saturn return to sender

My blogging frequency is dropping precipitously. Meh. I will do what any self-respecting blogger lacking quality content must do: complain about something.

So my Thursdays are like this:

• Get to the bus stop by 7:15-ish. Bus to Denver, arrive around 8 for class at 8:30.
• 9:45. Class over. Trot to the bus station (trying not to face-plant in the dirty street snow/slush), catch express back to Boulder to teach a class starting at 11.
• 11:45. That class ends, trot to bus stop to get next express back to Denver. Work (job-work, not school-work) from 2 to 5:30.
• Class from 5:30 to 6:45.
• Work from 7:00pm to 10pm.
• Catch next (non-express) bus back to Boulder. Get home at 11:30 pm.

The good news is this is only on Thursdays. Tuesdays are the same except for that last stretch of work from 7 to 10pm. But Mondays and Wednesdays are empty, as far as obligations to be somewhere.

So it’s not really so bad. But that back-and-forth bussing business is ridiculous. I fully expect to be skipping that 8:30am class. I, um, took it last year anyway. Yeah, I’m repeating it. So what? Ugh, I don’t want to talk about it.

I have the should-I-buy-organic debate with myself all the time. For what it’s worth, Consumer Reports has a little page explaining which organic products are worth the cost.

(via MeFi)

So I discovered that Dreamhost has a subversion server. After a bit of fumbling around, I’ve got a repository running on one of my accounts. I started off using it to keep code in sync between my two machines, but I have a feeling I’m going to be dumping just about everything I work on in there as time goes on. I can keep work synched and don’t have to worry about losing it if, say, my laptop goes kerplunk or falls from a great height.

I mean, as long as Dreamhost doesn’t go kerplunk or fall from a great height.

Oh, right: So I did, about a month ago, get a new Mac. It’s a dualie G5 2GHz. I also got the Dell 24″ LCD. It’s all wonderfully snappy and pretty and awesome for watching DVDs and editing photos. Oh, and compiling and website editing and yadda yadda, which was the primary justification for getting it. Sadly, I sold my Pro Tools rig in order to afford it. But I just wasn’t using it, and anyway being tied to expensive (non-general-purpose) hardware like that isn’t very appealing to me. The PCI Digi cards are already obsolete, and probably less powerful than the two 2GHz G5s in the mahine that replaced them for half the cost. But anyone with money already invested in an actual, working studio could put them to good use. So I sold them.

That said, I was recently drooling over the current 002 promotion package. Sigh. =)

And of course my new Mac will be obsolete at around, oh, 9AM PST tomorrow.

Not about to be outdone, Adobe has annouced Lightroom. With a public beta. I’m playing with it now.

The Ars Technica article mentioning it is kinda funny.