God damn you OCD! I have this ongoing project to get all my vinyl onto master WAV cds via a stand alone CD recorder I got before I had a computer (I don't think a computer is a good sound environment for recording - OCD here also), then convert to MP3s in the computer with track info. I can fit two LPs onto an 80 minute CD, that's the master that I can always work from if compression formats get better later on. I tend to go group by group & it drives me fucking nuts when I'm missing an album. This morning I wanted to get a start on Black Sabbath. I've got every Sabbath (with Ozzy) album that I want except the first self-titled one. I always put them on disc chronologically, I hate either wasting a half disc of space, then later once I have the first re-recording a disc with albums one and two and tossing the one with LP 2 alone or throwing the whole sequence off. It would really really bother me. This is where weed used to come in. A smoke up & I'd be like "dude, it's all black sabbath man, just record the shit and mellow out!" Anyone in Vegas have a copy of the first Sabbath on vinyl that I could borrow? CD no good, even weed wouldn't have let that pass in my book.
I went to the track with the 600 track bitch yesterday. First time in about 4 months & first time into level 2. I've barely even been on a bike in the last 2 months & I'm pretty out of shape too. Also i finished up making a bike mount for my little trailer at about 10pm. loading the bike and gear, eating , showering,getting to bed at midnight, getting up at 5 to get to the track at 6:30. I wasn't feeling too great about it. My only focus was on relaxing and not pushing myself. I didn't improve my times from 4 moths ago but I wasn't expecting to either. I wasn't far off and I had one or two laps where I got within a second of my fastest, so overall I was happy. It's always fun anyhow. I called it quits with 2 sessions left because I started forgetting what turn I was in and daydreaming on the straights. "Um erik... can I interupt here? It was time to start braking about a second ago!" not good!
I should take some pictures of the bike mount, it's very cool. no straps needed at all, a rod goes through the hollow rear axle & that's it! (not my idea, there's commercial mounts like that but they're $200 and up. I also welded up an awesome new stereo rack that I should show off.
So here's some track pics. the guy at the end in blue is Joey DiSalvo. Joey Disalvo is obviously a show off. Joey DiSalvo finished third in AMA superbike last year so you'd think he wouldn't need to go around to track days to show off, but there he was showing off. He's all "look at me, I'm Joey DiSalvo!" Actually he was a blast to watch and those who talked to him said he was very friendly and a real down to earth guy. If you examine the photo of him and the photos of me you will notice that we have a similar style. The only real difference is that my style is slower and well, sort of spastic. If you examine them even closer you will notice that yes I am delusional. Never mind the writing over the photos, the nerve of some photographers expecting to get paid for everything...
I went to the track with the 600 track bitch yesterday. First time in about 4 months & first time into level 2. I've barely even been on a bike in the last 2 months & I'm pretty out of shape too. Also i finished up making a bike mount for my little trailer at about 10pm. loading the bike and gear, eating , showering,getting to bed at midnight, getting up at 5 to get to the track at 6:30. I wasn't feeling too great about it. My only focus was on relaxing and not pushing myself. I didn't improve my times from 4 moths ago but I wasn't expecting to either. I wasn't far off and I had one or two laps where I got within a second of my fastest, so overall I was happy. It's always fun anyhow. I called it quits with 2 sessions left because I started forgetting what turn I was in and daydreaming on the straights. "Um erik... can I interupt here? It was time to start braking about a second ago!" not good!
I should take some pictures of the bike mount, it's very cool. no straps needed at all, a rod goes through the hollow rear axle & that's it! (not my idea, there's commercial mounts like that but they're $200 and up. I also welded up an awesome new stereo rack that I should show off.
So here's some track pics. the guy at the end in blue is Joey DiSalvo. Joey Disalvo is obviously a show off. Joey DiSalvo finished third in AMA superbike last year so you'd think he wouldn't need to go around to track days to show off, but there he was showing off. He's all "look at me, I'm Joey DiSalvo!" Actually he was a blast to watch and those who talked to him said he was very friendly and a real down to earth guy. If you examine the photo of him and the photos of me you will notice that we have a similar style. The only real difference is that my style is slower and well, sort of spastic. If you examine them even closer you will notice that yes I am delusional. Never mind the writing over the photos, the nerve of some photographers expecting to get paid for everything...
I have always wante dto run a bike on a road course but I know I would end up in the grass for daydreaming in the straights.
Wanna read something that'll really flip your lid? http://irene.lbl.gov/Library-of-Congress-Jan-12-2007.pdf Some scientists were listening to an NPR program about archivists at the Library of Congress and the challenges they faced when trying to get the music off of these ancient recordings, if they were lucky they'd get one chance to play a record, because the record was so fragile that the act of playing it would destroy it. So these eggheads looked at each other, then looked at the scanning electron microscope they were standing next to, and it dawned on them that they could take a picture of a record, then use software to create a "virtual stylus" with the perfect shape and weight to play in the virtual grooves. The results are nothing short of amazing.
I'm looking forward to hearing your UTMC compilation.