the reality tunnel

when you are slightly stressed out about life in general, it is bad to drink things with caffeine in them, even if it’s just green tea, especially if you haven’t lately, because your mind starts racing but not in the fun kind of way, but in the paranoid kind of way… i love found magazine [...]

In advance of the string breaking carnage that will be Defiance, Ohio tour, I bought some strings on the internet from juststrings.com. It was $8.90/dozen low E strings, $7.70/dozen A strings, and $7.22/dozen D strings plus $5.95 in shipping. The total comes to $29.77 or $0.83/string. I think this is a good deal. It’s cheaper [...]

This tutorial seems like it does the trick. It recommends using this open-source plugin.

I got this in e-mail from the MoveOn PAC a few months ago and it upset me. I watched the film Hotel Rwanda around the same time and it made me think about the same thing: how little regard the first world has for the rest of the world. Dear MoveOn member, It’s a little [...]

So my / partition was getting full and I wanted to clean things up. I think I made another post a while ago about finding unused debian packages. This website offered some other general ideas for finding cruft: Linux SIG – Maintaining a Clean System

I’ve recently gotten into the World Changing website a bit. This article about taxes on plastic bags to reduce waste is interesting. It mentions taxing plastic bags to reduce waste. This may be a good idea, but there are also consumer/industry policy changes that could work alongside or instead of such legislation. Simply asking customers [...]

Forensics alumni organization: http://www.ece.osu.edu/~stevenss/forensics/ Forensics Team page: http://forensics.org.ohio-state.edu/ Yup. I did some geeky stuff in college. It was fun and ultimately worthwhile though.

Apparently audacity can be used like Total Recorder. See http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=recording&i=streaming for details.