In answer to a Formspring question, I tell the (probably boring to most people) story about how I met my wife. I think I’ll keep doing my answers as slogs, actually.
Tagged answer, dating, formspring, love, met my wife, question, wifeyThere’s a website where you can register yourself for others to ask you questions. It’s a really nice way to get to know people and also to get to know yourself a bit. The website is Formspring and you can click that link to ask me anything you want and also to see what I’ve answered to previous questions.
Now, I’m not presuming that you find me so fascinating that you just have to know more about me, but if you do have anything you’ve been wondering about, please do ask. You can ask the questions anonymously, even, so if the question is embarrasing you don’t have to worry about it!
Oh, and of course: If you register or are already registered, let me know so I can add you.
In which I talk about fasting for 72 hours.
(that is, I talk for two minutes…)
I’ve been struggling with the online service Chirbit for my slogs, but it’s having huge teething trouble for recording through the browser. I wanted to do browser uploading because I wanted to make it as easy as possible to do to Slogs (Otherwise, I can just WRITE) but I guess not. Chirbit is a good idea, but it needs a lot of work before I can use it. I’ll try just doing them on Garageband and uploading to here from now on and see how that works out.
Tagged eating, experiment, food, hunger, taste, tastingRevenge of the Partybot is a sound design project I did in second year. It was mainly a group effort, but I wrote most of the script and did most of the sound editing on it. It was good fun and part of what made me realise that I’d like to do sound design.
There are some obvious mistakes in there, but I’ll not spoil it by pointing them out. I was new to the software at the time and producing full sound-scapes as well, and we were pressed for time. I still find it entertaining. The carnage is especially pleasing.
I just made a rewrite of If I Were A Rich Man that I’m calling If I Had Some Sugru. It has no music in it, but that might change tomorrow, if Taphead manages to make me something awesome. (It’s not his talent I’m questioning here, it’s his resolve in the face of my most likely incredibly off-key singing.
Sugru is a silicon-based material that works a bit like clay in that you mold it around whatever you want to fix or improve, then you leave it to dry for 24 hours. The difference is that the dried piece is “rigidly flexible” like silicon things usually are and it also very strongly binds to whatever you’re fastening it to, so it works like a permanent, stronger kind of Blu-Tack. The stuff is amazing, and the people behind it are in the process of scaling their production up to be able to accomodate a market many, many times bigger than they expected to have. Check out their site for more info.
The reason I made the song was because they asked people who REALLY wanted some sugru right now to send them an e-mail with some pictures and text about why they should have Sugru. I quoted If I Were A Rich Man in mine and then I couldn’t quite stop myself…
I’m trying out something new. It takes me ages to write these updates, so I tend to end up not doing them if I’m a bit tired. As such, I’ve been thinking it might help if all I have to do is record a bit of audio right there on my browser and then use that.
Let me know what you think of this as an idea, also let me know what you think of the audio quality. I had to use the internal mic on my iMac, because the site messed up the quality of the sound when I used my Samson USB mic. So yeah, chime in.
Saturday today, day off! Woop woop!
I went to Tae Kwon Do today, looking forward to sweating it up and kicking the shit out of those cushions. Sadly, the instructor couldn’t come and it was cancelled. Oh well. I did manage to get some cardboard boxes and paint for the track/dolly project, though.
Also, while waiting for Andy, who was to get me the cardboard stuff, I chanced upon a Swedish exchange student at the cafe. We ended up having a fairly long conversation about all kinds of things, and I hope to meet him again. Great guy. Also, I could actually speak Norwegian to him, which is rare. Usually, I have to speak in English to Swedes as they don’t understand us. We understand them just fine, so I don’t quite get why so many of them can’t return that sign of respect. We’re not just neighbouring countries, our languages are virtually the same, except for a few words here and there. So anyway, Henrik DID understand me, so that was fine.
Made pizza today. T’was good. Instead of tomato puree with greens (and meat) on layer by layer, I made a full-on pizza topping with everything mixed in that I let simmer while the dough rose. I made the topping basically like I would a tomato sauce for pasta: Oil in kettle. Heat it up. Garlic. Simmer quickly. Onion, mushroom, ++ veg. Crushed tomato from a can. seasoning. Simmer for a long time. I seasoned it a bit differently than I would a pasta sauce, but the gist is the same.
Marit made a roly poly cake (probably not the right name, but you get the idea) and it was DELICIOUS. Mmmmmm.