Seattle road trip: Day 3

Start: Madison, WI
End: Bismarck, ND
Hours: 11
Miles: 690

A long day, but it got us past the halfway-point. MN and ND added to the list today. Dogs are road-trippers.

Seattle road trip: Day 2

Start: Cleveland, OH
End: Madison, WI
Hours: 8
Miles: 480

Dreary most of the day, but perfectly good weather for driving. IN, IL, and WI. Long drive tomorrow to make it to the middle of ND.

Seattle road trip: Day 1

Start: Medford,MA
End: Cleveland, OH
Hours: 11.5
Miles: 650

A great day for a long drive. Started out a bit rainy and very windy, but the weather improved before we were across MA, and it was smooth sailing from there.

The dogs encountered three new states (NY, PA, OH) and are very content to ride in their stylin' car seats.

Hit up Swenson's for some late-night triple-cheeseburg-action, and the first day came to a fantastic close.

Holy crap fighter jets rule!

These guys are awesome. Also, the song - Radioactive by Imagine Dragons - is perfect for epic flight videos like this.
 

Winter Quadcopter!

A weekend afternoon with no precipitation and temperatures above freezing...

This is only a short clip from a few hours out in Lexington. No major damage from this crash :)

Ableton and the Korg padKONTROL

Prerequisites: Ableton Live 8, Windows 7, Korg padKONTROL, Korg drivers. 

Useful but not required: padKONTROL Editor Librarian.

What you can't see is that on line 1 the Input is padKONTROL 1 PORT A and the output is padKONTROL 1 CTRL.

This setup allows me to assign the MIDI 'keys' like the 16 pads on my padKONTROL to anything on Ableton that I can press or twist when I edit the MIDI Key Map.

If I want to use the padKONTROL as a sampler again, I'll have to delete the MIDI Mappings, but it only takes a few seconds.

If you've got the padKONTROL Editor Librarian, you can create a scene that more aligns with Ableton when using the padKONTROL to manage a drum rack: Starting from the bottom row of pads, left to right, set the pads to C4, D4, E4, F4, G4, A4, B4. C5, D5, E5, F5, G5, A5, B5, C6, D6.

You'll need to make sure to save it to the padKONTROL as a specific scene so that you don't have to re-map the pads when you reboot your computer.

Rock my Adidas never rock Fila

Specifically, Y-3's. Sala, Sprint Classic, and Boxing. The Sala (left) and Boxing (right) pairs arrived today. The Classic's don't look too worn, but I've had them almost three years.


All of them are the most comfortable shoes I own and look amazing. This is why I rock my Adidas.

comedians in cars getting coffee

I ran across this amazing series of shorts by Jerry Seinfeld that is absolutely hilarious. Seinfeld mentioned it in a great interview with the New York Times Magazine a few weeks ago.