tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37160922011-04-21T16:07:05.680-04:00roctopodtotally worthwhile links, disguised as a blogRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comBlogger671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-1107646761456208672005-02-05T18:38:00.000-05:002005-02-05T18:39:21.456-05:00I like blogspot and all, but I can't keep up two blogs. my newest one is roctobotics over at livejournal. Blogger is nice, but we can just be friends. Sorry, Blogger.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-1056992023783368552003-06-30T12:53:00.000-04:002003-06-30T12:53:43.770-04:00Here's some cool ways to spend 5 bucks:
cheapass make paper games with simple rules, that are for the most part self contained. You provide your own dice, and markers (pawns) and any extra stuff like that, so literally all they give you is some cardstock or some paper and the rules.
Here's some cool ways to spend an hour:
Online musical instruments on database audio's online page.
Anybody whoRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-943299192003-05-14T10:38:00.000-04:002003-05-14T10:38:41.123-04:00WIRED this month is guest-edited by Rem Koolhaas check it out if you dare.Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-941585082003-05-11T14:34:00.000-04:002003-05-11T14:35:26.000-04:00Latest musical goodness:
re release of Mouse on Mars (official site - all music guide) film soundtrack, titled glam. it has been available in the US before, but you had to pay $30 for it. damn. most of the music is cool, squishy atmospheric sounds instead of bouncing carribean freakouts.
also, El-P (defjux). that is some great stuff to listen to. Melodic, groove oriented DJing, it's not a Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-926692512003-04-15T15:56:00.000-04:002003-04-16T15:59:45.000-04:00Pitchfork has a review up of the new swirlies record. In the past the swirlies have totally blown my mind, but this one pitchfork says is more of their blippy, magnetic fields sounding stuff.
I disagree that blondertongue audiobaton is their best. though it be fabulous, the second real LP (they spent their wild youthful days) takes the same idea and expands it by ten. it sometimes sounds like Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-901131652003-03-04T09:35:00.000-05:002003-03-04T09:35:38.860-05:00Science Songs found via boingboing.net
HomestarRunner has some fun cartoons to watch. The best by far are StrongBad's Email
Follow up: Zwan, though featuring David Pajo of tortoise fame, sounds exactly like Those Smashing Pumpkins, unfortunately.
Tortoise is really cool though. Hooray. Also the swirlies are going to come out with an album I think, and they are touring with the Lily's.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-860186112002-12-15T00:37:00.000-05:002002-12-15T00:37:48.336-05:00its been a long time since i presented any noodles, that's because i moved away from new york and towards columbus. in fact my wife and i reached columbus, but we dont have a place to live yet. tonight we went to jack hanna's place, the columbus zoo. it doesn;t have a very good website. they did have quite a few Christmas lights, and some really cool lizards.
anyway, we'll have fast internet Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-849432492002-11-22T16:57:00.000-05:002002-11-22T16:57:27.866-05:00Well, I didn't look up the thing about the Carlyle's, but instead I found this odd nugget:
Zwan has recently expanded to a five-piece act, with A Perfect Circle bassist Paz Lenchantin joining up with the other members: former Pumpkin drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, ex-Chavez guitarist Matt Sweeney and Slint/Papa M bassist/guitarist David Pajo.
From CMJ.com news
David Pajo is also known as Papa M Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-849266622002-11-22T10:35:00.000-05:002002-11-22T10:35:16.980-05:00Red Herring article about the Carlyle group.
Creepy, almost tabloid feeling reading it, so I might look this up elsewhere to verify facts.Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-847169922002-11-18T13:22:00.000-05:002002-11-18T13:22:12.750-05:00Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman gives a cease-and-desist warning to Atlanta Constitution music journalist Bill Wyman. There's a punchline at the end.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-847098712002-11-18T10:49:00.000-05:002002-11-18T10:49:16.100-05:00A cool article about The Melting Pot (the idea, not the fondue restaurant chain).
"It was the same way with languages. Here was a nation that for obvious reasons could have become the greatest linguistic race ever invented by historical development and chance. But I think it turned out we are linguistically one of the poorest nations. We literally do not know languages, or it is only at the Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-845798162002-11-15T10:37:00.000-05:002002-11-15T10:38:07.000-05:00NASA, the employer of my brother-in-law by way of my sister (whew), has some tips on watching the leonids, an incredible meteor shower. North America is in for a great view they say. It's also a great way to meet your wife, as I did.
The wedding, by the way, was awesome, although neither of us remember most of it. Somehow it seemed long, but we recall nothing.. weird. Anyway, it was beautiful, Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-845378662002-11-14T14:08:00.000-05:002002-11-14T14:08:17.483-05:00I got this link from Excitement Machine (.org), to a page called Magnificent Obsessions. The 10th or 12th obsession on todays list is from OSU, Dr. Pepper-Alikes.
There's an ad on the television here in NYC that says "there's alot of companies out there with the name rooter. But only one of them is good enough to be called Mister". I want to start a plumbing co. called "Professor Rooter". Take Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-844868622002-11-13T15:15:00.000-05:002002-11-13T15:15:28.440-05:00I know I flog Michael Moore on a daily basis, but here I goes again. MSNBC has the transcript of the Donahue show I missed. It reads kinda like the closed saptioning, so it can be hard to follow sometimes. A quote from the end, when he was talking with a canadian in the audience about universal health care for children:
"MOORE: ... because of our arrogance and our sense of entitlement. And it, Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-838836302002-11-01T13:13:00.000-05:002002-11-01T13:13:00.830-05:00In somewhat old news, Kirin, the Japanese brewing company, brewed some beer based on a recipe written in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. From the BBC news:
"Kirin has no plans to sell Old Kingdom commercially, and said it developed the beer for research purposes."
I forsee a large number of theses on ancient beers.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-838752542002-11-01T09:53:00.000-05:002002-11-01T09:53:51.290-05:00Playola :
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Playola is a music similarity browsing tool. You can find new music by moving around in a music "space" and listening to songs (or short clips) that are nearby in the space. As you listen, you can give us feedback on the experience by clicking a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" icon, which tells us whether or not you agree with the similarity matching. The similarity matching system is Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-837899652002-10-30T16:46:00.000-05:002002-10-30T16:47:59.000-05:00Harrumph, the blog of Heather who operates the Mirror Project, had a link to this guy who takes his picture every day. It's kind of eerie to look at. He also makes models of robots out of boxes.Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-837712492002-10-30T09:41:00.000-05:002002-10-30T09:41:25.683-05:00Nature reports that Tetris is really hard. They don't tell you the details of the simulation, only that for a given ordered series of bricks (how many?) they had the computer permute all possible positions and orientations until it found one that didn't fill up the screen. Anyway, it is an NP-complete problem, like the travelling salesman.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-837276912002-10-29T13:27:00.000-05:002002-10-29T13:27:16.103-05:00Found Magazine presents a recipe for love. You gotta read the whole thing to enjoy it.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-834713022002-10-24T14:29:00.000-04:002002-10-24T14:29:30.210-04:00The Toy Symphony Homepage, from the MIT project of the same name, has lots of cool ideas and a free download, hyperscore, that you can use to score some music.
I might be recording some of this to my minidisc for use on the ibook.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-834709962002-10-24T14:22:00.000-04:002002-10-24T14:22:18.950-04:00The BBC has a show on surviving the iron age, called "surviving the iron age". I guess they could have called it "that iron age show".
anyway sounds much cooler than survivor since it is more realistic and something of a history experiment.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-834220122002-10-23T16:32:00.000-04:002002-10-23T16:32:26.156-04:00PJR, or perhaps I should call him MCP because he always finds awesome stuff on el web, found this nifty clock. There was one in the wexner center that used a different person's face for each digit 0-9, but i like this better.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-833550352002-10-22T11:34:00.000-04:002002-10-22T11:34:52.093-04:00In the once outrageously artsy Raygun, Archers of Loaf had journal of their tour with Weezer. It turns out the Fillmore Theatre in San Fran (the one with the posters) charged the Loaf for 30% of their T-shirt profits.
If I ran a club...
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-832969232002-10-21T10:05:00.000-04:002002-10-21T10:05:07.883-04:00Other Music, a famous noho record store (also in Harvard Square, Cambridge), has a double-cd reissue of pavements grand and essential Slanted + Enchanted. It has the "watery domestic" EP, "summer babe" b sides, and 62 page booklet. There's also a DVD available. The only thing I could ever want from a band's DVD is live footage, or really amazing videos. Will somebody besides jam bands do this forRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-831254352002-10-17T13:13:00.000-04:002002-10-17T13:13:52.943-04:00After blowing my top a bit on political issues in hopes that somebody is listening, or at least doing a survey, I have not been very excited about postin glately. Thus, I direct you to misterpants which is actually cool. I end up finding all my links via somebody anyway, so you might as well go to them. There's a story from CNN about fried twinkies. check it.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-828542042002-10-11T15:18:00.000-04:002002-10-11T15:18:55.086-04:00WIRED news has a new design, and an article about Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age, an exhibit about the use of copyrighted material in art. Mentions Negativland, Public Enemy and Vanilla Ice. The exhibit is veiwable online. See also the Eldred v. Ashcroft case, written about in bazillions of other blogs this week.Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-827476952002-10-09T13:19:00.000-04:002002-10-09T13:19:17.770-04:00The house on convent ave (on the way to work for me and JE) where the Royal Tenenbaums was shot is on a row of pretty brownstones that are hot property for wealthier people moving into Harlem these days. Today there is no Ben Stiller or Owen Wilson, but Martha Stewart talking to some guy in tails and a Bowler hat. I don't know what they are filming, but maybe it will show up on the food network,Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-827028332002-10-08T15:52:00.000-04:002002-10-08T15:52:27.020-04:00Why can't cars come out looking more like the ones you used to see at EPCOT? Instead, the conept cars are dreams that never come true. One awesome car is the Hy-Wire , which is a fuel-cell car they want to put on the road by the end of he decade. It uses no mechanical connections for steering, has no transmission. Basically, like an RC car, they can build whatever they want on top of the Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-826970492002-10-08T13:37:00.000-04:002002-10-08T13:37:22.893-04:00NYTimes has an article about US public opinion regarding Iraq.
"Americans said they feared a long and costly war that could spread across the Middle East and encourage more terrorist attacks in the United States. They said they did not want the United States to act without support from allies and did not want the United States to act before United Nations weapons inspectors had an opportunity Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-824673422002-10-03T10:29:00.000-04:002002-10-03T10:29:48.570-04:00Ahh, the NYC subways. Always providing me with an interesting trip. Usually, this takes the form of unusually loud teenagers, or a gaggle of ivy-league women with nasal voices saying "like, kafka is so cool", or "zeus is like invicible". Acutally its interesting how similar their way of speaking is to those of sorority girls I used to overhear at FSU:
"why do they call you diva?"
"cause I'm like,Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-824202362002-10-02T11:43:00.000-04:002002-10-02T11:43:24.630-04:00Check out explodingdog where Sam makes pictures based on submitted titles. I like Ahh, my eye!
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-824198102002-10-02T11:33:00.000-04:002002-10-02T11:33:47.960-04:00Check out the video for Busta Rhymes' Gimme So Mo. There's a demon-child, oversized hats, and of course, hoochies and benjamin's.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-824145692002-10-02T09:30:00.000-04:002002-10-02T09:31:32.000-04:00The Christian Science Monitor has a great story about propaganda used by the first Bush to get the Gulf War going. It is a must-read. I usually would avoid getting all political and stuff. I fouind the link on Michael Moore's site.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-823119312002-09-30T09:45:00.000-04:002002-09-30T09:46:10.000-04:00If you want to neen, you can use this free software. Last night at the rockin' OpenAir Share party, I was given a copy by this guy Eric who is workig on the software. It is funded by the European Union, and is free while it's in Beta version. It lets you manipulate video, pictures, text, and audio in real time with parameters controlled by audio, joystick, mouse, and other stuff.
keyworx
I guess Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-823118462002-09-30T09:42:00.000-04:002002-09-30T09:42:15.573-04:00Neen is a style of art branded by Lexicon, the same people who brought us the words powerbook and pentium. they have lots of Flash things to play with, which I guess are called Neens. From PJR.Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-820560262002-09-24T15:07:00.000-04:002002-09-24T15:07:44.683-04:00OPENAIR bar has a laptop open-mixing-board jam on sundays. I will go this sunday. It is called SHARE, apparently after the design of Barry Manalog, geoffGDAM and Newclueless. GeoffGDAM is the creator of that software I was excited about but gave up on since it was so complicated to install.
PS. Barry Manalog.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-820555182002-09-24T14:55:00.000-04:002002-09-25T09:42:18.000-04:00This IKEA commercial is probably posted on a billion webpages by now, but it made me happy the first time I saw it.
Click on the TV, and watch the one with the lamp.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-820021132002-09-23T13:39:00.000-04:002002-09-23T13:39:01.590-04:00addendum, dude. Can't Get Enough Futurama: News: Futurama on Cartoon Networks!
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-820020382002-09-23T13:37:00.000-04:002002-09-23T13:37:26.420-04:00Can't Get Enough Futurama tells me that Futurama got an emmy for the episode in which Frye travels back in time to become his own grandfather. A good one, but what about the one where bender flies through space playing God to a colony of beings living on him? That was the 2001: A Space Oddyssey of cartoons.
The good news at any rate is that Futurama will probably get some better treatment from Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-818209172002-09-19T09:40:00.000-04:002002-09-19T09:40:19.853-04:00"Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from MP3.com's greeting card mailing list?"
Just the fifth MP3.com mailing list I've had to unsubscribe from this year. Next week, it will be the MP3.com frisbee-dog list.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-818208332002-09-19T09:38:00.000-04:002002-09-19T09:38:26.540-04:00I just found out that noodling is a term for some sort of hacking-related activity. I don't fully grasp this of course because I couldn't understand anything written on the pages I found.
This noodling refers to when you play little snippets of music during a rehearsal, when other people are discussing something.
Anyway, it is probably impossible to make a name for something that isn't already Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-817745012002-09-18T11:00:00.000-04:002002-09-18T11:00:22.953-04:00California legislature is looking into abuse of musicians (in the form of taking most of the money earned by their music) on the part of the big five major record labels.
"Several of the specific allegations include charges that recording companies have rigged the music video business to enrich themselves without adequately compensating artists, and that music company deals with mail-order Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-817330882002-09-17T14:29:00.000-04:002002-09-17T14:29:27.480-04:00Send pee mail here.Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-817323702002-09-17T14:12:00.000-04:002002-09-17T14:12:16.710-04:00
The design at
Frequency is so cool that I posted it before iread any of it. Found on the Audio Dregs record label site, because an INkblot song was cycling in my head.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-815587662002-09-13T12:32:00.000-04:002002-09-13T12:32:08.936-04:00Pall Thayer, a presenter October's dorkbot meeting.
from dorkbot:
"Pall Thayer: "Intercontinental spontaneous jam session", a web-based multi-user musical interface for the manipulation of abstract imagery. (Live via videophone from Reykjavik, Iceland!)"
Duffman says, OH YEAH!
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-815575612002-09-13T12:00:00.000-04:002002-09-13T12:00:01.946-04:00Learn to avoid mergers with Dave. I got curious about how to compose a good picture and found this tutorial full of incrediby dated photos.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-815527092002-09-13T09:48:00.000-04:002002-09-13T12:01:43.000-04:00I'm such a sensitive person that I posted some photos on the mirror project. Lately I have been looking everywhere for unusual reflections.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-814082092002-09-10T11:41:00.000-04:002002-09-10T11:41:13.816-04:00Well, after waiting through some OK bands, and a band I really don't like (11th dream day?), Mouse on Mars played a set of pretty normal rave music, but with a hint of Atari teenage Riot style "digital hardcore" to it. Bleh bleh bleh. The documenary "looking for a thrill" was pretty interesting, I liked hearing someone from the Butchies rave about the B-52s, and Mike Watt has a funny way of Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-812472592002-09-06T15:04:00.000-04:002002-09-11T09:34:02.000-04:00I looked up Monolake because they/he/she performed with sonic youth at the cetral park summerstage deal, some drippy dub music like POLE. Anyway, the exciting thing is that Monolake is one of the founders of Ableton, who makes the previously-touted LIVE software, where you can finally make electronic music live.
Midi songs in any way I have ever made them are like piano rolls, so you can't reallyRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-811992252002-09-05T14:50:00.000-04:002002-09-05T14:50:14.643-04:00Wow, Greece has bannedvideo games. The government wanted to crack down on electronic gambling machines, but decided it would be easier just to ban electronic games altogether.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-811050922002-09-03T16:21:00.000-04:002002-09-03T16:34:43.000-04:00Janis Ian, a recording artist popular since the 60's, on the free music download issue. Affirms what Prince and Courtney Love have said in the past. Interestingly, she was unable to find a study that asks a focus group how many cd's they've purchased because they listened to them frist via file-swapping. found via slashdotRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-811003032002-09-03T14:30:00.000-04:002002-09-03T14:36:52.000-04:00Original Breadman VS. Bionic Minnow!Will the Minnow's Bacon Wave defeat OB's Salad Blaster? Or will only the Donut Smart survive?
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-810907302002-09-03T10:39:00.000-04:002002-09-03T10:48:32.000-04:00This page, Graffiti History @149st has a well-conceived history of graffiti tagging.
I love that anything could happen "Shortly after CORNBREAD". Some of the first "writers" were from our neighborhood, Frank 207. It's funny to see how the tag names have evolved. You're going to need the glossary, as the history is rife with undefined insider terms.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-810902622002-09-03T10:27:00.000-04:002002-09-03T10:27:28.233-04:00Keith Haring on graffiti in the subways of NY. I found this while trying to figure out how people actually tag inside the tunnels, not just in the stations or the trains. Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-809160512002-08-30T09:48:00.000-04:002002-08-30T09:48:39.100-04:00Last night I went to the excellent "Movie Place" on 105th and Broadway, and checked out some documentaries. I got fast, cheap and out of control, which is about eccentric inventors I think. I also rented a BBCTV thing, Trials of Life- Living Together, which is a part of the trials of life series, and is about symbiotic relationships. This thing is awesome. On the back of the box, they mention Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-807764482002-08-27T10:17:00.000-04:002002-08-27T10:17:27.190-04:00More free concerts, discovered by Afshin. KNERD.
Allegedly built to spill, crooked fingers, pavement. I wonder about the quality. We'll be checking this out simultaneously.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-807748862002-08-27T09:34:00.000-04:002002-08-27T09:34:06.333-04:00I have been going to the monthly meetings of a local group called dorkbot. It is run by a professor from Columbia University's Computer Music Center, and the purpose is for people who are handy with computer music to share their works of software and/or music. Anyway, next week there will be a demonstration of this open source dj-mixing software, GDAM. Thereafter, all beat oriented mix cd's from Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-807386632002-08-26T14:43:00.000-04:002002-08-26T14:43:04.183-04:00Every now and then, I get this pop up ad that has a little alligator in the menu bar area of WinXP. Has anyone else ever seen this?
How can I get rid of it? I feel like some reptilian software has been installed against my will.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-806143152002-08-23T10:29:00.000-04:002002-08-23T10:29:05.606-04:00My parents are coming to town tonight to meet my lovely fiancee for the first time, and the day before I become totally ill in the sinuses. It's always the sinuses. Maybe it's time to wash these suckers out with some salty water... ouch.
Anyway, hopefully I can muster the energy to make a fun weekend for my parents. To that effect, I gotta get some work done so I can return to bed.
If you find Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-805812562002-08-22T15:46:00.000-04:002002-08-22T15:46:11.120-04:00Gamelab has got a bunch of new games, most of which are at the LEGO page.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-805705382002-08-22T11:07:00.000-04:002002-08-22T11:07:46.066-04:00I found this page thru Kung Fu Grippe (link at right). they have some free hospital and transport symbols.
I like this dentistry one, but the graphics are plentiful here.Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-805680132002-08-22T09:58:00.000-04:002002-08-22T10:04:33.000-04:00Doug Martsch of Built To Spill is coming out with an album sept. 17th. check it out here. You can listen to the whole thing for free. So far, it sounds like doug martsch's take on One Foot in the Grave.
Speaking of Beck, the Flaming Lips will be his backup band for this fall's tour. Sounds like I might like Beck again.
Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-804902962002-08-20T16:33:00.000-04:002002-08-20T16:33:44.246-04:00Oldversion I am not extremely computer hip, so if this is akin to posting a link to google don't give me any crap. This is a great site if you want WinZip 6.1 or an old realplayer to run on your rusting 486.
I don't believe they have old Mac goods. Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-804763822002-08-20T10:48:00.000-04:002002-08-20T10:48:01.850-04:00I should tell y'all about my cool dream last night. It started out with me landing in a commercial flight in what my mind told me was Africa. (((I was reading an article about Nigeria in an old National Geographic the other day, so maybe this was Nigeria.))) In the way of dreams, I was suddenly whisked off to a river. (((I lived near Busch Gardens, Tampa when I was in the single digit years, so Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-804755922002-08-20T10:24:00.000-04:002002-08-20T10:24:37.336-04:00Maybe I'm starting a blog because making music on my iBook has gone from smooth and creamy to chunky and greasy. I think it might be the new drivers I installed for my usb midi keyboard. If only there was reaktor for OS X...Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-804754672002-08-20T10:20:00.000-04:002002-08-20T10:20:44.003-04:00I went to one of 3,000 Urban Outfitters here in New York (they're a weak spot for me), and discovered a pretty cool magazine there called ReadyMade. They give you instructions on how to make hip-looking things for your home, so you can have an artsy looking place to live without being one of those 23 y.o. millionaires. I didn't fall in love with any of the projects, but I did get some good ideas Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04497131206406577515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716092.post-804752572002-08-20T10:15:00.000-04:002002-08-20T10:15:17.640-04:00If anybody can tell me how to make another little box floating up somewhere for one-liners or top fives, I would love it. PJR?
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