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EVERYTHING MUST GO
Jan. 23rd, 2009 01:56 amHello Internet! I have not been around QUITE so much maybe and that is because I am having kind of a time of it!
Right now I am trying to maintain some amount of cash on hand, but that is a problem, because money is EXPENSIVE. So here is a bunch of junk I need to get rid of which I will sell you. Just computer parts and a few electronic components right now, but maybe I'll try and ditch some old textbooks and stuff later.
Make an offer. I will add about $5 for USPS Priority Mail within the US, or we can do parcel post if that is more up your alley. International shipping can be arranged I guess (though I would prefer not to ship to the UK via Royal Mail. Ever.)
( cut for RIDICULOUS DEALS )I also have a bunch of weird crap like riser cards, Slot A to Socket 370 adapters, high-end Socket 3 boards from late in the 486 era complete with some of the faster late-model 486 CPUs (these are OK for like cheesy robotics projects), and newish ATX power supplies, so let me know if you're looking for something weird and I'll see what I can do.
Later, I'll be posting a bunch of stuff from my components drawer that I don't need. I have a lot of PIC microcontrollers, ~*audiophile*~ op-amps that run like $18, and stuff like that. I'll also be digging through my old laptop power supplies and some more RAM and laptop expansion cards and whatever else I find.
If you're interested: Leave a comment or email me. I am going to be busy but I will get back to you ASAP.
cory doctorow facts
Dec. 21st, 2008 07:53 amcory doctorow is literally the worst person in the entire world
A Christmas Story is still the best movie
Dec. 11th, 2008 06:00 pm
YOU USED UP ALL THE GLUE
ON PURPOSE
TMBG is working on another adult record, as well, which Flansburgh hopes will revisit the band's roots.
"I think this next rock album my ambition for it is to blend more of the home-recording techniques that we presented in the '80s with modern sounds," he said.
they got my letter
Here is what David Byrne thinks about GM and gas prices and things it is pretty interesting
everything david byrne says is the absolute gospel truth
Google has a horrible new thing called "SearchWiki" which adds a bunch of stupid buttons to every results page if you are logged into Google:
I hate it.
Here is a user script I wrote so that Firefox users with Greasemonkey can be rid of it. It should also work in Opera without anything extra installed, but I am not clear on the specifics of that (Google it instead of bugging me about it).
The only issue I am aware of is that you will still have a little trailing hyphen at the end of every result because I couldn't be bothered figuring out how to get rid of it (it would involve running some kind of stupid regex replace on every results page — if someone wants to try, I expect you could match on "pages - " and replace with "pages").
That is all.
Age 4 - 5: Annie Lennox
Age 5 - 12: Rod Serling
Age 12 - 13: Tom Hall
Age 13 - present: Rod Serling
edited 2009-01-14: actually David Byrne narrowly overtook Serling a year or two ago
There is an argument to be made here that one should be expected to pay for as much of a service as one consumes, and there is an argument to be made that businesses providing mass transit must be expected to make certain concessions in order to accommodate the disabled. There are also a whole lot of fun passenger airline business technicalities at issue here that I could write several paragraphs about, but nobody cares. Thoughts, Internet?
ps here is your airplane picture
enjoy airplane picture
"Blu-spec CD is a specification for an improved version of a conventional Audio CD, introduced by Sony Music Entertainment. Instead of a traditional infra-red laser, a blue laser is used for recording the pits on the CD master that is needed for disc replication. The blue laser creates more precise pits, causing less distortion in the optical read-out process and supposedly resulting in higher-quality audio."
On a semi-related note, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
tehslugbug has been making videos about things and how they work:
Tape flanging video
tape flanging video II: record flanging video
cd player video
[I]t's about time that we change our attitude and we begin to change the attitudes of Americans about what their responsibilities are to the poor, about what their responsibilities are to other people, and about what our responsibility in the world is, and that requires changing attitudes. But ultimately, [...] this country needs a leader, and leaders change attitudes about people[.]
—Sen. Joe Biden
~was i invited to youre masquerade~
Nov. 18th, 2008 02:26 pmOK I found a neat version of "Behind the Mask" bear with me here
1979: Japanese electropop group Yellow Magic Orchestra release their sophomore album Solid State Survivor. "Behind the Mask", composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto and with lyrics by British poet and lyricist Chris Mosdell. (This is the first version I was aware of.)
1981: Quincy Jones hears Solid State Survivor. At the time, he is producing Michael Jackson's Thriller. Jones suggests that Jackson record a version of "Behind the Mask" for inclusion on the album. As the song is rather sparse, Jackson writes additional lyrics, developing a narrative for the song. One verse of Mosdell's original lyrics becomes part of the chorus. For reasons which are not clear, the song is left off of Thriller and never officially released. (This story appears to have gotten out through Mosdell, and Jackson's recording engineer Bruce Swedien corroborates it. I believe the Jackson version has actually been leaked at some point, as well — there is a slim chance that I have it in here somewhere.)
1984: Jackson allows his keyboardist Greg Phillinganes to rerecord the song with his lyrics and arrangement. It appears on Phillinganes' album Pulse. Jackson gets credited for co-production, lyrics, and backup vocals (I think he might be the vocoder? maybe?).
Video (p sure this is the 7" mix)
Long version (MP3) (sorry this is a bad needledrop and the mp3 is corrupt and will drop frames in two or three places but it's the best I have until I get my hands on this and needledrop it myself)
1986: While working with Eric Clapton, Phillinganes introduces him to "Behind the Mask". Clapton subsequently records the terrible version I imagine most people are familiar with.
And that is how Clapton came to record "Behind the Mask" and the completely fantastic version which is the missing link between the original and Clapton's version passed into obscurity and the end. Moral: Michael Jackson is somehow involved in everything.
Seriously though the Phillinganes recording is awesome
it is behind the mask but with some kind of serious-time disco/soul vocals over it.
and that is my favorite funk guitar phrase ever right there
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SPECIAL TIMES EDITION BLANKETS U.S. CITIES, PROCLAIMS END TO WAR
* PDF: http://www.nytimes-se.com/pdf
* For video updates: http://www.nytimes-se.com/video
* Contact: mailto:writers@nytimes-se.com
Early this morning, commuters nationwide were delighted to find out
that while they were sleeping, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had
come to an end.
If, that is, they happened to read a "special edition" of today's New
York Times.
In an elaborate operation six months in the planning, 1.2 million
papers were printed at six different presses and driven to prearranged
pickup locations, where thousands of volunteers stood ready to pass
them out on the street.
Articles in the paper announce dozens of new initiatives including the
establishment of national health care, the abolition of corporate
lobbying, a maximum wage for C.E.O.s, and, of course, the end of the
war.
The paper, an exact replica of The New York Times, includes
International, National, New York, and Business sections, as well as
editorials, corrections, and a number of advertisements, including a
recall notice for all cars that run on gasoline. There is also a
timeline describing the gains brought about by eight months of
progressive support and pressure, culminating in President Obama's "Yes
we REALLY can" speech. (The paper is post-dated July 4, 2009.)
"It's all about how at this point, we need to push harder than ever,"
said Bertha Suttner, one of the newspaper's writers. "We've got to make
sure Obama and all the other Democrats do what we elected them to do.
After eight, or maybe twenty-eight years of hell, we need to start
imagining heaven."
Not all readers reacted favorably. "The thing I disagree with is how
they did it," said Stuart Carlyle, who received a paper in Grand
Central Station while commuting to his Wall Street brokerage. "I'm all
for freedom of speech, but they should have started their own paper."
latest news
Nov. 11th, 2008 12:10 am- My uncle just called me "worse than Hitler" in an email CC'd to most of my extended family for thinking that the existence of change.gov isn't a sure sign that Obama is going to demolish the federal government and set himself up as the first dictator of America. Like, he said, "you are worse than Hitler."
I'm done even pretending to like these people - I got a call from a voice casting director for a major video game studio which was neat but it turned out they thought I was in Bellevue, WA as opposed to Bellevue, NE
- Suuji Tanaka mailed me this thirty-page comic she drew which is interesting (a) it's written in three different languages; (b) we somehow both independently have had the idea of using "HIGGS!" and "BOSON!" as comic sound effects, and that is freaky as hell; and (c) it is kind of weird to see a comic written in Japanese which is not drawn in that style they all ripped off from that one guy who was ripping off Disney and Betty Boop
- also I found out that I am definitely for sure going to see Suuji in December which is great that kid owns.
- this morning i woke up with the best song ever in my head and i spent all day recording it and it is great
- I was hanging upside down due to circumstances and my back did something weird and I swear I'm a little taller now.
- Buy stock in bulleted lists now because I'm not gonna stop making LJ posts in this format any time soon
