July 2010
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
Sufjan Stevens (8)
Alice in Chains (4)
The Prodigy (2)
Carl Cox (2)
Orbital (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18) →
Plastico (1)
Kruder & Dorfmeister (1)
The Prodigy (1)
Leftfield (1)
Orbital (1)
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June 2010
1 post
SSH to the Rescue!
I’m trying to build WebKit on Windows (don’t ask). The instructions are fairly good, but the environment takes forever to setup, the code base is huge, so SVN takes forever to check it out, and finally the build takes quite a long time as well. What started as a “quick” project quickly turned into 5-6 hours of tweaking things on a platform I don’t especially like to...
May 2010
7 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30) →
The Prodigy (2)
Orbital (1)
Machines of Loving Grace (1)
Alex Gemmell (1)
Josh Abrahams (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-23) →
Bruce Springsteen (10)
The Prodigy (2)
Plastico (1)
Ramshackle (1)
Carl Cox (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-16) →
Ida (11)
Ólafur Arnalds (9)
Stereo MC’s (1)
Urban Dance Squad (1)
Plastico (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-9) →
The Prodigy (2)
Leftfield (2)
Moby (1)
Orbital (1)
Fire (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-2) →
Sufjan Stevens (9)
Ólafur Arnalds (4)
The Prodigy (1)
Orbital (1)
Leftfield (1)
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April 2010
9 posts
“Pushing is just pulling in reverse!”
– James Kruth (while attempting to explain Git to a friend.)
How to Keep Crappy Programmers →
No comment.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-25) →
Sufjan Stevens (19)
The Prodigy (6)
Leftfield (6)
Orbital (4)
Underworld (4)
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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human...”
– H. P. Lovecraft (from The Call of Cthulhu)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →
Bruce Springsteen (29)
Elliott Smith (12)
Blonde Redhead (11)
The Postal Service (2)
Alexi Murdoch (2)
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Binary Search
After reading Are you one of the 10% of programmers who can write a binary search?, I decided to find out if I was. Here’s my submission (written in about 30 minutes in python):
# the list to be searched
data = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]
# what we're searching for
search = 7
# we could do this recursively, but without tail
# call optimization we'd just reach a stack...
“The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it...”
– John Carmack (via reddit)
Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't,... →
Thank goodness for Cory Doctorow and his frank discussion of our increasingly restricted technology platforms. I am almost finished reading Makers and I too am frustrated with a world with more iPads and less Apple IIs.
March 2010
12 posts
Moon8 →
Dark Side of the Moon + NES = Pure Awesome.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Feist (10)
Stephen Stills (4)
Blind Melon (2)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi & Tim Smith (2)
George Harrison (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
Bruce Springsteen (20)
Alice in Chains (4)
Smashing Pumpkins (3)
Belle and Sebastian (1)
Alela Diane (1)
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Come One, Come All!
Thursday March 18th at 7:30 I’ll be playing transition pieces for a science themed poetry reading at the Creole Gallery in Old Town. I’ll be doing my best to add a nice old school Sci-Fi vibe. $3 donation. Open Mic readings after the show ends. Hope to see you there!
Digital: A Love Story →
If you ever used BBSes or the early internet you’ve got to check out this game - even if you didn’t - definitely worth a look. Brings me back to my Apple II days.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) →
Alexi Murdoch (13)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi & Tim Smith (8)
Belle and Sebastian (7)
Alice in Chains (6)
Findlay Brown (2)
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The First, First Album!
So, what should I happen to find this morning, but Drawing on Eve’s first attempt at recording our first album. It’s raw, and noisy, and it’s wonderful. I listened to the whole thing - hilariously on a tape titled “Olivia Newton John’s Greatest Hits”. What’s amazing is that most of the songs changed very little between this rough first recording and our...
“Back in my day, we programmed with a nine-volt battery and a steady hand!”
– Jamie Zawinski from Coders at Work
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28) →
Bruce Springsteen (15)
Califone (14)
James Kruth (10)
Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi & Tim Smith (10)
Findlay Brown (4)
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February 2010
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) →
Bruce Springsteen (29)
Alice in Chains (6)
Max Brooks (2)
Alexi Murdoch (2)
Wheels Of Fortune (1)
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Just had a bit of Mt. Dew Throwback - first soda in a month, and I discovered I don’t miss it.
Utah Assembly Passes Resolution Denying Climate... →
Oh Utah… what have you gone and done now?
Lansing Give Camp →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14) →
Bruce Springsteen (39)
Metric (6)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (5)
The Octopus Project (2)
Henry Homesweet (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7) →
Flёur (2)
Olafur Arnalds (2)
The Monthlies. (2)
Jon Skarin (2)
All Things Lucid (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31) →
Stoney (10)
Au (8)
Olafur Arnalds (6)
Elizabeth & The Catapult (3)
Shout Out Louds (3)
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Bug or Feature?
My new pocket watch just recently started counting off seconds in rapid groups of 4. It still keeps great time.
January 2010
6 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Edgen (14)
Sigur Rós (8)
SoKo (6)
Metric (4)
Mobius Band (2)
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Seriously considering buying a ukulele.
The Costs of Offline "Lending" →
E-Bikes on the front page of Slashdot! →
My Poor Cross Check
In the midst of a computer install-fest this afternoon I pulled out the Cross Check with the intention of cleaning the thing up a bit and getting it road ready again. The Cross Check had been my main bike up until I wiped out and broke my thumb in October. I spent a good 6 weeks unable to do much work on bikes and then spent the next 2 weeks wrapping up the winter bike which I’m riding...
In an attempt to simplify my life, I am getting rid of old computer parts - tonights project: going through 21 100MB Iomega Zip Disks. I sometimes wish I could go back in time just to tell myself to not save all this crap. Anyone want 5 lbs of parallel and serial cables?
December 2009
4 posts
Blue Sparks and Ozone
I appear to have just blown the PSU in my home server. Sigh… I miss the days when PSUs had on/off switches. So now the question is - buy a replacement and stick with the silly cramped case I have OR start down the road of building a near silent server. Decisions, decisions.
Winter Bike - Complete!
I finally have the winter bike together. I put the studded tires on this morning and rode about 3 miles into work. I was averaging close to 10 MPH - but really working for it. Switching from nice smooth road tires to knobby studded tires is going to take some getting used to. Hopefully I’ll be able to post some photos of the beast soon.
Kalamazoo KG-31: You are Mine!
I finished paying for the KG-31 last night. I should have it by December 31st. Right now it’s being worked on - new bridge, fret leveling, setup, etc… It was a little hard to make the last payment and take it directly to the shop, but good things come to those who wait. Even without the work, it plays like a dream. First time in a long time I’ve looked forward to New...
First day of the Intermediate Java training at LCC West… so far just been reading Pro Git and trying to be productive… first days are lame.