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We’re having the furnace replaced today. The old one was 20 years old, and while it hadn’t failed yet, a number of people who know about furnaces have looked at it and told me that it should be replaced Real Soon Now. Last winter I watched the neighbors enduring a furnace replacement during rather cold [...]

Yeah, that’s a goofy title, but it’s true: the latest Audio Damage product, available today, is called Liquid. It’s a flanger plug-in with true through-zero flanging that recreates the lush tape-deck-based flanging effects of yesteryear. Read about it, hear some demo clips, and buy it from the Audio Damage website.

I completed another paper model of a character(?) from the Front Mission game series. (The previous one is described in this entry if you haven’t seen it before.) Its name seems to be Blizzaia L.

You can download the PDFs for building it with these links:
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fm/FM4_BlizzaiaL.pdf
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fm/FM4_BlizzaiaL_manual.pdf
I actually finished this model some time ago but just got [...]

Our hibiscus is doing well. We planted it several years ago and it seem to be taking off this season. Here are a couple of photos of it.

My friend and colleage Richard mentioned The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster to us recently. It’s a startlingly insightful short story describing a dystopic future in which all of humanity is tended to, and communicates through, one giant Machine. In its 12,000-word span it touches on a number of topics of contemporary relevance, such [...]

First they have to tell me whether they’re serving the ice cream before or after the service…

Internet Explorer emitted this enigmatic error message today:

I’ve gotta love it when a customer is so enthusiastic about Audio Damage products that they take the time to show off our stuff for us. Here’s one such example. (The Matrixsynth site is a fine blog, BTW.)