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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Barnes & Noble To Be Voted ‘Sociopathic Company Of The Year’

Friday, August 31, 2007

Barnes & Noble to sell Simpson book in stores - Yahoo! News
“If I Did It,” in which the former U.S. football star offers a hypothetical account of his ex-wife’s murder, has caused a firestorm of controversy since it was revealed last November that Simpson worked with a ghostwriter to author it.
Simpson was acquitted of murder […]

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What I Like

Friday, August 31, 2007

For years, one of the primary criticisms leveled at me is that I’m too negative. I’m a hater. And it’s true, don’t get me wrong. I am a hater.
But I’m also a lover, which is why I’m a hater in the first place. So I thought I’d make a list of things I love. This […]

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Perlin Smoke Wallpapers

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Here’s two widescreen wallpapers. They’re at MacBookPro resolution and ratio, but you can probably use ‘em on any high-res monitor.

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My First Perlin Noise Experiment

Thursday, August 30, 2007

My First Perlin Noise Experiment from jzellis and Vimeo.
Yay! Robert over at Flight404 was kind enough to give me some pointers as to what I needed to do to get my Perlin flow field experiment working using Daniel Shiffman’s excellent Vector3D library. This is a first example. It’s simplistic and not terribly interesting visually, but […]

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Better Off Without A Wife

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

I was at the Double Down the other night, and I realized that I didn’t recognize anybody there. All the people I used to know — some by name, some just by face and a “Hey, dude, how’s it goin’?” were conspicuously absent.
I’m 29 now. The last couple of years, a lot of my friends […]

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Sprint Samsung SPH-M610

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

So I’m in the Sprint Ambassador program, which means they send me phones a couple of times a year, with a free unlimited account to use them with. I like Sprint for this, even though I stopped paying my other phone bill out of brokeness and they’ve sent it to collections. (Dear Sprint: I swear […]

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Scatterlings And Refugees (demo)

Sunday, August 26, 2007

“Scatterlings And Refugees (demo)” (MP3, LAME encoded 192kbps)
This is just the demo version I recorded to play for Ryan and Tom, to get their input. It’s got some digital popping in it (I accidentally recorded the guitar part at too low a latency rate, so my hard drive couldn’t keep up, and there are tiny […]

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Travelogue

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

I’ve put together a tracklist for my album. Most of the songs are newer; some I haven’t finished recorded yet (”The Big Darkness”, “Scatterlings And Refugees”, “Entropy”, “After The Ice Age”); there are a few older ones (”Sleeping In Flame”, “Sky Blue”, “Redwood City Station”). With only a couple of exceptions, I’ve decided to re-record […]

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Red State Soundsystem - Airport Tunnel

Friday, August 17, 2007

Airport Tunnel (192kbps MP3, LAME encoded)
This track may be a work in progress — I may add vocals to it eventually — but I also really kinda like it the way it is. It’s a soundtrack for driving in the airport tunnel on Swenson here in Vegas in the middle of the night. (If you […]

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The Dark Is Sucking

Thursday, August 16, 2007

I was extremely happy to see, earlier this year, that a film adaptation was being made of one of my favorite novels as a teenager, Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising. If you’ve never read the book — or the other four books in the series — they’re worth your time, at least if you’re […]

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