Happy Turkey Day to those of you who eat turkey, dry meat that it is. Though it can be good if prepared correctly.
I finally got my new laptop. A thinkpad T400. Yea, I know the inverters on my last 2 thinkpad’s died after 3 years but it’s still a solid machine. I’m hoping that those were just flukes.
I’m going to spend the day cleaning my place for the first time in … 3 weeks? I’ve been so busy w/ schoolwork that I really just go home, sleep, wake up, go to school. It’s winding down now though. I look foward to next semester.
Still don’t know what I’m doing for winter break. Probably catching up on my tv shows, anime, and video games. Maybe I’ll go out with like… women and stuff (I hear it’s all the rage these days). The possibilities are endless…
2008 November
w/o further ado:
I worked on this w/ Timothy “Tims” Gardner, Paul Rothman, & Nahana Shelling.
Old: This one.
New:
So here we sit. Our laptop is broken. We cry. We cry. And then we remember. So trains go places. And we go with them. Our sleepiness and bookreading goes with us. The train stops interrupt. Grr. Why do you interrupt? Why?
So we no longer notice the stops. But the end approaches. The end of our journey. The end of our life on the train. The end of all things trainy. A notification is required.
Viola! Train Watch. It buzzes, it beeps, it blinks. Ok, that was a lie. It only buzzes. We have data, yes we do. Data the likes of which you have never seen. We can haz colored linez? Yes. Yes we can.
STOP. Image time.
The Key:
color == data
red — x
green — y
blue — z
purple — distance
teal — speed
black — acceleration
vertical blue – stops/starts
So my laptop screen is dead/defunct/gone. It now exists as a desktop connected to a rather large old-school monitor. This is just the latest in a series of unfortunate events this week. Hopefully it will all be over soon.
So the topic this week was to choose some aspect of my life and visualize it. I think the hardest part was just choosing something. I wanted to do something that would matter to me. So… what happens alot in my life right now?
- Books
- Music
- Food
- Sleep
Yea, so I looked at my bookshelf, started counting. Got to around 300 and said No.
Food and sleep I just don’t remember to write stuff like that down. So music it is.
So, I guess I can finally give a straight answer when people ask what music I
listen to. Unknown.
Genre
Artists
Also, though I don’t really care for them much… here’s a couple wordables of all the data. 
I used an the Mp3tag editor to generate and export the data i needed (cause w/ 5900 mp3’s you do not wanna do this by hand) and did a quicky program in processing to proccess all that data. (ooh, a pun!) Code is below.
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For the past week or two i’ve been having this feeling like the i(insert application here) is trying to take over my pc. I have itunes on my pc, used mainly for importing/burning cd’s and quick audio conversions. I also have quicktime on my pc … to play quicktime movies. Normal… great… right? wrong
For what seems like AGES now I’ve been fighting with quicktimes insistence that it has to run at startup. Why does it want to do this? I dunno. I definetly don’t want it to do this. But it insists on trying to insert QuickTimeTask into my startup services whenever I scratch myself or take a pee. Same with iTunesHelper and i think i even saw something called AppleMobileDevice pop up recently…. ¿Que Fuq? I don’t even own a bloody apple mobile device.
The worst part is the updates. I have the apple updates thingy that pops up every once in a while. That’s cool. I don’t mind it. I like to keep my applications updated. Makes for smoother sailing (usually) in the long run. BUT!!! For some reason, the geniouses who made the apple update program decided it would be a grand old idea to set my audio settings and mime setting so that when i click on an mp3, instead of getting my usual DL box, i see this giant blue Q offending my sensibilities and raping my eyeballs. Really? Why? Y? *sigh* It took me a good 5 minutes to figure out that I had to go to mime settings to change the mp3 setting, because if you do it in the regular settings, quicktime just lol’s at you…. wtf is MIME anyway? Don’t answer that. I’ll google it.
/rant
Ok, so here’s my top ideas: (wrote them late last night before i went to bed so the grammar may be a bit wierd)
- ok, so a shadow thing that goes buh bum buh bum and changes to match your shape – built out of cloth – mini doll thing pic1
- passerby-shadows captured-fade down as time pass-worn out by footstep vibrations- blend softly smooth into each other-twist and morph-and then cease to exist. OR dancing shadow
pic pic2 - minature house filled w/ booby traps pic
- watch that notifies you when your stop is coming up on the train pic
- device that switches your music if it senses you’re falling asleep pic
- a device to detect if you’re doing a motion (say martial arts form) correctly pic
Worked w/ Asli Sevinc & Diego Rioja on this project. We took different sound clips and combined them into a one-minute sound piece.
I really like how it came out but I think there’s a slight problem with the noise balancing when going between different size speakers. Also, sorry about the huge .wav file.