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Friday, April 28 2006, 2:45 AM

In what may or not be a sweeps week, we here at WMGN bring you this news flash: God Forbid is an awesome band! I've just been informed that the news actually broke Saturday night, but this reporter didn't get the full story until he bought two of their albums ("Gone Forever" and "IV: Constitution of Treason") and gave them a shake down. Our sources confirm that Coyle brothers, guitarists for God Forbid, have serious guitar skill, and that they should be considered along side any guitar tandem in existence as one of the best. Their sheer riffing prowess and elegant yet agressive leads will surely lead to many hours of listening enjoyment for any fan of metal. Authorities on the scene recommend that any metalhead purchase albums by this band as soon as possible.

Ok, yah, that was lame. No more fake news reporting for me. On a similar yet less talented note, I've uploaded some guitar clips I've recorded over the past few days. All have included a couple beers at least. Apparently I'm more apt to play when I'm sans sobriety. I honestly don't remember if the first one is any good. The second one is pretty scatter brained, and if I remember right, my fretting hand was on fire that night, but my sense of time was not. The clip I recorded tonight was pretty quiet and mostly clean until the end, where I kicked on the amplifier's overdrive, a distortion pedal, and the wah pedal, and had a total Eddie Van Halen moment. You'll know it when you hear it. There are a few short parts that almost sound like they could have been plucked from "Eruption." Then again, they might sound like they were plucked out of a steaming pile of dung. You be the judge.

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Monday, March 20 2006, 12:45 AM

Tonight I fired up an old tradition. I got out some cables and the crappy Radio Shack kareoke amplifier thing I use as a post-amp, and I recorded some guitar noise. I haven't been playing a whole lot lately, and I'm pretty rusty. I played on both the Strat and the Bolt, which probably highlights the fact that I need to acquire more pickups for the Bolt. A few months back, the last of the Carvin pickups died, and I was forced to move the Fender Lace Sensor that Phil gave me down to the bridge position. It still sounds pretty good, but I definitely miss the sound of two pickups in unison on that guitar. I've been thinking of buying a couple more of the Fender Lace Sensors, but spending money is tight with all of the eye business lately.

Well, back to the recording. It's pretty aimless for the most part. I just dinked around for most of the "session," but there were a few sections in there where I played parts of "real" songs. Anyhow, here it is. Enjoy.

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Monday, July 11 2005, 12:04 AM

My luck proves once again that even the best laid plans can be foiled by something quite simple and unexpected. Megan asked me the other day if wanted to try rock climbing this weekend, and I rather excited for the chance. I knew that I would at least injure myself mildly during the climbing, perhaps a pulled muscle or a heart attack... who knows. But, as a twist of Kate, er, fate would have it, I was taken out of commission before I even had the opportunity.

I went out with Kate and one of her co-workers on friday night to a Lugnuts game. It was a pretty good game, but Kate made us leave in the 9th inning a of 4-4 tie. We were rather annoyed. We then had the privilege of standing in line at Rick's for around an hour before we were lucky enough to get in. I have to say it... I f'ing hate Ricks. It's a meathouse, no two ways about it. The only reason people go there is to find someone to take home that night. And it's smelly, and dark, and strikingly similar to a herd of cattle, both in density and intelligence, during peak times. We hung out there for a while, then I got bored and decided to head back to my car so I could head home. My car was parked at Kate's, which is a good 2 miles from Ricks, so I settled in for the long walk. Well, about three hundred yards from Ricks I found a bad piece of sidewalk and rolled my ankle. It wasn't bad enough to keep me from walking, and the alcohol helped dull the pain, but when I woke up the next morning I realized there was no way I was going to be scaling any vertical escarpments, artificial or otherwise. Megan was understanding and gave me a raincheck. I'm still looking forward to it, but it'll probably have to wait since I'll be busy with moving and vacations over the next few weekends. I suppose a midweek jaunt isn't out of the question, but my ankle will have to mend itself before that happens. [Edit: I'm not pissed at Kate... just annoyed with the situation. I seemed a tad harsh in the post, heh...]

Speaking of moving... I'll be moving in with Megan sometime within the next few weeks, most likely next weekend. I'm actually quite excited about it. We have a lot of common interests, but enough different ones so that I'll be exposed to some new things that I wouldn't normally have tried... like rock climbing! Plus she'll be the first non-work person I've lived with since I've moved up to Lansing, so I'll finally have a decent chance to meet some new people. I'm excited!

I started cleaning and packing this weekend so I could move more effectively. I tend to be a pack rat, so there's a lot of stuff that's accumulated in my room over the past year or so. I spent the better part of today throwing stuff out. I threw out about two garbage bags worth of stuff and about 80 pounds worth of old magazines that I've been carting around for no good reason. I'm shooting for a quick, light move this time. Quick and light is relative, but I'm still shooting for it.

Last, but not least, I've got another couple of guitar clips that I've recorded during the past week. The first was recorded on Greg's new acoustic-electric, even though you can't really tell. It might be the pickup or the way I had the equalizer settings tuned, but it didn't sound too acoustic to me... hehe. The second was recorded on the Bolt, complete with brand new strings, so it sounded really good. I don't know if my playing was as good, but you be the judge...

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Monday, June 27 2005, 9:55 PM

I've been thinking about my general station in life a good amount recently. In general, I have absolutely nothing to complain about. I have a loving and supporting family and a good job that I enjoy. I have no problems keeping myself fed (which is quite evident by looking at my waistline) and sheltered, and I have controlled debt. I am better off than a great many people around the world, and yet I quite often wonder if I will ever really be truly happy.

Even with the countless number of great people that have touched my life, I feel empty inside a good amount of the time these days. It seems like all of the things I used to enjoy have either passed or lost their luster. I don't really do anything fun anymore. I can't remember the last time I tried doing something new, or even what it was. The movie Groundhog Day seems strangely applicable when describing my life these days. Instead of being trapped in the same calendar day though, I am stuck in the same set of events, day in and day out, and they rarely ever change. I could go out and do something, but I don't. Don't ask me why I don't, because I don't know. Laziness? Perhaps. I don't have the answer.

The worst thing though is something I can't just go out and fix. I can't punch keys on a keyboard or turn a screwdriver or use a soldering iron to fix this problem. It boils down to the fact that I am lonely. Oh, so very lonely. My heart longs to love someone, but the electric sign up in the corner says "Now serving: 01", and nobody is taking the ticket. I don't think I can really be happy unless I am making someone else happy. I could be helping my situation out more by being more social, but it would seem that I don't want to do that either. Why? I don't know.

It seems as though I've written this post before. I probably have. After all, it's Groundhog Day, isn't it?

On a seperate note, I recorded a guitar doodle for the first time in a while earlier on this evening. It turned out somewhat well I think. You can check it out here.

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Thursday, October 28 2004, 11:32 PM

Holding to the line of exciting posts with pictures, I offer more words with pictorial accompanyment. This past weekend was mostly uneventful if I remember right, because I don't remember much happening. I did meet my family down at my grandma Neir's place, and we had dinner in honor of my dad's birthday. It was good to get down there and visit... I don't do it nearly enough.

This week has been a large pile of pure steaming suck. Monday I ended up working 13 hours in the attempt to get a new vserver set up, but everything was against me. Our kickstart setup was totally janked up, and that put me behind. There were other assorted problems throughout the day, so I didn't really get working on the server setup until it would normally be time to leave. I got the server and the vserver template finished up around 7, but was there until 9 testing it and tweaking the template. Tuesday wasn't half bad, but it was still rather busy. Yesterday fucking sucked due to the fact that some little script-kiddie decided to throw a 140Mbit+ DoS attack at a server on our network. That did a good job at crippling our network for a while until Greg and I could isolate the problem and get it blocked. The rest of the day after that wasn't bad, but the first part was bad enough. Today was busy, which is enough to call a day bad.

Speaking of networks, we got our new core switches in on monday... a couple of Cisco 6509's. Each one of them can handle like 50 million packets per second, so attacks like the one yesterday should do little more than tickle our network. I can't wait for it to come online. I also set up a much more powerful SQL server for my monitoring system at work. The old had a dual Pentium3 box functioning as the sole entity in the system - SQL server, collector, and web server. Now I have a Dual Opteron box functioning as the SQL server, and it's far less loaded than the P3. This should give us the capacity to install the monitoring system on at least another 200 machines before load again becomes a problem, if things behave linearly that is. I'll tell you one thing though... Dual Opterons compile Gentoo in a hurry! :)

Ace has been doing as good as can be expected I suppose. He still has accidents now and again, mostly because we're otherwise occupied and miss the "hey I have to go!" warning signs.

Last, and possibly least, I've recorded a few more diddys on the guitar over the past weeks that haven't been posted, so here they are. The first one is a rather short one played on the Fender, tuned to B. I think it's all clean, so your fragile little ears should be safe. The second clip was recorded the next night, with much more distortion, again on the Fender. If you listen not-so-carefully, you can hear me tuning from B to C about 3/4 of the way through. The third clip is much more lengthy, with much more going on as well. I think I show some signs of progress in this one. There are actually parts that I would call good sounding, and not in my normal metal way. It's recorded on the Fender again. There are some parts that are overdriven as a result of the mic inputs not being calibrated right when I switched to the neck/middle pickup combo, but oh well, this one is still worth getting. The last clip was recorded last on the Carvin in normal tuning. It has the added 'bonus' of having beats in the background provided by Frooty Loops. I played all right on top of the more aggressive beat, but later on I put on a slow one, and it highlights the fact that I don't play slow music. Oh well.

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Monday, October 11 2004, 9:33 PM

Today, when I was glancing at the webstats for my site, I noticed a weird string of downloads to one of my guitar MP3s. I traced it back to some 15 year old punk's xanga blog, and when I got there, I was rather dismayed to find that my (rather shitty) rendtion of Sanitarium from the guitar multimedia page was playing as the background music for his page. Not only is using my sound clip without my permission pretty lame, but he didn't even copy it to his webserver or anything. It was loading straight from my server, stealing my (free) bandwidth. Well, that had to stop. I decided to set up a redirect that would make this punk kid think twice before he hotlinked another mp3. I got a couple good suggestions of stuff to redirect to, such as static, a clip of me shouting into a microphone, or the audio track to a gay porn movie. The third would have been classic, but I had no desire to subject my ears or my webserver to something like that. So, I kinda combined the first two with some guitar stuff, and went to work. I cranked up the guitar, turned on every effect I had, and played a totally nasty dissonant chord (think alarm clock here) over and over again. It made an excellent backdrop for my verbal message, which ended up sounding really funny due to the voice I used. I repeated the voice clip over and over, as I let the dissonant chords deteriorate into a droning feedback loop. Definitely an annoying sound. After I had saved the sound and published it, I went to work on the redirect, only to find that the kid had moved on to use some other sound file as background music. All that work for nothing. Well, not really. I set it up as a universal hotlink blocker for my mp3 recordings, so anyone hotlinking the mp3s will get a rather annoying sound out of their speakers. For those who are interested, the clip is here.

I also recorded another guitar doodle after the hotlink soundclip was recorded, and that can be found here. I also posted some older doodles, located here and here. I can't remember if they're worth downloading, but they were worth saving to disk, so they can't suck that bad. Maybe.

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Tuesday, September 21 2004, 2:55 AM

What's that percentage you ask? Percentage of the world's collective population that want to see George Dubyah thrown into space? Perhaps... Percentage of your recommended daily fat content that eating a Whopper will consume? Nope, nothing that grand. That's how much of two weeks of night shifts that is behind me. Almost 60%. Thank god. They've been rather uneventful, which is a good thing. Saturday morning was a most painful exception to that trend though. A real shit storm that I had to weather pretty much entirely by myself. Not any fun. I came out alive, and I guess I'm stronger right? We'll see.

Being on the night shifts has once again sapped my will to do anything productive during the day. Cooking and cleaning have gone by the wayside, and my supply of provisions has become rather light. I've yet to get more than 6 hours of sleep after any given night of work, which makes me tired and unmotivated for the rest of the day. Most days I'll lay down at 8 or 9pm and nap until 11 or so, and then I'll get ready to leave. I'd much rather be dragging my ass out of bed at 7am than going to bed at 9am. Screw this.

One cool thing is that I hooked up the guitar setup to the computer in the basment and started doing some recording stuff again. I experimented a bit with recording straight out of the effects pedals instead of taking the line-out out of the amp. My reasoning is that it would probably be easier to dial in a good recording level out of the pedals because the volume coming out of them doesn't change, since I don't ever adjust my settings there. I've got my sound dialed in, and it doesn't change. I do, however, change the volume and tone stuff on the amp, which can cause the recording levels on the computer to be either too loud or too soft if I don't make corrections. Well, I wasn't very pleased with the sound straight out of the pedals. In short, it was weak. It was very treble-y, and had no balls. I prefer that my 'sound' be pretty hard-hitting, and it certainly was not that.

I recorded a couple of Metallica songs (yes, again... it's what I know) the other day with the out-of-the-pedals setup, and they turned out all right, minus the weak sound. For those that care, here they are. And Justice for All and Blitzkrieg. I also recorded another clip earlier tonight of random doodling, this time using the line-out on the amp. Sounds a lot stronger. Plus you can hear the sweet sound of the Fender-Lace Sensor that Phil let me have. Thanks Phil! Here's your random doodling.

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Saturday, June 19 2004, 7:28 PM

I just got done recording another chunk of improv guitar crap... no songs here. This is all played on the Carvin, in C# tuning. Yup, cranked those strings up a bit tighter. This one is about a half hour long, and will tap your internet connections for about 20MB. Enjoy.

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Saturday, June 12 2004, 7:53 PM

This is going to be one link filled post. First off are the guitar clips I alluded to in the last posting. I did the clips kinda funky, so follow along. Note that all clips are just me, so it can get kinda boring in the places where there's no guitar. Also, I neglected to change the equalizer settings on the distortion pedal for recording, so the clips are really heavy on the bass and treble. It might be in your best interests to turn down your bass and treble on your player if you choose to listen.

First there's the whole thing (1:23:51, 102MB). This has all the bullshit in between songs, like me doodling, tuning, etc. If you're really really bored, you can listen to this. Next I've divided that huge ass clip into two parts, first clip (26:45, 31MB) is when I'm playing on the Carvin, tuned to C. I played a few Prong songs here, and did some goofing around towards the end. The second clip (57:02, 71MB) is me playing on the Strat, in a normal E tuning. I jammed to some of the old Megadeth and Metallica favorites here.

Those are the big chunks. Now, for those of you with shorter attention spans (read: everybody), here are the individual songs. First off were Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck (4:06, 4.7MB), Test (6:09, 7.2MB), and Whose Fist Is This Anyway (4:42, 5.6MB) by Prong. These are the songs played on the Carvin. Then I switched over to the Strat and played (in no particular order) Orion (8:00, 9.9MB), Ride The Lightning (6:34, 8.6MB), Master of Puppets (8:30, 12MB), One (7:06, 8.6MB), Sanitarium (6:24, 8MB), and Disposable Heroes (8:14, 11MB) by Metallica, and Symphony of Destruction (3:51, 4.7MB) by Megadeth. Yah, I didn't branch out very much here, what else is new.

Next are some more funny Family Guy clips that I've been meaning to post. They're hilarious! But what part of the family guy isn't hilarious? Here are the vids...

Six Million Dollar Man (6.7MB)

Gumbel-2-Gumbel (20MB)

Black to the Future (42MB)

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Saturday, February 28 2004, 9:48 PM

Hmmm... Last few days at work have been pretty calm, which is pretty cool. Everybody's been in and doing their thing, so the workload has been light. Works for me. Chris was doing some upgrades on MRTG on one of our monitoring servers, and broke one of the setups that I had made to log activity on the servers. It wasn't really a big deal since I made something new and better to replace it. Well, I am in the process of making something to replace it. The prototype works pretty well, but is kind of inflexible in its current state. I've been meaning to finish making it, but I kinda lost motivation. Well, when Chris broke MRTG, I had some motivation to start development again, so I'll probably doing that over the coming weeks.

Speaking of development... I really have to ask what combination of drugs the Microsoft developers were on when they wrote the code that displayed the message below. I saw this when I was trying to listen to some guitar clips I recorded in windows media player... Strange shit. I guess shouldn't have cut the blue wire when trying to disarm that bomb the other day...

I've got some more guitar clips up for the three people who would actually care... They're kindy funky in nature, and sound pretty cool with the guitar upgrades. The combination of the low B string and the new pickup configuration makes for a really cool sound, almost like a bass, and when I pick the strings hard, it yields a sound similar to a slap/pop sound on a bass. Sounds really cool.

Clip 1: Funky 1

Clip 2: Funky 2

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