Inevitably Seasonal Greetings
Sunday, December 25th, 2011 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kOnce more I explore the tension between enticement and revelation, or "Jesse wields the cut-tag."
The Transom org is a place to nurture public radio producers. One digital audio editor they really like is Hindenburg. Of particular interest is that the software is optimized for humans talking—podcasts and news and oral history. It focuses its engineering wizardry on balancing levels and other tasks that the music-and-instrumental-oriented tools like Audacity don't. There's a hey, cool program first-run review, followed up by a comparison of two programs that run an iPhone and finally we're still loving Hindenburg and its new features
The home site for the publisher is http://hindenburgsystems.com/
Yesterday MyGuy's immediate family got together for lunch, with Mom, in her own apartment. The food was bland, the company was well-known, and MyGuy shared how he maintains his "hangin' with the fam" cool. He takes none of it seriously. He's been hanging around his brother and two sisters for sixty years. He's seen what impact their various enthusiasms have on his life: zero. Therefore? Sweat it not. Just knowing he was sharing this understanding made an enormous difference. I'm sorry I hadn't realized the power of that particular partnership before my parents died off.
Mom in the apartment was major news, because she's been in a nursing home for the past two months. She's always been very decisive, and made her own way in marriage, education and employment. At 90 with Parkinson's Disease, she's not very steady on her feet. But when she gets up and starts going, she goes and goes and goes. In the space of a week she fell four times; when she finally got an MRI it showed a pelvic fracture, which hurts, a lot. Thus she was moved to the nursing home, where she has since fallen five times (even though she's on "fall watch" and they've got alarms and bolsters). Perhaps she wants to take a final stroll right on out of the joint? (I wouldn't be surprised.) She was hoping she could stay overnight in her apt. Living in a nursing home—even a clean, spacious, one—is nobody's idea of a Good Thing.
So, we're at home with nothing to celebrate and therefore a perfect day to waste time online. Aiii! Our wireless base station died. . (This may be the case with PCs as well, just speaking from my knowledge base.) The Internet comes into the house over coax cable (same as cable TV), which plugs into a modem. Earlier, we'd plug an Ethernet cable into the modem and the other end into the Airport base station.
Naomi, my laptop, has an Ethernet jack as well, so I knew I would be able to get Internet. I did that, and then I poked around in the System Preferences menu. Where I discovered that if I selected
System Prefs -> Internet & Wireless -> Sharing -> Tick "Internet Sharing"
and then also
System Prefs -> Internet & Wireless -> Network -> Ethernet = Connected & green
System Prefs -> Internet & Wireless -> Network -> Location = Auto
All the other devices in my house were able to select Naomi from their WiFi menus.
Yesterday morning, while I was enjoying my same damn breakfast and reading about the establishment of Odessa on the Black Sea, something tan/white/orange catches my eye. Yes it is a coyote loping across the yard, then across the street, and then revving the jets to vanish behind the next-door's house. Tonight as I tap out these words, the owl's soft hooting is lovely music. Happy to be hear, happy you're reading, and hoping we're both headed into a much better year.
The Transom org is a place to nurture public radio producers. One digital audio editor they really like is Hindenburg. Of particular interest is that the software is optimized for humans talking—podcasts and news and oral history. It focuses its engineering wizardry on balancing levels and other tasks that the music-and-instrumental-oriented tools like Audacity don't. There's a hey, cool program first-run review, followed up by a comparison of two programs that run an iPhone and finally we're still loving Hindenburg and its new features
The home site for the publisher is http://hindenburgsystems.com/
Yesterday MyGuy's immediate family got together for lunch, with Mom, in her own apartment. The food was bland, the company was well-known, and MyGuy shared how he maintains his "hangin' with the fam" cool. He takes none of it seriously. He's been hanging around his brother and two sisters for sixty years. He's seen what impact their various enthusiasms have on his life: zero. Therefore? Sweat it not. Just knowing he was sharing this understanding made an enormous difference. I'm sorry I hadn't realized the power of that particular partnership before my parents died off.
Mom in the apartment was major news, because she's been in a nursing home for the past two months. She's always been very decisive, and made her own way in marriage, education and employment. At 90 with Parkinson's Disease, she's not very steady on her feet. But when she gets up and starts going, she goes and goes and goes. In the space of a week she fell four times; when she finally got an MRI it showed a pelvic fracture, which hurts, a lot. Thus she was moved to the nursing home, where she has since fallen five times (even though she's on "fall watch" and they've got alarms and bolsters). Perhaps she wants to take a final stroll right on out of the joint? (I wouldn't be surprised.) She was hoping she could stay overnight in her apt. Living in a nursing home—even a clean, spacious, one—is nobody's idea of a Good Thing.
So, we're at home with nothing to celebrate and therefore a perfect day to waste time online. Aiii! Our wireless base station died. . (This may be the case with PCs as well, just speaking from my knowledge base.) The Internet comes into the house over coax cable (same as cable TV), which plugs into a modem. Earlier, we'd plug an Ethernet cable into the modem and the other end into the Airport base station.
Naomi, my laptop, has an Ethernet jack as well, so I knew I would be able to get Internet. I did that, and then I poked around in the System Preferences menu. Where I discovered that if I selected
System Prefs -> Internet & Wireless -> Sharing -> Tick "Internet Sharing"
and then also
System Prefs -> Internet & Wireless -> Network -> Ethernet = Connected & green
System Prefs -> Internet & Wireless -> Network -> Location = Auto
All the other devices in my house were able to select Naomi from their WiFi menus.
Yesterday morning, while I was enjoying my same damn breakfast and reading about the establishment of Odessa on the Black Sea, something tan/white/orange catches my eye. Yes it is a coyote loping across the yard, then across the street, and then revving the jets to vanish behind the next-door's house. Tonight as I tap out these words, the owl's soft hooting is lovely music. Happy to be hear, happy you're reading, and hoping we're both headed into a much better year.