A couple weeks ago I took over as stay-at-home parent for our beautiful daughter. She’s a great kid but like with all children, times can get tough. Well I stumbled across this piece from one of Bill Hicks’ live shows, Revelations. It sure helps put things in perspective.
This Sunday I had the pleasure of filling in for Woody aka DJ MUDD on Soundcheck Radio, RDU 98.5 FM while he was away in The States. Thanks man. I hope my tunes were to your liking.
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So I finally got around to having a bash with Soundtracker Pro 2 on my new/old Amiga 500. It’s such an logical tool with a great work flow. I can’t wait ot do more with it. I’ve worked on my first 2 bar demo and I like it. While capturing the audio I accidentally bumped the machine and it glitched out, as you’ll hear in the below audio.
Enjoy 😀
For the past few years I’ve been trying to relive my childhood computing days. So you can understand my excitement when an Amiga 500 came up for sale on TradeMe. 6 months later after trying to this vintage PC working with a modern screen I’m finally there. One thing I never got to do when I was younger was make tunes on this rugged machine. After some hunting around on the web I found a lovely chap selling old Amiga magazine cover discs and I was lucky enough to get the one you see in this image. Thrilled! I’ll keep you posted on any rad tunes I make. I’m thinking, house ;D
Many thanks for Rob at Gecko Computing and TheAtticman for helping me relive my childhood.
I’ve been wanting to do more sound recordings of Christchurch in the mornings when I meditate. This morning I was hoping to get the juxtaposition between the sound of the insects and the the demolition in the background but the microphone on my phone seems to be quite directional. There’s always tomorrow.
Claire and I are in Wellington this weekend for my brother Jeremy’s wedding to his love of 10 years, Jessie. What an occasion! For the first night we’re staying at Claire’s parent’s apartment overlooking the bay, as you can see ;D
Early last year Claire and I visited our good friend Wout in Groningen, the Netherlands. We all lived in a shared house in Melbourne together a few years ago and always wanted to visit him when we finally made our way to Europe. Claire bought this cute pair of hot dish plate mats from Groningen and now that live proudly in our kitchen.
We miss you Wout! And if you’re into photography check out his work. He’s a super talented cat.
Last Saturday I hung out with the lovely people you see in the above photo for a hackfest focused around SilverStripe. Nothing like getting your geek on ;D
Post-quake Christchurch can be an interesting place. Some cats graffed up the inside of the old BNZ building. What’s even cooler is that it’s on glass and may have been done from the inside. Rad…
P.S. Hi Hannah ;D
To whom it may concern,
I would like to voice my complete opposition to the passing of this bill. I don’t agree with it’s passing under urgency. I feel it lacks respect for the people of New Zealand in that we have only been given one day to make a submission. To me the infringements on my humans rights that this bill allows are unjustified and lacks sufficient evidence. The government departments that will be granted these new powers have sufficient tools at their disposal.
Yours sincerely,
Benet Hitchcock.