Alright dammit... I'm in the process of circuit bending this "Micro Jammer" handheld drum toy. I've made some really cool progress on it, but now it seems like this picky ass thing is going to change its mind every other day! I've been able to get it into this great warble sound mode that is varied with hand distance to a couple of points/probes...but alas, it goes away! I had the thing in this mode for a few hours last night, but now it's resorted to this random-like garbage mode. The sound output also seems to be worse (distorted) when put back into its "normal" mode of operation. I much prefer the other way it worked. The kicker is, I have no idea what changed. To my knowledge, nothing has changed in that part of the circuit since last night. In fact, this isn't the first time this has happened!!! Dammit! I don't want to continue with this until I get this figured out! Argh!

Well, it's been a few days since I got back from the Sonic Youth show in Dallas on the 4th...I figured I should just take some time to try and convey just how amazing it was. I have more respect for SY now than ever...they are truly artists! They played an amazing set, although it was pretty short at 90 minutes. I could have listened all night. They played a good number of songs from "NYC Ghosts & Flowers" and also managed to play many of the oldies but goodies. I think the most phenomenial moment came at the end of NYCG&F when they produced this growing wall of sound. I think it's pretty pointless for me to even try and explain what this sounded like. All I can say is that it was the FULLEST sound I think I have ever heard. Very strange. They wrapped up the encore with "Drunken Butterfly" and I was really blown away. This goes down as absolutely one of the best shows I have seen. Period. I picked up the ultra-hard-to-find Negativland "U2" CD while in Dallas. I paid way too much for it, and now I'm a bit sceptical as to whether or not it is authentic. I wish I had a way of knowing (if you know of a way, please let me know). If it's not an original, it's a really damn good copy.

Well, I may have to kill my 150 day uptime on my linux box tomorrow to throw in some more RAM I think I found (should get me up to 64Mb, but I'm not exactly sure yet). I also might put in a different (read: working) CD-ROM drive to replace the shitty broken Creative drive that's in there now. I'm getting impatient about trying RedHat 7.1, but I guess I'm in no real rush...

Well, I never got around to showing these off, but stm imported me into NHL2k1 a while back, and the results are pretty interesting. Check them out here and here. Ok, so maybe it doesn't look exactly like me, but I think the results are still pretty interesting. :)

I actually sent email to Meg Lee Chin. It's not like she'll actually respond personally or anything, so I guess it's not a big deal. I feel like such a kid though...I haven't sent fan mail in ages. On a completely different note...can freedom really be obtained through mass quantities of 486's?

I changed around how some of the web site works. I don't have apache sending all html files through php any longer...it was probably just a bad idea, but made some things more convenient. It was a bunch of maintenance work, but overall it wasn't too bad. If you notice anything that's broken, please lemme know. I have also finished setting up mirroring for ChachScan over to Chaos. Nice.

Did some more work on ChachScan. Filtering is slowly coming together. I've still got a lot of work to do on it, but it's closer. The configuration screen now allows creating/saving/deleting of filters, and the main screen now has a combo for available filters. They just don't work yet. :) I also started changing things up to allow for a user-configuable maximum server number...I consider this A Good Thing.

Well, after ignoring it for several months, I have finally opened the ChachScan project back up. I'm going to try and implement some filtering and add a few small(er) features and iron out some of the bugs before putting out version 1.1. Once I do that, I'd like to get some beta testers and then, provided it passes my release standards, publicise it and get it hosted somewhere. More later...

I "finished" (is anything I work on ever actually "finished"?) my new directory indexing script. Apache is cool in that it will display directory contents right out-of-the-box...but the interface was pissing me off. Specifically, I kept getting pissed off at the fact that it would truncate long filenames way too short (really annoying with long MP3 filenames) and I just didn't like the overall look. So I wrote a replacement in PHP. You will notice the changes if you access my protected directory contents. If you want a copy or want to look at the source, just send me email. As usual, I probably spent way too much time on it...but I consider it nice and I like how configurable it is.

I'm so damn stoked!!! I bought tickets for SONIC YOUTH for May 4th in Dallas! Fuck yeah! SY is most certainly one of those bands I swore I would have to see before they stopped touring or broke up. You can't ignore their serious influence on the punk rock and grunge sounds, and I really dig their newer experimental sounds. I've been listening to more and more SY in the last year or so, and I haven't seen a single show in so long...so let me just say again: I'M STOKED! If you're reading this, then consider yourself invited. I think we already have a full car and complete weekend plans, but I'd really like have as many of my buddies along for the show. I bought my tix online through ticketbastard, er, ticketmaster, so expect the usual "convenience fee" (oxymoron?) crap that comes along with that. I consider it quite lame that a band like Sonic Youth has to resort to using those dorks...but I guess that's the way it goes.