{"id":2085,"date":"2012-01-10T21:54:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T01:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2012-01-10T21:54:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T01:54:46","slug":"grist-and-grizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2012\/01\/10\/grist-and-grizzle.html","title":{"rendered":"grist and grizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tba, ore of te sae troubles as last nigt, te M and H keys don&#8217;t work on te foldable keyboard, only on te device. ow can i talk about e witout M?<\/p>\n<p>tonigt i tried out a backup approach to te pone project i&#8217;m doing. i am recordinng voicemail messages from payphones, but some of the call connections are so bad that i don&#8217;t know if i can use themm. so as backup i brought a recorder and icrophone and spoke into both te telepone and the mmicrophone. the obvious question becomes&#8230; wy bother calling fro te payphone at all? well, see, i don&#8217;t know, really. i ean, y idea here is to make the call stereo. phone calls, of course, are onoraul. but doubling the chhannels and synchronizing thhe recorder wit the voiceail could let ,,,m,mmmmme fuse thhe 2 tracks, or somehow mmix them in suchh a way tat the poorest qualities of te payphhone track could be supplemmented by thhe clearer track. this would aintain te grist and grizzle of te paypone call quality.<\/p>\n<p>i like tat prase. grist and grizzle.<\/p>\n<p>or, i could just let thhe lousy call quality go troug as-is, and supplemment te recording wit full transcript of y monologue, mmmy sermmon, my jeremiad.<\/p>\n<p>alas, i did not need te reinders, but eac day seems to present new callenges and weaknesses of te project. tat does not boter or deter e, toug i wis i ad better audio production and editinng cops.<\/p>\n<p>i wonder if siply batting te pone againnst te paypone enclosure would straigten out te connection?<\/p>\n<p>i could iagine contaqcting Verizon to see if tere is a scedule for reoval of te pones, but i like to keep te urgency, even if it igt be artificial on soe level. i alos would not expect to get eaningful response fro Verizon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>tis is too annoying. usually te keys tat don&#8217;t work at first start to work eventually, and i can go back ad punc i te issig letters fro te lipogra&#8230; not tonigt, evidently<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ba, ore of te sae troubles as last nigt, te M and H keys don&#8217;t work on te foldable keyboard, only on te device. ow can i talk about e witout M? tonigt i tried out a backup approach to te pone project i&#8217;m doing. i am recordinng voicemail messages from payphones, but some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-xD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}