Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
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Somewhere out there is a guy who was a student in one of my lectures at the recent GMU RCFG symposium. You were looking for a tarball of my gdd source code. Drop me a line if you read this, I would love you to take a look at it …

Sonic Foundry now has ACID Pro 4.0 out. Includes VSTi support and some other real goodies. I love SF software for Windows platforms. You’re best off using Windows XP, but 2000 will do also. (Anything less is trash… I call them “Wintendo.”)

So it’s been quite a while since I posted, but I’ve been very busy lately. I just finished teaching at George Mason University at a symposium this week and I’m pretty beat, so I’m just doing a little web surfing and decided to post a quick update here. The classes …

Visit SET Enterprises and check out their really cool games. I just bought SET, Xactika, and Five Crowns. Eleya and I played all of them this weekend and had a lot of fun.

I got a call from Steve McWilliams, a former musical cohort, who is putting together a new project to work on a spate of original material he’s been formulating. I’m looking forward to getting together with him to preview the new songs and see what we can do with them. …

Very busy at work the past few days, but I had a great weekend. Eleya, Evie and I went to Charlottesville to meet up with some college friends. We strolled around the grounds of UVa where we went to school, ate out, reminisced, and on Sunday went to Monticello. Monticello …

So of course the drip got worse and became a full-blown illness. I’m just getting back to work today. Too busy to write much, but ah! the pleasures of pseudephedrine!

D’oh! Stupid post nasal drip has my throat really raw this morning. I’m sure my penchant for snoring doesn’t help much. Not that I’m snoring right now, I mean last night. ? I did manage to clean my desk this morning already, which gave me a nice warm glow of …

Eleya brought home the Criterion edition of The Royal Tenenbaums this weekend. What a fantastic film. It’s from the same writers/director as Bottle Rocket and Rushmore, and shares the same quirky sense of humor. The Royal Tenenbaums is a little darker and more melancholy, though. It’s about a family of …

I laid down an acoustic guide track last night with my Superlux mic, and it sounds really great, fat and full. I found a couple of canned drum tracks which I laid behind it (thanks to a little tempo mod in ACID Pro) and really enjoyed playing around with the …