Voder-Vocoder

I’ve owned two Samsung A310 phones. The microphone has broken on both of them. I’m reduced to carrying around a headset at all times.

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The past few weeks I’ve been going to Bluefin Monday nights. Here’s why it’s cool:

1. Open pool table.
2. Decent DJs. The layout of the club allows one to stand around watching the DJs spin. This is educational.
3. TVs. I get a chance to catch the Daily Show, which I normally miss due to lack of cable.
4. A playstation at the bar.
5. Cheap drinks.
6. No cover.

google looks slightly different. I find this jarring and scary.

March Photos are here.

I just completed spring cleaning in my house. It’s as clean as it has been in at least 10 months. Cool! I feel like a human being again!

Where does dust come from?

The issue: as far as I know, no editor shreds old versions of files upon writing new versions. How do you keep data off of a hard drive? Use the ramdisk.

#!/bin/sh
## /usr/local/bin/reset-ramdisk ##
if `df | grep -q ramdisk` ;then
    umount /dev/ramdisk
fi
shred -n 2 /dev/ramdisk
/sbin/mke2fs -q /dev/ramdisk
mkdir -p /mnt/ramdisk
mount /dev/ramdisk /mnt/ramdisk
chmod 777 /mnt/ramdisk

Run that code before and after you are done with your work.
(Assumes a single-user system.) Don’t forget to turn off swap!

$ sudo /sbin/swapoff -a

Processor_‘s Insomia rocks. It’s electronica with just enough variation-on-a-theme so that it doesn’t suffer from excessive repetition. It makes good use of sampled voices (e.g. MLK, which is a bit of a cliché).

Is it original? Not at all. I swear I’ve heard the title track before. But does that really matter? Not at all.

License=CC:by-nc-sa

A culture of freedom is one where people see the nature of their work as a reflection of their character—rather than seeing the market value of their work as a reflection of their worth.

A culture of freedom is one where fraudulently putting one’s name on another’s work to make one appear a better artist is an utterly petty and ridiculous crime—as silly as putting one’s name on another’s photograph to make one’s face more attractive.

A culture of freedom is one where artists are paid for making art just as farmers are paid for making food—and where for an artist to control her art’s evolution and growth is as unnatural as a farmer dictating how people may eat the food they buy from her.

A culture of freedom is one where sacrificing wealth and comfort for the sake of knowledge and creativity is as noble as sacrificing wealth and comfort for the sake of family and friends—and where both choices are increasingly seen as avoidable ones.

— “A culture of freedom”

“The children of the Internet finally have a name for their decentralized, networked, bottom-up philosophy. It’s called democracy.”

— Adam Rogers, Wired, 2004-04

The Trouble With EM ‘n EN (and Other Shady Characters)