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Stuff over the week

Air Compressor

I went shopping the other day for an air compressor so I wouldn’t have to borrow one anymore. Suffice to say I was able to get one plus a duster-gun addon, so basically I have something that’s specifically made for cleaning dusty objects/components (e.g. my computer)

Microphone Stand

Another thing I found while searching for the compressor was a microphone stand. When I record at home, I usually hold the mic, which meant that I never could use the pop filter I had purchased with it. I was lucky enough to find a mini mic stand, which was exactly what I needed to conserve space. For 350 pesos, it was a brainless purchase.

Gaming

I was itching to try the new PC with some cool game, unfortunately, I played all the newer ones (or at least, the new ones I liked) already. So I decided to re-install some old ones. Namely, Prince of Persia 2 – The Warrior Within for the gameplay/story, and Doom 3, for the graphics engine everyone was raving about in the past.

To give an idea of the performance: 1280×1024, all settings maxed (save for the antialiasing, which I just set at 4x), WITHOUT a pagefile in Windows 1 This means most of the time, everything is working directly from the RAM (which is a risky setting, but very much doable). It is to be noted that I haven’t pushed the card to it’s “limits” since I simply put in the settings I would like to play with… not neccessarily what the card is capable of. I guess I’ll try maxing everything out one of these days to see if the framerates can hold.

Notes

Notes
⇡1 This means most of the time, everything is working directly from the RAM (which is a risky setting, but very much doable
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Random thoughts

Finally had time to blog! Topics covered in this post:

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Photos
  • Recording
  • Some other stuff
  • Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
  • Intel and Apple stuff

Pretty long post, so just skip to the parts that interest you (if any)

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Details of past posts

I’m just testing out the new Lumix, and I don’t know if it’s because I’m just used to my 20D, but the pics are too noisy for my taste. I have to try to borrow other point and shoot cameras to double check if it simply is an issue of point-and-shoots in general. In any case, it doesn’t matter since it ain’t mine.

Since my 20D isn’t back yet, I thought I should just use the new cam for my new stuff. The canalphones really needed live pictures because it’s so hard to describe in text my particular concerns without sounding too complicated – so I thought it would be better to have pictures for the benefit of the people who actually are interested in whatever the hell I put in my blog.

You can click on the thumbnails in this post for a larger view

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Etymotic Research ER4P

Ok remember when I was rationalizing how getting the EM3s was enough to not get the upper class headphones (e.g. e5c, UE10 pro, ER4P/S)? Well I friggin’ caved! As of tomorrow morning I’m going back to the Norman Audio showroom, to get a pair of Etymotic Research ER4Ps.

These are one of the many “upper class” canalphones I rationalized to be too expensive to invest in (but never did I question their quality), hence settling for the kick-ass FutureSonics EM3s

This has a backstory to it, which of course is a further rationalization of how weak I am when it comes to technolust hahaha. Surprisingly though my mom didn’t question my decision at all… maybe it was because she just bought a digicam for herself without actually knowing what the hell she wanted. We chose for her, and I must say it was a nice Panasonic Lumix (Leica lens) bargain. Anyways, I digress. Read More