Fail!

Any track over four minutes gets terrible warbling and skipping on it - and not from the turntable, as the playback sounds fine. Problems arise when the software takes the recording. I'm suspecting an issue with the processor speed (it's only 866 MHz), or the software.

And success!

Aha! I tried again this morning, this time with the audio output from the amp feeding into the microphone jack on the Portable Mousehold, and it worked fine. I suspect the Fortress Computer was Having Issues.

Squire Pyat Q. Wiltboggle of the Lower Alimentary Tracts

ruiskafleck and wggthegnoll were over today, the first time we've seen them since their wedding, almost exactly a year ago. Well, aside from a 45 second conversation at FanExpo.

We had a pleasant afternoon of conversation and sewing. Yes, sewing. velvetpage and ruiskafleck combined their talents to create me a sort faux-Medieval tunic. velvetpage and may be descending even deeper into dorkdom, and joining the Society for Creative Anachronisms! We're going for generic vaguely medieval for our first event, but if we like it, we'll need to create personas. wggthegnoll noted that one can choose any culture from the period between 600 AD and 1600 AD, provided it had contact with Europeans. This makes me sort of wonder if I shouldn't go for an Aztec from the time of the Spanish conquest...

I'm sure that would go over well at SCA functions.

"Glory unto Huitzilopōchtli for this delicious mead! Death is the road to awe! Hey, who made that mail for you?"

More seriously, I was thinking just going with my Dutch heritage, but sadly the 1600 cutoff date just misses Holland's golden age of empire and culture.

Also...

Looking at the posts from last October, I happened across a photo I took to demonstrate the remarkable colour of velvetpage's eyes. I repost it now, for the dozen or so relative newcomers to my LJ!


And also because I like it.