My W/E: ecstasy and agony

[forge]

all these great ideas I had about making tunes in a forest or whatever in reality it stays in the one spot 99.9% of the time

Sorry, can't stop laughing at that making tunes in a forest line... I'll be ok.

laugh it up fuzzball!

[Marquis]

update:

hard drive removed from my powerbook, and inserted into my mate's powerbook.

And hurrah. All seems ok.

[Cryptic UK]

Hi folks.

I just wanted write a quick story about my weekend. Hope you don’t mind.

I had a fantastic time on the weekend.... mostly.

It began with a nice brunch down by the lake for my girlfriend’s birthday.

Then, I took part in the Rat Patrol freakbike “float” in a big Street Parade, DJing off my laptop from the top of a tandem tall bike (that’s two bikes, each built out of two bike frames – so twice as high as a normal bike - side by side with a tray between them on which we placed a generator and a PA system. Audience jaws dropped a plenty!

Then after the parade, arrived at the Fringe Festival stage, still on the tandem tallbikes, still pumping out tunes, for a dramatic entrance before playing a gig with my band!

And then, after driving to my place to drop off the band gear, we prepared to head back into town to have an impromptu party at a local park, again with me DJing from the top of the tall bikes, when disaster struck.

I asked the taxi driver to open the trunk so I could put things in. He started climbing out of the driver’s side and accidentally bumped the gearstick into reverse. He was halfway out the driver’s side, and got dragged under the door, narrowly missing the front wheel. I jumped sideways out of the way, only just avoiding the rear wheel.

The cab reversed across the (very fortunately empty street) and up the kerb on the other side, and started heading towards the garden and house of the people who lived there. The driver chased after it, and climbed back in and stopped it.

Luckily the car was relatively undamaged. The driver was, aside from a few bruises and scratches, unhurt. I was shaken, but physically ok.

The only casualty was my backpack, which went underneath the cab. It contained my laptop, my UC33e, my Trigger finger, and my FW410. All of them now crushed and unusable.

So – how was your weekend?

Mark

HaHa

[Marquis]

Update: The cab's insurance company have agreed to pay my claim in full, plus all costs associated with it (i.e. postage and costs of reair quotes etc).

So a big old cheque coming my way next week with which to buy toys. Hmmm toys.

Still not sure on the macbook pro idea. There's a lot of reasons to go PC, not the least of which is compatibility with my desktop PC.

Anyone know anything about building desktop power, semi-portable rack mount computers?

[frisbeedisk]

Carillon do great rack mounted PC, and very portable if you stick it in a rack bag, but you'll need to take along a monitor with you..

[hambone1]

Update: The cab's insurance company have agreed to pay my claim in full, plus all costs associated with it (i.e. postage and costs of reair quotes etc).

So a big old cheque coming my way next week with which to buy toys. Hmmm toys.

Still not sure on the macbook pro idea. There's a lot of reasons to go PC, not the least of which is compatibility with my desktop PC.

Anyone know anything about building desktop power, semi-portable rack mount computers?

Hang on a few days... the dual- and quad-core Xeon Mac Pro Workstations are just around the corner...

I plan on replacing my G5 tower when the 2nd gen (I don't do hardware beta testing) Workstations hit the shelves.

Regarding portability, I have my G5 and iBook shock-mounted into a mobile enclosure that I gig with. It works really well.

[zstowasser]

OMG I'm so sorry dude.. wow.

[djadonis206]

That sucks but all that can be replaced - it does suck - your life, just crushed in the moment, weak

but on the good side of things

you don't have, AIDS and you weren't born retarded or have any retarded children

You do have the opportunity to re coup all your stuff - couple of paychecks and you'll be back up and running

if you had AIDS, you could contract SUPER AIDS, one tea spoon of SUPER AIDS in your butt and you'll be dead in 6 months

so there's nothing to worry about

except SUPER AIDS!

[peeddrroo]

can't you charge them with software as well?
like "it was loaded in my laptop, i have to buy a new software"?

[Spikee]

Forge & Hambone: Yep. I won't replace the squished FW410 with another one. Just gotta work out what interface to get. The Presonus stuff was looking good, but I saw some negative commentary popping up lately, so I'm not sure.

My mac was really struggling to cope with the workload, too, and Iw as already talkign abotu upgrading, so I need to decide now if I replace it with a macbook pro (very early days, I know), or if I go the PC route.

Really, this could be a blessing in disguise.

Hey champ,

Sorry about your gear. Reading your story made me nauseous as I've only just bought my first laptop, a $3500 Alienware juggernaut machine back in May. I've had losses of my own though and after the complete anger and futility of the situation wears off you should be able to avow to write better stuff than what got lost.

As far as gear -- being a new lappie owner and all, I have to say that my e-mu 1616m pcmcia card and microdock has been phenomenal. Warning -- the routing on it is a bit funky but the sound quality and stability is quite exceptional. Plus, you don't need the microdock to use the pcmcia card -- on nights where you'll be doing light work, the card has a headphone jack on it so you can plug straight into the card.

Plus, bandwidth. Your pcmcia slot will have more bandwidth than a USB or firewire slot does, so your hardware performance will increase.

Good luck man!

[Spikee]

Hi folks.

I just wanted write a quick story about my weekend. Hope you don’t mind.

I had a fantastic time on the weekend.... mostly.

It began with a nice brunch down by the lake for my girlfriend’s birthday.

Then, I took part in the Rat Patrol freakbike “float” in a big Street Parade, DJing off my laptop from the top of a tandem tall bike (that’s two bikes, each built out of two bike frames – so twice as high as a normal bike - side by side with a tray between them on which we placed a generator and a PA system. Audience jaws dropped a plenty!

Then after the parade, arrived at the Fringe Festival stage, still on the tandem tallbikes, still pumping out tunes, for a dramatic entrance before playing a gig with my band!

And then, after driving to my place to drop off the band gear, we prepared to head back into town to have an impromptu party at a local park, again with me DJing from the top of the tall bikes, when disaster struck.

I asked the taxi driver to open the trunk so I could put things in. He started climbing out of the driver’s side and accidentally bumped the gearstick into reverse. He was halfway out the driver’s side, and got dragged under the door, narrowly missing the front wheel. I jumped sideways out of the way, only just avoiding the rear wheel.

The cab reversed across the (very fortunately empty street) and up the kerb on the other side, and started heading towards the garden and house of the people who lived there. The driver chased after it, and climbed back in and stopped it.

Luckily the car was relatively undamaged. The driver was, aside from a few bruises and scratches, unhurt. I was shaken, but physically ok.

The only casualty was my backpack, which went underneath the cab. It contained my laptop, my UC33e, my Trigger finger, and my FW410. All of them now crushed and unusable.

So – how was your weekend?

Mark

HaHa

You're a dick.

[David]

edit.

[supster]

Hi folks.

The only casualty was my backpack, which went underneath the cab. It contained my laptop, my UC33e, my Trigger finger, and my FW410. All of them now crushed and unusable.

So – how was your weekend?

Mark

HaHa

crypticUK or whatever you call yourself, remind me not to never invite you anywhere normal people go

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