylus, you will just be waving it like a stick in air. There is no constrictive motion. If you like, I can loan my tablet to you for a few days, so you can check it out. Drop me an email - I can leave it at Paul's.

jim writes at 09:51:56 07/07/09 - Comment #49777: And I don't move my wrist laterally - the problem is that I can't seem to maintain good posture when using a mouse for extended periods of time. I have managed to get excellent posture and really good ergonomics, but something about using a mouse makes me slump.

I am about 99% keyboard only in general computing tasks, and with this MIDI controller I can be about 90% non-mouse in making music, so I think it'll work out fine.

paul writes at 09:51:30 07/07/09 - Comment #49776: You have mail

jim writes at 09:49:14 07/07/09 - Comment #49775: The only thing that causes me pain aside from using a mouse is writing / pens unfortunately, so I'm not sure if that'd work.

tinypliny writes at 09:46:43 07/07/09 - Comment #49774: Jim, if you wrists hurt from using mice, you NEED THIS --> amazon.com/review/R104JOWJNFTKTS/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm

It is, hands down, the best thing ever for wrist pain. It is exactly like using a pen (and waving it in the air - so no strain). It completely relieves lateral movement at the wrist joint (which is primarily the cause of most strain).

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07/05/09 07:29 - 71ºF - ID#49200

Beer Tube

Pearl Street Brewery

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/04/09 10:55 - 63ºF - ID#49190

Erie Harbor

Missed most of the fireworks and then lost Heidi and Tinypliny.

But a pretty night.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/27/09 02:45 - 75ºF - ID#49100

Paternal Tree

Digging through family photos.

My grandfather, the baby in the front.

My Dad as a kid.

My grandfather's father.

My grandfather and grandmother.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/27/09 11:39 - 71ºF - ID#49098

Dial 4-8077

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/26/09 10:56 - 69ºF - ID#49094

Mammatus Clouds

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/26/09 10:44 - 69ºF - ID#49093

Utah thunderstorms

Just can't get out of the rain... But it's pretty.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: weather

06/25/09 02:07 - 81ºF - ID#49078

Thunderstorm!

It went from 85 degress and sunny to raining sideways in about 5 minutes.

::Download Flash Video::

The flicker at the start of the video is lightening, and when the thunder comes I jump :)

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06/20/09 09:01 - 62ºF - ID#49016

Chow Chocolat

tinypliny writes at 03:51:30 06/21/09 - Comment #49271: $6 is too much for a dollop of icecream fruit and syrup.

tinypliny writes at 03:50:48 06/21/09 - Comment #49270: You make an awesome model. Why, I'd be shooting pictures constantly even if I had a crappy camera. (so jealous of (e:jim) :p)

james writes at 11:01:24 06/21/09 - Comment #49265: There is a sunday on this list that is vanilla ice cream loaded with bananas, blue berries, strawberries, and pineapple with chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

They were out of vanilla ice cream and pineapple, so I got cherry ice cream instead. I think it was $6.

and (e:metalpeter) my face is about this: jim just got his new fancy phone that takes new fancy video. So he has been taking pictures and video constantly and asking me to be in it. So, it was a healthy bit of irritation. ^+^

metalpeter writes at 10:47:31 06/21/09 - Comment #49263: That does look tasty but what is (e:James)' Face about shouldn't he be glowing ear to ear since that food looks so good?

tinypliny writes at 02:58:00 06/21/09 - Comment #49258: Man. I am getting dumber or what? THIS IS (E:JIM)'s JOURNAL!!! No wonder.

So how much did that dessert cost and what is it called?

tinypliny writes at 02:55:20 06/21/09 - Comment #49257: (e:Paul), this journal doesn't appear in your latest list of journal. I got to it through the links in your's and (e:Jason)'s comments on it. There is some glitch and I can't quite make out what it is.

Chow Chocolat is expensive but Ã¼ber tasty. I don't know what I need to do to stop feeling guilty about blowing money there and frequent it more often. (I currently don't frequent it often because of associated financial spendthriftness guilt).