Thursday, September 29, 2022

Limiters, Stockport, Airwolf, and Crashes

More experiments with the Cathedral Limiter, all trying to get a 'better' trace, here are some experiment results:

But they don't work and the whole process was too complex, I just couldn't get it to work. No matter, as a complex trace like that would create a complex result in audio too... the trace is ultimately used like a gate or switch, so the more complex it is, the more obvious (and strange) that change may become in the result.

At 11:30 I gave up and decided to stick with the Cathedral Limiter as it is and file everything. Then, a trip to Stockport to collect my paintings from the art gallery. This is an adventure and fitness challenge. The train arrives in Stockport station at 44 minutes past the hour, and the return train departs at 04 minutes past, giving me exactly 20 minutes to get to the gallery, collect, pack, and get back to the train station. Fortunately the gallery is nearby. I noted the exact time when pressing the train door open button, and 4 minutes later, I entered the gallery. I was alone, no queue, and quickly found and packed both paintings. I was back on the station platform, hot after a near-run, when the hour hit. Quite an adventure.

After that, I watched an episode of 80s series 'Airwolf'. I remember it, as a child, being quite good but it appears I was wrong. This episode was so bad it was hilarious. The enemies were 'draft-dodging hippies' who wanted to create world peace and/or a new society of mind-controlled love-children. They decided to achieve this by using computer hacking to hijack a top-secret, nuclear armed, drone aircraft, and then asking the US Government for $20 million in ransom money. After giving them just 15 minutes to think this over (during which time the government did nothing), they decided to fire the missiles anyway to destroy the evil war-mongering politicians. If this sounds a lot to cram into 25 minutes, it's just the start. Jan Michael Vincent (an actor who is/was exactly like Richard Dean Anderson, but with no acting ability) was friends with the army-hero brother of the evil hippie draft-dodger mastermind - a villain who fled a war due to cowardice, and avoids violence so effectively that he uses pistols and an army of gun-toting children to battle it.

Now, I must rest. The news of the past week has been hideous due to massive government incompetence. We are now enduring the first self-inflicted financial crash of my life, or perhaps the first ever, as I can't recall one that wasn't caused accidentally. From the government that punched itself repeatedly in the economic face with a glove called 'Brexit' we have an idiot prime minister doing the same for, apparently, no reason but the desire to self-harm and to punish others.

Onward!