[Most Recent Entries] [Calendar View] [Friends]
Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in
Gir Tygrin's LiveJournal:
| Friday, September 24th, 2010 | |
| 11:03 am | MiFur BBQ Saturday September 25th at Montibeller Park - Reminder Hey everyone, I just wanted to throw out a last minute reminder about the MiFur BBQ tomorrow at Montibeller park near Ann Arbor. Check out all the details in the thread link below. http://www.michiganfurs.com/forum/i |
| Thursday, August 26th, 2010 | |
| 9:36 am | DJ Set 8/24/2010 Hey folks, here's a little something I whipped up as my MFF DJ demo. Feel free to download it for your listening pleasure. http://www.tygrin.com/music/MFF_Dem Track List: Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now (Mixin Marc Mix) Eminem - Without Me (Blatta & Inesha Beat Resonance Vocal Edit) Lady Gaga ft. Marilyn Manson - Love Game (Chew Fu Remix) Ferry Corsten - Rock Your Body Rock (Original Mix) Kid Sister x ACDC x Nujax - Black Nails (Beat Resonance Mash) Paloma Faith - Upside Down (Cahill Club Mix) Notorious BIG x Wolfgang Gartner x Inaya Day - Funk Nasty Girl (Beat Resonance Mash) Jesse James - Wanted (Jason Nevins Club Mix) Bimbo Jones - And I Try (Original Mix) Pink - Funhouse (Digital Dog Remix) Crew 7 - Thunderstruck feat. Young Sixx (Bootleg Mix) Mary J. Blige - Just Fine (Moto Blanco Remix) |
| Friday, July 2nd, 2010 | |
| 10:35 am | Tod Wills TF Comic Commision Hey folks. I just wanted to post the lead up picture to the last one that I posted. This is a short one page comic that Tod Wills put together for me showing how I ended up a stuffed tiger.  ( Click here to see the other previously posted picture ) |
| Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 | |
| 9:22 am | Recent Commission Piece Just wanted to share a new commission piece that I got from Tod Wills this week. Nothing like getting another obnoxiously cute picture of my character as a plush :-D  |
| Friday, May 21st, 2010 | |
| 10:57 am | Culinary Adventures I've been meaning to post this for a while but as of late Nik and I have been interested in making sushi. A little while ago I make up a spicy tuna sashimi plate.  The top left is tuna sashimi on top of scallions with masago, the top right is spicy tuna on top of seedless cucumbers with masago, the center right is masago sushi and then the bottom left is sushi rice with a little bit of nanami togarashi. I really enjoy the artistry of putting together a sushi plate; I foresee much more sushi construction in my future. |
| Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 | |
| 1:36 pm | Had to write something I don't claim to be a poet but this was formulated in my mind while going for a drive by myself this weekend. It rolled around in my head long enough that I decided I had to get it down on paper so it would leave my noggin. Its supposed to be read just like it's written and punctuated; the formatting is also intentional. I know where I am but I don’t know where I am going. The weight of the world on my shoulders; the wind against me. Door open, keys out; I search for the ignition. One little turn; the engine is alive. Two point three liters. It’s not much but it’s mine. I have the title, clean and clear; no one able to place a lean on my freedom. Freedom, it comes on four wheels; the true American dream. First gear, press the accelerator; the pulse quickens. Watch the needle climb to six thousand, clutch, shift. Second gear; release the clutch, more accelerator. My troubles melt. The world is mine as my vision narrows to encompass only what I control, the road ahead of me. Six thousand, clutch, shift. Third gear; clutch, gas. Nothing matters now but the speed. The world moves by at a feverish pace. It is separate, outside, meaningless. Six thousand, clutch, shift. Fourth gear, more power. All that matters is ahead of me now, I see nothing else. Bumps, holes, curves, signs; my eyes transfixed only on what will come to pass. The road behind me does not matter. Man and machine functioning as one; balance, harmony. Fifth Gear. Speed, nothing more. Alive, anything is possible. I don’t know where I am and I don’t know where I’m going. Possibilities are endless, fate and destiny are in tune; the controls are in my hands. Sometimes the best therapy is a long drive to nowhere. Current Mood:  calm |
| Monday, March 15th, 2010 | |
| 12:03 pm | MiFur Server Available The MiFur website is back online as of 12:00 noon Eastern time. |
| 9:37 am | MiFur Server Outage Currently the MiFur server cluster and all hosted sites are unavailable. My webhost is currently having a major problem with a power outage at their California facility. Unfortunately it is effecting their DNS link so my servers at their Phoenix Arizona facility are also being affected. I will keep this journal up to date on whats going on as I hear more. |
| Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | |
| 8:47 am | Furry Connection North 2010 Pre Reg Closes March 12th! Hey everyone! I just wanted to remind everybody that pre-registration for Furry Connection North 2010 closes March 12th. Register now to lock in the low rate! Check out our registration page at http://furryconnectionnorth.com/registr |
| Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 | |
| 9:20 am | Bits and pieces, almost an update. I upgraded my laptop to Windows 7 recently as I had never been impressed with Vista's performance. Windows 7 has indeed been much faster but something happened that I did not expect. At one point I had a memory module fry in my laptop and took it as an opportunity to max out the memory. I went ahead and slapped 4 gigs of ram in it and noticed a performance boost. Another thing that I noticed was that all of a sudden Vista took about twice as long to hibernate as it used to. I chalked this up to the large amount of ram that it needed to cache and the relatively slow laptop hard drive. On average it took abound a minute and a half to hibernate. Ever since I installed Windows 7 it hibernates in about 20 seconds and comes back in about the same amount of time. I'm rather impressed. My cell phone has been acting up a lot lately. I'm not sure whats wrong with it but I've reset the device and done a complete reload on everything but its still being buggy. Its doing weird things like trying to call a second party while I am in a call and randomly switching to the wrong application. The device has also been eating battery life like popcorn lately. I really need to get a hold of Verizon and either get them to replace it or take the plunge and replace the phone early. I'd sort of been wanting one of the Android devices but I've only had this one for around 8 months and was hoping to get more life out of the phone. I saw Avatar finally yesterday evening. The 3D gave me a headache and caused my eyes to water a fair amount. Whoever designed the glasses for viewing movies in 3D needs to be shot as they did not fit well over my glasses and because of the shape caused the entire movie to seem as if I was watching it on a circular screen. The 3D itself was so underwhelming that during many parts of the film I could see no reason for watching it in 3D. The movie itself was enjoyable but not the life chancing extravaganza that so many folks had claimed that it was. All in all I'd say it was a good movie that I'd probably buy when it comes out on Blu-Ray, but nothing more then that. Visually it was very impressive but the story fell flat in my mind. The biggest point against it in my mind was how obvious so much of the foreshadowing was. I won't go into any spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen it but there were two points in the movie the foreshadowed later events where I more or less knew how it was going to end. Giving away the ending before the end is a crime in cinema in my mind and so I only give it a 7.5/10. Lately I've been a bit reclusive. I've treated this as a period of getting my head back together. I've had a few things weighing on my mind heavily lately and I think I'm finally getting my head strait enough that I can go back to investing myself in the projects that I used to spend so much time on. I see a cycle of productivity coming back to my life in the near future and am excited to see what comes out of it. Current Mood:  optimistic |
| Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | |
| 11:39 am | New DJ Set 12/29/2009 I put together another DJ set this last week so here's 90 minutes of dance music at 132 BPM for all of you. http://www.tygrin.com/music/DJ-set-12-2 Set List: Ferry Corsten - Radio Crash (Original Extended Mix) Fatboy Slim - Right Here Right Now (Mixin' Marc Mix) Wolfgang Gartner - Clap 3OH!3 - Don't Trust Me (Kyle Bourke & Justin Sane Remix) David Guetta - World Is mine 2009 (David Smesh Remix) Haji & Emanuel Featuring Sonique - Tonight (Haji and Emanuel Vocal Mix) Mia J - Headlights (Soul Seekerz Club Mix) Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (Richard Vision Remix) Out of Office - Hands Up Rank 1 - Symfo (Marcus Schossow & Robert Burian Remix) Tim Deluxe Feat. Sam Obernik - It Just Won't Do Those Usual Suspects - Shadows (Inpetto Instrumental Mix) Sergey - Every Time (Riffs and Rays Club Mix) Kevin Rudolf Feat. Lil Wayne - Let it Rock (Tony Arzadon Mix) Black Eyed Peas + David Guetta - I Gotta Feeling (Gir Tygrin's Mashup) Enjoy! |
| Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 | |
| 9:30 am | I was going to make a long post about how the new flight security regulations suck and how I think that people are over reacting and how our government is penalizing the general public with intrusive searches and stuff and blah blah blah... Let me long story short this. I read the new regulations. I'm not taking a trip to Florida anymore this year. Screw getting on a plane. I'm not afraid of someone trying to crash it, I'm afraid of being that guy who misses his flight due to "additional screening." |
| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 | |
| 3:50 pm | Method 1 Beer Reviews If there's anyone who's a fan of the podcast that Nik and I do and is bored I've got a task for you! One of our listeners Campbell started a spreadsheet of all of our beer reviews a while back but it needs some updating! If anyone cares to help fill in the blanks or is just curious go have a look at the below link. http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k Thanks! |
| Monday, December 14th, 2009 | |
| 1:44 pm | DJ Gear I've been meaning to post this picture for about a week now but I kept forgetting to do it. Below is a picture of the DJ gear that I've been using for mixing sets (like the one I posted on the 7th.)  Currently I'm using a Behringer DJX700, a Korg Kontrol Midi controller, a Korg Kaoss Pad KP3, my HP laptop with Traktor and a Creative X-Fi sound source. In the near future I'll be swapping out the mixing board for a Denon Dn-X500 so that I can use the Kaoss Pad in a proper effects loop instead of using it as the final step in output processing. If you read my journal and enjoy the whole pro audio or DJing thing shoot me a message some time. I'd love to talk to more folks about it. |
| Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 | |
| 10:43 am | XM Radio - Customer Service? Whats that? So I got an automated call from XM Radio today asking me to call this one number and give my account number. This is an unmistakable tactic of a collections department. I called the number confused and worried as I ALWAYS pay my bills on time. I got a lady on the phone who does their normal spiel about how I have a balance on my account and all that. She was pretty rude to me treating me as I assume she'd treat anyone else who owed them money. Then she looked at my account and realized that whoever worked on it last didn't enter my AMEX number correctly. Its funny how quick her tone changed to apologetic but I was already in a bad mood. She fixed it for me but now I had another worry. Since it was sent to collections I was worried that a derogatory item might show up on my credit score so I called back their customer service people to ask if they had submitted anything negative to my credit score. They stated that they had not but the guy only barely seemed like he knew what he was talking about. Looks like I have to watch my credit score for a couple months to make sure nothing bad pops up on it. I think I'm going to cancel my XM service as soon as I get a docking station for my phone as I can just stream internet radio via bluetooth to my car stereo. Its a real shame, I've been a customer of XM since nearly the beginning but I'm getting so sick and tired of their BS. EDIT: Just ordered a dock and car charger for my phone. As soon as they get here and I install them I'm dumping my XM service. |
| Monday, December 7th, 2009 | |
| 1:27 pm | New DJ Set Hey all. After some recent interest in some of the DJ mixes I've posted I've decided I'm going to try to crank out a new mix every two weeks to force myself to get better at the DJing thing. Anywho for your listening pleasure here's one I put together yesterday. http://tygrin.com/music/DJ_Gir_12-6-200 Song List: Britney Spears - 3 (Wolfgang Gartner Extended Mix) Cascada - Evacuate the Dancefloor (Wideboys Remix) Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow (DJ Ammo / Poet Named Life Remix) Chris Lake - If You Knew Feat. Nastala (Yves Murasca & Bk Duke Balearic Mix) Deadmau5 Feat. Rob Swire- Ghosts n Stuff (Extended Version) Jesse James - Wanted (Jason Nevins Club Mix) Freemasons Feat. Faith Evans - Mesmerized Mary J. Blige - Just Fine (Moto Blanco Remix) Sophie May - Another Day (Sunfreakz Club Mix) Livvi Frank - Now I'm that Bitch (Kaskade Extended Mix) Madcon - Beggin' (Max Sanna & Steve Pitron Totality Remix) Nicola Fasano vs. Pat Rich - 76 Ocean Drive (Apache Vocal Mix) I will try to do another one real soon. I plan on using all songs I've never put in a mix before next time as I realize after doing this one I have 3 repeats from the last mix I posted and I want to make sure that I keep it fresh. Anywho, let me know what you think. This was all put together in Traktor with a Berhinger DJX700, Korg KP3 Kaoss Pad and a Korg Kontrol. |
| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | |
| 2:00 pm | Public Knowledge I know I haven't said a lot about this but due to some confusion at the convention I thought I should say it. I have been single since October and am no longer dating my now ex-girlfriend. It came up several times in conversation during the MWFF with people asking me about my relationship status; I suppose it's my own fault for not talking about it more. At any rate I don't think its a topic that needs discussion so I just want to leave it at that. |
| 1:19 pm | A Request Hey, if anyone has video or pictures of me DJing or performing at MWFF please let me know as I'd love to see them. |
| 9:34 am | Home Safely From MWFF It was a long and exhausting trip to and form Midwest Furfest but a good one overall none the less. I've kind of given up on doing con reports since I've been to so many by this point in my life but I do want to make a couple short notes regarding the convention. All events have problems; that's just a given. I think what sets MWFF apart from other events in my mind isn't what goes right or what goes wrong its the staff's undying eagerness to improve. They constantly and consistently strive for excellence and to do the absolute most with what they have to work with. Sure a few problems occurred during the weekend but whenever I saw something go wrong I saw dedicated, caring and eager staff rise to the occasion to try to improve or fix it. The mark of a truly great convention isn't being perfect all the time but instead it's in how you respond to the not so perfect situations. Kudos to all the staff that made the event happen. You guys all run an excellent convention. One final note that I would like to make before my post gets all "TL;DR." MWFF is a convention where I always seem to make new friendships or meet interesting people who I hope to become friends with. This year was no exception so thanks go out to Ford Shepperd and Scribblefox for making it a more entertaining convention. Now that MWFF is over it's the signal to me to start working overtime on getting FCN put together. Hopefully I can apply the inspiration that I received this weekend. Thanks again to the staff of MWFF for a great event. |
| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 | |
| 10:50 am | Obligatory "Going to MFF" Post Go! I know I've mentioned it before but since it's one day away I figured I'd once again say that yes I will indeed be at Midwest Furfest. I will be arriving Thursday afternoon and will be leaving Monday afternoon. I should be out and about a fair amount and not terribly difficult to find if you want to hang out. If you're a fan of Method 1 and want to come chat please do! I love meeting new people, not to mention fans of my work. The same goes for FCN as well; I'm always happy to talk some shop about the con in case anyone wants to discuss it with me. While I mention those two topics specifically I'm always happy to chat about pretty much anything so feel free to come say hi. I will be doing some programming at the convention so if you're interested in any of that see my schedule below. Thursday November 19th @ 8:00 PM: DJing in Ravina D Friday November 20th @ 11:30 PM: Method 1 Live! in Botanic A/B Sunday November 22nd @ 3:00 PM: Effective Furmeet Planning in Maple Also as a note to all the Method 1 listeners all the times posted are Central so the show will be really late if you plan on listening in live as it will be at 12:30AM EST. In addition to those planned time I will probably be in Botanic A/B from time to time taking care of the audio gear so that may be a good place to find me. One of the things I love about this con is I treat it as my hang out con with lots of time to do stuff with people. Anywho looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow! |
