Sat - Sep 18, 2010 : 11:47 pm
happy
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Musical Marathon Madness
AudioGuru
"Is this week already over??" Wow... I guess it's Saturday night. Yup.
This week, the studio has been packed. Full house. Monday was the only day without sessions, and that was on purpose. Tuesday through Saturday was full, and that's the way we like it here at Advanced Budget Studios.
Yesterday and...
Audio / Babblings / Music
Mon - Sep 13, 2010 : 09:08 am
grateful
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3 Nephi : 14
PoeticIntensity
The golden rule seems to have come out of this chapter.
The first thing that caught my attention in this chapter is the possible meaning of verses 4 and 5. the "mote in thy brother's eye" verses. Some people would interpret this as "live and let live", or "worry about yourself, not others". To...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Thu - Sep 09, 2010 : 11:59 pm
excited
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Music till Dawn
AudioGuru
So, I haven't written for awhile - mostly because I enjoy writing after a project has been completed. Well - right now Advanced Budget Studios has quite a few bands in the works, who are going after multi-track demos. My guess is - we'll be fishing them up around the same time, and let me tell you now - all of em' are going to be awesom...
Audio / Babblings
Mon - Sep 06, 2010 : 12:00 am
happy
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2 monitor radeon xorg.conf
PoeticIntensity
So, I spent a few minutes today seeing how bare-bones I could get my xorg.conf. My configuration is 2 23-inch Acer monitors, which are side-by-side using a Radeon HD4850 video card. I'm using gentoo.
make.conf : VIDEO_CARDS="radeon".
Also, I've got one big desktop from the 2 monitors. Here's the config.
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Gentoo / Linux
Fri - Sep 03, 2010 : 03:26 pm
okay
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3 Nephi : 13
PoeticIntensity
The first six verses of this chapter talk about performing your "alms" without fanfare. I'm caught wondering why this is important. What's the concept behind the action?
Well, I think that's the very essense of it. - "Why are you giving?" "Why are you charitable?" Is it so you can appear to be...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Aug 31, 2010 : 02:43 pm
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Being the mature one
cookymonster
Being the mature one
Being the mature one
I am more mature than my brother and my older sister. I care about my parents. My brother he doesn't seem like he does sometimes because he is always yelling at them or something like that. My sister she is 20 years old and she doesn't g...
Mon - Aug 30, 2010 : 01:43 am
happy
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New Song - My Wonder Woman
PoeticIntensity
So lately, I've been posting little snippets on social networking sites about how awesome I think my wife is. I really don't know exactly what has been throwing me into this state of absolute gratefulness for her, but it doesn't seem to be slowing down.
I guess I'm just having a good hard realization that (only 2nd to God himself) she is th...
Music / Personal
Sat - Aug 28, 2010 : 11:27 pm
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Alex Bateman
AudioGuru
You know those types of musicians... The ones that just "get it". They don't worry much about writing the music, but rather, it seems to write itself. Now, I'm not going to put words in his mouth, but it sure seems like this is the case with Alex Bateman.
He came in, knew what he wanted, and the way he wanted his reco...
Audio / Music
Wed - Aug 25, 2010 : 12:31 pm
grateful
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3 Nephi : 12
PoeticIntensity
Lately, I've been struggling with readaing my scriptures. I'm not entirely sure why, but lately, instead of just hunkering down and doing it because I know it needs to be done (and then reaping the Spirit due to my obedience), I've just had the hardest time sitting down and actually doing it.
Well.. Today I did. I opened to 3rd Nephi ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Mon - Aug 23, 2010 : 07:30 pm
excited
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Worlds of the Crystal Moon
AudioGuru
A while ago, Advanced Budget Studios had the privilege of working with the author of a great book in a voice-over. The author's name is Phillip Jones, and his book is called Worlds of the Crystal Moon.
When I was contacted to help out with the voice-over, I had no idea what to expect, and I wasn't sure what Phillip was expecting, either.&n...
Audio / Mixing / Voice-overs
Wed - Nov 07, 2007 : 02:02 pm
tired
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Desktop Tower Defense
PoeticIntensity
Hehe.... I was looking at this site yesterday while I was browsing around my new RSS feed stuff. I didn't get past game number 4.
I've never been one to spend a lot of time playing online flash-based games, but I have to admit, Desktop Tower Defense is pretty darned amazing. Amazingly addictive, I mean.
If you have a couple ...
Computers / Miscellaneous
Mon - Feb 06, 2006 : 10:53 pm
no mood
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Are the tides turning?
PoeticIntensity
Okay.... Something weird is happening inside me. I feel a churning in my gut. I feel spindles on my skin... I feel hair growing out of my HEAD!!!!!
Oh wait... Ummm.... No I don't. None of it is true. So.....
I go to work today and I'm talking with Matt (the new developer, er... lead developer) and .... we're having a heart-to-heart and f...
Sun - Dec 12, 2010 : 10:31 pm
excited
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Merry Christmas to A.B.S.!!
AudioGuru
Since we haven't been booking clients during November and December, we've had a few extra moments to really think about and research the needs of the studio. The success this little studio has had is very exciting, and only makes us want to hone our craft that much more.
Honing the craft is great, but pouring the success of the studio back ...
Audio Hardware / Babblings / Miscellaneous
Fri - Dec 14, 2007 : 11:40 pm
grateful
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poetry one
kelly miller
Poetry by Kelly Miller
THis is dedicated to my son Shawn VanWagen who left on his mission in 2005 and that next week I started writing poetry. It has been a big part of my life since and has kept me very busy. Also, to President Hinckley and his challenge for the members to read the book of mormon. and to Bernice Hutchenson w...
Poetry
Tue - Jun 09, 2009 : 03:50 pm
okay
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Source of Evil...
PoeticIntensity
Me and my good friend Scott chatted for far too long today about a very interesting subject. The subject was brought about by this article, which, in essence is just a conversation between an aethiestic professor and two of his students.
In a nutshell, the professor makes the claim of God creating Satan, and thus creating evil, and thereby ...
Lds / Religion / Spiritual
Mon - Jan 12, 2009 : 05:49 pm
grateful
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Memory Retention and Service
PoeticIntensity
An interesting concept was brought up during an interesting class I had on Sunday.
Last year, I went to the normal gospel doctrine class almost all year and enjoyed almost every class. We had a fabulous teacher who really brought the class alive with discussion about interesting concepts. Never once was a spirit of contention fall up...
Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Thu - Oct 02, 2008 : 05:41 pm
grateful
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Mosiah 21
PoeticIntensity
Ya know... This time around with this chapter was filled with little tid-bits of inspiration. I don't remember this chapter being so filled with doctrine, but I'll do my best to write down what I thought about as I read the chapter.
The first verse which caught my attention was verse 4. The people of Limhi were, by and large, a ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Sep 17, 2013 : 11:08 pm
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Tiny Boats!
AudioGuru
So, about 4 or 5 years ago, I met a guy named Jesse Crowley, and we played music together. At first we played music that other people wrote, but then Jesse got bored with that, and decided to write Christmas music instead. We recorded a few Christmas albums, and I think they turned out pretty good.
So, Jesse decided that wasn't enough...
Music / Studio
Sat - Mar 26, 2011 : 10:00 am
happy
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Echo Audiofire12 + Gentoo Linux
PoeticIntensity
**UPDATED ARTICLE HERE** (for using the new firewire stack)
Okay. I got my new Echo Audiofire12 3 days ago, and I now have it fully functioning on all 12 ports. I don't have MIDI working yet, but I haven't really tried on that one.
Here's what I did to get it working.
First, I'm using the 2.6.33-rt kernel. I enabled the OLD FIRE...
Audio Hardware / Gentoo / Linux
Mon - Dec 29, 2008 : 03:50 pm
blah
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Christmas 2008
PoeticIntensity
Hmmm.... It's hard to write about something so wonderful when I'm not in the mood... But I've found that when I feel like "blah", and I write about something wonderful, I usually am feeling closer to wonderful when I'm done... So, here goes.
First off, I'm at work, so I don't have any pictures, but I'll update it when I get...
Fun / Life / Personal
Fri - May 13, 2016 : 01:30 am
grateful
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13-hour Studio Session
PoeticIntensity
Yup.. Today was awesome. I had a 13.5 hour session, and it was just amazing. The song creation process was a bit difficult at times, but little-by-little the song formed, and both me and my client (Jed Lefevre) were kind of dumbfounded at the end result. In the first hour, we had a piano track, and that was it.
At th...
Personal / Studio-journey
Tue - Jun 07, 2011 : 12:51 pm
energetic
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iPhone cloud vs Android
PoeticIntensity
Okay... So, this isn't gonna be the rant that you thought it was by the title. With the little time I have, I couldn't come up with a better one...
So, the story is - I had just eaten a delicious burger at Coney's, when on my way home, I happened to turn on Rush Limbaugh. He was talking about this new "cloud" technolog...
Babblings / Linux / Miscellaneous
Fri - Feb 13, 2009 : 03:36 pm
excited
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Green Bay - Summed Up
PoeticIntensity
In chatting with my friend Steve, I realized I haven't yet given any details as to my trip to Green Bay this week, so, before this weekend comes, I figured I had better write something.
Day 3 (Wednesday) went pretty smooth. I woke up with a high level of sleep deficiency (surprise, surprise), and went out to the office for the last time.&n...
Life / Nature's Way / Personal / Spiritual
Fri - Sep 07, 2012 : 10:03 pm
ecstatic
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Progress Update #1
AudioGuru
The studio walls are up! ... and they are ... HUGE! Honestly the level of excitement I have for this studio build is right up there with the excitement of my marriage and the births of my children. I can't believe this is actually happening!
Anyway....
I'll be posting more random updates on Facebook (which will link to publi...
Studio
Sat - Apr 16, 2011 : 04:01 pm
excited
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Ibanez S570B - Newest Addition!
AudioGuru
So I wasn't really interested in getting yet another member of my little growing studio family, but I couldn't help but get this one after playing it at the local music store. Found it on a killer sale at samash, so I pulled the trigger.
Available to all studio clients for recording.
Isn't she gorgeous? She sounds awesome, too....
Audio Hardware
Mon - Feb 09, 2009 : 11:27 pm
excited
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Flight To Green Bay
PoeticIntensity
Okay... This sucks. I just spent the last 10 minutes typing up a nice novel on how today was spent, and I then proceeded to accidentally delete it. How unfortunate. Let's see if I can do it again.
....nope. Sorry... I'm tired, and it's late (it's now 12:30am), and I've got to get up tomorrow morning.
Suffic...
Fun / Life / Nature's Way
Sun - Dec 02, 2012 : 10:08 am
excited
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Live Room is framed!
AudioGuru
Well, I'd say last week was a success for the progress of the studio! I'd also say it was a pretty big failure for the state of my body. Man, I'm getting old. Even my 70-year-old dad out-did me, and that's just sad. Even though my fingers are swollen, and my feet hurt, I've gotta say it was 100% worth it.
We started ...
Studio
Thu - Oct 02, 2008 : 11:02 pm
spiritual
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Curtis and Laura's Sealing
PoeticIntensity
Update: Due to the popularity of this post, some people are having a hard time viewing the video posted above. If it won't play for you, simply wait until the gray progress bar has filled 1/4 to 1/2 of the way before you press play. That should do the trick.
Yesterday I took the day off work to go to my bother's sealing to his w...
Family / Lds / Spiritual / Video
Fri - Jan 23, 2009 : 03:45 pm
content
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Alma : 13
PoeticIntensity
Okay. I've used various verses from this chapter to prove that we had agency in the pre-earth life, but now I'm questioning myself. Here's the basis:
Verse 3 says this:
And this is the manner after which they were ordained—being acalled and bprepared from the cfoundation of the world according to the dforeknowledge of God, on ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Scriptures / Spiritual
Sun - Jan 04, 2009 : 11:58 pm
anxious
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2009 Boring Randomness
PoeticIntensity
I'm not entirely sure what to write, but I know I've got to write something. I figure I'll just put fingers to keyboard and see what thoughts spew forth.
Lately, I've been feeling a bit of a slump spiritually. It's not uncommon for me to go in cycles of spirituality, but this time, it's a bit different. I haven't felt the desire...
Life / Personal