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2008.08.04 - 2008.08.21, more technical blah
2008-08-04
**Ideas ranging between “unconventional” and “BS” ** Uberman’s Sleep Schedule if you are insane enough and need the extra time Live Longer: The One Anti-Aging Trick that Works (no, “live longer” is not the trick, it’s caloric restriction) How Your Inner Athlete Makes You Smarter Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind Collected Writing of Don DeGracia - pertains to lucid dreams & astral projection.…more
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2008.07.26 - 2008.08.03 stuff
2008-07-26
Music Kaskade - House/electronica artist I came across many times on imeem… was good for calming me down while doing homework “5th & Avenida” by Afterlife - an ambient track I liked… it’s on “Café del Mar, Volumen Cuatro” (Amazon) “100 Billion Stars” by Lux - another ambient track I liked, from “Cafe del Mar, Volume 8” (Amazon) “Alive” by Mads Arp with Julie Harrington - yet another, from “Cafe del Mar Dreams, Vol.…more
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Semi-organized scrap notes, 2008.05.26-2008.06.01
2008-05-26
Political/otherwise controversial Seen on a bumper sticker on a semi truck: http://www.headsneedtoroll.org/ . . . looks to have a pretty good stated mission Vote Apathy Party 08 because at least I’m honest. Just discovered Utah Phillips upon hearing an interview with him after his death on May 23 “Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine On Trial” by Simon Singh (Amazon) Technical blah…more
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20 pages of scrap notes, 2008.05.19-05.23
2008-05-19
I astound myself by how many pages of scrap notes I accumulate over 5 days, just during my down time at work. 2008.05.19 “Exposing the Modern Racist Paradigm,” extremely long page here Someone’s opinions on why the Amiga is awesome, here . . . meaningful to me because I haven’t used an Amiga Simputer - “self-contained, open hardware handheld computer, designed for use in environments where computing devices such as personal computers are deemed inappropriate.…more
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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
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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
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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