Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Shock/Horror - Sam’s Club patrons can’t figure out new milk.

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on 6/30/2008
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You’re kidding me, right? These “new-fangled” milk jugs cost less all around and people can’t figure them out? Wake up, America. Pouring milk with a “rock-and-pour instead of a lift-and-tip” is the LEAST of your worries. Figure it out.

Oh, and kudos to the NYT for pointing out all of the issues with the new jugs. I mean, you give people brains and opposable thumbs, what do you expect?

Money Quote: ‘Why’s it in a square jug? Why’s it different? I want the same milk. What happened to my old milk?’

Count me in - MACHINECOLLECTIVE.ORG

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on 6/27/2008
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I’m going to be keeping an eye on this project. I’m starting to do some work in proce55ing and PD, so this announcement is coming at a fortuitous time for me.

The modular prototyping concept is based on rapid prototyping taken to a higher level: configure, assemble, connect and interact.

1. A specialized controller is required for your application, project or installation.
2. Select the modules you need (or create new modules and share them with the community).
3. Order them through our site, or source/create your own.
4. Build, connect and configure your control surface using your favorite development platform.
5. Test the new controller in your setup / environment.
6. It will be possible to have a custom control surface manufactured, based on the modules you have used in your prototype.
7. Store your prototyping modules for future projects or continue to use your modular control surface in your setup.

Prototyping modules consist of 3 configurable components:

* Acrylic top panel (with/without components)
* Aluminium base (with/without machined holes and connectors)
* Acrylic bottom panel (with/without mounting options for pcb’s)

Chantaction Visualizations

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on 6/23/2008
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Chantaction by Logickal, from the Tibetaction single coming July 22, 2008. More details to come… in the meantime, Enjoy!


Logickal - Chantaction from Jeremy Dickens on Vimeo.

George Carlin, R.I.P.

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Tweets from 2008-06-22

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  • Final mastering underway… #

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Tweets from 2008-06-21

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  • At chef wang’s with chance and ashland for chance’s birthday dinner. #
  • It’s like teenage me and teenage @kaijuu geeking out. Too funny. #

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Tweets from 2008-06-20

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  • Left work early after all of the early/late work this week. Sacked out for a few hours. Now done with dishes, chilling with Ryno. #

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Tweets from 2008-06-19

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  • Hot fun at the office with @kaijuu and @fadeddata after NES work early this morning. Everyone is punchy & one building still has no power. #

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Tweets from 2008-06-18

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  • Having a hard time getting started this morning. Today is the International Day of Action for Tibet, as the Olympic torch is run… #

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Tweets from 2008-06-17

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  • Working on video for new Logickal single. #
  • @peterkirn I’m actually QUITE interested in your experiences with the Chinatown buses, after some of my NYC adventures… :) #
  • Working on finalizing art and mixes while trying to find a good open source video fx package for OS X for the video I’m working on. #

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Tweets from 2008-06-15

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  • Chimney starters are freaking awesome. That and Weber kettle grills. Happy father’s day to me! #
  • Built the grill, now working on a grilled mediterranean lamb chop dinner. Nom nom nom! #

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Tweets from 2008-06-14

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  • @surachai I feel your pain… #
  • Wow! @waynehale is on Twitter! Thanks for the headsup, @KeithCowing! #
  • @twxdotnet Yeah, it’s a weird thing. I enjoy the music, but did we really need that much of it? Well, I guess it’s lining the coffers… #
  • Congrats and welcome home to @STS124 crew… meanwhile, trying to motivate myself to start breaking tracks apart… #
  • Breaking tracks into their constituent chunks for uploading. There are worse chores, but it definitely is one. #
  • Uploading 200MB-odd of samples, hoping Lowe’s has Weber grills in stock and they haven’t been snatched up for the other father-types. #

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Tweets from 2008-06-13

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  • First post via Socialthing thanks to @twxdotnet… Thanks! #
  • Autechre sure has gotten a ton of mileage out of permutating the tracks off of Quaristice. All told, they’ve released 4.8 hours of music… #

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Tweets from 2008-06-12

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  • Video for Council Housed and #
  • Video for Council Housed and Violent now available on iTMS. Feels good when something I worked hard on hits. http://tinyurl.com/6nhdyo #
  • After a morning burst of producing sexy minimalism, i’m definitely in a rock mood here at work. #

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Tweets from 2008-06-11

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  • I’ve come to the sudden realization that while I MAY get an iPhone, it won’t be a 3g. #
  • Sitting outside in the shade working on tracks while Ang works in the garden and Ryne tries not to play in the lawn sprinkler. #

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Tweets from 2008-06-10

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  • Installing Ubuntu is fun and easy. Getting LDAP, Samba and AFP? Not so much… #
  • Sitting in the front yard introducing myself to SproutCore on @schwa23’s rec while Angelfish gardens and Ryno runs around. #
  • @davidhooper Re: #3… I think they prefer to be called “Engineers” ;) #
  • @paullandry yes, but so is “Right now I need aphorisms like I need holes in my head” #
  • Why is all of my tech dying? At least I’ve not had any problems today with my <Ahem> work, but now my phone and the remote are dead. #

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Tweets from 2008-06-09

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  • @schwa23 Yeah, for sure… if he decides to major in Music Performance instead of physics. ;) #
  • I suddenly realize - I think I’m raising a real-world Buckaroo Banzai. The world isn’t big enough for him. #
  • Contemplating the possible upside to “stalkerware”… I’m sure there is one. #

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Tweets from 2008-06-08

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  • Getting Chance ready for 5 weeks away at Governor’s School. #
  • Home from taking the 15-year old to MTSU where he will spend the next 5 weeks earning 6 hours of college credit with his cello. #

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Tweets from 2008-06-07

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  • Being overly paranoid about one job while trying to do another. Do I need more coffee? #
  • Kind words about Harmaline from Vlad @ Daevl.Makr - http://www.2secondfuse.com/archives/harmalinelivenophest020080.html #
  • There’s some REALLY exciting stuff about to happen… this summer is going to be very busy on the 3kStatic/Logickal front… #
  • @hotdogsladies Don’t you think The Ironic Hats would be a swell band name? #
  • Important Safety Tip: Never, I repeat, NEVER name your band after your “enigmatic lead singer”. #

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Tweets from 2008-06-06

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  • @Kaijuu did you know mc chris was at the exit in last night? #

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“I dream things that never were and say why not.”

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In Memoriam: Robert Francis Kennedy, November 20, 1925 - June 6, 1968

Tweets from 2008-06-05

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  • What’s better than pennies from heaven? Dollars from sea-level. #
  • What’s a 5-letter exclamation of scientific delight? Quick - @kaijuu needs one. #
  • Mastodon bone? #

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Parallels…

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You may have noticed my obsession this year with 1968… It’s hard not to see parallels between 40 years ago and the present day. Harold Meyerson has an interesting article about the ‘68 Democratic primary race that points out something that is very accurate in my view…

I tell this tale, of course, not merely to remind us that the better world of which Robert Kennedy so movingly spoke died aborning 40 years ago in Los Angeles. I also tell it because I see a dynamic similar to that between the Kennedy and McCarthy campaigns in the relationship between Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s equally historic campaigns, and because today’s Democrats have been given a chance — as they were not in 1968 — to come together and make the kinds of changes they have only dreamed of over the past four decades. You would think — well, hope — that after 40 years, this time they’d get it right.