So, how’s everyone’s weekend going?
Saturday Morning Open Thread
One of my XLR cables arrived today! So when I got home from hell I went over to my Ubuntu install and got my DAC up and running. After some fiddling around with the settings I got it to transmit with success in TF2 and mumble. But I will be requiring a different XLR cable to plug into both the left and right audio channels. It’s been purchased and should arrive sometime next week.
But yeah, great hearing my awesomely terrible voice over on the linux side.
Survival report.
So far I’ve survived the busy Friday sale (two more hours to go) without killing anyone. No one has said anything about the black in my hair (added it last night).
Fitting rooms have been like a revolving door of people trying shit on. But in fairness even I bought some clothes, which for me is very unusual.
Open Thread
Got a good nights sleep last night. Even decided to burn some incense which I haven’t done in a long time. It was called “hope”. Then I got a call to come in a couple hours early today. Hooray for extra hours. 😀
It all started as an internet date.
So what are you in the slammer for, threatening a 12 year old into handing over his XBox?
Deputies said Remy met a woman on an Internet dating site, arranged to go out and then dropped her off at her apartment.
“He was a really nice person,” said the woman, who asked not to be identified. “He gave the waitress a tip. He took me out. It was a really nice date.”
After the date, Remy walked to the neighbors’ home, broke in and found Juan Morales, 12, playing Xbox in the living room, deputies said.
Read more: http://www.wpbf.com/news/south-florida/Palm-Beach-County-News/Internet-date-leads-to-burglary-in-Lake-Worth/-/8815578/18440210/-/143br63z/-/index.html#ixzz2KHBFeNZc
Morales said Remy pointed a gun at the boy’s head and demanded the video game console.
Remy was arrested Tuesday after being identified in a photographic lineup, detectives said.
He deserves to have all of the joysticks shoved up his ass.
Open Thread
Hmmm, I see Valve has added Steam Workshop for maps and gamemodes to CS:GO. I wonder if this is how they’ll get around the sv_downloadurl issue. Interesting.
You know it’s a good day when you have to explain “Buy one get one free” to someone.
Seriously. I had a customer shopping for trousers/pants, and he wanted to know how buy one get one free worked. So when I told him quite literally “when you buy one, you get another pair absolutely free” he was pissed off that he wasn’t getting a half off discount from the free pair of pants. After going over this with him for about five minutes it eventually sank in.
:headdesk:
Oh, on another note I confronted the main man in charge who happens to not like my blue hair, informing him that the situation will be taken care of. I could see the fear in his eyes. He’s the type of boss that doesn’t like confrontation. This’ll be interesting.
Wow, one entire day of not blogging.
Been that busy. Also don’t have much to say right now either. Rather boring night. Think I’ll take the night off from blogging.
FCC proposes free wifi throughout the united states. ISP’s no likey.
The FCC wants to create wifi that can be used all over the US, even in the most rural areas. Even companies like Google, Microsoft are in favor of it as this could generate innovation and all kinds of other good stuff (oh, and Google getting more data about users but that’s besides the point 😛 ).
Of course Internet Service Providers aren’t too happy about that as this could cut into their profits. I think this is good for people who can’t afford broadband or don’t have any form of access to it. I hope this passes.
Expanding my mini home studio a bit more.
A few months ago I looked into purchasing a DAC so that I could make use of my microphone under Ubuntu since my current box was unable to function (Creative Drivers under linux seem to vary depending on what you want to do), but I ended up giving up on that search since all of the alternatives seemed out of price range for something that I was merely doing testing under.
After reading the article I posted the other night I decided to revive that search. When DAC’s seemed out of reach to me I ended up looking for a Shure X2U, after all I have a Shure SM58 and why not get something to match it? I read enough to understand that it worked fine under linux. The downside was the $99 price range, and while on sale they were $78 which I still considered to be too much for what little I was doing at the time. So while searching amazon last night I accidentally tripped across this little pre amp.
I did some digging around and found people have gotten it to work with their Shure microphones, and even better they got it to work under Linux! So after a couple margaritas and a couple hours of research I decided that $69 was the perfect price for this unit (giggity). The only downside I really found was having to turn up the audio pretty high so you could be heard through your headphones. But I can boost that with the equipment that I already have on hand, and if need be small amplifiers and EQ units are cheap.
Another nice thing about getting this pre amp is that I’ll be able to take it with my laptop should I ever require a portable studio (personal voice acting on the run among other things), or just recording random chat in good quality.
I bought a couple XLR cables tonight, as soon as stuff gets here there will be more testing in my future. Then I’ll post the results.