Are Americans Stupid ? [ October 6th, 2008 ] Posted in » Random
Well, i happen to like america but this video does say it all.
The Triops Died
It finally happened….The Triops died. Yep i came downstairs on sunday morning to find all 5 had sunk to the bottom of the tank and thats where they planned to stay. It was actually quite sad to see them dead especially after seeing them grow from just an egg.
One thing i will say is don’t buy the little fellas if you don’t like bad smells because they stank.
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Review #2 Of Jellyfish
Im in a video game
Ane for the soundtrack to an action packed video game, this ones right up your alley. Dynamics may need a little attention in as far as the intrument interacting with each other. As a stand alone tune, it probably need a littl emore variation to maintain 6.09 minutes of interest. I liked the half time feel at around 3.25.
- Muffinguy from Wamberal, New South Wales, Australia on 1Oct2008
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A Sign Of Old Age
I have never really had a problem with my age untill yesterday when i checked my email, to find a email from Myspace asking me if i want the myspace people to come to my school…….WTF? I had filled out the profile boxes with my real age (28) but for some reason they still decided to send me the mail regardless. This is something that makes you wonder why im on a site like that. I suppose that the only saving grace is that the reason i have a Myspace profile is to promote my music otherwise i wouldnt be on there. Another sigh of relief is that there are older people on the site that love it and im pretty sure they got the email to.
Either way i think that my myspace days are coming to an end in the next few weeks maybe even facebook to, who knows.
I did have a little look on Facebook earlier to find that this site has turned to a bag of shite too. I just dont like it. Nothing more i can really say to that, maybe all the new things in my life make the old things look crap.
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New Toys
Yesterday while in Toys R Us shopping for some new toys for Alfie we came accross a box with what looked like sea monkeys in. They are called Triop.
I know im probably more excited than the rest of the family to see these creatures grow. So yesterday i filled up there tank with some water and emptied the eggs in. Now its today and there are small and by small i mean small, Fishy things swimming about. I shall try to keep you posted on the development of the little fellas as they grow up.
Members of the order Notostraca (colloquially referred to as notostracans, called Triops, tadpole shrimp or shield shrimp) are small crustaceans in the class Branchiopoda. Triops have two internal compound eyes and one naupliar eye in-between, a flattened carapace covering its head and leg-bearing segments of the body. The order contains a single family, with only two extant genera. Their external morphology has apparently not changed since the Triassic appearance of Triops cancriformis around 220 million years ago. Triops cancriformis may therefore be the “oldest living animal species on earth.” The members of the extinct order Kazacharthra are closely related, having been descended from notostracans.
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A New Addition To The Family
Its been a bit of a secret for a while now but i can finally announce that we are going to be adding a new member to the family on or around Febuary the 2nd 2009. That’s right there is a child on the way and i cant wait. We had the first scan on the 27th August to find out thats its a little baby boy
This is the first photo we have of the boy and as soon as we get more i will post them to the site.
The baby is 4 Months 1Week and 6 Days old today and yes i am counting every day with a little touch of excitement.
Keri is doing fine and starting to show that shes actually pregnant now (makes it more real) you can read about what its like for her on www.blogbutterfly.com
The one thing thats really getting to us at the moment is that we are stuck on choosing a name for the little fella. We have come up with a few and we just cant decide so i have added a little poll to this post just to see what you the reader thinks of the names that we have chosen so far.
Loading ...Happy polling and i will keep you all posted on the baby, keri and how things are going.
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Scanners Are Awesome
I have had a scanner in the house for quite some time now and to be honest i have only used it once before to actually scan something that needed to be scanned. This all changed yesterday when i had to get the scanner out for Keri so that she could scan the photos of Alfie into the computer as a backup. This is when we started to mess about with the scanner and it got to the point where we were actually looking for things to scan just for the fun of it.
Here are a few examples of things we have already scanned. But, when she said to me earlier “Shall we scan some more stuff tonight” Im sure that the gallery folder will become a little more populated in the near future with some more random stuff.
For more of these photos check the Gallery page.
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Could there be a new track on the way?
Without a doubt it’s definitely been a while since a new track has emerged from the world of slotvent. For the last couple of months I have been really slack and not really bothered to turn on my music equipment, but things have changed. Whilst I was on holiday in two weeks I had to listen to music that I’m not a fan of and we all The know there’s nothing worse than having something constantly in your ear that you don’t like. As soon as I got home I turned on the PC fired up reason and slowly started to make more music.
I must admit the whole making music process feels a little weird now but it has also brought back the good feeling of accomplishing something new. The track is not finished yet but it’s well on its way and should be with us in the next week or so, fingers crossed.
The track itself will be drum and bass track there will be no new surprises but I’d like to think that everyone will like the track. It will continue to be fast and quite dark with an added melody to give that even balance. At this point I’d like to thank Keri constantly pushing me in the direction of making more music and given me back the motivation I needed in order to start making music again.
So stay posted, the new track is on its way and as soon as it’s finished I will put it on my website.
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Review #22 Of Jungle Reason
Break the beats.
VERY Nice groove programing.
I liked the flow and progression of the groove up to the break around 1:45 area.
the pads are great for adding the atmosphre. thelead synth are also playing nice stuff, but the general sounds are a little too “familier”.
On the last part of your track there was mostly only groove, and I feel you canadd some hits on 1/32 or 1/64 of the beat to some more interesting fragments to your groove.(try some squarepusher music)
I also missed some movements in the mix (pannings, filterd delays automation and stuff…)
In conclusion - a nice groovy break beat track with catchy hooks.
- darmon9 from Tel Aviv, Israel on 25Aug2005
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Review #21 Of Jungle Reason
Just Shaved…
Smooooth. you must’ve just shaved.
I wish we had the D-N-B sub genre at Garageband as a label by which to appropriately brand this track. Electronica, yes, but- RAGGA ROLLIN’ DRUM and BASS is where it lives…
Totally competent. This piece grooves very well. It has perfectly placed breaks and does all the moves it is supposed to. Here is a list of the things I thought were outstanding:
1. At 36 seconds when the counter-beat comes in to compliment the step rhythm. Man, I love that trick.
2. 1:57 when the drums come back in, great stuff.
More about the drums at 2:58, clean! Dark synth and building drum part with that bee-you-tee-full sub-base underneath it all. Sweet.
Let me say, it isn’t like I haven’t heard this all before, I have, which is not a bad thing. Lots of us out here LOVE D-n-B and I love the big Ragga sound especially. To be honest, the expiremental boundary pushing of the likes of Squarepusher and Aphex Twin tend to tire the ear after a while and we need a little straight ahead Goldie (or something, you fill in the name of your favorite urban D-n-B D.J.).
Well done. On the critical tip you might want to tweek your synths a little more, maybe get them to evolve more as the track progresses. You do have a good combination of synth patches and effects which keep the listener engaged, but, if you took those and then subtly effected them a little more over time; it would take this piece to another level. Also the initial lead synth at 12 seconds in is obviously not quantized and there are a few akward out of time pictures of- humanity? If that’s what you want, fine with me. It does stand out. It makes one pay attention, but kind of pulls away from the awesome quality of SMOOOOOTH.
- herbsquare from Tokyo, Japan on 23Aug2005
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Review #7 Of Jungle Reason
Out of whack!
I really liked the Bass but the other noise that comes in at 0:12 doesnt sound right it is in the wrong key and the timing isn’t good it needs some quantising the beat is good the second sound at 0:59 is out of key also you either want to change the bassline to match the synths or the synths to match the bassline as it sounds off I would keep the bassline and change the synths
hmmm at 2:00 none of the sounds are in key with each other and it seriously needs fixing I’m sorry but so far i’m not liking it at 3:00 it is better but the synth is still not matching the bassline 3:54 is just way out too
Man I feel really bad telling you all this please dont hold it against me 
the only sugestion that i can think of is that one or more of the sounds might be transposed up or down part of an octave which is making them hard to match go into each sounds setting in the synth check to see if all the parts in the patch are either set to 0 or +12 0r -12 in the coarse pitch settings and thet the keyfollow is also set to +100
I hope that didn’t go over your head is so basically what i’m trying to do is set the synth noises back to a standard tuning so that they are easier to match as a lot of synth sounds are deliberately tuned a little out to fatten them a bit but it makes then hard to match with other sounds
hope that helped 
- nuvolino from Edens Landing, Queensland, Australia on 9Jul2005
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