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vr prop [Jun. 30th, 2009|10:04 pm]
Is this a tweet? I can't remember any more.

Project of recent evenings: a lo-fi VR rig for a friend's props needs. This is NOT the A-brand product, ooh noo. This is the one that kinda loses major sections of your personal past out if you don't reseat the exposed ribbon cable connectors firmly. And it kinda hangs on reboot sometimes.

agog

Here's the control surface for the Device.

control

Also, too many projects. I have a performance in a Santa Cruz garage on July 11th (Woodstockhausen folks) which shall tell a story involving Islamic Golden Age automata, and such the like, with words, music, and motion. (Drop a line for directions!) Over.
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 29th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 08:59 Finally, solved mystery of ui/doc sync bug. ("The bug is in the change listener." Repeat. Praise @drinkumbrella.) Ok. Breakfast @zachs.
  • 11:19 (From last week: magic carpet animation bit.ly/Ig9fK
    )
  • 18:27 You know, what the world needs is a good nickel iron.
  • 20:07 "Oxycontin" and "OxiClean". Two new household words. Yes, the newsotron as usual needs a fresh random number seed. I mean really.
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 28th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 08:32 When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth. My closet, my clothes, my floor.
  • 11:18 Whaa... someone in my follower list, with option to "unblock"??
  • 13:37 Heading to The Depot for a bunch of blue tape. Then to the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium to stick it down on their floor. Roller Derby!
  • 21:58 Ok, that's the last of my derby obligations for a long, long while! Whew.
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 27th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 17:54 Implementing a busy-beaver strategy.
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 26th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 08:52 The Claw is not ready to be Seen yet. But a few pixels here are bit.ly/VdObs
    .
  • 13:57 Is having a crisis of faith.
  • 17:51 Late, late, late. OOPs.
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 25th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 08:39 Got up at 5:15am to visit the Low, low, low tide at Natural Bridges. Joined by Yo & Deb. Got to tromp under the Bridge, dry. Many sea stars.
  • 13:08 Still collating.
  • 15:26 In at 7, out at 3:30, time to Keyframe the Claw, and I don't know if that's a euphemism or what.
  • 16:51 <pubServAnnc level="noncritical">"Squeeze blood from a stone" google hits 4670, "Squeeze blood from a phone", 0. </pubServAnnc>
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 24th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 15:17 Hey, @Twitter, can people not following me see my replies to them? I assume not, as it'd be a total spam-channel. Still. Anyone?
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 22nd, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 10:50 <nonseq>What I didn't know: Borges lived to age 86, blind at age 55.</nonseq>
  • 19:29 And now a message from our artist president... from 1975. Always worth a re-view. bit.ly/7kOUi
  • 21:04 Oops, concurrent projects with nearly coincident deadlines. Busy times!
  • 21:22 WIP: bit.ly/9hVHP
    Struggling against instinctual brevity, since is to go with looped music, live.
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 21st, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 11:46 Contemplating the carving of polycarbonate.
  • 08:21 Pedaling down to coffee & breakfast, and drawing cave backgrounds. My attempt in illustrator came out looking like coffee beans. Solstice++!
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 19th, 2009|08:30 am]


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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 18th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 11:21 TCL is just like LISP, but without all those stupid parentheses.
  • 12:34 You know what's funny? Grepping through Altera code and finding "#include <Gestalt.h>". That's what's funny. Yes, it is what it looks like.
  • 17:01 Five O'clock! Nothing like coming home to a completed woman and the love of a good ambient occlusion render. Ah, strike that, reverse it. ?.
  • 20:40 Mac OS has come a long, long way. But, versus graphics software, still occasionally loses. Wham, and what a long reboot! Hello, data. Whew.
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 17th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 20:50 Thanks @zentinal for the reference on @persiankiwi. Terrifying & fascinating & oh lordy we are so lucky. We here in boring USA.
  • 21:08 Supervising the render. Draw, pixel, draw! ok tv time
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 16th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 20:42 My analysis: Google makes major step towards landing exclusive deal on managing the U.S. Library of Congress. (You heard it here first.)
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 15th, 2009|08:30 am]


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this AM's doodlings [Jun. 13th, 2009|09:45 am]




made of random arabic characters
hq full screen recommended
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 13th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 09:39 Good night, television.
  • 17:32 Did I fix the build? Or break it worse? We will report back tomorrow with the results of this afternoon's "hourly". Good night, good code.
  • 21:57 Metabolizing.
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TVOD [Jun. 12th, 2009|12:45 pm]


I dont need no TV Screen
I stick the aerial
Into my skin
And let the signal
Flow through my veins

--> TVOD by The Normal
(also 'TVOD' application signature for QuickTime Files (who me?))


Have you ever heard of a friend's death? Someone who influenced you profoundly, but maybe you haven't talked to them in years, in decades. But still.

I confess, this is how I feel about the termination of Analog television. I watched so much television growing up. In New York, in 3rd and 4th grade, I came home and watched a straight run of Superman, Batman, Get Smart, Star Trek, and, I dunno, Gilligan's Island, Lost in Space, I Dream Of Jeannie. Musical stings from all of those are part of my permanent sound track. Oh yeah, I found this strange early morning show called Thunderbirds which was quite astonishing, quite secret. Full of numbers.

Later on, as soon as we'd get the Sunday paper, and I'd immediately research the week's movies from the TV Times section, circling 3am showings of When Worlds Collide (1951, bw) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943, tinted).

I remember watching the stations signoff. We now conclude our broadcast day. National anthem. Wait two hours, We now begin our broadcast day.

The same signal protocol for analog broadcast has been supported for 80 years, ends today.

Good bye old chap!


Over lunch, I turned on the last few minutes of KSBW, channel 8, here in Santa Cruz. At 12:30pm precisely, they unceremoniously chopped off a paid advertisement mid-sentence. No national anthem. Sheesh.
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 12th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 15:46 In a cube in San Jose, in a cube in San Jose, in a cube in San Jose, in a cube in San Jose, in a cube in San Jose, in a cube in San Jose, in
  • 20:24 Note: driving from SJ to SF is NOT a win over SCruz to SF, at rush hour. To say nothing of the tigers.
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 11th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 09:30 C++ app is pretty much like a boat. Not so much a question of *if* it leaks, but is it within an acceptable amount.
  • 11:12 Rendered tiling experiment, in progress (fixed url): bit.ly/12lltj
  • 13:42 Ugh, those Japanese space probes. Waaay too much flare! bit.ly/7lu6K
  • 18:13 The bug is in the Register Widths.
  • 19:40 Ha. The bug *was* in the Register Widths.
  • 19:54 Also, speaking of Boole's Daughters (yes, *that* Boole), Rudy Rucker mentions another: bit.ly/9FExx (She visualized 4d x-sections.)
  • 20:20 Should Kraftwerk ever show up, I'm *totally* going to say: We don't serve their kind here! Your 'Quins. They'll have to wait outside.
  • 08:21 "Squeal like a stuck record," as we used to say in America.
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-- o -- o -- [Jun. 10th, 2009|08:30 am]


  • 11:01 Last three days of analogue broadcast. I mourn television. Good bye, old chap.
  • 15:48 Not writing code.
  • 19:26 Considering dinner, and complex islamic tiling patterns.
  • 22:28 Beginning to think After Effects' render time is unacceptable. (It's probably all my poorly-written plugin. But still.)
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