I can't reach my private page right now. Instead, I get a page that says
This is very sad for me. Dash.xanga.com is still a valid page, but it is completely blank, as if I had never posted anything to my weblog and have no feedback at all. This is mildly disturbing. OK, I lied, this is terrifying.
If you had both a TRUE badge and a LIFE badge, would you display both or just one, and which one?
I like dogs and cookies. But dogs bother my allergies and cookies make me fat. Why do I like the things that are bad for me?
I met my family in Lawrence today for supper and to celebrate my sister's birthday a bit early. I managed to get lost in the city because I followed my dad's instructions instead of just finding my own. But aside from that, we had a nice evening.
The K-State Singers performed at a scholarship luncheon for the last time of this year. From a technical perspective, the show was a disaster. At first we had a ground loop in the amplifier rack. Then we had one between the board and my computer. During the show we had a speaker & light tree lose power because they were all plugged into a power strip. The breaker on the strip went during the first song. I didn't even notice that one speaker was out, cause I was about as far away from being able to hear that speaker as possible. Then the battery on my laptop ran out, and then the battery on the camera ran out, so there's no complete recording of the show, which is sad and also unexpected.
The performance was a success, however. Someone managed to plug the lights partly back in, keeping the stage lit. I kept the volume at a level that I thought was appropriate. It was louder than normal, but I knew it sounded right, and the people in the audience had a great experience. And I think that is the true mark of a successful performance - one where many things can go wrong and yet the audience still has a good show.
Today (well, yesterday) I recorded both the audio out of the room and the feed from the video camera onto my laptop during the scholarship luncheon with the K-State Singers. It went well until the battery died on my laptop. You would think that this shouldn't be a problem, just plug it in. Only I can't.
My power brick is noisy. Not on its own, but it induces noise in the circuit that it is plugged into. When I first tried this, I could use the speakers of the sound system to tell when the hard drive turned on or off, because the pitch of the noise as well as the magnitude of the noise would change. Today, I tried it, just to check. I didn't get the same kind of noise, but instead it was the noise of a ground loop. I think I'm going to have to isolate my computer from ground somehow, but I'm really nervous about trying this.
Does anyone know anything about laptop power supplies and the noise they introduce into a circuit?
Happy Birthday, John Deere! If he were still alive today, he would turn 204 years old today. It's also Whitney S's birthday today. I'm decked out in John Deere gear from head to toe, literally - I did get JD socks for Christmas, after all. A pity that today has to be one of my long days with class at every moment of the day.
There's something big coming to the political world of Kansas State University. I'll keep you all up to date.
Do you ever feel like you just don't have anything to say? I used to comment on about half of the posts I read. These days I rarely even visit 10% of the pages, let alone comment on them. I've cut back on my subscriptions list to get rid of the people who posted often but never really made me think. That list of subscriptions to the left? That list is just what I think that everyone on Xanga should be reading. You'll find most of the employees of Xanga are on that list - those people keep everything here working, and they're pretty interesting, also. There are 250 weblogs that I subscribe to. However, most are dormant accounts of people I know from the RW. I cut about 50 accounts that didn't interest me but did post a few times a week.
You know, for not having much to say, that was a long paragraph. I am mostly caught up on homework (at least through tomorrow afternoon) at the moment, and a weekend is drawing near. I did manage to record one of the K-State Singer's shows, and when I finish reading the book for English, I think I'll work on breaking that down into individual songs instead of one long deal.
If it was a magic key, it would unlock everything. Otherwise it would just be a key. Even better, it would unlock everything just by being near it. I just have to place my hand on the doorknob, and the lock would click open.
I just answered this Featured Question, you can answer it too!
We did a show without proper sound reinforcement last night (technically it was yesterday, anyways). After I figured out how to amplify the piano enough to be heard without overpowering the vocalists, things went quite smoothly as far as performing goes. When we went out for dinner, we managed to cram 7 people into my car (including myself). I didn't even think it was possible.
Right now we're in the middle of a snowstorm. It's not deathly horrible, but they are canceling high school classes for tomorrow. It is also extremely hard for a truck to pull a trailer up a hill, or to back a trailer on that hill. The first time we got stuck, I put my car into park and got out. I slipped, but as I went to the ground, I realized that my car was sliding backwards. I jumped back in, depressed the brake pedal, it stopped, and didn't move for the rest of the time I was out of the vehicle. It was moving to see the whole group working to get the truck & trailer up the hill. The big downside is that my windshield wiper fell off the motor that turns it, so I had to try to look through the mess of snow and melted snow that landed in front of my face. Or I could lean into the passenger side to look through the patch that was cleared by the other wiper.
I figured out how to record from whatever is feeding the main audio mix in Vista. Under Control PanelHardware and Sound open up the Manage Audio Devices box. In either the playback or recording tab, right click on the part of the window where you can select audio devices. Make certain there is a check next to Show Disabled Devices. Then you can enable the Stereo Mix in the recording tab to record whatever is playing through your speakers. 
To be honest, from a recording point of view, this can be a damaging setting if you're actually doing a live record. But if you just want to record whatever video you're watching, this is a good way to do it.
I'd like to say I had a busy weekend and couldn't post, but the reality is that I had a lazy weekend. We all need them from time to time. I watched the Super Bowl at a friend's house, and I had a fair amount of fun. Then today the K-State Singers had a show. I finally succeeded in recording the performance. I ended up deleting the driver from my computer and doing a fresh install from the manufacturer instead of the Windows solution to not having a driver. Now it works without crashing (most of the time - recording a 50 minute wav file did make it complain a bit).
My university just beat my sister's. When I called to let her know, she hung up on me before I even had a chance to say anything. Then she sent me a text saying "Like you watched it.People lied to you, we won. Have a good night, be safe." And then I got an email saying that one of my classes was canceled tomorrow. This evening keeps getting better and better. But I still have to go to my English class.
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