Alix.1C board & Edirol repair

2008-05-05

I guess I’ll repeat what some other people do, and put up blog entries about what they do with hardware… Alix.1C My Alix.1C mini-ITX board just arrived, hopefully to replace the server that’s sitting in the closet collecting dust, and making a lot of noise and heat due to having 5 hard drives (all of which could be replaced by a single drive for about $30).…more

Overdue scrap notes, 2008.05.01-05.16

2008-05-01

2008.04.30 Reaktor diary: might be helpful as I learn to use Reaktor Despite that this program is not open source but proprietary, it offers more comprehensible insight into its workings than any of the open source synth software I have tried so far. Given, I’ve only used a couple premade instruments, but their internal structure is out-in-the-open in the form of modules, not as blocks of code that I would have a hard time finding and a harder time comprehending.…more

Scrap notes, 2008.04.25ish-2008.05.03

2008-04-25

Adobe Open Screen Project - apparently Adobe is now opening up the SWF and FLV formats, which hopefully soon means significantly less trouble getting Flash to work for me on Linux. Tilera TILE64 - some sort of chip with 64 interconnected cores (or “tiles”); according to their site, tiles can be grouped into clusters, and the chip can run multiple operating systems simultaneously. Maybe kinda neat.…more

More scrap notes, starting 2008-04-18

2008-04-18

2008.04.something “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society” - Farhad Manjoo (Amazon) - in a way, a more factual approach to people judging by “truthiness” rather than truth “Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think” - George Lakoff (Amazon) - who knows, might be interesting 2008.04.18 People that some guy labeled as “hard left”: Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klei…more

Alexander Blu

2008-04-04

Alexander Blu I had a song by this artist from 2005.08.13 (from Interconnected MusicMedia, now known as SoundLift) which I never really listened to… but finally got around to listening to, and I found the artist is still around and writing songs. His personal site is here. His albums are available online under the Creative Commons. He also has a decent collection of digital pictures, some videos, and slide shows.…more

Post-its and scrap notes, starting 2008.04.03

2008-04-03

So, my bag now has a big stack of scrap notes in it, just from things I jotted down at work… these should probably go online… 2008.04.03 http://www.ucsusa.org - Union of Concerned Scientists Study: Unskilled and Unaware of It - some notable paper Ig Nobel Prize - “Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK” Talking Points Memo - I don’t know why I wrote this…more

Stuff I Experienced At Work Today

2008-03-31

Declared myself a complete asshat for writing a blog about nothing Declared myself a lazy bastard for using iTunes to subscribe to podcasts to put on my iPod and listen to while driving in to work. Whatever, I get sick of Clearchannel and raving right-wing lunatic talk radio.…more

Workfest, day five/sixish

2008-03-28

I was too busy/asleep to write much of an entry, so I’ll just post the few photos I have from the last two days. Almost-completed deck: Deck, almost finished Crate of Ale-8-One donated by someone whose name I forget:…more

Workfest, day four

2008-03-27

Typical morning, finishing up of some work, watching a deck get assembled… After that we went to a church about 30-40 minutes away and had dinner with the families whose homes we were repairing. Some people got up to talk and expressed a lot of gratitude in general.…more

Workfest, day three

2008-03-26

Well, scratch that part in the last entry about not pushing beliefs. I slept like a rock (as MJ predicted), woke up groggily, and started another day. Work was a bit slow at first because my wrist was sore and it was hard to hammer, but everyone was pretty productive in general.…more