September 2008

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Be a Rebel by Punkerslut

Submitted by FeralBrown on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 11:02

Be A Rebel

by Punkerslut

Everyday, millions of children march to school with drudgery and resistance. As young children, they go in open-hearted and free -- at night, they imagine that their tiny hands can reach up and touch the birds. The entire world is a new place and the fascination of beauty never subsides. But as older adolescents leaving their high school, they go close-minded and bondaged -- at night, they drink themselves into passing out and talk about the most popular thing to come, under obligation. The boys worry about their sexual conquests. The girls worry about their sexual appearance. Both worry about being social in a society that has made a weakness of kindness and an insult of emotion. Such a great change occurs between those who enter school and those who leave it.

ZombiePornoCult Collaboration Considerations

 

Midi Clock sync, SMPTE, MTC and MMC from Tweakheadz Lab

The problem

Audio and music happens in time. Many of your machines have an internal clock keeping track of what time it is supposed to do something.  These clocks, unless made to receive code from an external clock, will be totally out of sync with other machines. That is the problem.  The solution is to make all your machines share the same timebase, so if you were to ask any one machine what time it was it would say, "we are exactly at 0 hours, 1 minutes, 40 seconds, and 018 frames into the song, right, mmm, NOW!"  Or in sequencer speak, we are 00:01:40:018.  You've probably seen that display on your sequencer.  Yes it is more than just telling you how long your song is, it is actually a representation of the timecode referencing your sequencer's internal clock.  All the methods we are about to discuss, SMPTE, MTC, MIDI Clock Sync, SPP and MMC are the methods we can use to get our devices to share a single clock source.

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Guide to Cooking on an Open Fire by Frank of the Dead

Submitted by FeralBrown on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 13:25

I go camping a lot and I'm always in charge of the food. It's amazing how many people are completely clueless when it comes to cooking on an open fire.

There's many ways to cook on a fire, a lot are survivalist ways but I'll be going over methods for people who want to have a hearty meal while camping with some friends.

If you have meats that are still frozen or drinks that need to be cooled, find a spot in a river that has a decent current(you don't want stagnant water filled with bacteria on your beer cans) and create a barrier of rocks to keep it contained. The river is now your refrigerator and sometimes in the early morning and it can be a freezer.

For grilling I suggest getting a portable grilling screen preferably with legs.

I have one like this but it's more light weight and more portable.

If you don't have one with legs yank the screen from your grill or go buy one from walmart or your local grocery store, they have specials ones at my Martins that has a lip on it so food doesn't roll off. They're very cheap, no more than 5-6 bucks.

When I camp I have a large campfire pit that I use through out the night for light, heat and smoke to keep bugs away, next to it I create a smaller circle of rocks solely for cooking. It should be small enough to fit under your grill screens legs, if you have a normal legless grill screen, set the screen on the rocks and make sure it's 100 percent sturdy, you don't want to get 90 percent through your meal and then lose it. With this screen you can cook nearly anything you put your mind too, boil water and dry out wet clothing.

Don't set the screen on the logs, logs roll and most importantly they burn!