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[11:12pm]
I don't really know why but today I just felt really out of it. I just don't really feel like doing anything at all... Sarah's getting on my nerves calling me an Anal Pirate over and over again for 2 hours straight and since I don't really talk to anybody else except Noah, who's really only good for short conversations, I'm about to go crazy sitting at home all the time. But at the same time I really don't want to go out and do anything. Ugh. Damn My Life.
Anyway no offence to Noah about what I said, we just don't have that much to talk about except movies and Sarah, and music gets old and when we talk about Sarah it gets really really awkward.
But anyway, I thought today was gonna be a good day today, and to a certain extent it was, I managed to get a 100 on a math test which was pretty good, and Cullipher wasn't there, which was a bit of a blessing because we were supposed to have a really big test on the first two acts of Macbeth. So at least I'll have another day to study, or actually not, I never study for anything so technically it'll just be another day for me to worry about what I'll make on it and to think about studying.
I honestly don't know how I make the grades that I do, I mean last year in AP US History I made a 91 class average, thats like a 5.9 GPA because AP adds 2 points to the final grade. And I did all of that while only cracking the book twice. Ok that had alot to do with the fact that Mr. Gergle my teacher is insanly good at what he does but still a 91 for doing nothing, espically in AP, is awsome.
I'm taking AP Government this year and its actually alot easier, and I have a much better average in there because there's not as much work. The only problem is that the subject matter is deffiantly not as intresting as it was last year. Which sucks but again, at least the workload isnt as big.
Anyway ( I say that wayyyy too much), After all of my classes I had to submit myself to Sarah's tourture. I mean come on who really wants to sit in a room they can't leave, listening to a girl call you 1000 different variations of homosexual. It's not fun, although I think I have to commend her on her creativity. Anal Pirate was one of the tame ones.
I stole Sarah's calculator about halfway through 6th period, she never saw me so she was really confused for about 20 minutes. It really made my day. Even though that's an odd thing to be happy about.
After school everybody left and I was left to my own devices for a while. I forgot to bring the powercable for mom's laptop today so I couldnt play on the internet or do any HDR stuff because I didnt feel like waiting until I got home to process it all. I was just really out of it.
I'm really kind of done with school for a while, I mean I'm really having a better year that I did last year but I still get to a point where I can't stand this place anymore, Its just a little slower in coming now that I almost enjoy my time here. That is when Sarah's not lashing out at the world because her friend moved to Oklahoma.
Who knows though, I'm really getting off topic here. Mom picked me up at around 5, we got McDonalds (nasty) and we went home where I watched The Matador, which is a really good movie by the way with Pierce Brosnan and another guy who's name I can't remember at the moment. But it's basically Pierce Brosnan as a burnt out Hitman.
I also downloaded a bunch of music off of the movie. Mostly stuff by the Killers, who I hadn't heard of before tonight. I really like them.
I was trying to think up a picture that would go along with the title "In the Wee Small Hours of the Night" one of the songs that I downloaded last night by Sinatra but after finishing this i figured that the title was a little bit corny. I don't really like this one either but I guess it's better than the first.
But that's my day. And if you actually read all of this you really care wayyy too much about my life. Espically if you go to school with me, thats just a little wierd. Although I really don't mind. I put all of this stuff on the internet with the intention of people reading it so I can't complain when people from school read about it.
Ok thats it. I'm tired of typing.
One more thing though...
I'm finally on the home stretch, 64 pictures to go until I make it to a year. I'm gonna keep going though and after the first of the year I'm gonna start a new one, It will be the same pictures I'm just gonna try to write more so at the end of the year I can try and put everything in a book and have it printed.
Should be fun... but jesus I'm in a writing mood today. I've gotta stop.
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'The Film Maker'
A portrait of film maker Richard Binnnigton surrounded by equipment
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WEEK 19 - Portrait: Messy
Take an amazing portrait of someone, make a mess while you are doing it.
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Did you spot the moon in between the two towers?
Rolleiflex SL66 medium format camera
Carl Zeiss Rollei-HFT Planar 2.8/80 lens
Kodak Portra 160NC film
Scan from negative @4800dpi, downsized x0.5
Power Cables.
I have many power cables from past living room systems, old audioquest NRG3, NRG5, Acoustic Arts ferrite I and II, Vovox textura Power to mention a few.
This new Audioquest storm series range of cables compared to the others in my systems really make things shine a lot more, and I mean a lot more, they are not affordable, but for me they make very noticeable positive diferences, the diferences are so big that my account suffers every time one of them enters in my audio system and play some music, welcome upgrades that sometimes are bigger than changing most of the hardware.
Every power cable I have changed in my desktop system made a big diference, even the Apple Mac Pro made very big changes in the sound when the original supplied cable was exchanged by an Audioquest Thunder, it’s not a subtile change.
The hurricane is one of the best I have ever heard and one of the most expensive I have ever listened to, the only downside in a few weeks is not if it is good enough, but if I can live without the Hurricane in my system anymore.
I give my special thank’s to Esotérico to landing me the Hurricane to listen before acquisition, you can check their site in esoterico.pt
An attractive building, and good light for a photo, but the ubiquitous overhead cables sabotaged the aesthetics.
This new X line of iFi product range is something to beautiful to look at and feel in the hand, the xCan is really small like the amazing xDSD that received the EISA award last year, the xCan looks as good as the sounds, is a magical combination of hardware and passion.
That passion is present when you send music from your phone to the xDSD you understand how weak your phone amplifier is, this small wonder has power to drive some difficult headphones without showing signs of weakness, in a small package like this, and for me is really impressive.
The xCan is a portable amplifier that can be connected to your phone by bluetooth and use any set of wired headphones, even very demanding ones, and stream your music from your phone.
And this is a most needed add-on in a present where phone manufacturers are removing the headphone Jack, migrating users to a new wave of wireless headphones. Wireless headphones are practical but with that practicability we pay premium for a not so good sound, and for the same price there are a lot of superior wired headphones the we can buy and have a more rewarding sound experience.
In the end the best of the best earphones that I know are wired, so the xCan can be the the perfect add-on you can buy to your phone to listen music on the go.
Also at home you can connect this little marvel to a set of amplified speakers or even your living room system and transform tour speakers in wireless bluetooth speakers, streaming music by bluetooth in ACC or aptX from your tablet or phone.
You can also use the xBass and 3D effect if you wish, on some tracks it’s really good effect, the xCan implementation of xBass is an addictive effect to have on the go.
You can not go wrong with the xDSD, it plays very well, has a lot of functionality, it’s beautiful, very portable, the iFi X line really has the X Factor.
If you are looking to a good portable bluetooth preamp the xCan should be on your list of hardware to try.
Mills road Sudbury based Agribulk tippers brace of Daf XF coupled to three axle tipper trailers parked in the Sudbury depot
This long exposure was taken so that the storm clouds would merge into one another to create a silky smooth effect against the hard lines of the power lines. It was raining hard but intermittently. I was able to produce this shot from a 60 second exposure between the showers (but my coat was still covering my camera!).
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5d mk II
tripod
ND110
ND 0.9 grad
shutter release cable
I see, Flickr has changed its English version to the new awful layout.
The German version is still the old one. But how long???????
I am using the German version now.
It is strange, but deep inside I have a feeling that reminds me of times, I supposed to be history in my mind. Dictatorship!
Oh, I am furious!!!
Have you tried the new tagging system??? I do understand, they want to make us stop all tagging!!!
The EISA award is perfectly understandable, the product in the hand e a remarkable piece of jewellery for audio on the go, the sound is almost on par with the micro iDSD Black Label in a quarter of the size simply amazing.
I can't remember another brand but Sony to have in the past this level of pleasure of owning one great quality product on my hand like their top of the line walkman hardware in the 80’s.
iFi with the xDSD made me feel today the same desire and satisfaction. It a wow! product since the initial unpacking to the pleasure of having it on the hand, is beautiful crafted and on the dark side a fingerprint revelation, I am simply in love by it.
The sound, I never used my micro iDSD away from the desktop, it was portable but not that portable, and very awkward to me to use something like the micro iDSD BL on the go, even if the micro sounds a little better the small advantage that the micro can have on sound does not justify the space and lack of usability on the size of the unit, no way I was using it on the go, anyway the micro Black is more complete and better sounding hardware that deserve is place on the best of the best.
The xDSD is something I will gladly use on the go with pride like an Hugo Boss suit, or an Breitling watch, it simply feels premium and sounds so good, it's not awkward it's beautiful, makes heads turn and look at it with curiosity, it's great sound with stylish looks.
The xbass makes magic on music, the 3D makes everything float around, the effects are not Audiophile correct, but who cares, on the go they are magical, and with all the noise around you on the streets you get more pleasure with them, the xBass and 3D are simple like honey, it produces lot's of detail in a musical way. All other portable Dac's now seem ugly as hell comparing the hardware alone side by side, but not only the portable DAC's, there is a lot of hardware that design and build is not on par with their sound, some have the design and sound horrible, other have the sound and are bad looking. The xDSD is the synergy of sound and looks well made.
EISA Award is very deserved for sound, size, battery duration, beauty, portability, even the price.
There are things we sell to be able to upgrade, and then many years after we regret to have sold that hardware that marked our memories. The iFi xDSD is one product that you will never forget if for some motive I sell it, in 10 or 20 years I will regret have done it, this one is special.
This was my computeraudiophile forum post about the xDSD www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/38723-ifi-audio-x...
Congratulations iFi.
A close up of the power line being detached from floats and entering the mouth of the Horizontal Directional Drilling pipe to be brought ashore the other side of the A259 .
In the search for a better musical experience extracting better sound from my recent iFi DAC upgrade and get more pleasure in the sound presentation I discovered SOTM products, I searched for information of network streamers and similar user opinions about them, saw videos and all that I can find about on the web, and after reading lots of average consensus of users in their with their experience, and after some weeks acquired an SOTM sMS-200 Ultra without listening.
I have to admit that acquiring without listening is risky decision, and sometimes you could end with a unit that do not give any positive enhancement to your system. The intent was to remove my noisy Mac Pro from degrading the sound of the DAC, is this case an iFi iDSD Pro that has galvanic isolation but is very sensible to all cables and accessories before it, as any other DAC the quality of the USB connection is primordial to a better sound experience.
You can clean your computer USB, but you will pay the same or more than buy a optimised and clean dedicated computer exclusively for audio.
It’s that quality USB connection I was searching and found it on the SOTM sMS-200 Ultra, it impressive how a single device for giving you a great USB link affects the final sound.
Computers are terribly noisy devices, electricity in an apartment is full of noise, that contaminates the computer, processor, motherboard, fan, hard drive, external devices with bad power supply’s, even software resource needs generate noise, and that noise affects the link that is made from the computer to the DAC.
Any user like me trying to get better audio will start a journey of cleaning that USB transmission with galvanic isolated solutions, USB regenerators and re-clockers, and many other solutions that exist on the market and stores that clean the USB signal. Some of devices at every step give you an extra more, or a different presentation, or change the total presentation, sometimes in a good way, other times not accomplishing what they promote or I expect for the price
What did SOtM do, they produced a small audio optimised network computer to connect to your DAC by USB, it has an optimised and excellent internal clock board, but they build it with high quality audiophile components, for me they have made something very special that results very well on my system.
The SOtM SMS-200 Ultra is a simple audiophile network streamer for the only propose to pass the bits to your DAC in the cleanest way possible.
The sMS-200 Ultra supports various audio standard protocols like the Roon RAAT, HQPlayer, LibreSpot, Minim Server, Airplay, Bubble UPnP, DLNA, Squeezelite, and runs a light linux optimised version for audio called Eunhasu that can be upgraded with more functionality and add support for future DAC hardware.
Their service and support has been very receptive to beginner questions, with fast reply and helpful responses, thats a thumbs up for support. For me, product support is one of the most important features of any product.
The sOTM sMS-200 Ultra is an awesome product it made a big change for the better to my music enjoyment… The final result is based on my personal system, room, cables, and could be different on your system, but one thing I have certain, If anyone tries one of this units the change will be noticed for the better.
When I dedicate some of my time to write about it, it’s because I the product quality and benefit it gave me. Is common that the new upgraded unit is better than the last used solution, and the big motive I upgraded an stayed in the system. But regarding the presence I feel now when I listen to a good album, the SOtM sMS-200 Ultra is one of the best upgrades I have done in the last few years, and the upgrades where a lot.
Apart from some rock concerts, small jazz groups and some classical music concerts, my live music experience is not that active, I will not compare the real presentation that I can achieve, but instead the enjoyment the SOtM offered to me from my system, and with it came a new musical experience. The difference of hearing a real orchestra in plain euforia is something that I never heard any system being capable of, the real thing is a more powerful experience that any system or my small one can reproduce, I herd systems close to that reality with prices impossible to archive by a normal person, but with my hardware limitation, the emulation of the artist presence was upgraded to a new level.
All of this to explain that is difficult to quantify how better in my case the SOtM is compared to reality, but I can quantify listen experience before and after the SOtM, and here it goes.
The SOtM is all about music, after changing the in the box power supply for an SBooster it really shines, the music presentation grows a lot, and the speakers grow the sound to a huge presentation, the sound is so big that the room feels larger, a friend of mine when showing the music, started to look behind searching for surround speakers on the back wall, the SOtM sMS 200 Ultra really made the presentation of some albums impressive. One example of this is the Pink Floyd track On The Run from the Dark Side of the Moon album, or tracks from the album Blood from This Mortal Coil.
The SOtM sMS-200 Ultra is musical and not aggressive in any way, and has this 3D way of presenting the sound a sensation of magical sweetness without loss of information, I am loving it and ordered an SPS-500 Power supply with silver cable, it deserves the best friend to complement and shine even more.
The sound from my Mac Pro was somehow a little bi dimensional when compared to the SOtM, the highs sometimes where to much, and lacked the dimension that the SOtM has, it sounded ok but was not holographic like the sound I have now, and lacked some musicality, some albums where too harsh and very aggressive to be played, this doesn’t mean a bad recording will sound good, the bad will sound always bad, but good recording elevate your experience in a way with the SOtM that the computer did not acomplished.
When used with a good DAC and a quality usb cable, in my case the iFi iDSD Pro DAC and the Audioquest Diamond USB, it gave me impressive results connected to my Focal Solo 6be.
I find the SOtM sMS-200 Ultra very sensitive to power cables, I used Audioquest tornado cables on the iFI and SOtM, and they proved to result very well in my setup.
So I think audiophiles will love it, for me is not an option to revert back to my Mac Pro as a USB source.
If you are using a DAC connected to your computer, you have to try an SOtM streamer and see what you have been loosing in sound with your computer, and pair the SOtM with a good and decent power supply and it will really shine.
The EISA award is perfectly understandable, the product in the hand e a remarkable piece of jewellery for audio on the go, the sound is almost on par with the micro iDSD Black Label in a quarter of the size simply amazing.
I can't remember another brand but Sony to have in the past this level of pleasure of owning one great quality product on my hand like their top of the line walkman hardware in the 80’s.
iFi with the xDSD made me feel today the same desire and satisfaction. It a wow! product since the initial unpacking to the pleasure of having it on the hand, is beautiful crafted and on the dark side a fingerprint revelation, I am simply in love by it.
The sound, I never used my micro iDSD away from the desktop, it was portable but not that portable, and very awkward to me to use something like the micro iDSD BL on the go, even if the micro sounds a little better the small advantage that the micro can have on sound does not justify the space and lack of usability on the size of the unit, no way I was using it on the go, anyway the micro Black is more complete and better sounding hardware that deserve is place on the best of the best.
The xDSD is something I will gladly use on the go with pride like an Hugo Boss suit, or an Breitling watch, it simply feels premium and sounds so good, it's not awkward it's beautiful, makes heads turn and look at it with curiosity, it's great sound with stylish looks.
The xbass makes magic on music, the 3D makes everything float around, the effects are not Audiophile correct, but who cares, on the go they are magical, and with all the noise around you on the streets you get more pleasure with them, the xBass and 3D are simple like honey, it produces lot's of detail in a musical way. All other portable Dac's now seem ugly as hell comparing the hardware alone side by side, but not only the portable DAC's, there is a lot of hardware that design and build is not on par with their sound, some have the design and sound horrible, other have the sound and are bad looking. The xDSD is the synergy of sound and looks well made.
EISA Award is very deserved for sound, size, battery duration, beauty, portability, even the price.
There are things we sell to be able to upgrade, and then many years after we regret to have sold that hardware that marked our memories. The iFi xDSD is one product that you will never forget if for some motive I sell it, in 10 or 20 years I will regret have done it, this one is special.
This was my computeraudiophile forum post about the xDSD www.computeraudiophile.com/forums/topic/38723-ifi-audio-x...
Congratulations iFi.
Time to sort out the music room and re-organise things...
Some music from Incubus to accompany the process - Here In My Room
Part of a birthday gift from.... a Friend. Little bit of a hit-n-miss at first but finally got all the parts needed for newest computer upgrade.
These Newegg purchased parts (~$40 including.... 68 CENT shipping charge) are:
* Rosewill 36" SATA III UV Blue Flat Cable w/ Locking Latch (RCAB-11040, 1.5 to 6 Gbps, the two pretty blue still rolled cables toward the back)
* StarTech 12" LP4 to 2 SATA Internal Power Splitter Cable (PYO2LP4SATA, the multi-colored cable)
* ASUS 24X DVD Burner (DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS, called OEM with translation being you have to buy everything else separate)
* Rosewill 56Kbps Conexant Hardware Based Modem (RNX-56USB, V.92 Data/Fax/TAM, little black thing on top of DVD burner, SINGLE port)
Bought OEM parts in the past but somehow missed I needed to purchase cables and screws if I didn't already have them this time. Screws I had. Went ahead and bought the SATA power splitter cable since it was about the same cost as others. Figure sooner or later I'll end up needed it anyway. All parts would looked at with both backward and forward compatibility in mind, well, besides being among the first items showing in Newegg's low to high price availability feature for each component category. *grin*.
The Rosewill dialup modem (small black item in center on top of DVD burner) actually sped things up nearly times two of all things. Was previously having to rebuild the software for my VERY OLD internal Slamr based modem AND then it only connected max at 32800 bps (bits per second). This new external modem maxxes consistently at the 57600 bps rating. Feels like it, too, as websites are loading notably faster.
Parts are all running on Knoppix Linux 7.0.2 right now. In fact is first time I've been able to run the Knoppix 7.0.2 LiveDVD full throttle. Maybe only 10th time it's ever been fired up. Things slow down some but a quick memory upgrade as the next goal SHOULD help there. To get the modem up and running, I plugged it into the back then ran "sudo wvdial". Plugged results of /etc/wvdial.conf into kppp's configure settings and blew my mind... when it actually freaking worked! That doesn't happen often on the first go with this computer. :))
Life Lesson Learned the Hard Way was it took two purchases because I didn't realize the cables weren't included with the DVD burner. If you go buying cables, KNOW your machine and look for parts that tell you how many pins each end contains.. ALSO the external modem only has one port. Got lucky there as I had previously bought a two-way phone cable splitter.. That's plugged into the main line then phone and modem cables are plugged separately into it.
Thank you shoutout to My dot Buddy. for making this possible. :)