{"id":96,"date":"2012-11-24T04:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T04:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kf5rsx.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2012-11-24T04:51:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T04:51:40","slug":"and-its-been-awhile-aka-the-attack-of-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepoorgeek.com\/techblog\/2012\/11\/24\/and-its-been-awhile-aka-the-attack-of-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"and it’s been awhile… (aka the attack of the holidays)"},"content":{"rendered":"

And the season is upon us. Random thoughts and happenings for the past month or so to follow.<\/p>\n

I did eventually upgrade to Win8, initially on the laptop, but then on the new desktop. It’s all tiny and cute and ballsy.
\nTraded the older Macbook Pro for the desktop+Powerbook5,4 (15″, 1.5GHz G4). In the process of installing Gentoo on it now. Well, it’s installed, still getting it all set up. I plan to have ghpsdr3 and\/or gnuradio running on it as a mobile SDR base eventually.<\/p>\n

Racked 2 ciders: the small half-pomegranate and the 1gallon slight-pomegranate, and bottled the spiced apple\/pear. I think that one’s gonna turn out pretty well.<\/p>\n

A number of other things have been done, hooked up the old tape deck and digitized my (new) Jim Guthrie – Ballad of the Space Babies cassette<\/a>. It’s actually very surprising how good it sounds.
\nI put in a cassette of Vangelis – China (POLD-0518, Polydor 1979) and it sounds fantastic. I had a friend of mine over at the time and he was blown away.
\nGranted, it’s going through a good amp and some very nice speakers from roughly the same era. Still, the fact that it lasted this long is a testament to the medium.<\/p>\n

This is the last weekend of the Texas Renaissance Festival, so if you’re in the Houston area, come out and endure the crowd for some good times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And the season is upon us. Random thoughts and happenings for the past month or so to follow. I did eventually upgrade to Win8, initially on the laptop, but then on the new desktop. It’s all tiny and cute and…
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