mattm

well that's cool (and also proves I still have a somewhat functional memory)...3 confirmed skank BDs on March 26:

you, me, mattm...and bradm is there close-by, I think!

neat, I've never met (other than CJ at the Franke show a couple weekends ago) anyone born on the 26th. I'd like to go to this show but it's out of my reach (lack of funds). I haven't seen BnB in a while

I think I'll be catching the MSS show instead. It's great that there is a choice of shows like this for the old bday weekend though.

I have wanted to get decent headphones for so long. Last time I went in to buy some I came out with an iPod instead but now I'm stuck with those stupid little buds of earphones that constantly try to come out and don't allow for much bass at all unless I hold them firmly in place. It's the one thing I don't like about the iPod.

I have hooked it up to my stereo, though, and it sounds beautiful through that.

Edit to add: The reason I don't buy new headphones is that I don't have the money but I'm also looking for some that are small enough to be portable yet still sound good (at least somewhat qiuet the outside sounds).

My way of dealing with space is that I bought a 250 gig external. I keep all my mp3's as well as music movies and a bunch of good movies on it.

I convert all my live shows to mp3 but burn a copy of the lossless format to dvd first so that I still have it.

This way I can fit all my music in one place, it's portable and I still have all the lossless shit backed up.

As far as the kbs go, there is a quality loss, even at 160. The rate at which this goes beyond human capable hearing is around 256kbps but most people can't tell a difference even on the 160's. Anything I convert to mp3, I do at 256 but the only real way to tell the difference is to open the file in a wav editor and look at the peaks. You'll notice, if you look careful, that at lower bitrates the peaks won't hit all the high frequency's they should. Some lows are missing too but it's harder to see those and they aren't as aparent because you need some good speakers to really hit the low tones anyway. If you really want to hear the difference, use jazz cd tunes rather than rock or recorded live tunes as they are all over the board. What is generally recommended is that mp3's not be encoded at bitrates less than 192kbs. Another general rule is to always encode high because once you've taken away from the quality by encoding, you can't get it back (ie: encoding an mp3 that's 128 to 256 won't improve the quality, just the file size). VBR means that it will dedicate more kb to the more sound intensive parts and less to the quiet parts. I prefer to encode at a steady bitrate but a good encoder like Lame does a great job at VBR.

I was also reading a review about different mp3 encoders from a guy who really knows his sound. His verdict was that fraunhofer's encoder is the best with Lame coming up a very, very close second. The other ones were ok but those two were the best. Fortunately a lot of programs use Lame (fraunhofer costs money, Lame is open source).

Unfortunately my 250gig is now pretty much full (2 gigs left) so I'm thinking about getting another one.

One more thing: If you insist on using iTunes to convert to mp3, I'd suggest grabbing this iTunes Lame plug-in or one similar to it. I only mention this because if you read around, you'll find that the built-in iTunes mp3 encoder isn't very good at all. Probably it's because Apple wrote their own mp3 encoder from scratch rather than going with one of the already established ones. Encoders like Lame are form folks dedicated ONLY to bringing you quality mp3's whereas Apple has other formats (namingly AAC) so their encoder is more of a side-project type deal. For non-picky folks it's probably fine though.

My two cents.

You should hit up ottawa sometime. I'd love to see some good old zeppelin.

well, meredith was easy enough to find shit about:

http://www.literaturemania.com/gn06v10/

which is from project gutenberg which is a fairly interesting looking project.

I couldn't find anything with him that has to do with that poem though, other than one reference from a woman's page that has the opening line quoted (seems to be a page on opening lines with related quotes underneath).

It was tough but I remember reading that one as well so it piqued my curiosity. I'll tell you, though, I only found a reference to it on one page and it's rather obscure:

http://pdfs.voya.com/VO/YA2/VOYA200404PoetryContagious.pdf

It's on the second page somewhere. I'm not a poetry guru, though. I have a terrible memory so I often have to relearn things over and over again so I just learned how to search really well to save time.

Good job dude. Do you think the life experience credits are available anywhere else? I know a few people who need to go back to high school but don't have the time and something like this sure would be nice.

If that's for deeps, just private message him, he'll asnwer fairly quickly, otherwise pm me and I'll give you his info.

Brad: I don't think audacity can do it as well. It has a noise reduction filter but it's mostly to get rid of steady static. You have to give it a part with no music (just the static) and it will remove that from the rest of the tune. I know SoundForge and GoldWave have the pop/click removal filters but I like Audition best.

If you want Audition and are ever downtown after 5pm - 6pm I can meet up with you and give you a copy of it (I live downtown so it's no problem).

I thought that was rather funny as well, thanks

I was playing with the mp3 versions of this last night to get rid of the pops and found that Adobe Audition's auto pop/click remover set to medium works really well and doesn't leave any other digital noise (drops or missing sounds), nor did it seem to affect the original sound. I'm not sure if the inglewood show has the same pops as I haven't opened the zip yet but if you have Audition you can get rid of them pretty easy.

I read from a tim hortons spokesperson that they aren't taking a stance. The prize goes to whoever (18 or over) hands them the cup and they don't much care who it is. This was a while ago when this was just starting so they may have jumped in by now.

Well, the poem you are looking for is most likely "Marshall" by George Macbeth which starts

"It occurred to Marshall that if he were a vegetable, he’d be a bean."

I can't find an actual copy of the poem anywhere, though, so you're on your own

can you remember anything else about the poem?

I think it has something to do with clouds but i could be wrong... anyone?

This maybe? Although this might just be for today. I know nothing, really, of the weather and it's patterns.

..SPRING BATTLES VIGOROUSLY WITH WINTER.. A DEEPENING COLORADO LOW TRACKING NORTHEAST OVER LAKE HURON INTO NORTHEASTERN ONTARIO WILL BRING QUITE THE VARIETY OF INCLEMENT WEATHER WITH IT..INCLUDING HEAVY SNOW..FREEZING RAIN AND POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. AN ACTIVE COLD FRONT OVER WESTERN MICHIGAN COLLIDING WITH AN UNSEASONABLY WARM AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS PRODUCING FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS THREAT WILL CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF THE DAY AND WILL LIKELY INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON AS THE FRONT APPROACHES. CURRENT RADAR IS SHOWING SEVERAL CLUSTERS OF STRONG TO LOCALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MICHIGAN AND THESE ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP INTO A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER LOWER MICHIGAN THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS MAY SPREAD INTO SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO BY MID AFTERNOON. WHILE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 90 KM/H AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS THERE IS ALSO A RISK OF AN ISOLATED TORNADO. AN AREA OF RAIN..HEAVY AT TIMES..IS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN ONTARIO. AS THIS RAIN ENCOUNTERS SURFACE TEMPERATURES NEAR OF JUST BELOW THE MELTING POINT IN THE OTTAWA VALLEY..IT HAS TRANSFORMED INTO FREEZING RAIN. THIS FREEZING RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE TO RAIN NEAR MIDDAY AS THE TEMPERATURES SLOWLY CLIMBS ABOVE THE MELTING POINT. OVER THE REMAINDER OF EASTERN ONTARIO THE SURFACE TEMPERATURE HAS CLIMBED ABOVE ZERO CELSIUS AND THE FREEZING RAIN HAS EITHER ENDED OR CHANGED TO RAIN. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. DRIVING CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE QUICKLY AS THE FREEZING RAIN MOVES IN. UNTREATED SURFACES MAY BECOME ICY AND VERY SLIPPERY. TRAVEL PLANS SHOULD BE ADJUSTED ACCORDINGLY. ENVIRONMENT CANADA CONTINUES TO MONITOR THIS LATE WINTER STORM AND WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED OR ENDED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.

PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST PUBLIC FORECASTS FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

Edit: Just read bouches answer

I think this is a great idea and cheers to gabriel and those involved (especially the partners taking the footage).

I can't see that page here at work but my rough estimate of my total lifespan has never really gone past 60. I'll have to check it out for sure with that site later on though.

(mattm, I'm looking in your direction )

hehehe. Yeah. If you ever watch Dazed and Confused there's a part where the "nerdy" guys are in a car eating and talking about what's to come with their lives. The one guy says "I just wanna dance!!" and it's really funny but whenever I see it I think man, it's true, that's all I really want to do.

Thanks for playing dance worthy material. I had a great time at the show, that's for sure.

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I thought it was great. I hear friends talking about the onion but I've never ventured into those waters. I got a great laugh out of that so I just might be reading it some more.

I'm not really current on the Onion but that's a joke right?

Man, cities should all do what they've done here in ottawa with the poster sleeves. They have metal, about 3 or so feet high and protruding about 1/2 foot off a lot of downtown posts specifically for postering. You can put them up for 21 days. The bylaw also says that you can put a poster on a post without a sleeve so long as there is no sleeve within 200 m of said post.

rules

probably not. I'm arriving with WTTS and their gear so I'll be there all night. If you want one it's yours. You record shows that I download so you've given me tonnes, even if kinda second hand or so.

So last night I decided to test out my dvd burner for video, see what speeds are good, etc. Having just gotten part II (98-04-03) of the island tour I decided to use that as the guinea pig. Well, all tests seem to produce the same quality so now I'm stuck with 3 extra copies of the show.

I'll be at maverick's tonight and in hull for MSS tomorrow night so if anyone wants one just find me (I'll bring them with me). First come, first serve. It's only the second show, though, I don't have the rest yet. I'd really hate to just throw them away.

This isn't a B&P offer, I'm just giving them away, no need to supply blanks. I just didn't feel like starting a new thread.

She has a pet penguin who acts really funny, talks with his flippers and what not.

Is the penguin gay? If so then someone should give him the heads up that the shit is hitting the fan.