February 2012
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DIY Direct Injection Box →
Maybe my next project…
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January 2012
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So loud!
For years I’ve run all audio through an M-Audio firewire solo that ran the speakers and headphones. Recently I’ve been having trouble with plugging everything into it so I decided to run everything through a Behringer rack mixer I’ve got instead. So after switching it all over I put on some music on my PC and discovered that it’s incredibly loud!
The Behringer mixer has...
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December 2011
7 posts
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I just got an oscilliscope for 30 quid from a junk shop. It works a treat!
This video shows the output from my SY77 playing a very basic tonewheel organ patch.
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November 2011
3 posts
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Charlie Brooker | The trouble with video games... →
October 2011
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Photographing Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon →
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Got a new camera so decided to make a wee movie.
Very wee.
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August 2011
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A trip to a newsagents
I went into a newsagent on Byres road earlier this afternoon to buy a drink. I picked up a bottle of coke and went to the counter where I handed over the bottle. Then the following exchange occurred:
Shop Keeper: Is that all?
Me: Yes, thanks.
Shop Keeper: (pause) You don’t want a Mail on Sunday?
What? A Mail on Sunday? Why?!
Me: No…
Shop Keeper: OK, that’s 99 pence,...
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July 2011
7 posts
THE FUCKING WEATHER →
What it says on the tin.
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An alternative take on the phone-hacking scandal (via New Statesman)
English is English, except when it’s not.
– John E. McIntyre
June 2011
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TF3 feels like three different movies, edited together by a lemur on provigil.
– Transformers 3 is a movie about how wrong you were to hate Transformers 2
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What I did this weekend
I went to the new Riverside Museum today.
It was busy.
And green.
I think it has a lot less floor space than the old one so everything felt very cramped…
and green.
In fact it was so cramped they had to put things all up the walls where you couldn’t really see them.
I don’t really find old cars that interesting in the first place, but when you can’t even get...
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