Category: General

One of the things that I find to be much more challenging about Minecraft than you might expect is the fine art of finding just the right place to build.

You’d think it would be a siimple matter of pick (or make) an open spot large enough and just build however that is far from the truth.

While it is true that *some* builds can go almost anywhere there are some, like a shoppe that I plan to build, that has to be in just the right area, a bit off the beaten path yet close to the “business district” on the Hermitcraft server.

It’s not, for example, nearly so simple as shopping realtors for south beach real estate. In this case, because the general location is already dictated by circumstances, I’m going to have to teraform the area to make it look at least *something* like the backwoods around an old New England small town.

ought to be interesting to say the least.

In my many Mineraft and Kerbal Space Program videos I have on occasion had “issues” with sound quality. While I’ve always done the best I can given the hardware I have available it seems that there’s always somebody with some “brilliant idea” about how I could improve things so much more.

One of these common ideas is to get a better microphone. I’ll grant you that the ‘el cheapo Logitech headset mic I was using at first left a lot to be desired it was at the time the best that I could afford. This is why suggestions that I should get a blue yeti at guitar center have a tendency to fall flat. While I have to say that the sound quality coming from such a microphone is absolutely excellent (I’ve seen a lot of videos by people that use them), the simple fact is that it is not within my budget to get such a gem of a mic.

Instead I had to make do the best I could with the Logitech mic for well over a year and a half until a generous person donated funding and recommended that I get a Turtle Beach EarForce x12.

While it’s a long way from the blue yeti, I’ve found that it’s a massive improvement over the old Logitech unit. When I first started using it I got a lot of comments from viewers that said as much.

Thing is, now that it’s no longer “new”, once again people are occasionally suggesting things like the blue yeti.

I’m sure it’s in my future but right now that’s a long way off.

Now that the worst of winter is over I’ve been starting to pay more attention, looking for signs that warmer weather is coming soon to stay for a while.

There’s really a lot of these signs, from seeing the grass start to grow again to the first few migratory birds finally returning from their winter nesting grounds. In addition to signs that you see in nature there’s also things like when America’s largest retailer starts removing the winter specific items and stocking up on summer things. I’m going to be glad to see when they’ve got patio umbrellas on sale and the first few bits of yard equipment and lawnmowers appear in their ad circulars and in the garden center of the store. There’s very little shot that I’ll actually buy any of this stuff but the simple fact that they’re back in the stores means that weather warm enough for them to make sense has got to be near.

I’m very tired of cold weather and running the furnace. Warm weather is going to be very welcome