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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
10:52 pm	tAAt So, August and September just flew by and we're already near the end of October. During my time not updating LJ I've been in several furmeets, working, consuming lots of coffee and even more Jolt, poked around Fur Affinity and been lazy as hell... Sure, I have more work to do next week. Then there's a furmeet next month... Almost right after my human incarnation reaches the age of 23 years. But that's not important. There are a lot of more important things... Things that aren't important to anybody else. tAAt. Current Mood: exanimate Current Music: Purple Motion - Fracture in space (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
10:30 pm	Three weeks in a nutshell There was a furmeet here last weekend, Fur-Piled Volume One came through my mail slot on Monday, I got a few toys from Zeta Creations last week, were at another meet in Salo the weekend before, and the weekend before that I was at a largish furmeet held in Kuopio. Oh, yes, that meeting required driving about 900 km within three days. And that's pretty much all I have to say about the last three weeks. See you next month. Current Mood: lazy Current Music: Vogue - Dreams of Deez (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 18th, 2006
3:03 pm	Autosaved draft at 3:00:57 PM OK, let's have a little look at what deuz invented a while ago: Name your ten (or any number) favorite song titles (or songs that you happen to like at the moment). Make other people guess/know who is the artist. If more than one artist have a song with the same name, the one originally chosen stands. Having multiple titles of the same artist is acceptable but not encouraged. Unless you feel lazy, post this same thing on your own LJ. Whoever knows the most will recieve a gift of my choice. Whether it's just an abstract gift or materialistic, it's up to the poster of the meme. I think I can make a little list then... Saatteeksi Haikea juoppo Singing Winds, Crying Beasts Smoked Glass and Chrome Kolmen tavun karaoke Chevrolet Hey You Sekoilu seestyy - The Madness Subsides Plurnstyle No More Terra Firma Many of these are probably too easy to Google but there are enough hard ones, too... Current Mood: tired Current Music: Ozric Tentacles - Become the Other (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 4th, 2006
10:12 pm	Lost Without a Trace I can't say I didn't like Wigwam's performance about an hour ago at Käpylän kyläjuhlat, I can say that I loved almost every second of it. Jim Pembroke (vocals, piano), Mats Huldén (bass), Pekka "Rekku" Rechdardt (guitar), Esa Kotilainen (keyboards), Jari Kettunen (drums). And Rekku just doesn't seem to get old at all... At least one of the tunes they played was from one of Jim's solo releases, Corporal Cauliflowers Mental Function. But here's the list (or what I could make of it): Friend From the Fields (n/a) Simple Human Kindness (Nuclear Nightclub, 1975) (n/a) (n/a) Bless Your Lucky Stars (Nuclear Nightclub) Lost Without a Trace (Fairyport, 1971) [I love this song...] Colossus (Lucky Golden Stars and Starpose, 1976) Sandpainting (Some Several Moons, 2005) [recognized the album the tune is on, then the track at home by the guitar riff] Bertha Come Back (Jim Pembroke: Corporal Cauliflowers Mental Function, 1977) Absalom (Light Ages, 1993) After playing Absalom they went off the stage. Half the people dispersed elsewhere and a few moments later the band came back onto the stage and Jim said "Soitan vielä yhen, joo." ("I'll play one more, yeah.") and then they played Do or Die (Nuclear Nightclub). This time Rekku went quite a lot off the scale with his enthusiasm... I don't think I can recognize those three (n/a)s by memory because I didn't write down any fragments of the lyrics. But one bad thing is still my fault. I forgot to take my trusty ol' Canon AL-1 with me. That camera would have saved me from taking one crappy photo of the group... I could have taken several high quality photos with the 70-210 mm lens, even from the distance where I was... But it's past now and I just have to live with it. Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Wigwam - Lost Without a Trace (Comment on this)
3:46 pm	No New Games I really don't have much to say... Except that Wigwam's playing at Käpylän kyläjuhlat today at 19:30. Yes, I'm going there to listen to them... Other news and olds include having trouble finding a suitable and working backup keyboard (you know, the kind that don't have all that redundant multimedia integrated into them), not being able to figure out how Psyclapse's Menace is copy protected (yes, I'm trying to create a backup of it with the copy protection included and I already know that one part of the copy protection sits at the upper side of cylinder 79), and sometimes working over 12 hours a day. Now I just need to figure out how to waste about three hours... Current Mood: tired Current Music: Wigwam - No Pens, ei karsinoita (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
10:50 pm	Statistics? I've been working the past week. I had to replace the right front wheel bearing of the Taxi on Monday. My guess is that it locked up breafly and broke partially while driving to Kuopio a bit over a week before. Within a week the metal chips inside the bearing housing must have devastated the rest of the smaller outer bearing. Of course, to which the result was quite a lot of play that makes the front axle geometry a tad bit too loose. The last weekend was fun, "wasted" at slvwolf's. It was the first furmeet I went to by foot ie. the trip was less than ~5 km. The weekend before Slv's little meeting was spent in Kuopio at a housewarming party. I bought two Pekka Pohjola's albums this week, Pihkasilmä kaarnakorva (Resineye Barkear) and Harakka Bialoipokku (B. the Magpie). I also bought a wolf plush toy and last weekend I bought my second wolf Zippo. I have some beers to drink... Current Mood: lethargic Current Music: Pekka Pohjola: Harakka Bialoipokku - Ensimmäinen aamu (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
11:05 pm	I feel dead I just measured my body temperature. 38,9 °C. I feel pretty uncomfortably numb. I can see just fine but my sense of touch, smell and hearing have degraded somewhat. I also had some balance problems while wearing ear protection during work. I need sleep. Current Mood: drained (Comment on this)
Monday, March 20th, 2006
10:08 pm	Olen selkä OK, I'll tell you something about my little vacation... ( Read more... ) Current Mood: content Current Music: Ott - Splitting an Atom (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 11th, 2006
11:08 am	I'm going to spend a week without teh Intttterrrnets. And that's because I'll be leaving to Meribel today. Downhill-skiing for a week... Yes, you get to be without me for a whole week. Isn't that great? I'm sure it is. Bye! Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
11:53 pm	Ott: Blumenkraft Damn, I love this... I ordered the CD from psyshop.com on Thursday and got it into my hands today. The reason to buy the album was the second track, Somersettler. The first time I ever heard the tune was while listening to the ISP's own Shoutcast radio that broadcasts ambient. I even streamripped the song and cropped it into an MP3 of its own. Now the slightly incomplete MP3 can be deleted because I have the real thing. And it's not just the second track, the whole album was definitely worth buying. Darn... I have to get my MP3/WMA/CD-player from my mom's car and install it into the Taxi so that I can listen to this masterpiece while driving. :P Current Mood: energetic Current Music: Ott - Splitting an Atom (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
1:47 am	Tag! Mom called me this (well, actually yesterday) morning right after she left and told me that there's a computer and a printer in the garbage room. Well, I took my own garbage bag and went there to check out the 'puter. The printer was an ancient Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 510 with a crappy parallel cable. The printer was otherwise worthless but I took its PSU since it fits my DeskJet 520. But the computer... That was something I thought I'd never own. A single Pentium II 450 MHz processor on some double-processor motherboard by Asus, some Adaptec SCSI controller on-board, an 8.5 GB Seagate SCSI(!) hard drive, and a Matrox Millennium G200 AGP video board. This will definitely be my next Wintööt desktop machine. I'll try to get the SCSI image scanner to use the on-board Adaptec controller. It might be a little faster with a real controller instead of the IRQ-less ISA-crap I've used so far... It just needs a wee bit memory upgrade. 64 MB really isn't enough. Even this machine I'm using right now has 192 MB. And then some other crap: hukkax tagged me to do this thing, so here goes: ***Basic Rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yours" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 quirky habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names.*** I wear thongs as daily underwear instead of briefs or boxers. The latter two are uncomfortable for me to wear. I often think aloud when alone. When I'm drunk, I actually do have a limit for the drinking and have a break (without Kit Kat) when I feel drunk enough. I have an obsession to use old stuff instead of the new if they still work with required accuracy and realiability. (Well, some old things are a lot more reliable than their newer versions, like Daimler-Benz engines M102 vs. M111...) I have a tendency to mock those who I like. (But do tell me if it bothers you.) I hereby tag (void), (void), (void), (void) and (void) to post their five weird habits for the online world to see. return 0; // time to go to sleep Current Mood: tired Current Music: Fleetwood Mac - Big Love (Live, 1997) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
9:54 pm	*yawn* Global Journey *yawn* OK, I just listened to the most boring 59 minutes I've ever heard, Neil Harvey's "Wolf Spirit" (released by Glogal Journey). Let me quote some of the cover leaflet's text: On the Nature and Music titles all the nature sounds are authentic field recordings captured on ultra-sensitive recording equipment. If this is true, then why are they ruined at the mixing stage and made to sound very artificial? The first impression I got was a friggin' wavetable synthesizer! The second big mistake: All the songs sound almost the same. They are too much alike. Just put the CD player to play a random song and you can't identify it without looking at the tracklist. OK, maybe you can identify Dark Shadows (track #6) but most of the tunes just don't have enough variance and they do sound repetitive. Oh, and I almost forgot to add the fact that every damn tune starts and ends with "wavetable synth wolf howl". The album has eight tracks and that detail started getting on my nerves at the beginning of the third. It would make sense if the songs were mixed into one big track. These instrumental tunes didn't have any kind of percussions either and they were stuck at static tempo and time signature. All the definitions of boring. If there isn't a beat, the tempo should be rather free. It would have helped a lot if the time signature was some other than the overused 4/4 ("four quarters"), too. At least I'm listening to something better now... Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Lazy Bones Jones - Haikea juoppo (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 8th, 2006
10:20 pm	Power Supply Units So, I came home today, booted susi, ran PuTTY, logged in, attached to the screen session that has been running since the server was booted... "Temporary failure in name resolution" WTF? The error message wasn't new for me since irssi returns that when the net connection has died for some reason. But I didn't expect the whole cable modem to be dead. Well, the next thing to do was some sniffing around... The scent of the PSU wasn't very promising. All it ever had offered were +5 VDC @ 1,75 A and +12 VDC @ 0,75 A. Well, the traditional Commodore Amiga 500 brick-PSU (I mean the heavy one) gives 2,5 A and 1,0 A. After disassembling the CyberSURFR's PSU and hunting a DIN5 connector I built the replacement, plugged it in, and... Hooray! It works! If the A500 brick lasts until the October 31st, I won't be exchanging that original PSU at all. I did have something else to write here, too, but I've already forgotten all of it as usual. Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 11th, 2005
4:17 pm	Statistics Just got a Mercedes-Benz W124's gauge combination reassembled (I bought the missing resistor yesterday), the Ruff's Stuff I ordered back in September should finally arrive next week, I've been working too late, ... <add the usual crap here> Well, I'm still alive. Current Mood: exanimate Current Music: Absoluuttinen Nollapiste - Yli 1000 erilaista kasvia (Comment on this)
Monday, November 14th, 2005
10:48 pm	It seems there ain't a reason for my life, it seems there ain't anyone who'd care about me as a person, it seems everyone just wants to nag at me, it seems... It seems everything would be better if I didn't exist. Between Fire and Ice (from the album Between Fire And Ice by Jukka Gustavson Organ Fusion Band) ( Song lyrics... ) Well... When I started writing this entry, I was plain depressed. Now I just don't have any kind of motivation to do anything. But at least I'm not depressed anymore. That's the power of twelve-bar blues. Current Mood: exanimate Current Music: Jukka Gustavson Organ Fusion Band - Between fire & ice (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
11:21 pm	Replacing a transistor Some of you readers might already know that my Sansui 771 tuner-amp doesn't quite function the way it should. The amplifier side does work perfectly but the tuner's +12 volt supply doesn't always stick to its preset value, instead it drops down to +6 volts or less. I traced the problem to a (2S)D330 transistor in a TO-220 package on the PSU board. Now, I'll disassemble the tuner-amp, take pictures on the way, and describe the procedure here. ( Read more... ) And it works... Current Mood: happy Current Music: Radio Helsinki - 95,2 MHz (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 16th, 2005
3:52 pm	Bling! Now, this isn't fun... Not fun at all. There's two idiotic mainstream™ teens in the next room. Here's the question: Are they quiet? Sure they are! They're as quiet as those stupid over-grown kids can be! Why can't they just shut up? WHY?! ( More babble that doesn't interest anyone... ) On Tuesday I'm goin to move back to "my apartment" from this evacuee apartment. This means that I have to pack all my stuff again for moving... And it also means that sloth will go offline for a few hours. But I'll start packing now. Current Mood: numb Current Music: Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (Comment on this)
Monday, August 29th, 2005
10:45 pm	Let's have some broken HTML! Just some stupid quizes again... ( Who's Your Inner European ) ( The 2-Variable Intuition Test ) Current Mood: mellow Current Music: Wigwam - Grass for Blades (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 21st, 2005
9:31 pm	The last 1½ months... ...have been quite shit. Tuesday June 7th was just another day at work except that at around 18:40 I heard sounds of burning wood... ( Read more... ) Current Mood: lonely Current Music: Nutcase - Miles ahead (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005
10:51 pm	555 I bought a swimming thong today. We'll see if I ever dare to wear it in public. But I just might get up early tomorrow and have a lazy morning swim before work. I installed some fluorescent lights today at work. It seems all things electric have become a routine for me. ( Read more... ) I also installed another airbag light hack into an Audi A4... ( Read more... ) Bah... Maybe I should go to sleep... Current Mood: calm Current Music: Juippi - Markalla hupaa (Comment on this)