Done yesterday (20100801 Su)

[mdlbear]

0801 Su
  * up 7:45; W=193.6; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, dishes
  * backups:  2010-08-01T08:18:47-0700 - 2010-08-01T09:37:15-0700
    /dev/sda5            1349854392 454749776 826535988  36% /media/bak
  * email to C; very nice reply.
  * OSH: 10 cinderblocks and a plastic garden cart
  * ride: to the second bridge on Los Gatos Creek  used all 21 gears;
    fortunately it's downhill going home.  a little over an hour.  Maybe a
    little more than I'm really capable of at this point, even with rest stop.
  * call to C; sent to voice mail.
  * Guacamole for dinner.  Maybe some leftover chili later.
  & (06:59:53 PM) me: (not to mention having to make Colleen a second grilled
    cheese sandwich because I was distracted sweeping glass off the floor that
    I discovered the hard way.)  % did not handle it well at all.
  & IM with N and D.
  * a bowl of leftover chili. 
  * singing for Colleen: cap, cicero, close, daddys, deso-no
  @ Urban Bedbug Onslaught Is A Curse On Dense Living, Recycling, & Energy
    Efficiency : TreeHugger 
  % dream: work, in what might be some converted resort.  They were moving my
    office from a large but noisy room to a really huge (40x40; I counted
    ceiling tiles) room that would eventually get more people in it.  I
    couldn't remember the facilities guy's name.  My computer, which was
    mounted on a shelf near the ceiling, was something like a SPARCstation.
    Maybe I miss my office?

Pretty good, on the whole. The reply I got from an email to cflute cast a faint but definite glow over the whole day. I did some shopping (cinderblocks and a garden cart), and took an hour-long bike ride on most of my old commute route along Los Gatos Creek. Or in other words, the 5-mile walking loop plus what's normally a car trip to the trail-head. Go me!

On the other hand, it was maybe a bit longer than I was really up for even with a rest at the far end, and it was a good thing the trip home was almost all downhill.

I made guacamole for dinner, with some leftover chili later. I made a grilled-cheese sandwitch for Colleen. Two, actually -- I ruined the first because I was busy sweeping up invisible but painful pieces of glass instead of watching the stove. The glass came from Saturday night's chili, or rather the bottle of wine that didn't go into the chili because the neck cracked when I went to take out the cork. First time that's happened to me. I didn't notice, but apparently a couple of tiny bits of glass ended up on the floor. One is apparently still in my foot. Ow. (I did not handle it well, and overloaded badly, though only for a few minutes.)

Sang for Colleen, continuing alphabetically through the songbook and skipping the real clunkers, Demon Lover (which is a duet), and one or two that I'm incredibly out of practice on. It occurs to me that I should be recording this. And maybe streaming it. Any suggestions for a capture->record->transcode->icecast toolchain?

Some links up there under the cut.

Comments

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

I tend to think one gets a free pass to freak significantly and not cope well when one has broken glass in the foot. awful stuff in a painful place! (deletes her own creepy broken glass story on grounds of being creepy)

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

For the recording ... I don't have a sensible MP3 recorder, so personally I'd either record it with something I do have (either the iPhone, a Symbian phone, or a minidisc recorder) and then leave it playing into the PC into Audacity (or the Magix software I've got) to convert it into something that can be split up, equalised, dehissed etc. and saved as separate MP3 files.

I don't know "icecast" I'm afraid, but as I see there's Audacity for Linux, then if you're a Linux guru, I'd use that.

[mdlbear]

I probably didn't make myself clear. (Icecast is a stream server for Linux, BTW.)

I have any number of options for recording, transcoding, etc., including a Zoom H2 and Audacity. What I want is a pipeline for doing it in real-time, with the data flowing in the microphone and out the speaker a thousand miles away with as little delay as possible, and preferably with the streams going in both directions getting recorded on both ends.

In other words, I want to be able to sing and play guitar on my end, and have my friends in another state able to sing along and record the mix at their end so that I can hear it later.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Sorry, didn't understand that from the original request at all :-)

I have no idea I'm afraid. I've tried doing something like that with Skype and a skype recorder, so that I could sing and play at one end and the person at the other end could see me and sing along, but I really had to switch off the headphones at my end because their addition was coming back well over a second later and throwing me off badly.

[mdlbear]

That's sort of the fallback method; you'd definitely have to disable the speakers on whichever end of the pipe is out of sync.