Archives for the month of: August, 2005

Six Feet Over

August 21, 2005 //
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Tonight was the last episode ever of Six Feet Under. It was a good episode. It was a great show.

!!!SPOILERS BELOW!!!

I had joked with a friend from work about everybody dying in the last episode, due to a house fire or something like that. While that didn’t happen, they did have a nice little twist on it that I definitely liked. In the last 10 minutes or so of the show they fast forwarded through everybody’s lives and shows how all the main characters eventually die. I thought that was pretty cool.

The 4th season comes out on DVD on Tuesday. I’ll definitely be picking that up and probably watch through the entire series again.

I’m tempted to blather on about it and how the show makes me feel, but I should just stop myself now.

Categories Television

Save Your Heart

August 8, 2005 //
2

From Breaking.

Categories Music

Hooray for dual OS CDs and apps!

August 3, 2005 //
2

Last week or so my laptop suddenly started acting weird. By weird I mean that it’s be slow and stuttery. It takes longer to boot Windows. When Windows finally does boot and I log in, the login sound plays all stuttery. Ableton Live now stutters and is unusable. I’m fairly certainly the problem is with the hard disk. When I set a loop in Live to play from RAM instead of disk, it plays without any stutters.

I guess I’m going to have to replace my laptops hard drive. I’m not sure if I can even take it out.

In the meantime, I found myself wondering how man of my audio applications and virtual instruments also work on the Mac. I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of my instruments do. The M-Tron, Halion and X-Phrase are all dual-OS CDs. Ableton Live is also a multi-OS install.

Although it’s not quite as portable as the laptop (I can’t take it on the train), the Mac Mini may at least let me continue to get some ideas down while I figure out what’s up with the laptop.

Categories Computers, Mac, Music