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Okay, so maybe it’s vaporware at this point, but still… YUM.
Posted on May 10th 2007 in Uncategorized
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Posted on May 8th 2007 in Uncategorized
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Ambient noise blending and stuff. Free and now has a Windows version.
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Randomized ambient sound generators. Very nice. Freeware.
Posted on May 6th 2007 in Uncategorized
They’re all back on my primary blog: http://www.geckotemple.com/blog
Everyone else? As you were.
Posted on April 21st 2007 in Hardware
Well, here we go again. We were kinda wired tonight, and I think it shows a little.
Here’s this month’s podcast, (right-click and Save-As to Download). You can also download from here, if you’d like a faster download, and can get the file before April 10th, 2007.
- Here’s the playlist for ya (sorry, no chaptering – that’s a Mac thing, from what I can tell, and only works on iPods anyway)
Talkybit 1 31 Knots - Sedition's Wish Gomez - Sweet Virginia The Veils - Advice For Young Mothers To Be Talkybit 2 Peter, Bjorn, And John - Amsterdam Andrew Bird - Heretics Terence Trent D'Arby - This Side Of Love Talkybit 3 Julie Doiron - No More Feist - Sea Lion Woman Fulton Lights - Thank God For The Evening News Talkybit 4 Cadence Weapon - Sharks Revolution Void - Invisible Walls Cansei de Ser Sexy - Music is my hot sex Talkybit 5 Tom Waits - Ol' 55 The Streets - Dry Your Eyes
Tracklist and highspeed download links to follow in the near future.
Got this the other day, and after a second of waiting for the menu to appear, grabbed a screencap of it, since I suspected Windows was just being sarcastic.
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Posted on April 2nd 2007 in Hardware
So Arwen and I were watching this year’s “I’m a big dope on National Television (With Tense Theme Music and Dramaaaaaaaatic Pauses)” because 30Rock (Go TIna Fey – Woot!) wasn’t on, and in this particular episode of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader (AYSTA5G), we both got a question wrong. (Go here for the breakdown of what we got wrong, and why).
Right. So we thought this was odd, and Arwen went off to figure out why we were wrong on something that seemed pretty straight-forward, and in the meantime I pulled up my recently tagged urls to see what I’ve flagged to remember, or just to read later. One of them was a partial list of Microsoft Interview Questions, and the raw list of riddles, algorithms, applications, and thinkers from Microsoft.
Most of them, we agreed almost immediately on how we would attack the problems, which is sorta neat, ’cause we don’t really think the same way, but we’d very quickly agree on the best way to figure out the answer (even if we were too Saturday Morning to *actually* see if we were correct in our hypothoses).
One of the questions under the Riddles was this:
- There is a room with a door (closed) and three light bulbs. Outside the room there are three switches, connected to the bulbs. You may manipulate the switches as you wish, but once you open the door you can’t change them. Identify each switch with its bulb.
I’m sure I’m ignoring the “spirit” of the question here, but I came up with this, and I think it speaks to how I work with technology in general, and why (maybe) I’m interested in things like viruses, spyware, and security, but here’s my “solution,” and I came up with it about 10 seconds after Arwen asked the question:
- Pull the plate off the switches, and rewire when together, so all three are turned on/off with one switch. My response to ‘Identify each switch with its bulb’ would be ‘all of them on this switch.’
No wonder I make suits nervous sometimes.
Posted on March 17th 2007 in People
Rough couple of weeks at work, but things *might* be better after next week, as I’ll be in training for 3.5 out of the next 5.
1 day of Windows Vista Stuff (that I suspect *I* could teach, now we’ve taken so much out of the curriculum in order to fit timing.
2 days of “Developing Managers” stuff (I really need to figure out if that’s where I wanna be when I grow up, so they stop grooming me for it).
.5 day of a class called “Difficult Conversations,” during which I hope I don’t:
A) Punch any one.
B) Cry.
C) Both.
So tonight, after helping out a friend with some WEIRD software (designed for making slideshows of photos, but hoo-poi was it harder than it needed to be, and in the end, simply didn’t WORK unless you had version three – you’d think a piece of software made in 2004 would work on WinXP SP2), I came home to my novel-editing partner, and since she’s reading her book out loud to edit, I popped my headphones in and started bombing around for some music.
So I fired up Songbird (which, if you’re into randomly finding music, or just visit a lot of music heavy sites, is a MUST).
Or check these sites with whatever “normal” browser you’re using to read this thing right here.
Wow.
There’s some good stuff out there, that’s free. And not illegal at all. Not just ’cause I’m in Canada, either.
Started at Fingertips and ran through a month or seven of their weekly “This Week’s Finds,” which have a number of tracks with some quite USEFUL writeups about who’s from what band, or the son of which ex-Shriekback member, and the moment to listen for the punchy weirdness in Vocal McYellison’s upper range when he hits E-flat instead of the expected D. Great stuff. Well written. Some really sweet finds here. Going to have to ask for forgiveness (and mention them lots) in our next podcast, ’cause I’m going to rebroadcast more than a few of their finds.
Then I shambled over to Bending Corners (Journeys in Jazz-n-Groove). Oh hell ya. Some of these mixes are pure satin. These aren’t your standard “Hi, I’m DJ Wazoo, and I’m going to play some stuff I found in my mom’s basement, ’cause it says ‘Jazz’ on the front.” mixes. These are well-thought-out, well researched, and some of the most *sincere* mixes I’ve heard in a long time. Anyone who knows me knows I’m a big BIG fan of Coldcut, and the whole SolidSteel style mix show. This is sumpin’ else, tho. Solidsteel is usually a party with a little jazz thrown in. BendingCorners is Jazz with a little party thrown in.
Ended the night tonight at BrokenBeatRadio, which is all over the map, so I’ll probably be back from time to time to see what’s goin’ on over there. Lots of nice 1hr+ shows on there, even if *some* of their shows do get a little too schpeedy for my taste. Good to know where you can find it if you need it.
So… What else?
- I wanna interview at Microsoft, but only if they throw questions like these at me.
- This person (and HotOrNot in general) think too much about what EQUALS “pretty” and not enough about what MEANS “pretty.”
- I’m not entirely sure what Deligio is doing, but it’s very Web2.0 about it. Very hip. Very now. Very very.
- Linking me tends to make me link you. I’m such a ‘ho.
- Geeks are fun to read, even if they have a domain that looks like a Czech radio station.
- Download Squad is always good for downloading fools like myself with more bandwidth and drivespace than their attention span should really allow.
- Speaking of attention spans – The Electric Gumshoe pointed me to this “TinySkweeks” game, so I’ll have to check it out tomorrow, or something.
- and finally, 2600‘s Emmanuel Goldstein turned me on to the very loud and happy about it (or is it “very happy and loud about it”?) webradio station www.kpwr.org via his (Emmanuel’s) podcast Off the Wall.
We’ll have a proper list up some time tomorrow, we hope.
Talkybit 1
You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister
The Message From The Soul Sisters – Myra Byrnes (Vicki Anderson) and the JB Allstars
Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken – Camera Obscura
Talkybit 2
Different style – Lotek Hifi
Cross Bones style – Cat Power
Where There You Bin, Gon’ Find It – Beckett And Taylor
Talkybit 3
The Well And The Lighthouse – Arcade Fire
Coded Language (F. Saul Williams) – DJ Krust
On The Radio – Regina Spektor
Talkybit 4
Al’z A-B-Cee’z – 3rd Bass
Voodoo People (Skype Download Sash Funky Remix) – Prodigy
Come (Speech Vocal) – Prince (from the Beautiful Experience EP)
Talkybit 5
A Little Respect – Wheatus
M Doughty’s “From Gas Station Outside Providence” – Gecko Temple
Enjoy.
Click HERE to play, or use iTunes to download the RSS.
