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    Saturday, December 5th, 2009
    11:51 pm
    Now I get it. "OH (obligatory humor)" means "please laugh at this lame joke; it's the best I've got".

    Current Mood: cynical
    Sunday, November 29th, 2009
    12:05 pm
    spare ones and zeros
    Is anyone looking for a copy of The Orb: Baghdad Batteries (Orbsessions Volume 3)? I bought two copies by mistake. $16, no tax, free shipping.

    I have the cardboard sleeve version on Malicious Damage.
    Saturday, October 17th, 2009
    8:04 pm
    Meet slices of life with new tracks from Stefan Betke.

    Current Mood: relaxed
    Sunday, October 4th, 2009
    4:11 pm
    killing joke playlist
    I don't have too much to report at the moment. Here's my newest playlist, featuring Killing Joke.

    1. Night Time
    2. Sanity
    3. Democracy
    4. Labyrinth
    5. Love Like Blood
    6. Multitudes
    7. Communion
    8. Implosion
    9. Jana
    10. Wintergardens
    11. Pleasures of the Flesh
    12. Europe
    13. Goodbye to the Village

    Enjoy the exquisite beauty of the atomic age.

    Current Mood: paranoid
    Friday, September 18th, 2009
    2:55 pm
    this cereal makes me sick
    I like Shredded Oats cereal, but it makes me ill. I'm lactose intolerant, but the ingredients list doesn't mention any dairy products:

    • whole oat flour
    • whole wheat flour
    • unsulphured molasses
    • malted barley extract
    • baking soda
    • salt
    • natural vitamin e (mixed tocopherols (soy))
    • vitamin c

    Does anyone have any ideas why I would consistently get sick after eating this product?

    Current Mood: sick
    Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
    10:24 pm
    place bo on butt
    You can edit this wikipedia page, but your changes will probably get reverted later.

    Current Mood: weird
    Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
    10:23 am
    clandestine radio
    One of the reasons I bought my first shortwave radio about four years ago was to try to find numbers stations. I joined the ENIGMA 2000 group and downloaded their hitchhiker's guide, but never had any luck until I stumbled upon a numbers broadcast a couple days ago.

    Current Mood: curious
    Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
    9:12 pm
    the best of mutek_10
    i recently returned from montreal, where i attended the 10th edition of the mutek electronic music festival. it was my third time at the mutek festival. i had a festival passport, allowing me entry into every event. holes were punched in the laminated passport upon admission, and i'm pleased to report that i got every event hole punched (although i didn't stay for the duration of each event).

    if you're interested in electronic music, this list of my favorite performances might give you some new or familiar artists to explore, and perhaps encourage you to consider attending future mutek festivals.

    read more about the best of what i experienced at the festival this year... )

    also: i have a mutek 2009 photo set on flickr.

    Current Mood: impressed
    Saturday, June 6th, 2009
    2:03 pm
    did it come from africa?
    from khumalo kelvin <kelvinkhumalo57777@msn.com>
    reply-to kelvinm73@yahoo.com
    to
    date Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:18 AM
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    mailed-by msn.com

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    Congratulations, note, your email is among the ten lucky winners that won $2,000,000.00{Two million United State Dollars} each in the just concluded draw held to promote South African 2010 World Cup. This promotion is been sponsored by Coca-Cola Company/South Africa Football Association (SAFA) for prize claiming, call your appointed claim agent: Mr. Mark Kelvin. Phone number: 00274758550, Email: kelvinm73@yahoo.com also provide the following information's for processing your won price. NAME:.................. ADDRESS:............... NATIONALITY:........... SEX:................... AGE:................... PHONE/MOBILE:.......... FAX:................... OCCUPATION:............ COMPANY:............... Your Email Attached to Ticket No: (7YZ206) and ballot No: 012/07/DR432.)

    Yours Faithfully,

    Management.

    Current Mood: amused
    Monday, May 25th, 2009
    7:07 pm
    submission for mutek demo derby 2009
    i don't know if there's a demo derby at mutek this year, but here is the track that i made for it. this composition is nearly done, but i may do more mixing and mastering when i return from montreal in early june.

    this was inspired by the sounds of basic channel/chain reaction, and to a lesser degree, arctic hospital. this is more of a soundscape than a song, and i did evil things with the dynamics (feeding the wind and the kick drum into the same compressor and adding gain, kind of like performing an XOR). the limiter at the last stage of the mix is doing a fair bit of work. you might not like this.

    the url will be posted to my friends-only feed.

    my plane takes off at 8:20am tomorrow morning. eeeeek

    Current Mood: excited
    Sunday, April 26th, 2009
    6:14 pm
    my demoscene-focused weblog
    i'm now maintaining a weblog that focuses on my demoscene activities:

    http://gdfromtrax.wordpress.com/

    if you're interested in my demoscene participation, follow me there. my livejournal probably won't feature much demoscene information anymore, aside from major announcements.

    Current Mood: tired
    Sunday, April 19th, 2009
    5:37 am
    blockparty 2009 entries
    i entered two songs at blockparty 2009:

    * gd-aa.zip
    * gd-lma.zip

    Current Mood: creative
    Sunday, April 5th, 2009
    8:54 am
    don't write the way you speak
    I aim to convince people that writing is nothing like speaking, and I found an excellent example to illustrate the problem. In The ultimate airplane tour, we find this quote:
    It seems as if almost nobody is here it is so quiet but inside the planes we're told teams of workmen are beavering away (as well as robots).
    I can vividly imagine a reporter speaking those exact words into a portable recorder. I'm sure that the phrase makes sense during playback, because of contextual inflection, but the transcription is extremely difficult to read. Inflection can't be written without looking *stupid*. Your writing should avoid depending on something that isn't there.

    The reporter and editor(s) also treated us to a run-on sentence.

    I would write the above quote like this:
    It is so quiet that it seems as if almost nobody is here. The tour guide tells us, however, that teams of workmen and robots are beavering away inside the planes.


    Current Mood: anxious
    Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
    11:28 am
    Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
    4:46 pm
    23:18:09:20:05:12:09:11:05:06:18:15:14:20:02:42
    #!/usr/bin/perl
    
    $PHRASE = shift;
    $NUMPHRASE = "";
    
    while (length($PHRASE)) {
        $PHRASE =~ /^(.)(.*)$/;
        $NUMCHAR = ord($1) - 96;
        $PHRASE = $2;
        if (length($NUMCHAR) == 1) { $NUMCHAR = "0" . $NUMCHAR; }
        $NUMPHRASE = $NUMPHRASE . $NUMCHAR;
        if (length($PHRASE)) { $NUMPHRASE = $NUMPHRASE . ":"; }
    }   
    
    print $NUMPHRASE . "\n";
    
    Saturday, January 10th, 2009
    1:05 pm
    car update
    • I drove about 2,500 miles in 2008, compared with about 19,000 miles in 2007. My reduction in driving was due to the free shuttle service provided by my employer.
    • Overall MPG for my car is 48.23.
    • Overall average price for a gallon of regular unleaded is $3.23. I have spent between $2.039 and $4.549 for a gallon of gas for my car. My car is now 2 years old, but these highs and lows for gas prices have happened within the past 6 months.
    • Part of my car purchase evaluation process involved accounting for 100,000 miles worth of gasoline. As long as I pay less than an average of $10.85 per gallon during that 100,000 mile span, I will have made the correct decision financially.
    • I have spent $1,441.16 on gas. With my previous car which got around 33 MPG, the gas might have cost me $2,107.80 (a savings of $666.63). This assumes that I filled up on the same dates at the same stations for the same prices.

    Current Mood: geeky
    Saturday, November 29th, 2008
    3:25 pm
    sir kit
    Yesterday, I completed a small-scale soldering project (a tv-b-gone) as a kind of trial run for a larger one (a x0xb0x). I'm better at soldering than I thought! I completed all of the soldering joints, except for one or two, on the first try. It probably helped that I watched a couple "how to solder" videos beforehand.

    In other news, the Bank of America branch office that I can see from my house has some Sony flat-screen TVs mounted on a wall.
    Thursday, November 13th, 2008
    10:29 pm
    Saturday, October 25th, 2008
    5:35 pm
    Poll #1285247 prop8
    Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: Friends, participants: 5

    Proposition 8

    NO
    5 (100.0%)

    Sunday, October 19th, 2008
    3:08 pm
    removing duplicates in iTunes
    I found a much easier way to deal with duplicates in iTunes. It's not automatic, but it provides me the reassurance that none of my playlists will be damaged by removing tracks from my library. Right-click on a track in the library, and move the mouse to the "Show in Playlist" menu item.
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