Weekend wrapup

[mdlbear]

Although it's not apparent from my last few journal entries, I have been doing a few other things besides mixing songs. (People waiting with bated breath for my album might be inclined to say, "too many other things", but it's my album and I can procrastinate if I want to.)

Yesterday we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which selkit had never seen. We also had roaringmouse, who had come down early for today's Baycon meeting. Good trip. There was some construction going on that effectively turned several streets into pedestrian walkways -- too bad they're not likely to stay that way. The aquarium itself has seen some changes, too.

The chaoswolf and selkit immediately headed off to the Outer Bay exhibit to see the new great white shark; the rest of us went to lunch. The sit-down restaurant in the acquarium is very good, and pretty reasonably priced -- came to $25/person. After lunch we split up; it's really good to have kids that are old enough to go off and explore on their own.

I, too, made my way over to the Outer Bay, but truth to tell I was more impressed by the tuna, several of which which outweighed the (admittedly juvenile) great white. Good thing, of course -- some of them still have scars that I assume they got from the previous g.w.s. specimen, which was big enough to cause trouble. One of the nice new touches was a series of little bronze sculptures -- there was an octopus tentacle on the frame around the giant octopus's tank, and several clusters of mussels near the shallow-water displays. Another new touch was a walkway around the surf exhibit, that actually puts you underneath the simulated waves. Nice effect.

Today the flower_cat and roaringmouse went off to the Baycon meeting, and I went out for a walk. Did some EQ and mixing for "Programmer's Alphabet", and took the various kids out on shopping trips. (Fry's for super_star_girl, Stevens Creek Surplus for the chaoswolf and selkit.)

After that, I crawled back into my hole and did a little toolbuilding. In this case it was a simple little program that stuffs the contents of a template file into another file by matching the first and last line of the template. In this case I wanted to use it to keep the song list up-to-date in album directories. (It will eventually have other uses as well, of course.) I've been fiddling with the song order (suggestions gratefully accepted, since I'm still not satisfied with it) and changing some of the song descriptions, so it's always in flux. I hate doing cut-and-paste updating -- that's what perl and make are for. Yeah, I could have done it a lot more simply with sed. But I'm lazy, and it was easier to steal a somewhat different program and hack it to fit.

Reading this post by tarkrai I found out about Conflikt, the new Seattle-area filk con scheduled for the end of January, 2008. It's far enough out that I can probably keep the weekend free, and it's a heck of a lot closer thatn GAFilk.

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