I’m going to cut my dreds pretty soon. If you’re a dred fan, fret not, I’m going to grow them back, with better grouping. I never really liked the grouping I had going. There’s a patch on the top of my head that looks really goofy, hence the fabulous headwear I tend to sport. I’d just shave it all off to see what that looks like under there, (probably pretty goofy, I have a double crown and a large occipital bone nub thing) but I’m Vanessa’s Grad date in May, and I’m betting that whole month-of-growth brush cut look wouldn’t work so well for me.
In preparation for De-dredding, I’ve been using conditioner every day for the past week (conditioner is like… Anti-dreds in a bottle). Today Steph looks at me and goes “Holy crap dean what happened to your forehead? you’re totally breaking out, worse than I’ve ever seen.” Yup… That could be why my rotten complexion has been (relatively speaking) so good for the past year or so. Boo to beauty products and their Moisturizing ingredients.
Anyway, I”ll be sure to take some before, during, and after pictures. Team Dean’s Head (read: Steph and Vanessa) will be diligently working with me on this project sometime this weekend.
-dean
Remember when I was complaining about not being able to find CDs of all the great bands I was hearing on CBC Radio 3? (incidentally… I wonder what’s up with them now? Hope they’ll still be cool after all the merging of sites happens.)
I mentioned Rare Earth Elements as being rad to the max, and I’d been looking for their CD in every record store I hit. King among men, Duncan Goodridge, happened to be reading that day and said “hey, I work with one of those guys!”
Ladies and Gentlemen…
Awesome.
He also sent me a promotional use only version.
Double cool.
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-dean
I went to KMFDM a few months ago and for some reason this conversation just popped back into my head. (Cause KMFDM’s Light is playing in itunes right now likely.)
Mom:Well, if you want you can come out to our place for dinner tomorrow Dad’s grilling up some of the salmon he caught this summer.
Dean: Thanks sounds great, but I can’t make it. Going to a concert.
Mom: Oh who’s playing?
Dean: KMFDM
Mom: I don’t think I recognize the name.
Dean: really? I had like 10 of their albums and used to play them all the time.
Mom: doesn’t ring a bell.
Dean:Remember Columbine? Remember the band that those idiots were trying to say inspired those two nerds to kill a bunch of kids? Yeah, that band.
Mom: Oh! well you have a nice time dear. As long as you don’t wear a trenchcoat and play videogames afterwards, I’m sure you won’t go on a killing spree.
-dean
Budgie is apparently short for budgerigar, which is roughly bush speak for “Good Eats”
Now you know.
-Dean
So I ordered up some ram for Dad and Steph’s respective ibooks a from a place in California. I said Ship it to Dave (also in California) so that he can ship it together with My headphones to me and I’ll save some shipping cost. Two weeks pass and Dave hasn’t received my Ram. Steph e-mails them a few times with no response and finally we just call them up.
“Oh we never shipped it because you have an out of country credit card. And we didn’t bother to tell you. AND there’s a hold on your card for the amount that you ordered so if you want to just up and order from another company you’ll have to call us first so that we can cancel the order that we never should have placed on your creditcard in the first pace. SUCK ON THAT, LOSER We’ll teach you to order from us!” (well not exactly in those words but the sentiment is there.
Angry. Mostly because I could have had my headphones a week ago if it wasn’t for those knob goblins.
So, places I’ve ordered ram from:
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1-800-4Memory: Not bad to deal with, they charge you hidden “out of country credit card” fees though.
Other World Computing: no Complaints, they’re good.
OEMPCWORLD: KICKASS GOOD!!! if they’re close to the cheapest price, order from these guys.
Boundless Technology (aka. Powerline Enterprises inc.): Total Ass, never again.
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-dean
Vanessa Made a microhero of me.
What are microheros: http://www.majorbend.com/micros/MicroHero%20Site/microhistory.htm
Other Superhero Microheros: http://jerome.galica.free.fr
Get the templates here: http://www.geocities.com/wicket_harley
-dean
For my Mac friends:
Have you opened the speech pane lately? Somewhere in the last few system upgrades they slipped in a new voice. Vicki. As far as pack-in computerized voices go. she’s pretty sexy. Victoria’s still the default though…. probably because she slurs less.
-Dean
From a hi-fi forum I frequent, just thought it was funny.
Member From Australia: If I had the HD space from the beginning I would have encoded all my CD’s as Apple Lossless, but it wasn’t available in the past and I didn’t have the HD space. By the way, encoding my bought CD’s is illegal in Australia. The law sucks.
Member From German: That’s a shame.
We had a lot of pressure from the music industry here, too, and we have legislation now regarding P2P-networks and copy protection, but at least our politicians refused to criminalize the whole population.
Member From Denmark: Oh, the law…
(This thread if you feel like reading the whole conversation for some strange. http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=111305&page=1&pp=20 )
-dean
So I was over at Scott’s watching Mythbusters last week, and a commercial came on the tube. It was advertising this service for your cellphone where if you would like to know the name of the song that’s playing on the radio or in the loud car next to you or whatever, you dial up this automated service and it figures out the name of the song for you. NOW, in the commercial, they show the guy holding the phone up to the speaker and a few seconds later he’s got the name of the song on his cellphone screen. Being desensitized to advertising bull, Scott and Tim and I discussed how we that might work, technically. We figured that you must have to key in the lyrics and then it searches for a song with matching lyrics. Immediately we saw the problem with this, and started joking about keying in the lyrics to Louie Louie.
Phone: ERROR! ERROR! MUST STERILIZE! (phone erupts into flames)
Anyway, today on a CBC Podcast I heard the technology in action. You actually do hold your cellphone up to the speaker long enough for it to get a waveform sample to compare to the database, and then 30 seconds later you get a text message with the name of the song and at the end of the month you get an extra $1 on your phonebill I’m sure.
I thought it was funny that we’re so used to advertising over-promising, and tech companies delivering half-assed solutions, that we immediately dismiss all ads as false.
-dean
As you may have guessed from my webcam, I bought a budgie. There is some dispute as to her name. I threw out a bunch of options. The guys tend to side with Dingo, whereas the gals suggest Digit. Dave suggests we split the difference and call her Dingit.
She’s a baby, 3 months old or so, still pretty quiet, doesn’t hop out of her cage much, and she can’t fly very well when she does come out, runs into things, and runs out of breath really fast… it’s kinda sad, but adorable at the same time.
-dean
