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edlib Newbie

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It was easier back in the days of analog. Voltage over a wire is easy to manipulate. If it was the wrong connector, you got an adapter, or a box which stepped up or down the level.

 

The big problem these days is that everybody is trying to set "The Digital Standard" since there isn't a single one that's universally accepted. They deliberately go out of their way to make sure not only the connectors are different, but the data transmission protocols are incompatible, and/or use a host of different sample and bit rates. It's like if you took all the format wars of the past in one giant battle: 33 vs. 45 vs. 78 vs. cassette vs. VHS vs. BETA vs. DAT vs. Minidisc vs. ADAT vs. DA-88 vs. HD-DVD vs. Bluray vs. whatever... and had all the companies involved convinced that theirs was the only format worthy of history.

 

It sucks... but it's less of a concern in the Live Pro-Sound universe.

 

Well... at least it was... until they started pushing digital transmission lines on us. We are thinking about upgrading our main board, and the next one will have converters at the snake box on stage, which will then transmit the audio wherever we want it over Ethernet. But now we have to consider how that will affect everything else down the line. It will be great if everyone else has gear made by Yamaha.

 

Far, FAR less so if products made by any other companies are involved... :dozey:

 

I feel your pain.

 

Small reason to be thankful, however: I've been assured it's actually much worse in the world of professional video.

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I really loved that book when I was a kid, but it seems like making it into a movie would be incredibly hard.

 

Colonel Graff is played by Harrison Ford. That alone will make the movie worth seeing.

 

Also with the state of CGI, the battle room scenes can be done quite well.

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http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-make-happy-memories

I'm not sure how to ask about this;

 

My brother Dan wants to try and make sure that this year isn't one of sadness for his son (one of my other nephews 'Danny', older brother of Cameron)

 

As far as I know, my brother wanted to take both of the boys to Disney land sometime in the Fall, but with things happening of late, if possible to try and make that trip sooner.

 

altho the cost of going TO said (Happy) place is expensive, with the side of funeral costs....

 

:(

 

is there anyone that here can help out on this one?

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I slept 12 hours last night... and that's not including the couple of times I dozed off at work and on the subway.

 

I guess I was tired yesterday.

 

Hopefully today I'll be bursting with energy... but so far I'm not feelin' it.

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Took a walk today, did some laundry, and started the long, LOOOONG overdue process of picking up, decluttering, organizing, and cleaning my general areas.

 

There's no way I'm ever going to finish it in one day. I'll do a bit more tomorrow... and then probably most of the nights after work this week as well...

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Had a good time with my friends running a SW:RPG game. THe main part was they were going to a party and trying to get more information. One of the NPCs was a boisterous toydarian I had a lot of fun hamming up and getting into character. The players loved it

 

The Black sun contact starting hitting on the wookie player, and gave him a brand name for a very good quality hair product. My wife who was playing a smuggler, successfully charmed a Gand Bounty hunter (WHo, know, I guess he is into human females).

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Well, during calling hours, needless to say that we had a crud load of people.

 

I thanked the people my my vet's organizations for visiting

 

all-in-all it was pretty good;

the children had their own room to play in, with nickelodeon on the TV, tons of coloring books, stickers and play-things.

 

I didn't really realize it until now (when I'm making this post) that;

With my "Lil-D" (Danny);

 

that every time that there has been a loss in the family. I've given him a 'piggy-back ride' inside the funeral home.'

 

the fuck.

 

It's literally 3 for 3 now. and this time the lil guy that i've given the 'piggy back ride' for was for his younger brother....

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Three Funerals

 

His grandfather, His step-Grandfather, and his brother

 

I've given piggy-back rides for.

 

I'm 5'11"

 

which adds into his height.,... :joy:

 

but still, 3 times, within a few years. I've given my nephew 'Danny' a Piggie Back rides; Each time when we were all together; when we all had to gather for something like this.

 

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It's strange.

I honestly don't know how I can feel.

 

what I mean by this: if people can remember when my brother died back in '08, I really didn't know how to feel at that point when my actual brother died.

It was at the "Calling Hours", my siblings were arranged by age, leaving (to the left of me) my brother 'J' last GF in his spot.

When it was me with my youngest sister to my right and my Brothers 'last girl' to my left. Both of them were clinging onto me as if I were a brick wall made out of solid steel. Strangely enough, I was just that.

I was suddenly reminded by experience of of the time when my younger sibling and another girl whom I had gotten to know, whom 'clenched' when we visited Daren Lake Halloween some few years before.

 

But when I was there for my brothers Calling hours, I was a brick solid wall of support. I was impenetrable; unable to react, or even show anything emotionally...

 

but WHEN DID hit me when I came back aboard to 'The Churchill', which was a week after.

I was a wreck. When I got back to 'The Churchill', I was an emotional wreck.

 

[edit2]I was pretty much not able to work for two week straight.

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I was asked repeatedly: "You have a month's worth of leave time, why did you just take a week?"

My answer was simple: I was oin my way out anyways, I want a month's worth of leave. Period."

 

For two weeks I spent weeping for my brother. I didn't say this on here, but I had that problem.

 

Fast Forward: I came home, my siblings began tired of helping out my Mother with the loss. (this was Nov 08)

I had the obligation of 'taking over';

 

With the last week of my enlistment (back in Late Oct~Early Nov of that year), I was VERY close to my Sister 'A', but during Mid November of the same year, things turned for the worse.

 

Sister 'A' wanted to to explain why she sent her Husband "into the dog house"; but quickly to became alot about her mental therapy. And why my Mother wouldn't help spend the money to do so. My Mother had her reasons to not do so (IE: the money wouldn't be spent on therapy, but on x-mas and other bills, etc)

 

It got heated.

 

Very heated, at that point.

 

I saved my Mother and my Dad from a 'Never Again' relationship with their grand daughter (My niece); by doing what my Mother should have done, I slapped my sister 'A'.

Despite all the negative things that had happened that year (IE: Our brother 'J' dieing) our family fell apart.

 

This story is many years old now. And I still feel sorry for doing so, but I still believe that my action is greater than what would have been my in-action.

 

With the recent passing of our Nephew Cameron, I do have a positive with among all this tragedy; I have at least made one head-way with my sister 'A' in these years.

 

I got her to laugh at a 'real-life' joke that I've said.

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Haven't blogged about it, but I bowled this morning with two of my female friends from my winter league, one of whom could, if we both bowl well, beat me. She did all four games, and I actually ended up with the low game on the pair the first game, but I did improve every game and ended w/ a 190-ish game, so I'll take that.

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I know it's not a 'wall of text'

 

but I'm sorry to give out the 'emotional dump' of whats been going on these past several years

 

it's just that, crap like what's happened throws you off of your own gears, and you don't know what you're going to talk about.

 

a little too much, I think, that should've been said for here.

 

but after all, this isn't exactly just a thread on a dedicated forum.

this thread is really just a collective AND interactive blog of whats been going on with all of us in (well) the past 7 going on 8 years of our lives.

 

This is it people! Screw social media! (just kidding to those whom ACTUALLY use that sort of thing :p) *mumbles*I have a twitter account and... YES a facebook (*Shhhhh!* I dont use it!!)

 

twitter - active

facebook - don't bother

tumblr - eh, maybe, i should update if people (really) care

myspace - as I quote DBZA "I've moved over to SpaceBook a while ago."

Youtube - DELAYED ON UPLOADS (*kicks schedule & upload rates AND formatting*)

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Last week I was riding my motorcycle doing some errands. Took a corner and the rear end went out. Stopped it to take a look and the rear tire had split and gone flat (it was old) fortunatly I was only a mile from home and walked it back. Then I tried getting a little trailer I had hooked up and found one of it's tires went flat and broke the beads. The spare for the trailer, had the valve stem rolling around inside. Took the tires to get fixed, then took the trailer and bike to the shop. Instead of using the spare parts I got a new tire

 

Now my cat is sick. Doesn't want to eat, spends all the time sleeping.

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Mar car feels weird to me.

 

I don't know if it's because something's different about it... or because I've been driving another car for 6 weeks.

 

The trunk lid opens far better than it ever did.

 

It looks good. Like they did at least a partial detail on the outside. Now I guess I should have the inside done to match.

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