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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Daft Dishwasher
Because he was so right with his recommendation of Battles Mirrored, I've taken Jeph's advice about immersing my brain in Daft Punk for a few weeks straight, before I listen to their live mix album Alive 2007. When you really want to appreciate a well-mixed DJ album, it helps to know the songs that were remixed in its making.

While listening to my favorite Daft Punk album, Discovery, I discovered that the track Too Long (probably so named because it's exactly 10 minutes long) has the exact same beat as my dishwasher. I sat listening to them for about 4 minutes (before the washer changed cycles and so screwed up the rhythm), and the beats didn't phase at all.

For anybody who's not worked with music mixing or doesn't understand wave phasing, the very slightest difference in cycle length will show up in less than a minute, because that difference is multiplied by however many times the cycle repeats - if one wave is 1 second long, and the other one is 1.008 seconds long (which is an absolutely imperceptible difference), after a minute, the difference will be a very obvious half-second. It's like when you're in the left turn lane and the car in front of you has their left blinkers on and they sync up. It never lasts more than a few blinks.

This is why I am amazed that my dishwasher is attuned exactly to Daft Punk.

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Monday, January 01, 2007
Things to do before the 8th
This is a list of things I need to do before I go back to my 12-hour-a-day jobs. I wanted to start in on them last week, but spent most of it working or being with my family.

  1. Set up the stereo so that it has a line going to the bedroom speakers, for night-time music as well as wake-up music.
  2. Finish sorting paper. I have a box full of mostly financial files that need to be sorted and filed. Finished in May
  3. Find a new host for my homepages.
  4. Empty out the 401k from my old school.
  5. E-Mail and/or find a bunch of people I've lost touch with: Marla, Stephanie, Dave, Eric, Jen, Chris, and Joe at the least.
  6. Do some credit card balance juggling. Yay?
  7. Call PrivacySource; they have good services (relating to one's credit rating) but they charged a full years' service at once when they said they'd do it in increments. Turns out it's because of the way I signed up - but they were very nice and arranged to have it set up in payments and to refund the money. Yay for corporations that take care of their customers!
  8. Update and/or dispute various information on my credit report. Done in May
  9. Re-enter a few years' worth of financial data from the Discover card into Money. Done in May.
  10. Look into getting the truck's gas tank cleaned. Performance Radiator does it for $85, but I'll have to detach it myself. 3-5 day turnaround.
  11. Fix Leelu's clutch cable and starter.
  12. Record the vocals for the song Caravaggio.
  13. Record the vocals for the song Heathen.
  14. Pick up the basketball game and holiday photos from Walmart.
  15. Make a maintenance schedule for both vehicles: when to replace, fill or otherwise maintain everything in both cars (brakes, oil, as well as a list of all pertinent phone numbers such as tow numbers, insurance, et cetera). Finished in June (!)
  16. Post and sell/give away our filing cabinet, ceiling fan, printer, and monitor. Sold!
  17. Record our old cassette tapes into the computer.
  18. Sell the cassette player, refurbished chest, small white chair, and large blue chair to Bookmans.
  19. Use Bookman's trade to buy Rachel's computer.
  20. Put on the VW's white seat covers.
  21. Get at least 90% of my homepage set up.
  22. Get my Impulse Designs page set up.
  23. Update Outlook to include my friends' and relatives' birthdays.
  24. Go through the boxes of sentimental stuff in the closet and purge.
  25. Wash and waxbothvehicles; they haven't had a good wax in forever.Leelu
  26. Make a cathouse for the kitties out on the patio.
  27. Clean the patio.
  28. Do the dishes.
  29. Do some serious grocery shopping.
  30. Vacuum the apartment.
  31. Do the laundry.
  32. Post my previous blogs to this blog. Finished in June (!)

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