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Last.fm

Hasslehaas — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:23:19 +0000

I approve of last.fm. Judge my music listening habits!
Hasslehaas on Last.FM

Minecraft Mania

Hasslehaas — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:50:50 +0000

I’m definitely hooked. Minecraft is the perfect casual sandbox game. I say casual because you can play 5 minutes easily and quit at any time while saving your progress either single player or multiplayer. You can also waste a weekend playing it and wonder what happened. The reddit community is very active on the game. Check it out.

For the time being I’m keeping my own server running that you are welcome to. It’s at minecraft.hasslehaas.com. I’ve even rendered a map of it for you that I’ll try to keep updated here.

Mobile Update

Hasslehaas — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:22:47 +0000

Attempting an awesome update from my Nexus One phone. The Android 2.2 update has made my phone infinitely more useful. I thank my lucky stars I convinced AT&T to let me out of my contract before they hiked up their “early termination fee”. Thanks to the nice person that bought my iPhone 3g off of Craigslist.

Dr. Killbot releases “Mystical Creatures” video

Hasslehaas — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:56:33 +0000

Selling guitar and bass collection

Hasslehaas — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:01:20 +0000

I’m helping a family friend sell a collection of guitars who’s owner has passed on. I’ll be putting them up on craigslist or ebay soon. Some of them need a little cleaning up and setup first.

Memphis strat-copy : 19?? Black, with carboard case, needs new strings



1971-73 American Fender Telecaster maple fretboard mostly non-original hardware and electronics

Fender American Jazz Bass 1977-78 fret-less, Baddass Bass II bridge, EMG pickups

Kramer USA SF 2973

ESP Ltd Bass
Active electronics (needs cleaning up first)

Guild B-301 : 1977-1980

Cherry Finish, mahogany, BT-4 bridge

Ibanez JEM 555 BK
korean – needs major cleanup

Rouge AE300 Black Acoustic with Electronic pickups and very nice Tweed card case

: Epiphone “gold-top”

Epiphone Les Paul 56 Gold Top

Presonus Firewire on Windows 7

Hasslehaas — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:12:07 +0000

Problems with your Presonus firewire device on Windows 7? Pick the legacy firewire driver.

So I’ve really been digging Windows 7, but my Presonus Firestudio Project had been giving me all kinds of grief. I’ve generally allways had to do a lot of tweaking with my specialty audio hardware to get it to run acceptably, especially my old Firepod, but this was really driving me crazy. Presonus now has the “Universal Control” app that drives their Firestudio hardware, and it installed fine under Windows 7, but every time I tried to connect the Firestudio it would totally freeze up. It turns out that the Presonus hardware doesn’t play nice with Windows 7 1394 firewire drivers. I actually saw this suggestion for a completely different piece of hardware, so the Win 7 firewire drivers might not quite be ready for prime time. All you have to do is manually pick the “legacy” firewire drivers and you are good to go. I didn’t even have to restart my box for everything to work!

1. Just go to Device Manager, find your IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers, right click and select Update Driver Software…
2. On the next dialogue box pick “Browse my computer for driver software”
3. Now choose “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer”
4. On the final screen you should see at least one 1394 driver that has “(legacy)” at the end of the name. Select that one, hit next, and you should be ready to start using your pro-audio gear without even restarting your computer.

Retube a guitar amp in Chicago

Hasslehaas — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:20:54 +0000

It is a little more difficult than I thought to find a place to change and bias the tubes in my guitar amp. I’m in Chicago so I figured a quick search of “tube amp repair chicago” would have more recognizable results. Chicago Guitar and Amplifier looks like it’s about my speed but their website says that amp repair has a 1-3 week waiting period. Shuh! I need to rock out now! Anybody have any recommendations? My buddy Ernie recommended Deltronics which looks cool, but it’s only open weekdays 10am to 6pm. That isn’t really gonna work with my schedule.

The Curse of the Zyrch

Hasslehaas — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:55:46 +0000

This is a short film that does it’s best to:

Nerd out ( lots of D&D stuff )
Promote the new Dr. Killbot Album
Satisfy some vague list of guidelines for Greg’s film class

Switching from Winamp to Songbird?

Hasslehaas — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:50:02 +0000

Open source software is really coming along these days, and it’s awesome when it gets good enough to become my default app for a common task like mp3 playing. I’ve been a loyal winamp user since 1998 and I never thought I would make the switch, but just recently I’ve been trying Songbird and so far I’m impressed. This sucker can index a HUGE mp3 collection in record time, and it has an adequate collection of plug-ins.

Cool LED circuit

Hasslehaas — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:44:21 +0000

I’ve been playing around with LEDs recently and I’m using the schematics from this page to basically use a 555 IC to make a kick-ass moving LED effect for the robot costume.