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reay

@reay@mastodon.social

Dad. Writer. Amateur photographer. Dabbler in tabletop game design. Fan of books, tabletop/video games, comics, music and movies. Neutral Good. He/him.
Thoughts and opinions are my own.
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https://www.reayjespersen.com/

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  • Got a needed contact lens swap with the optometrist put into motion
  • Started reading an unexpectedly engaging book
  • Progress made on resolving some issues with voice over recording
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I’m a middle-aged white guy who was just driving home with Public Enemy turned up in the car to keep the neighbours on their toes.

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I’ve always been told I walk into the room and everyone immediately picks up on my Big D(onut) energy.

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All right, enough dicking around and not doing any work… he thinks, before unironically deciding he needs a snack and tea before getting to work.

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Wait for it… waaaaaaait for it…

https://youtu.be/-UYgORr5Qhg

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The morning sun rises, bringing with it the heart-lifting chirping of birds waking with the day.

https://youtu.be/A43JOxLa5MM

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from yesterday:

  • finally got my voice over rig set up to try out some recording
  • an important thing I was looking for was found
  • tried two new recipes, orange chicken and a chocolate chip cookie that may be our new go-to, that my wife and daughter both really liked
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    reay,
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    @samlitzinger So it’s looking like Trump v. Biden again?

    Who had The Next President Will Be Another a) 80-Year Old b) White c) Man on their Problems With The USA bingo card?

    adhdeanasl, to random
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    this morning: Tool’s Forty Six & 2 as performed by the kids of the O’Keefe Music Foundation.

    If you’ve never seen any of their videos, check out what O’Keefe does. It’s good stuff.

    https://youtu.be/mYKLvYGqaC0

    reay,
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    @adhdeanasl I’m never not impressed by the kid on the drums. That’s some crazy stuff to keep up with — way beyond me — and he does it.

    reay,
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    @adhdeanasl Incidentally, if you want to see drumming that will melt your brain, check out the drum video of a live performance of Pneuma here:

    https://youtu.be/FssULNGSZIA

    I’m not a reaction video guy, but I really enjoy watching professional drummers seeing that video and constantly stopping it to say, “Wait, hold on again, WHAT?”

    Danny Carey is a beast.

    reay,
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    @adhdeanasl Same. I can manage now, but Carey is god level.

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    @samlitzinger I just realized that Twitter has become the new Trump presidency era: Every day some stupid shit happens and I’m long-since tired of hearing it. (He says as he boosts the post because Hey, everyone, here’s more stupid shit that happened!)

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    📌 Ny Introduktion

    Hej jeg går under navnet Danish her på Mastodon, jeg er 18 år snart 19 og jeg er interesseret i privatliv, sikkerhed og teknologi.

    Lad os skabe et hyggeligt fællesskab her på Mastodon. ❤️

    This is a danish 🇩🇰 account, so that's what I'll mainly be tooting in.

    reay,
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    @danish Once upon a time I may have been able to translate at least segments of that during a dedicated streak of trying to learn Danish.

    These days, not so much.

    But in any case, welcome!

    longforjohn, to random

    The first fruit from my little garden was this delicious strawberry.

    reay,
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    @longforjohn That could be the definitive image of what a strawberry should look like.
    Bravo!

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    To celebrate 420 I had not one but TWO gummies.

    That are all CBD and no THC.

    For my sore back.

    No one parties like a 51 year-old dad.

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    I've decided to ACTIVELY decouple from Twitter: Every day, I go back and DM at least 10 of my followers, telling them I've moved here and to follow me here instead (I remove them as followers after that DM). A number of them have set up accounts as a result.

    Please do the same if you're more active here than on That's how you can help the

    Boost if you agree.

    reay,
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    @TNLNYC Sounds like you had more success with this approach than I did.

    I announced a couple of times on each platform when I’d be leaving Twitter and Facebook and that I had moved here (linked to my account and everything).

    Zero family followed me here and I think there’s a total of… two?… friends who showed up here after that. From hundreds of connections on each site.

    But, you can lead a horse to water, blah blah blah. 🤷‍♂️

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    @TNLNYC I sincerely don’t know how anyone stands being there.

    It was psychologically bad already anyway, then Musk took over and just poured gas on the dumpster fire.

    I get that people may need to be on for work, or whatever, but to be on casually just to wind down and relax or bide the time, or whatever?

    Woof.

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    @TNLNYC I sincerely don’t know how anyone stands being there.

    It was psychologically bad already anyway, then Musk took over and just poured gas on the dumpster fire.

    I get that people may need to be on for work, or whatever, but to be on casually just to wind down and relax or bide the time, or whatever?

    Woof.

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    @TNLNYC That’s why it’s nice to see SOME of them starting to make the move here. Neil Gaiman, Elvira, Mark Ruffalo… hoping more come this way.

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    Does anyone who records vocal audio have any thoughts on why my waveform amplitude seems so small on the recording software?

    I’m having to turn the interface gain to almost max just to capture even that.

    The presets I’m using in Audacity are in line with tutorials I’ve seen, so it’s not that.

    And I know it’s not which USB port the interface is connected to on my laptop. But aside from that, maybe the mic itself (a Shure SM-58)? Maybe the cabling or a connection somewhere?


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    @thebishopgame Interesting. Any chance it’s the computer? I’ll get the program on another laptop and try it there to check that possibility.

    A lot of this will be sorted out piecemeal as I swap out one piece of the kit for another. The guy at the music store said he tested the (used) mic and it worked fine, but the interface was a demo model and I don’t know if he tried that.

    It’s all under warranty, I just want to narrow down the culprit(s) ASAP.

    Thanks for the help.

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    @thebishopgame The levels are on there, for sure, but I didn’t make note of the highest they went other than checking for noise floor (which wasn’t even registering on the metres despite being in an echo-y space with a furnace vent blowing loudly beside me).

    I did take pics of my screen showing my waveform (top) compared to one in an Audacity tutorial (bottom, sorry for crappy focus). Both are at 100% zoom. There’s just that much difference in recording amplitude.

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    @thebishopgame Right? And that’s with the gain cranked basically all the way up, which generally just shouldn’t be the case.

    I do also have to be right up on the mic to get even that, though I understand the SM-58 is kinda like that.

    I’ll poke at a few more things tomorrow and try it on another computer and see if I can get any better results.

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    @thebishopgame Ok, so update: Realized I hadn’t installed the driver for the UR12. Straight-forward, seemed to take it ok, all good.

    And now it’s recording as more sensitive than it had been, though still oddly low.

    With the gain at zero, there’s literally no levels registering on the input. You can hear it on the playback, but very faintly.

    Gain cranked half way, I was peaking at around -40dB.

    Gain at max, peaking at -12. That was too much, even with headphones pretty low.

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    @thebishopgame So yeah, definitely more sensitive with the driver installed, but I’m still having to put the gain up around half way to get it into a decent playback volume.

    And for what it’s worth, even with gain maxed out and the volume too high, the wave pattern amplitude on the visual is still really small compared to what I’ve seen in every tutorial video, with them just talking casually. 🤔

    reay, to random
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    There are times when the Toronto Transit Commission’s Trip Planner feature works well.

    And then there are times when its first result is suggesting you can walk 790 metres (half a mile) in 10 minutes. 🤔

    reay,
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    @apLundell Realized the issue with the walking distance time estimate. I mis-typed the address. 3730, not 3070 as I had it.

    I was wondering in retrospect why it was saying it was only 800-ish metres away, which is about 8 city blocks. It's 3.3 km (33-ish blocks) from my place.

    Waaaay less confusing now.

    There are times I feel extra not smart.

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