copout post
I'm in North Carolina this weekend. I'll post some pictures of food tomorrow.
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This is cool. I'm a little dubious about pure data being better than something described by text, but on the other hand, I've done some small things with pure data and have never gotten around to...
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This may be a little out of hand
A while back, I posted about the NordModular. Well, I saw a good price for one on ebay, so: And in a fit of enthusiasm, made "laser bass" noises:Nord Modular: Laser bass by kcrAnd drum sounds:Nord...
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Two Minuets you probably thought were Bach
I recorded two minuets that tend to occur early in most piano teaching curricula, often attributed to J.S. Bach. It turns out that they're by a guy named Christian Petzold. The first, more famous...
View ArticleBoring week
The only interesting non-work related reportable is really that I painted a room in my apartment this weekend. This is a flash applet that will let you type in a color name: "spooky" which will then...
View Articleanother week another cry for nothing in particular
Popular Mechanics noticed that data loggers and accelerometers and batteries were all cheap enough that evaluating shipping companies was totally something that was a practical thing to do. I've been...
View Articlethe bad old days
An old chestnut that I am fond of digging up from the vax 4.3bsd sys/vmparam.h: * Just for fun: current memory prices are 4600$ a megabyte on VAX (4/22/81), * so we loan each swapped in process memory...
View ArticleI was going to blog about some interesting papers and news
But someone put all of James Burke's TV programs on the web so I've been watching television instead of blogging.
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Seem to be a series of articles on a design patterns and anti-patterns in historical Unix, by Neil Brown, called "Ghosts of Unix Past":Full ExploitationConflated DesignsUnfixable...
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I wonder if lawmakers (and by extension trade associations) will ever figure out that propping up business models that have been obsoleted by the march of technology isn't doing anyone any favors.
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