Hmm, Sunday afternoon already. I could really use another weekend day. Last week was one of those stupid weeks dominated by stupid events. In retrospect I’m not sure why it was as tiring as it was, but several days ended with me feeling like I’d been busy all day and yet hadn’t really made any forward progress on anything. One of the things you discover after running a business (or two) for awhile is that a certain amount of time gets consumed by dealing with stuff that, while necessary to keep the business running, is neither interesting nor something you particularly thought about when you started the business in the first place. This stuff includes things like having three different phone conversations about one fraudulent credit-card charge or sending faxes to accounting departments that seem somewhat impaired in their ability to, well, account, I guess.<\/p>\n
But this is not a complaint. I’d much rather be dealing with tedious trivialities than, say, not have a job at all.<\/p>\n
So, to recharge my batteries, today I spent some time writing music today, which was nice. I also spent a chunk of yesterday playing with a Spin Semiconductor FV-1 DSP chip<\/a>, which was also fun. I bought the development board awhile ago and have been getting the hang of writing code in assembly for a fixed-point DSP chip. Compared to writing code in C++ for a general-purpose CPU it’s kind of like having a conversation with a two-year-old, but I’m making progress. My intent is to build a module for my synthesizer around one of these chips which can do several (eight, specifically) different things depending on which program it’s currently running from an EEPROM chip. So far I’ve written an envelope follower and a fairly good-sounding delay. I need to start laying out a PCB for the module.<\/p>\n To close with a non sequitor, here’s a nice collection of photos<\/a> of painted trains in Japan. I don’t recall seeing any quite this flamboyant but we did see one or two painted ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hmm, Sunday afternoon already. I could really use another weekend day. Last week was one of those stupid weeks dominated by stupid events. In retrospect I’m not sure why it was as tiring as it was, but several days ended with me feeling like I’d been busy all day and yet hadn’t really made any… Continue reading Bleargh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-nebula","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}