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The Christmas season is a great time to make lists. Here’s another list of things I’d like to have.
For greeting bad guys with a most intimidating sound.
With a laser grip for the wife's purse.
For a riot, an apocalypse, or a horde of angry tin cans and milk jugs. Prefer this with the Dominator2 EOTech Mount so I can easily add a big expensive site to it later. (free site mount and cheaper price through the end of they year)
I know I’m hard to shop for. How about some ideas? They even include various price ranges instead of all expensive things (comparatively at least).
DIY Pedals
Pedals
DIY Synth
Others
Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
It’s interesting to scroll back through the variations on this site through the years. Some of these I had completely forgot about. Click the dates with * for a more likely chance to see a noticeable change.
By: Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!
What if I made all the stuff that I had floating around in my head and outfitted a real high quality studio with my own creations? It would be so much cheaper than buying things from other companies. We’re talking about thousands of dollars per unit which actually contain hundreds of dollars in parts. If I did the homework and made things to fit my ideal machine, not some R&D department’s view of what the customer wants, then I’d have one hell of a studio on my hands and potentially a new business opportunity. Every electronics designer and audio equipment company had to start that way. Someone made something and someone else liked it and asked for one. If I made good stuff then it could be a viable business opportunity, and I don’t have it in me to make something that isn’t good.
So here’s my list of products in just the mastering studio ideas that are floating around in my head. The circuits can be researched from existing units and designed to incorporate my twist on the functionality of the unit. Then of course, I’ll take over the world.
And to think….this stuff is just what I’m thinking about in one section of what I’d like to build. There are still recording things like preamps, eqs, and compressors. After that you can get into all the effects and synthesis projects. I really just need to win the lottery and setup a laboratory to see this all through.
I’ve created a projects page to show some of the things that I’ve been working on outside of work and some of the things that I’d like to work on. Some are more realistic or achievable than others. All of them stem from a relatively new discovery (within the past year) that I get the most satisfaction out of life as a whole when I am creating something. Whether I’m following directions in a kit or making up things on my own, having something that didn’t exist before sitting in front of me at the end of a project makes me more satisfied than most other endeavors.
Tags: project
Once again it is time for a foray into no-reason.net as an outlet or archive of things that happen in my head. The last site was lost at an old web host, so I’ll start from scratch. I had made some salvage attempts, and have a couple of tricks that might still work to bring back the old content, but I’m tired of the quiet and have too many things floating around in my head lately.
More to come.
As it has always been- things will come in short bursts with long pauses.
