Steve Henderson played music with us and wrote some great science fiction. Wish he was here.

 80361027.pdf Here's the instructions for my guitar amp.

I've actually been playing it through the board lately. The Peavey Standard PA is a pretty awesome guitar amp. I'm going for a very distinctive sound and so far, I can get that inside the computer or drive the Peavey/Hancock speaker to epic SPL's and textures. I'm still experimenting with stomp boxes too. My kit would probably be complete with more of a fuzz distortion pedal. I have a Boss HM-2 but it is like a chainsaw, Swedish Deathmetal kind of sound.

I put on some Ernie Ball Regular Slinky strings. Wow! It's so much more fun to play because it rings out a good sound and the sustain is very improved. 

Welcome to the Show that never ends

I've got my equipment set up for live performances in my basement and on Video, coming soon. I am editing and refining my repertoire and I am rehearsing now, and shows will be taped once we do some mise en scene and sort out our set lists. I wouldn't rule out doing some youtube live outreach. Does Facebook still have "Live?" We used it during the plague. It was lots of fun. I have to refresh my memory of the studio software that we used.

 It's another Thursday again.

I've been editing songs for a project on my website. It's at CyberMecha.Org or FluxOersted.Com

I have about 40 songs that I've picked through and edited for continuity. I've got them organized into two albums. There are about 6 Pink Floyd songs, and Joe Jackson, Black Sabbath, Paul McCartney, NIN, and even a Gary Numan song. This would be a good couple of sets to me. I just keep making a listening pass and think about what I'm hearing in different angles. Later, I'll listen on some reference speakers and I've got some headphones that are rated for monitor use.

 Back by Popular Demand. Thursdays only.

There's no way to predict the rain, but there's certainly a way to dress for the process. Wear army/navy surplus gear and you can't go wrong.

Except be careful in your jump boots when it is wet like this because you can easily slip and fall

So this is Friday! Time is nothing. It merely rearranges your memory.

That's what Gary Numan said on the Tubeway Army album. I'm working on a new album (10/17/25) and I'm marking the date so I can come back later and see whether it was finished or not.

I've got 3 songs, but they are not that good. I am experimenting and going for the mechanics of putting together songs. I think I have what I need now to start really focusing on the kind of sound and the instrumentaton I want to use. I tried this using all MIDI recording and using cables to connect my various devices to. It was a lot less workable than I imagined. I enjoyed that equipment but it is not 1992 anymore. I need to just save up and get a new mac mini perhaps.

 Back to the Egg:

That's the Paul McCartney album I've been listening to. I'm finding my own sound, and it is interesting because I used to think my sound was just the collection of junk that I used to record with. That's no longer true.

I've still got all the same instruments. They all have their own sound but where's mine? I always thought that I should play the guitar through all the effect pedals because I had them, and they are there. I discovered the headphone jack built into my guitar. It has an overdrive setting. I can use that most of the time, and forget all the stomp boxes. I have so many choices.

The thing with guitar is making yourself conform to the fret board. I think my guitar is set up properly. I don't have any issues with it musically. There are some rough spots in the construction. Some people try to fix all that, but for what it cost, I can learn to live with it. If I live long enough to learn how to play this guitar, maybe I would consider getting a nicer one, but for now I have this one.

 

I've been keeping journals since I was about 15. For some reason, my mind exploded about that time. At first it was a good thing, being bright and ambitious. But I think I was confused at that age about what I really wanted in life. Maybe I would have been better off going to a trade school, but I went to UGA instead. I did well for the first 2 years, and then I started losing touch with the reason I went there. It was a gradual thing at first but by the end of the 3rd year, I felt like I was in the wrong school and I dropped out for a while. I went on a Carribean cruise and that was like a reset for me. I lasted a short time more and the whole exercise seemed like meaningless struggles to me. I became a professional student. I made over $50,000 in one attempt at finishing a degree, but it also eventually became an irrellevant chore. 

 The Sun has been shining on me this week. 

Again with the afternoon rain showers. I like it except the high humidity and proclivity for insects. This is the deep south in August, so you pretty much know what to expect. I think I've had enough sun for a while as my wounds heal from fierce bugs that lay in wait outside. Only 2 of the cats we have, well 3 of the cats we hve want to be outside. The rest of them never even think about it, but I left the door open one night and  had 6 cats wander outside. They weren't curious enough when I started closing the door.

I'm moving my diary here because it is easier to read. I've been working with the synth rack that I call my Rack of Spam. I am involved in some issues setting the midi instrument number on some of the ones that I have. I can mostly play them independently, but the confounded things overlap and won't behave logically. No pun intended.

It's been a hard slog, but we did it. I mean I did. Nobody else helped me. I accomplished 3 things: I set all the MIDI in numbers on my rack's synthesizers. There are some issues with it. Technical support is right on it. They said they could rush it through in about two months. Updates follow.

I discovered that some of my older computers have some life in them as sequencers. If that's all they have to do, maybe there is enough CPU in there to do some song processing. It's like having your legs kicked out from under you when your hardware fails. There's only so much you can do but it's worth the effort to keep going. I wish everybody could get along and not cause so much stress and grief in the world. All you need is cash to keep things going and make your enemies stop sabotage and their reprehensible hatred.

But I digress. The sun has been out enough to catch some rays and it is rejuvanative to get the radiation and just cook for a few minutes. 20 minutes, maybe a half hour. If you get burnt though, it will ruin the whole thing, so stick to the limits of about 10-30 minutes, even if it is cloudy, those rays are still beating down from the sky.

I'm just afraid of insects now. Diet Mountain Dew, European. Room temperature. That will keep you from sucking down those cold ones. When that appeal is gone,  there you have it. No matter where you go, there you are.

Chatbot Weather

Breaking down the ORB and smaller parcels.

Rain soaked days and dark clouds overhead have kept me focused on my system for using AI to let a more advanced chatbot teach more simple models so that good information makes its way down to the smaller bots. It was accomplished by changing the format of the chat log file in microrb.class and then having a chat. This produced straight code that can be copy and pasted into the younger bot.

microrb is ORB without the graphical user interface. It just appears in the terminal. It has the database that learns from your chat. There is also a program called mic that is just the scripting language. There is no database or data mining. Only EARL script technically.
The database is very compact. 

 Redux Here There and Everywhere

This blog has been neglected for a long time. It will probably be neglected again at a future time. This is probably as good a place as any to start my "Captain's Log."

Captains Log:

It feels like things are starting over in many ways today. I will talk here about what is going on with me, I feel like I have some music to make, but waiting for the right mood to start working on it in earnest. There are things to do around the complex today, and I have chores that must be accomplished. But my ideas are flowing and I feel a good atmosphere for creating.

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