Miscellany
Dec. 23rd, 2006 12:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ewtMorning! and pancakes. The people who went out clubbing are hanging about, half-asleep, but fed. My work here is done.
Today I learned it is possible to grow loofah. They're related to cucumbers. The seeds are quite inexpensive.
Bearcat kept me company half the night. Such a lovely animalperson. I want a cat so much! Perhaps after I finish my degree...
I really need some headphones. I'm starting to do okay on the 'finding music' front but I really hate making noise that might disturb others, or having other people know what I'm listening to. Must. Get. Headphones. Really. Preferably noise-cancelling ones of some description, although it is tempting just to go for the "modify a pair of industrial ear defenders so that they contain headphones" option. I'll see what I end up with; not spending any money at the moment.
I wonder whether a one of these would be anywhere near as effective as my lightbox is. They're certainly cheaper. Also I wonder about hooking up several of them to timers and making one of those wakey-uppy clock things... this would probably require some electronics, I think I'd have to bypass teh existing switches somehow to make it work. But by the time I ahve four or five of them hooked up I'm looking at more money than just buying a sunrise alarm clock. Boo. On the other hand... battery powered, batteries lasting about 8 hours, sounds like a useful thing to me. I could go 3 days without having to be near an electrical socket when I'm awake. I wonder if the 12V charger would let itself be charged with the solar panel; I don't see why not. Le sigh. See above: not spending any money at the moment. And I definitely need the headphones more.
Still thinking about YourMusicHouse. I need to sit with paper and design some sort of interface, I think. I'll need one for people browsing, and also one for contributing artists wishing to, er, contribute... it would be good if they could just upload things to a queue, but to begin with I'll probably have them e-mail me. I can't do the programming, but it will be difficult to even write spec if I can't think straight about how people need to navigate the site. I guess I could even do some simplified mock-ups and stick them in my own webspace for people to look at and comment on...
I also still need to figure out how to approach people (even the ones I know) to ask them to participate in the project. I mean, blathering on about it here is all well and good but none of you who play in a band have piped up and said anything, probably because I write so much drivel. That's fine. I just have to figure out how to actually ask for stuff. I guess first of all I need to understand Creative Commons licensing on a more detailed level, since we want to use that, and I'll probably be explaining it to a lot of people.
Today I learned it is possible to grow loofah. They're related to cucumbers. The seeds are quite inexpensive.
Bearcat kept me company half the night. Such a lovely animalperson. I want a cat so much! Perhaps after I finish my degree...
I really need some headphones. I'm starting to do okay on the 'finding music' front but I really hate making noise that might disturb others, or having other people know what I'm listening to. Must. Get. Headphones. Really. Preferably noise-cancelling ones of some description, although it is tempting just to go for the "modify a pair of industrial ear defenders so that they contain headphones" option. I'll see what I end up with; not spending any money at the moment.
I wonder whether a one of these would be anywhere near as effective as my lightbox is. They're certainly cheaper. Also I wonder about hooking up several of them to timers and making one of those wakey-uppy clock things... this would probably require some electronics, I think I'd have to bypass teh existing switches somehow to make it work. But by the time I ahve four or five of them hooked up I'm looking at more money than just buying a sunrise alarm clock. Boo. On the other hand... battery powered, batteries lasting about 8 hours, sounds like a useful thing to me. I could go 3 days without having to be near an electrical socket when I'm awake. I wonder if the 12V charger would let itself be charged with the solar panel; I don't see why not. Le sigh. See above: not spending any money at the moment. And I definitely need the headphones more.
Still thinking about YourMusicHouse. I need to sit with paper and design some sort of interface, I think. I'll need one for people browsing, and also one for contributing artists wishing to, er, contribute... it would be good if they could just upload things to a queue, but to begin with I'll probably have them e-mail me. I can't do the programming, but it will be difficult to even write spec if I can't think straight about how people need to navigate the site. I guess I could even do some simplified mock-ups and stick them in my own webspace for people to look at and comment on...
I also still need to figure out how to approach people (even the ones I know) to ask them to participate in the project. I mean, blathering on about it here is all well and good but none of you who play in a band have piped up and said anything, probably because I write so much drivel. That's fine. I just have to figure out how to actually ask for stuff. I guess first of all I need to understand Creative Commons licensing on a more detailed level, since we want to use that, and I'll probably be explaining it to a lot of people.
