I’ve gotta say, I had a really good weekend. Part of that was due to the fact that I did very little “real work”. I also got to hang out with two people I’m quite fond of. The other contributing factors were finding a delightful new album by a guy named Bibio and spending one [...]
I said I’d do it. Here they are: — ROUND ONE WINNERS CHRIS COLE DENNIS BUSENITZ HEATH KIRCHART RICK HOWARD CHRIS HASLAM JIMMY CARLIN JOSIAH GATLYN GUY MARIANO CORY KENNEDY LUCAS PUIG STEFAN JANOSKI MARK APPLEYARD PAUL RODRIGUEZ KERRY GETZ SILAS BAXTER NEAL JERRY HSU — ROUND TWO WINNERS CHRIS COLE RICK HOWARD CHRIS HASLAM [...]
Quick thought: It may be the saddest aspect of contemporary American culture that we pursue quick fame and riches over what is worth doing. Things aren’t bad over here. School is wrapping up in the next two to three weeks so I’m about to enter another pseudo-crunch mode and I feel like I just wrapped [...]
This is just going to be a quick post before I get back to work. Things rather suck lately. And when I say things, I mean summer school. I’m just not motivated about my work. I don’t really feel like I’m learning and growing as much as I could be. I’m interested in doing what [...]
I might as well go ahead and post this. I’m unlikely to objectify or improve the writing and I’m unlikely to ever be satisfied with it. I can’t seem to toss it either. It does show some facet of the story. Please don’t take what follows as sufficiently capturing my father. In so many ways, [...]
So, I’m trying to be productive and having some difficulties. I’ve been low energy since Dad died and I don’t think that’s a secret. I’d really prefer a vacation to four accelerated summer courses and various other responsibilities. That said, this week was midterms and I’ve mostly survived. The grades won’t be my best ever [...]
Recently, SLIME has been acting funny. I think it’s since an archlinux update but I hadn’t had time to look into it. When I used the ~ key in the SLIME editor window (not the REPL) was causing some debugger error. So if I wanted to write a format string like “~a~%” then I was [...]
So, whether you like mashups or hate them I do think they can be original and fun. Case in point: Modest Mouse vs. Ratatat. Charming. The entire Modest Rat corpus can be found here. Scroll down to the Jan 24th entry for a link to the zip file with all the MP3s. Nothing like artists [...]
Somewhere along the way, the music stopped. It used to drift in from across the hall in citrus hues and lilting arpeggios. There was no exhaustion and sleep was restful. We woke up, dogwood blossoms falling from our lips, sun streaming through the windows. Sundays there was french toast and the wind was always behind [...]
Here are a few video lectures I’ve enjoyed that simply never could have made it to Television. Too much of a niche audience I suppose. They’ll go from most comprehensible to non-nerds/programmers to incomprehensible to non-nerds/programmers. Soon I’ll post up something actually productive or cool. For now, it’s all school. I still really like Giles [...]