{"id":396,"date":"2007-12-31T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallioncornell.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/31\/a-final-whine-for-2007"},"modified":"2007-12-31T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T18:42:00","slug":"a-final-whine-for-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/a-final-whine-for-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"A Final Whine for 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

So yesterday I attempt to record a simple demo version of the preceding song for your listening pleasure. I wrote the thing as part of my presentation for a ward Book of Mormon mini read-a-thon, and the debut performance was so well received that I thought I ought to get a version of it in the can before I forgot the tune. For those of you who know my repertoire, the song sounds, right now, a little too much like The Ballad of Stallion Cornell<\/a> for my taste. It\u2019s in \u00be time and it\u2019s in a kind of pseudo-country\/folk style. I was looking forward to tweaking it further as I worked my digital magic, but then I discovered something awful.<\/p>\n

It seems that my recording equipment, the DigiDesign MBox with Pro Tools LE 6.9, is woefully out of date, so much so that it no longer works with any recent version of the Mac OSX operating system. To upgrade, it\u2019s going to cost me well over $300, plus a lot of time and effort and pains in the tuckus.<\/p>\n

May I go on record as whining that built-in software obsolescence annoys the crap out of me. I also don\u2019t like the new Mac OS much. It works fine on my newest laptop, but I have two older Macs that are struggling to keep up. One of them no longer recognizes my home wireless network unless I give it an enema first.<\/p>\n

The old OS worked just fine. Heck, Mac OS 9 worked just fine. I upgraded in order to keep track with the programs that don\u2019t work with old OS, but now I find that a program I needed doesn\u2019t work with the new OS. It\u2019s so deeply frustrating that I want to vomit, but I just can\u2019t seem to make that happen. At least I don’t have Windows Vista.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not all bad news. I found a workaround using Soundtrack Pro, a program that\u2019s part of my Final Cut suite. So I may have a version online before you know it. And it won\u2019t cost me a dime. Take that, DigiDesign!<\/p>\n

In other news, I really don\u2019t understand New Year\u2019s Eve. Staying up until midnight seems like a waste of up to two hours of valuable sleep. Maybe New Year\u2019s Eve was fun once upon a time, but I\u2019m old and boring now. And New Year\u2019s Day is a pointless, pointless holiday. For most folks, it\u2019s National Hangover Day. For me, it\u2019s just another chance to nap. Which is, now that I think about it, not bad at all.<\/p>\n

Happy New Year. Please turn off the lights and lock the door on your way out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soyesterday I attempt to record a simple demo version of the preceding song for your listening pleasure. I wrote the thing as part of my presentation for a ward Book of Mormon mini read-a-thon, and the debut performance was so well received that I thought I ought to get a version of it in the ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}