Author Archive: jlaity

DIY is back

The original reason I started this journal was to chart my progress building a modular synthesizer. For several reasons, I decided this might not be the best idea. So, instead, I’m starting much smaller. I’ve started on a microphone preamp, based on a 1970’s API design. These preamps are some of the best-sounding anywhere, and […]

Published on: 14 November 2004
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New dive pics

We took a nice trip on the Truth dive boat to Santa Rosa and San Miguel islands this weekend. This is my favorite shot of the set, a red octopus I found at 20′ during a night dive: More photos here: Santa Rosa & San Miguel Gallery

Published on: 9 November 2004
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Damn Casinos

Let’s see if the casino spam goes away now. If you do choose to gamble your money online, I would very much appreciate it if you did not use these bastards. Thank you. Edit: Heh, I added a filter that gets rid of words like “casino” and “gaming.” It seems to work. 🙂

Published on: 7 November 2004
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Grrr

Comments are disabled until I figure out how to get rid of this spam. If anyone knows how to make users register before commenting, please let me know.

Published on: 24 October 2004
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Extreme Tubing

It rained for three days here this week. I saw a bunch of firefighters looking over at the raging LA river one morning. I’m assuming that someone went tubing and didn’t have an exit strategy.

Published on: 22 October 2004
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Muse Rocks

I’m a huge fan of the new Muse album, called Absolution. It combines Radiohead, Queen, Linkin Park, and many other sounds. It’s refreshing to hear so much talent and musicianship on a rock album these days. If you have iTunes, you should be able to click on the link below to hear them. If you […]

Published on: 13 October 2004
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