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Record Shopping

There's nothing more lovely than a package from Ear/Rational arriving in the mail. Today's shipment contained:

• Shadow Huntaz - Rulez of Engagement 7" (Skam KMAS018)
• Freeform - Outside In CD (Skam SKALD014)
• Taylor Deupree & Kenneth Kirschner - Post_Piano 2 CD (12k 1032)
• Pete Namlook & New Composers - Russian Spring CD (Fax PW 48)
• Studio Pankow - Linienbusse CD (City Centre Offices cd 025)
• Superpitcher - Today CD (Kompakt 040)
• Mikkel Metal - Close Selections CD (Echocord CD01)
• Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger CD (Warp CD130X)
• AFX - Analord 7 12"(Rephlex)
• AFX - Analord 8 12"(Rephlex)
• Fenin - Tour EP 12" (Echocord 13)
• Michael Mayer/Reinhard Voigt & The Modernist 12" (Speicher 28)
• The Orb - Komfort 12" (Kompakt 121)

snarg(framina);

interesting flash music thing

Bears!

The uncommonly wet weather we’ve seen on the Front Range this year has resulted in lush, green mountains that one normally associates with the Pacific Northwest.

It also seems to have resulted in an abundance of bear food, as we’ve seen bears on our property 5 times since late April.

Our friends Ted & Caroline came to visit this last weekend, and when they went up to their car on Saturday morning, were suprised to see bear prints all over their truck. I guess they had left some food in the truck the night before.

Yesterday afternoon, we saw a small black bear in our backyard. I managed to get a couple shots of him, here’s one:

MPC card reader mod

So, almost 2 months after getting my IDE card reader in the mail, and having my MPC opened up with it’s guts spilled out in the corner of my studio for roughly the same amount of time, I finally got up the nerve to install it.

Why did it take nerves? Because the power cable connecting the floppy drive to the motherboard used a floppy connector, and the IDE card reader I was installing uses 4-pin Molex. I spent some time at J.B. Saunders (Boulder’s excellent electronics supply store) trying to find a cable that would go from the motherboard with a 4-pin Molex out, but no such luck. It’s apparently a rare, maybe proprietary cable, so I was gonna be forced to splice a Molex cable to this proprietary cable, and I guess if I fucked it up I’d be left without a card reader or floppy.

My worries were completely unwarranted. As my friend Chris said, it was clip, strip, wrap, solder and tape, and voila! My MPC has a nice flash-card reader, and I can say bye-bye to the zip drive and external SCSI. No more moving parts!

Here’s a picture of the installed card reader:

and here’s a picture of the 32MB CF card showing up as mounted: