I feel like I should point out that the new riverofbass.net is online and functional. It's also quite pretty and I like the way it works, as a whole, so check it out. It will only take up mere minutes of your time.

So, I have Pro Tools. It is a thing that I have. I have a little box - okay, it's not actually that little, but comparatively - that puts audio into Pro Tools and sucks audio out of it and into my ears. For those who are interested this is an Mbox 2 Pro, which is a 6x8 Firewire audio interface, with 2 built in mic preamps and 2 built in DIs (the other 4 inputs are line level and digital, respectively.)

I thought I'd share with you a thing I did. I did it before in Live but I like this version better.

I think this might be my favourite programming joke ever:

int so_fat=100
int yo_mama(int &x)
{
  x++;
  return yo_mama(x);
}
int main()
{
  yo_mama(so_fat);
  return 1;
}

Explained in comments for those who don't get it off the bat (ie, everyone.) See you at Matt's NYE party, I'll bring food, booze, drugs and music. You just bring your bad self.

And some food. And booze.

-gorman

Christmas, again.

It seems that the spirit of giving has been superseded by the spirit of exchanging, which I'm  not sure is the same thing. Let's face it, we've all faced the awkward, internal struggle of 'are we doing gifts' with basically every person we know. For the record, we're not doing gifts, you and me, but I don't think we ever have.

Do you want to go see Sufjan Stevens? It so happens that I have one extra ticket. If you missed out this could be a golden opportunity? You would be sitting with me and Matt (there is no standing room).

Robert Mapplethorpe is an extremely strange and twisted man and I wish someone didn't give us this book of his photographs.

Going to Melbourne for Christmas - we haven't done that for a while. It's also the first time I've really considered the somewhat ridiculous logistics of carrying every single present down and then carrying every single present back, only in different suitcases.

Are you coming to Matt's NYE party? Yes, yes you are.

-gorman

If 'someone' is in the following position what should they do.

They have a flexable job, earning something just under award, but that doesn't bother them as their living expenses are very low.  However, a fellow employee who supports himself and an adult son who is at uni earns ~$770 a week while the award suggests a typical week is worth ~$1100.  Now, convincing this empolyee to stick up for himself may well cost 'someone' a good referral for future employment.

Just a note, no one has signed anything, work choices doesn't come into it.

What would you do?

Also, I fried all 4 MOSFETs on my speed controler and steering is proving tricky, nothing is ever as easy as it should be.....

I haven't had much to say here! I guess that's because I don't really speak in the voice of this blog much any more - also the ridiculous post system, but anyway. I've been saying much more entertaining things over here, on my LJ. Well, mostly pretentious things. But I guess they are probably more 'interesting' than yammering on my own life - not that I denigrate that profession, but you've got a whole year and a half of that in the archives. Plus I haven't really being doing much.

I guess I passed all my engineering things. That's 'awesome'. MCS cover band slowly emerges from the Primordial Muck of Hypotheticals.

I sit in Jenni's bathroom with my stomach seriously considering exiting my mouth but never really resolving the question, staring at a light so dim it doesn't really cast anything, and listen to birds freak the shit out at the dawn. I guess the dawn is pretty incredible, if you are a bird.

That is all.

-Kenneth

It's 2pm when I go to vote at the North Sydney Demonstration School (my old school!) just up the road. Considering the time, and knowing me, you should all know that I've JUST woken up and I'm in a particularly dishevelled state of mind.

Walking up to the entrance of the school I have to pass through that gauntlet of political zealots each hawking their own particular party. My basic technique is to avoid eye contact, vaguely raise my hand in rejection and continually repeat 'no thank you'.

As I'm entering the school gates;

'Vote 1 for terrorism!'

'No thank you... huh wha? (laughs) Good work, Chas'

Chas Licciardello was outside dressed as Osama again, no doubt in response to the scam flyers that Liberal MP's husband and friends were handing out earlier in the week. As I'm inside getting my ballot slips, one of the election day volunteers comes up to the woman in front of me and whispers 'we've got a problem at the gates, I'm going down there now'. By the time I left, Chas and camera crew were gone.

 

Oh, I voted liberal.

I'm not so straight: Missy Higgins
Sunday Nov 18 09:59 AEDT
By ninemsn staff

Aussie songstress Missy Higgins has ended years of speculation about her sexuality by appearing on the front cover of a lesbian magazine.

Is anybody else really surprised by this? Does it even warrant a news story, but for the few hundred $5 bets between mates across the country as to whether this second rate popstar prefers pork sausage or badly packed kebab?

Wait, wait, hold it, stop! Stop the presses, we've got an even more important "top story":

Quick, call the UN and tell them to forget about Darfur, Kylie doesn't want babies. You know, I could be wrong, but isn't the basis of news that either something happened that wasn't expected, or something didn't happen when it was expected that it would. As far as I can tell, this doesn't fall into either of these catagories. Perhaps I should send NineMSN a memo:

Att: NineMSN news. Flash: Australia.
Andrew Keevers has publicly confirmed that he continues to enjoy tits and ass.

This of course pales in comparison to the emotional trauma suffered by everyone's coke snorting country music star:

The first rule of Volunteer club is that you talk about volunteer club.

The second rule of Volunteer club is that you talk about volunteer club

The third rule of volunteer club is that if you have just joined you have to volunteer for something.

As some of you may know, I volunteered to work at the Sydney Food and Wine fair a little while ago. This was a big event in Hyde Park where a whole lot of restaurants and wineries got stalls and showed off their best stuff, all the profits of which went to the AIDS trust. I could say it was an awesome day and I had a lot of fun and ate some really nice free food and that would be true. I could say that I got a bit annoyed at the start because I got dirt all over my nice pants and got hit on by old gay guys and talked to by a couple of wierdos and that would be true as well. But those are unforseeable experiences. What won't happen if you come is that you won't just be messing around at home doing not much at all, and while that is fun it is easy to get too much of it. So next time you see an ad for something like this, a public volunteer event then consider getting a group of us together and doing it.

Speaking of wasting time at home I my house has recently been upgraded with Foxtel, and I have been doing that a fair bit. Since I have temporarily agreed to give up all interactive electronic entertainment in a bit to get my parents to realise it doesn't affect my marks that much I have been watching Foxtel as a kind of substitute. In short, I think Tetris is more productive than watching Xena Warrior Princess repeats because of a lack of other interesting stuff. Facebook has also been temporarily given up, and perhaps more permanently but I will probably get it back after exams.

And Finally I went to the Crowded House concert at the Entertainment Centre in Darling Harbour with Lacri and it was exceptionally excellent.

Now to the future; after my exams finish (The last friday, can't remember the exact date) I will be pretty much busy on that weekend so I will not be able to attend any "Yay no more exams or uni" parties unless they are delayed to the week or following weekend. But I do very much want to attend said parties until my liver or brain gives out. Or I get tired of Chillin. Cause Chillin is fun.

Just a quick observation, "my boyfriend has invented..."  is one of the hundreds of phrases in the govenment's more recent "if you see something, tell someone", style ads.

I broke up with Emi a week ago. Relationships are too damned complicated.