It's really something like Day 11, I think. Oh well, whatever. We'll know when it's been two weeks.
Today I worked a half day. There wasn't much to do as I didn't have a computer and so they let me leave early. I was going to use the time to fix the ruin that is my studio. How annoying. It's like it doesn't matter what I do, I just can't get it to show the audio on the programs I'm using. If you care to know, this is my setup: AT2020 Condenser Mic, Alesis Multimix 12 USB & Alesis IO|2, Reaper & Sonar & Acid. I'm currently downloading Cubase, and I also have ProTools. ProTools only works with a certain brand of interfaces, that I don't have. Dicks.
btw, I have actual copies of Sonar and ProTools. I had Cubase but I lost it, which means it's okay if I steal it, right? I also stole Acid, but that's because I am not going to continue to buy programs if they don't work. And Reaper is free (I've heard it's one of the best programs to use as well).
The problem occurs when I try to record. On both interfaces, the microphone is being picked up. But in all programs nothing is recorded. Yes, Phantom Power is on. I think it might be a problem with the USB cord connecting the interface to the computer. I can play music through the interface, so the cord works in some form. Do all cords have input and output? Maybe the output of the cord doesn't work. I don't know. I'm going to get some Long & McQuade dude in tomorrow to help me. It's really tedious, annoying, time-consuming, and prone to cause headaches. I hope I get it set up soon because the truth is I have TONS of material to record. Be ready. You were warned.
While you're waiting you can listen to this song I recorded a couple weeks ago:
When I got off work I went to have a nice meal at a local pub. Fish and chips are one of the best combos in the world. And for the first time I ate and enjoyed my coleslaw. Almost nobody eats their coleslaw. In the kitchen they just throw it on the plate without any thought, knowing that it will be thrown away later on. It should be mandatory to ask the customers if they want it. That would save a lot of food. It'd also be cool if they could put your extra food away in a little Tupperware container and ship all the containers to some African country every week. Probly cease starvation pretty quick.
I just did a Google search to find out what country has the most starving people.
"Yahoo! Answers" says it's Africa.
That's not a country. Idiot.
I hope you realize that "Yahoo! Answers" is the bane of the internet. Nobody on there actually knows what they're talking about. It pisses me off that everytime I want a question answered Google will bring me to that site. If you ask a question on that site, know that it will inevitably be answered by a prepubescent teen who has terrible acne and hasn't showered yet. It will not be answered by a scientist. It probably will not be correct... and it may be racist, homophobic, religious, or anything in between. You ask a question about how to deal with the loss of a pet and someone tells you to find Jesus. It's disgusting.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't really care that the site exists. But the fact that Google puts it on the top of your search when you want a question answered. That's bullshit.
Worse than that, you need to have 250 "points" on "Yahoo! Answers" before you have a Level 2 account. A Level 2 account activates all of your hyperlinks, so that you can answer specific questions to your niche and put up backlinks on your answer. But each question you answer gives you 2 points. Which means I have to answer 125 questions before any of my backlinks from "Yahoo! Answers" will be activated. Guess it makes sense though; someone could easily spam the site and get tons of backlinks. It still sucks for my purposes. However, there's definitely other places to get backlinks.
With that said, I guess I will get back to my website, which I have not done work on in a week. It just annoys me Google hasn't seen any of my backlinks. Says that I have zero. I wonder if I can find someone online who knows how to make them more visible for the GoogleBots. When they start counting them, then I will start ranking. And then I will start making some money. How much, I don't know, but more than I'm making now.
Just opened up a Garrisons. Cheers.
ps. Test this on your friends: ask them what their favorite light beer is and then do a taste test with three or four other light beer. They will probably lose, as long as you stick with beer like the Big Three: Bud, Miller, and Coors. They will not be able to tell the difference and if they win it will be out of luck.
Promote microbreweries. Promote beer diversity. Try out new things. Beer doesn't all taste the same. And remember, Garrisons trumps Propeller, everytime.
Ryan Hartigan
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