Kognitive Jelly

Well, the past month has been busy:

I’m really excited about the work environment and the opportunity to learn a great deal from my new boss. I’ll be working across the street from BART, in the same parking lot as my gym! It’s also only a couple blocks from where I used to work, so I’ll be able to meet up with friends and I already know where all the good places to eat are!

While I will be working for digital fountain, we will be growing our design & development consulting company. We just finalized on the logo, so first comes the stationary, then comes the website. This blog will probably move to a more appropriate personal domain (alla blog.markcarey.org or something).

I’ve inherited a lot of ugly code, but things are moving along smoothly. Even though the site is in php, I found a way to leverage ruby for administrative scripts and am exploring capistrano for automated deployment of site updates.

Well… I walked a month ago in cap & gown, but this stupid thesis is driving me up the wall. I’m almost there. Hopefully I’ll have it done within the week.

Who knew that the Evolution UC-33e didn’t need a power supply to work if plugged in via USB. I’ve had that stupid thing sitting on the shelf doing nothing for the past 2 years, thinking I had lost the power supply. I went to look only to find a replacement unit only to find out it was optional!!

Also I upgraded from Finalscratch2 to Traktor Scratch. I was tempted to go with Serato Scratch, but the Traktor Software is just so much better. Hopefully now that the hardware is made by the same company as the software, the platform will stabilize. I’ve got Ableton Live and have been tempted to start using it for doing more creative mixes, but the setup takes a lot more work to get to place where you can have fun with it. With Traktor Scratch I just cue an mp3 track to a turntable and rock out. Besides, there is just something about having a vinyl record under your fingers that feels so right. I should have a new mix online very soon as well (after the paper is finished).