Fame: The Musical

The main purpose for this post is to talk about the rehearsal for fame but first i will mention x country from yesterday. Yesterday was the second last round of APS cross country which was hosted by Haileybury at Edrington. The head of cross country had put in a load of effort with a digital clock at the start/finish, 2 hay bayles as obstacles, and even had vests for all the officials. One detail he did have though which made the whole team laugh was he has written H2XC on the hill (dont ask about the origin of that its quite sad). Overall we beat caulfield and MGS and if we beat St Kevins next week we will win the premiership. The girls are also in a position to take their premiership.

Today was a rehearsal for fame in which we got alot of work done. We managed to hang the blacks which will need to be fixed with the cougar because some are hung at angles and just cant be fixed from the roof. More of the walls went up on the set. All the remaining lights from Inheritance were lowered. The 2Ks got a well deserved clean and 22/40s were hung on the side perches which was a major task. Lukes rather genious idea for the ladder worked quite well but Belly insisted that we use the harness. After a decent days work i now have some rather severe rope burn from lowering so many lights and hanging blacks. Thursday looks to be a good day because it is our major bump in which means we get all our hired lights which will be my first experience with movers so that should be good fun.

We also found why James failed his P’s the first time, indicate then turn! and yes we can flash our brake lights too. Luke on the other hand is a much safer driver.

It looks to be a short but intense time until opening night but will be worth it in the end. Only 17 days left until opening night.

Bye for now   – JD

My tightarse stereo

These holidays i was down at Autopro with Nat and we say some car head units with speakers for sale for a mere $10. At this price is was a steal and i bought one with no intention of putting it in a car at all, i had better ideas. For ages i have had speakers sitting in the lounge that are not being used. they are medium-large and have good quality seas drivers in them (more info at http://seas.no/) this brand is generally reserved for higher end audio. So i whipped out a spare computer power supply which i modified the end of to be able to power the head unit, and hot wired it with a switch so it doesn’t need to be connected to a motherboard which worked a treat. Then since it is only a cassette head unit i have modified it to accept a CD player (old PC CD drive the ones that u can play CD’s and stuff with the buttons on the front), ipod or MP3, pair of RCA’s and i have space for another input if i need it. and if i wanted to i could even use the 5V rails off the PSU to charge an ipod or sumthing. these input are selectable via a rotary switch. As i write this i am waiting for the paint to dry because i only painted it this arvo then its back to installing everything and then its pretty much done. Total cost so far is only $15 which includes the head unit and some of the connectors and stuff, the rest i had lying round the house.  Overall the testing i have done for the sound is pretty good thanks to my good speakers i need to get a decent antenna for the radio though.

Well the holidays are almost over i guess ive done a bit seen a few movies, built a stereo, overclocked some PC’s due to boredom. all in all not too bad but im looking forward to double electrotech tomorrow mornin.

- JD

btw ill update u with pics as soon as my stereo is all together

Weekend and V-Tech Rampage

Greetings

On Saturday i had cross country. It was a very muddy track and you had to stomp every so often to get the mud off your shoes otherwise they would get too heavy. Haileybury was against heavy weights Scotch and Xavier. We beat Scotch but narrowly went down to Xavier by 4 points. The good thing though is St Kevins drew with MGS leaving a good chance to win the premiership if we beat Caulfield and St Kevins in the final two rounds. Once home from Geelong i had a rest and did some homework. On Sunday afternoon i went to the football and saw St Kilda take on Geelong. The Saints played like shit and the umpiring was just as bad with the controversial hands in the back rule.
Today i had school. Double Geog, Electrotech, Double Science, English and Geography. I eventually got my History done throughout the day and it took me forever to print in the library because the computers are so slow and take forever. English was a waste of time where we spent the lesson talking about mobile phones for some random reason and had to write i story that involved a mobile phone.
I also saw a link to this game on overclockers.com.au today. Yes, this game is in bad taste but it intrigued me and i had to try it out. It is a flash game about the Virginia Tech Rampage and it is quite controversial it can be found HERE on the newgrounds site.
Well thats it for now. Happy Gaming
- JD