magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

finally got around to recording one of the blocks of gridcosm texts that i signed up to read at the beginning of the summer. in "pitch-shifted, martian answering machine" mode, as i've dubbed it. the martian answering machine part was intentional, i called home from the library yesterday and left messages on my machine that is getting old and warbly. then digitized and edited it some. the pitch-shifted part was more due to technical difficulties than aesthetic choice though. i couldn't seem to convert the sound file into an mp3 at the correct speed. for the final version i ended up stepping it up an octave, which then got shifted about half an octave back down when i converted it, so it's still about half an octave high, but i think i like it that way.

plus, the mp3 fits on a floppy. i'm having problems uploading it over my unreliable 14.4k modem connection though. but, my off-campus internet connection wasn't supposed to be active at all this month, so i'm still somewhat ahead, i guess.

didn't do a whole lot else today. played some guitar. tried to do some reading. sat around.