Archives for: September 2010
Mark your calendars
September 21st, 2010Extraordinary day today -- something actually went as planned!
After classes today, we headed into the city for two errands: pick up the results of my official immigration health exam and take it to the police station where my visa update and registere… more »
Workspace is up!
September 20th, 2010Saturday, the last piece of my workstation arrived -- a 30-watt amplifier to drive my favorite Tannoy near field monitors (which I like so much that I brought them with me from the US). No more headphones for working! If you look really closely in… more »
Reverb for spatialization
September 17th, 2010Warning: Technical content! I'd meant to blog this later on, but since the question came up on the sc-users mailing list a second time recently, I'll go ahead and do it now. For the Kennedy Center project, I wanted to be able to move sounds around th… more »
Our own place! And, 0 for 3
September 11th, 2010It's done! I'm no longer living in temporary quarters on campus. It's a vast improvement in living condition: a brand new apartment, bought as an investment property and rented to us. That means it's clean, unlike any other place we viewed. It's small by… more »
"It's going to be a bumpy ride"
September 9th, 2010That's to be expected. What I didn't expect is how quickly my buffer period to ease into teaching would erode. At first, I was told the students in my audio class would have varying degrees of experience with audio manipulation, so I started slow. Well,… more »
Let the chaos continue!
September 3rd, 2010Things run a lot differently over here. I've now had two class sessions (when I should have had one) and three small group sessions, without getting such insignificant details as, oh, the students' e-mail addresses. So it's interesting, shall we say. It'… more »
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