Sound card
The sound quality on my new sound card was fine for playback but awful for recording. But now I've got a program called rawrec which lets me make raw samples at any sample quality. So I can explicitly record at 16-bit 44.1 kHz stereo; with the input gain turned down a bit, it finally sounds very good.
If Zack gets sound working on his machine, we could have a little intercom over the local LAN.
Surprising things caught on MiniDisc: myself crying in January. I recorded myself singing a couple of songs and then I recorded myself bursting into tears after one of them. I think I'm going to erase those tracks, not burn them to CD-R.
