Analog synths
My roommate Stan is insane about analog synths. He loves ‘em.
He has put together a very nice web site reviewing many analog synthesizers.
Mac Annoyances
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty used to my key combinations in Windows. My job is programming, which means that I live and die by the keyboard. I expect the keyboard to behave in certain ways - those shortcuts are what keeps my typing speed up.
Yes, I have been able to remap some of the keys, but seemingly not enough.
Also, this 400MHz G4 (new to me) is slow compared to my Athlon 2200+ desktop. Well, I suppose that is to be assumed given the wide disparities in clock speeds, but still, it doesn’t help my impression of this thing.
Burrito Loco
What’s the URL for Burrito Loco in Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota?
There’s your answer.
New Cake CD
I finally received the new Cake CD in the mail today. It is festooned with the new FBI anti-piracy logo. I haven’t listened to it yet, but I couldn’t help laughing.
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Tengo sueño
I’m freakin’ tired.
This week I have been leaving for campus between nine and ten, and arriving at home between nine and ten. That’s a long time, especially considering that I haven’t been packing lunch in advance or anything - I’m basically there for three meal’s worth of time, or at least one. Okay, two, but I’ve just been have a quick slice of pizza from downstairs in the Coffman Union. Surprisingly good, but one slice and a bottle of juice for $5 seems like a little much to me. That’s the price of convenience.
Also, my backpack is like 500 pounds when fully laden, which is always. It’s my anti-freshman fifteen policy. So far, so good.
A new NEW job
What does that say?
Though the weather outside is frightful… Oh! Wait, I mean, the weather outside is beautiful, and I was up at the crack of nine to go into my new place of employment.
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Mojibake
What happens when you try to display text encoded in one character set in another character set? Garbage characters. I'm working on a migration module for gallery - to upgrade from one type of data storage to a completely different one. Along the way I keep learning about character sets and character set conversion. Here's a lovely set of words for something that I would rather not see - garbled, junky international text.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: (paraphrased)
Mojibake
文字化け: [mojibake] moji: character + bake: change/ghost.
亂碼 or 乱码: [luan4 ma3] “chaotic code(s)”, in Chinese.
крокозябра [krokozyabry]: The Russian term for mangled characters.