Just a couple tests of audio quality using the newer Logitech webcam, which I'm also testing as my wider over the shoulder webcam.
This game audio is from the HDMI capture. I should be able to increase that with the monitor volume control. For my own notes I think it's set around 35 and probably should be around 60 maybe. But I'm thinking just turning up the speakers a bit and using the main ambient mic for game sound is probably best since that will let me hear it without having an earbud in or something.
I'm pretty irritated with Logitech. I bought a Yeti Blue that evidently just went on sale. It was all super coincidental, I think they're probably discontinuing that in favor of the Yeti GX or something and I wanted the old "Yeti Blue Pro" or somesuch. The one I bought was bum, I don't think it was fully unused, we sent it back and just went to Walmart and bought the GX. That was kind-of working earlier and now it's not, I'm annoyed and I don't want to keep messing with it.
And more annoyed because when Natalie went to Staples 10 minutes after I bought the GX to mail the original Yeti Blue back and they had one sitting on their clearance shelf.
As has become tradition. Tonight we ate soft pretzels and watched Worcester lose to Trois Rivieres. On Valentines we try to do Hockey, on our anniversary usually we'll go the drive-in or Funspot, depending. Tonight was great. The (I think "teen", Natalie guessed 22) kid next to us is going to make someone a real fun friend to drink with one day in fancy restaurants. Natalie not withstanding, that "one" friend always draws me. I think I sometimes have been "that friend". She was getting so mad we were dying.
Fun fact, this is the first year in the last 18 years of my job that I'll be able to do something on Natalie's birthday or our anniversary weekends. For several years I had to leave our anniversary weekend at the New England Shake-up in Sturbridge to go to Waltham and do monthly Colo Maintenance from 11pm to 4am Saturday morning crawling in bed at the hotel around 5:30-6 and waking up Natalie. The (often First and-) Second Friday after the Second Tuesday of the month is a cruel bitch with no regard for my stupid holidays.
I'm wondering if I shouldn't have a bench power supply for this, but I have a couple of USRobotics modems and the power supplies are way different, like I think one is 19V something. I guess I just have to try them both on the smaller one and hope for the best? Neither one has any external indicator of what voltage they want even though the courier has a full printed summary of all the AT commands and detailed DIP switch settings. All of which is helpful, but how the fuck many Juice do you want coming in this hole right here? Center positive, presumably?
*This was an email that I was writing, and just stopped and basically pasted in here and embedded videos in, so it's not super well formatted or anything.
This was probably the best explanation of core memory that actually made me understand it.
This is how you do it, Journalists. An excellent summation of why I'm going largely Tools Down.
I bet there are renewable energy companies that need a guy to go in and run their printers and file server for half what I make now. I'll be happy to get paid rebuilding from this all someday.
I made a quick tour video for an audience of about four. Here's a brief look at the basic stuff in my office, much of which I will do better quality videos about soon. Maybe like a monthly VAST/SPACE meeting? I dunno.
Enjoy the 1992 aesthetic. Pretend it's a VHS-C tape or something you found at Goodwill.
Update: I didn't notice the screensaver during the whole desk part until uploading just now and it's my favorite thing ever.
These two thermostats are 12 feet from each other. From my desk I have direct line of sight to both of them through a permanently open doorway. It's noticeably colder outside my office.
Because aside from all my other stuff I now have that Pentium 120Mhz sitting running XScreensaver 24x7 for the last 3 days. Not archiving floppies day and night. Just being a Nice Warm Cube in my office.
It's super fuckin' dry though too huh.
I'm gonna take my two layers of flannel pajama pants and zipped to the top hoodie and wool socks and go hide under my 3 comforters and two fuzzy blankets.
Sinéad O’Connor - Jerusalem (AKA the nice lady who was right about near every goddamn thing)
I'm running this setup to backup some Atari ST 720K floppy disks I have. I'm interested in backups of BBS newsletters and general BBS/Early-Internet ephemera from the '80s and '90s and I'm finding cases where at a glance I can't find that specific copy of like STReport or whatever on the Archive. Also anything fun related to the specific Atari club we were all members of since this is likely the only copy of any of that.
I'm very happy with the roll-away desk surface on top of this rack:
