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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
If I have an AVI file that is 128bit, 29 frame/sec, and I want to copy a clip from it into a new AVI file, what is the best tool to use? I am trying to use AVITrimmer, but the output file doesn't look any good. It still claims to be 29 frame/sec, but the video is wrong. It is not synchronized with the audio any longer.  Hmm... wait, that might be wrong... Yeah -- that was just weirdness from Windows Media Player.
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For the past year I have been, generally, driving from my workplace to a store or restaurant to get lunch and back again. Most days. I've been feeling kind of bad about this, and as I've said before, feeling sluggish and in need of exercise. Well the new regime, started this week, is to walk into town and back every other day -- the town deli sells sandwiches which are good for two lunches -- and to take a shorter walk on the off days. It's about a mile in to town or a little less, so this is not by any means infeasible. I'm a little sorry about "town" not being "route 10", which is about twice as far away and has my favorite lunch spots; but the deli in town is just fine. Also, meeting Ellen at the JCC after work today for exercise.
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Hi all! If you're coming here from my brother's class blog, you are probably interested in music. So, take a look at my music posts -- there is a mix of my own recordings (pretty rough but some of them are nice to listen to) and reflections on music I listen to. My current personal fave is Robyn Hitchcock.
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Today I drove a bunch of tile over from Barry's house to my own (long, non-interesting story) and carried it inside. I was washing my hands afterwards and had the thought, Frequently, washing my hands seems like a useless bit of ritual, but right now, it is having a clearly visible effect. Which led directly to the thought, maybe the proportion of head work that I'm doing to hand work has grown too high. Fortunately I had a handy project just waiting to be done, namely fixing the pocket doors between our dining room and music room -- these are sliding wooden doors which it would be nice to use, but they don't slide very well in their tracks. We haven't really done much with them since we moved in, until the other day when I closed them -- the one on the left moved along smoothly but the one on the right had to be sort of wrestled out; and when I had pulled it out all the way I heard something falling down in the cavity it lives in, and then it would not shut. This evening I took down the stop which is on the ceiling in the middle of the door track, so I could pull the right-hand door all the way out and see what was blocking it. Turns out the cavity was full of debris, fallen bits of plaster, lengths of 2X4 (one of which was blocking the door's return), chips of brick, and a huge amount of plaster dust. I was able to pull most of it out with a long stick, and the door slides much better now. And I had another chance to wash my dirty hands.
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Every time I see this Saramago quote: "The gate is wide open, the madmen escape." at the top of my blog, I hear it sung to the tune of "Away in the Manger". Not that useful but there you have it.
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It is starting to sound to me like an actual song. (See a couple of posts down for the fiddle part.) -- like just now I was mulling over what the lyrics to it might sound like, if they were written and I were singing them. I think the genre is probably rock or rockabilly. ...A song about memory, I think -- with lots of references to Modesto and to the Central Valley if I can swing it. Mostly because those Valley city and town names have got the exact right cadence for this melody -- Sacra-ment-o, e.g. -- the line in my head is "Driving up the high-way, north to Sacra-ment-o," possibly followed by "Don't know what I'll do there" or "Haven't seen my ba-by" or, not sure. Memory and being bored -- these two are tangled together pretty inextricably in my world view.
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
- I think I am not going to do any more Songs posts until I buy a microphone and an audio processor. I have been planning to do this sometime soon -- I think I will feel much better about the music I am posting if the audio quality is a little better. What I have been doing up till now counts as a sort of a proof of concept -- the concept is pretty well proven.
- If any of you have got advice about what sort of mics and audio converter I ought to buy, please leave them in comments, or e-mail me if you prefer. I will be most grateful.
- This afternoon I thought of a short tune. Played around with it on my violin and I came to realize that it integrates really well with "After Midnight".
- I came up with guitar chords to accompany "Creepy Charlie" -- I am looking forward to recording the piece with viola and guitar, and maybe to writing a "b" part as well. (In the recording I posted the other day, there is something that sounds like it might be a "b" part but I think it is actually just a second voice on the "a" part. This is something I don't know how to figure out.)
 Update: bullet two is no longer operative; I have ordered an Edirol E-MU EM8740 audio interface (which I will call "emu") and a pair of Behringer C2 microphones.
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Don't believe the lack of hype: Shanghai Love Motel is going straight to the top (of?). Listen to some great music for free at their MySpace page, go listen to them on Saturday in Brooklyn (Jalopy, 315 Columbia St. between Hamilton Ave. and Woodhull St., 10 pm), anticipate their forthcoming first record. Anticipate!
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Here is another fiddle part, in ABC Format and PDF.
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
So who remembered that at the beginning of Peter Pan, before Peter ever comes and takes the children to visit Never-Never Land, he existed as a story that Wendy told to her brothers? That part of the story had totally vanished from my memory and from Ellen's. (Other things I did not remember include the in-your-face racism and sexism, pretty hard to miss -- I guess it's been a long time since I watched this.)
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