Money

Money is crazy, and makes people do strange things. Example: down at the radio station, we have some money left over from this year’s budget. About $7k worth, to be perfectly blunt about it. The station has acquired some nicer equipment since I’ve been the engineer there, and the my replacement seems like he’s going to take good care of it.

We were perusing the BSW catalog and other websites of stuff to buy, and it sort of takes over you, this desire to buy, buy, buy stuff. It helps that it’s not directly our personal money to be spending. Now, I don’t view myself as particularly materialistic. I try not to live my life in the ‘pursuit of shit’ as we’re made to believe is the One True Way to happiness. But, man we’re buying some nice stuff ::

• Dual-processor Power Mac G4 (the new werw.syr.edu for music streaming and hosting our site as well as uu.syr.edu)


• B&R kickass monitors (the exact model escapes me). Only a 5 1/4” driver but these babies really scream when you crank them. A nice upgrade from the old, crackly, powered studio monitors we currently have.


• BBW studio CD recorder (rack mounted, of course)


• Marantz MP3 CD player (again, rack mounted goodness)

I suppose I’m mostly excited about the Mac, bringing WERW and UU back to its roots as a Mac shop. Plus, my iBook is still out of service :(

Back in business

It’s been at least three weeks since nowacki.org has been operational. The site has found a new home at the excellent chateau d’anize.org. Many thanks to Doug for making my slice of hyperspace a member of the internet co-op.

nowacki.org is now on a co-lo’ed box and a much fatter pipe so your incessant page refreshes should come down the line a little quicker.

Tomorrow is the last day of classes of my undergraduate career. It’s odd, because in years past I have looked forward to the last day of classes with greater anticipation than this year. Part of it is due to the craziness that was my senior design project, but I think a greater part is due to some subconscious desire for it not to end. I’ll be happy to be done with the drudgery of attending class and doing homework, but at the same time I want to be back in the senior design lab, working furiously late into the night. I kind of wish I had a paper to write, or some arcane and utterly irrelevant Switching Theory homework to do. I guess it’s just human nature to want what you don’t have, even when what you currently have is what you previously wanted. Not to mention the fact that I still have to work out the bug in my Operating Systems assignment in time for my demonstration tomorrow morning. It never ends, does it?