![](\"http:\/\/students.olin.edu\/ghutchins\/xanga\/yamaha_dx7.jpg\")
<\/p>\nMy luck continues to rise. When I walked home from work today I
\nfound a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer with 61-key keyboard lying against a
\ntrash can to be thrown out. I snagged it and left a note behind
\nin case the person didn’t mean to throw it out.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
However, the state of the keyboard suggests it was ready to be thrown out. For example, the power cable has come loose.<\/p>\n
![](\"http:\/\/students.olin.edu\/ghutchins\/xanga\/dx7_broken_wire.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
I am an electrical engineer, so this does not faze me in the
\nslightest. Soon I will grab a soldering iron and make it work to
\nthe best of my abilities.<\/p>\n
![](\"http:\/\/students.olin.edu\/ghutchins\/xanga\/dx7_front.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
The Yamaha DX7 was a popular synthesizer of the 1980s, and make a lot
\nof the defining sounds of eighties music. Its quality isn’t
\nwonderful, from what I’ve heard, but it’s a synthesizer nonetheless and
\nI’m sure I can find good uses for it, especially as a keyboard
\ncontroller for my computer music setup.<\/p>\n
After I had spent hours waiting in the rain to get tickets to the
\nShakespeare in the Park show in Central Park, and after the rain fully
\ncleared up, they cancelled the show. However, before I got in
\nline for standby tickets, I did manage to snap some pictures of a
\ncompletely burnt car on the side of the road.<\/p>\n
![](\"http:\/\/students.olin.edu\/ghutchins\/xanga\/burned_car_side.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
The flames completely destroyed the interior, leaving a metallic shell.<\/p>\n
![](\"http:\/\/students.olin.edu\/ghutchins\/xanga\/burned_car_rear.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
Today I ate dinner outside on patio seating at Max SoHa, a most
\nwonderful Italian restaurant less than a block from my apartment.<\/p>\n
![](\"http:\/\/students.olin.edu\/ghutchins\/xanga\/max_soha.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
The food is excellent and the atmosphere very comfortable and familial.<\/p>\n