at weekends I tend to avoid townie places (often I stay at home and work on my electronics projects or try and mix some music) but this weekend there is a 50th birthday party for a friend of mine at the housing co-op, and I was meaning to visit there to drop off a spare internet router (which might be better than their current one) and also have a spare trafo (cheeseweasel special) for ICR-FM as my friend was using virtual DJ and he had some noise problems (they are just down the road).
So must try and get an earlyish night on Friday, remember to pack my better DSLR camera with good charged batteries and at the party not do what I did last time and get so blotto in2 hours I had to recover in a unused stairwell (a young woman from the co-op rescued me from there and found me safe haven in the office/infoshop (there is a bed there for guests who end up in this sort of stage but are otherwise decent, and you can lock this from inside – passing out in the middle of the party means you become target for human buckaroo (items being placed on you)
odd bit of karma – they have a small library there with interesting stuff, amongst this was a full untouched copy of Audio Electronics by the late John Linsley Hood. It was written in the late 1990s when he was retired and in his 70s and returned to his native Scotland
For an audio engineer, finding this book is like a devout religious scholar finding a new copy of the Bible or Koran or Torah. some of it contains his own opinions (but he was ahead of his time in many reepects and the basics still hol today. He also explains complex things like digital to analogue conversion and vice versa without going too heavy into hard maths, that I do not understand,
The co-op folk uninanimously decided that I should have this book on permanent loan :bounce_fl
