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To whomever I had fun with, thanks for being such a sport. Cheers.
Omegle conversation log 2010-01-29
You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: sup bitch
You: i drilled a hole in my head, what do i do?
Stranger: fill it in
You: what do i use, wood putty?
Stranger: no cement stupid
You: i only have rice, would rice work?
Stranger: you need to cook it first
Stranger: then maybe
You: what’s it mean when yellow bites sawdesk?
Stranger: i dont know what the fuck that means
You: are you my space vacuum?
Stranger: yeah, why have you kept me in the closet so long?? I have been so bored
You: sorry i got lost in the toadstool
Stranger: oh, thats happened to me before
Stranger: nearly got kicked in the face by mario
Stranger: bastard
You: is mario the red floor broom?
Stranger: yeah, with the duck handle
You: he didn’t say much
Stranger: he is a mime as his second job
Stranger: always practicing
You: will the drainage smell?
Stranger: only if you have your dead cats in there
You: do you have to milk your synapse often?
Stranger: yeah, 4 times a day. i swear there has never been a synapse with more milk than mine! except its chocolate milk, so i put up with it
You: so what do you do with all the extra pennies?
Stranger: i eat them. iron is good to have in your diet, and they just dont put enough in cereal these days
You: i once dropped my howitzer
Stranger: oh i hope it wasnt on your foot! that would hurt like hell, and prostetic legs are such a pain
You: have you seen the black bleak block anywhere?
Stranger: yeah, its under my bed, hiding from you
You: why must i be born with horns?
Stranger: your mother was a billy goat, remember? at least you didnt get stuck with the tail like your brother…
Stranger: and the fur…
Stranger: yikes
You: i know where my elderberries are, thank you
Stranger: oh i am glad you found them! were they in the fleakinschnitser?
You: the piker said the castle of aaugh
Stranger: what was that piker smoking? probably what your on, because you are freaking nuts
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
Filed under: Humour | 1 Comment
Here it is, the first scene I’ve worked on. YES, I KNOW IT’S SHORT! IT’S AN INTRO SHOT!
Filed under: Cyberpunk / Transhumanism, General, Screenwriting | 1 Comment
I have long abhorred any song that uses the AutoTune audio plug-in. My abhorrence for this audio plug-in increases with every song on the radio that uses it.
For once, I agree with its usage, and change my position from “Ban use of the AutoTune Plug-in!” to “Use Sparingly, and With Taste.”
See the vid:
Filed under: Audio, General, Humour | Closed
Gouge the Gougers
So the President says that banks that took money from the TARP are now paying back with interest. But, what is this interest rate these TARP recipients are paying? I’d wager they’re not paying as much as what the TARP recipients’ consumers are paying.
People are paying interest in insane numbers. Many are getting charged over 20% interest, depending on the state’s maximum allowed interest. Guess what? There’s a loophole: If your creditor’s headquarters is based in another state (one which allows incredibly high interest rates), they are permitted to charge you up to the maximum in which that headquarters resides.
What’s this mean for the average consumer? Double taxes! Brilliant!
My proposal: Instead of forcing the companies to give fair rates, increase the TARP interest rate. If those evil creditors can renegotiate the terms of their service, the government surely can. Creditors have already have hit their maximum in most states. These bankers need to realize that their treatment of their clients is really like, and these creditors could really use some of their own medicine.
Filed under: Business, Government, Philosophy | Closed
Glitch Browser
IE8 Glitch Browser
Self explanatory…
Filed under: Artwork, Cyberpunk / Transhumanism, Humour, Uncategorized | Closed
Intelligent Dance Music
Wikipedia says that “Intelligent dance music (commonly IDM) is a popular name for an electronic music genre that emerged in the early 1990s at the end of the British rave era. The genre is influenced by a wide range of musical styles particularly electronic dance music such as Detroit Techno.[1][2]Stylistically, IDM tends to rely upon individualistic experimentation rather than on a particular set of musical characteristics.[3] The range of post-techno[4] styles to emerge in the early 1990s were described variously as art techno,[5] ambient techno, intelligent techno, andelectronica (sp). In America the latter term is now used by the music industry as a catchall to describe electronic dance music and its many derivatives. (NOTE: This is untrue. IDM is still IDM: Syncopation.)
The term IDM is said to have originated in the United States in 1993 with the formation of the IDM list, an electronic mailing list originally charted for the discussion of music by (but not limited to) a number of prominent British artists, especially those appearing on a 1992 Warp Records compilation called Artificial Intelligence. The term is still seen by some as being peculiar to the U.S.[6][7] but it is routinely used by music journalists, record labels, and fans on both sides of the Atlantic. (Remember hyperreal.org, old folks?)
Anyhow, here’s a good playlist of Aphex Twin, a prominent IDM musician who it’s good to have IDM neophytes listen to to help them broaden their horizons.
Filed under: Audio, Cyberpunk / Transhumanism, General, Hardware, Mathematics, Philosophy, Programming | Closed
Tags: idm intelligent dance music aphex twin richard james
Most good interface designs, as well as good technological advances, usually come from the gaming industry. At E3 this year, both Microsoft and Sony showed off their new motion capture technology, making human-to-computer interfaces even more intuituve:
“Yeah, right. It’s a mock-up,” you say. I know, it most certainly is. “You’d think they’d at least show something of a live demonstration.” But wait!…There’s more!
It seems that Sony, at the last minute, struggled out a technical demonstration of their new motion capture controller at what seems like the last minute. Sony’s design uses colored ball tips, a classic motion capture technique:
Filed under: Cyberpunk / Transhumanism, Hardware, Programming | Closed
Tags: Motion Capture, Project Natal
Analog Computers
Analog computers were used in the Apollo missions to calculate trajectories for the various stages of the aircrafts’ legs of travel on each mission. As digital computers took the analog computer’s place in science, analog computers are still used in the audio world.
Since there’s no aliasing (blockiness from digital audio) from using an analog synthesizer, analog audio is considered more accurate. Although some of the annoyances of circuit values drifting from circuits heating up still exist, there are still those who prefer the sound of an analog synthesizer.
An analog synthesizer’s oscillator basically outputs a function, like a sin() function. Although there are other sound functions that can be used as examples, this is the easiest to think of for beginners. Anyone who’s seen a sin() function on a graphing calculator will know that the sin function is a simple, pure, waveform.
Modules other than the oscillator such as low-pass filters, high-pass filters, and band-pass filters are used to remove ranges of frequencies generated by the oscillator. This is known as subtractive synthesis. Using other modules such as LFO’s (Low-Frequency Oscillators), the LFO output can be patched in to the input of other modules (such as the Cutoff Frequency of a Low-Pass Filter) to control parameters algorithmically using whatever control values the first module outputs.
Starting with a basic setup, a synth engineer can build a wide array of isntrument types from a user-controlled synth that sounds like a large string section to a completely self-playing set of sounds that work according to a mathematical equation.
From Wikipedia:
“In music, stochastic elements are randomly generated elements created by strict mathematical processes.
Stochastic processes can be used in music to compose a fixed piece or can be produced in performance. Stochastic music was pioneered by Iannis Xenakis, who used probability, game theory, group theory, set theory, and Boolean algebra, and frequently usedcomputers to produce his scores. Earlier, John Cage and others had composed aleatoric or indeterminate music, which is created by chance processes but does not have the strict mathematical basis (Cage’s Music of Changes, for example, uses a system of charts based on the I-Ching).”
Continue reading ‘Modular Synthesizers and Stochastic Music’
Filed under: Audio, Cyberpunk / Transhumanism, Hardware, Mathematics, Programming | Closed
Tags: electronic, music, stochastic, synth, synthesizer
If you haven’t read ”Little Brother,” by Cory Doctorow, you’ll probably have no clue what ParanoidLinux is all about. Read the book. Not only is it a good modern cyberpunk fiction (it may bleed your eyes out with how creative it is), but it talks about a distribution of Linux built to settle the mind of the extremely paranoid:
Filed under: Cyberpunk / Transhumanism, Programming | Closed
Tags: Cory Doctorow, cyberpunk, Distribution, Linux, Little Brother, Paranoid
I was using translate.google.com and thought, ‘‘why not make this an XML service?’’ Continue reading ‘Google Translate Service: Where / When Is It?’
Filed under: Business, Programming | 2 Comments
Tags: google, json, service, translate, xml
It appears that some have combined the concept of a one-handed keyboard and a GUI interface into one unit. Although it appears primitive at the moment, I can see a more ergonomic design coming very soon in the future.
Continue reading ‘FrogPadMX – Console Cowboy’s Input Method?’
Filed under: Cyberpunk / Transhumanism | Closed
Tags: cyberpunk, keyboard, one handed
USB Wine – Majic Jack Spoof?
The folks at Zs2 Creative have made a humorous spoof on the convenience of the Magic Jack™. YouTube video seen below:
Filed under: Humour | Closed
Tags: magic jack, spoof, USB Wine
Topographic Madness
Chaos, in this Order.-
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