Music
March 18, 2005
freeform jam with brenchr
March 18, 2005
Made a new version of PathSync, which does a lot of what I want it to (though there's still much to do, this ain't bad for a 2 hour update).
I was reading this article and one quote really stuck out for me: In its court filings, Apple argued that neither the free speech protections of the United States Constitution nor the California Shield Law, which protects journalists from revealing their sources, applies to the Web sites. The company said such protections apply only to "legitimate members of the press." So what they're saying here, is that APPLE, the company that so many people loove to love so much, doesn't think web-only news sites are legitimate journalism. Way to embrace the internet, Apple. I can understand that you're miffed that some of your employees leaked info, but don't go trying to set some terrible precedent just because of that.
You know, having been using this multiple monitor setup (2 dell 2001FPs, which are 20" LCDs) for about the last 10 months, I've realized that while it is occasionally useful, overall it leaves me feeling scattered. Too many places to look for things, and whatnot. The usefulness is just rare, for me, and usually involves watching a movie while working. The other times, when I want to find a window, it kinda gives me a headache. Anybody have any suggestions or thoughts?
ok so I'm lazy and didn't tune anything. I like the first 10 seconds and last 20 seconds, so maybe I should shorten it to 30 seconds. the stuff in between is ultimately just killing time, so I should, but as I said I'm lazy so I won't. Instead I shall go to bed (where my poor fever-wielding girlfriend has hopefully already sweat herself to sleep).
OK so last week I updated Jesusonic to 0.99, it's up and has a few nice little improvements and a bugfix or two. The other thing I want to note that I wasn't going to type out on my phone last night is that I was lucky enough to receive additional screening flying back from Vegas, and they had some new thing I hadn't seen before, where I walk into this little chamber, and maybe 30 air jets blow air on me, and I gather it sniffs the particles that came off me and decide whether or not I should be trusted. Anyway, strange thing, in my exhausted state it was a little scary. Well, not so much scary, just a little abrupt, that's all.
more vegas airport light pictures. tired and sick, but home and warm bed await me.
Made this ditty last night. I really dig it, though the lead guitar is pretty much in need of being replaced. Anyway. Thunderstorms here, yay. I miss thunderstorms from Arizona...
So I just finished reading the third (and final) book in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle series.. I must say, it was quite the 3000 page ride. Although it took a good few hundred pages to get sucked in, I really ended up loving it. The storyline was so decadent, so epic, it just blew me away. I feel like I learned a lot (though am constantly questioning what was historically accurate and what was not) from it, too. Anyway, I'll quit rambling about it, but if you're looking for a long series of books to read, well err, go for it.
This is a test from my new smartphone, woot. The picture is from a few weeks ago.
So two weeks ago we enetered a song in songfight. We didn't win, nor did I think our song was the best one, the thing that annoyed me is that the one that won I thought sucked, and the one that should have won (the one by Eight Legged Oedipus ), didn't. Which I guess is the way things go, so here's my attempt at helping: Go to songfight.org's competition for "The Truth About Aspartame", and vote for the one you like best. Or vote for the one by "Consume", either way. Only vote once, to be fair, but vote. Point being, if other people are going to get their friends to vote for them, so will I. Not that winning gets you anywhere...
After seeing someone else with one, I went and got a Motorola MPx220. Although it runs a version Windows (which takes upwards of 45 seconds to boot), I'm pretty impressed. It has a goregous screen, amazing speech recognition, etc. Also, someone from VIA got in touch with me, offering lots of support and resources for Jesusonic development. Met a couple of nice guys from them, and it looks like they may accelerate me getting the hardware to market. <3. Whoever told them to check out Jesusonic, thanks.. :) Finally, for some reason I tend to feel like I'm more on top of playing the drums when I've been awake for a long time (i.e. upwards of 12 hours). I'll listen to the recording and see if it's true, or if it just SOUNDS better at the time...
Made this ditty a couple days ago, liked it so much I decided to adjust the mix a little bit, so here it is now. Somewhat sad feeling, but in a good way. Or something. Who am I kidding?