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| 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 subject THE COCA _COLA SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 AWARA mailed-by msn.com CONGRATULATION OPEN THE ATTACHEMENT FOR YOUR WINNING INFORMATION THE COCA _COLA SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 AWARA THE COCA AWARD SOUTH AFRICA 2010.doc 21K View as HTML Open as a Google document Download ==== THE COCA-COLA COMPANY PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION. 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";
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| 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 Proposition 8 NO |
| 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. |
| Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 | |
| 5:54 pm | furniture Bay Area people: have you ever bought furniture from a local custom furniture maker? I'm thinking about designing a two-tier desk to accommodate my Mac Pro display, audio mixer, and speakers. Referrals for furniture builders would be appreciated! Current Mood: determined |
| Saturday, September 27th, 2008 | |
| 1:54 pm | new synth module I just picked up my Mopho synth from Robotspeak. It's yellow! I just did a quick run-through of all of the presets, and pretty soon I'll grab the free sound editor software for it. Since its hardware control surface is limited, the software editor promises easier/faster patch editing, not to mention patch storage and retrieval. I used to lust after classic analog synthesizers like the Roland SH-101. But Dave Smith Instruments is putting out great affordable synths. Check out their products if you're not yet familiar with them. Dave played a major part in the development of the MIDI standard, and designed synthesizers for Sequential Circuits and Yamaha. Current Mood: excited |
| Sunday, September 21st, 2008 | |
| 9:48 am | eliminating duplicates in iTunes Yesterday, I tackled the goal of eliminating duplicate songs in my iTunes library. ( Read more... ) Current Mood:  annoyed |
| Saturday, September 13th, 2008 | |
| 2:02 pm | demos for my iPod Demo enthusiasts: are any of your favorite demos missing from this list? I'm particularly interested in recent PC demos and Amiga demos. I want the impressive and memorable stuff as opposed to the silly stuff. I started with some old and recent favorites. Then I added more by going to pouet, looking up groups and parties, and selecting some of the demos with lots of thumb up ratings. ( The list... ) Current Mood: bring back the only demo art |
| Thursday, August 28th, 2008 | |
| 12:07 am | |
| Saturday, July 26th, 2008 | |
| 8:38 pm | next planned music event ellen allien + modeselektor @ mighty - friday 05 september 2008 I saw Modeselektor at Mutek in Montreal, and they totally rocked Metropolis. My eyes and ears were pummeled with their onslaught of a performance. If their appearance at Mighty is even slightly reminiscent, it will be a delightful evening. Current Mood: excited |
| Friday, June 27th, 2008 | |
| 5:40 pm | My dad has a Gateway PC that runs Windows 98. He wants to securely erase the hard drive, and get rid of the machine in a friendly way. I suppose the options are: * Locate a Win98 program that will do this * Burn a bootable image, boot the machine with it, reformat the disk into 1 volume if necessary, and use 'dd' to overwrite the whole disk several times with /dev/random output How would you complete this task? I haven't used bootable linux images (floppy or CD) in a long time. |
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