Rock Family Trees in yEd

Over on the Coiled Spring, I describe how I drew a Pete Frame-style Rock Family Tree for Flange Circus, Zirkus, BBO, and all their related groups and people. I used the free diagramming tool yEd, which was great. This diagram accompanies the latest episode of my podcast, which you can listen to while perusing the… Continue reading Rock Family Trees in yEd

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New Audio Activity

I’ve managed to get another Coiled Spring episode out, and it’s available here. Now I’ve ironed out some glitches with the podcast creation script, I should be able to clear the backlog – so that means there will be a few more coming! I’ve also been playing with other audio experiments, such as this phasing… Continue reading New Audio Activity

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Audacity Crash Path To Permissions Hell

[graphviz] digraph Audacity { node [shape=box fontname=”Arial”] edge [color=”black” penwidth=”2″] “Audacity crashing” -> “consider replacement” -> “Ardour?” -> “JACK settings issue” -> “Google solutions” -> “Add user to ‘audio’ group” -> “error in command” -> “user is now ONLY\na member of ‘audio’” -> “not member of\n’admin’ or ‘sudo’” -> “can’t change user settings”; “boot to\nGRUB… Continue reading Audacity Crash Path To Permissions Hell

Create An Rubber Stamp Look in GIMP

This tutorial will show you how to achieve an over-inked rubber stamp look in GIMP. There are already several tutorials out there for getting a kind of rubber stamp look, but they all seem to focus on making the stamp look grungy and under-inked. They don’t look the way I want, so I did my… Continue reading Create An Rubber Stamp Look in GIMP

Podcast and Hostess

With today’s news about Hostess, here’s a post on The Coiled Spring about how it affects the podcast’s ongoing project to review said snack cakes.

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My new project, a podcast called Coiled Spring, is now up and running and available on iTunes here. Episode 1 is already available, and I’m working on episode 2 now. It’s a fun podcast, with interesting guests who are attractive and fun to be with, reviews of American cultural artifacts, experiments in spoken word soundscaping, and some other guff.

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