I am in love with my Macbook that I bought a few months ago on grahams recommendation; it is so much fun to use that half of the time I feel like it is a toy. Last night, I was pretty bummed out because my toy broke ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night where I was in a building that was getting attacked by paramilitary people or something like that-- at one point I wound up fighting for my life with one of the guys and, surprisingly, winning. Right after that I woke up ( Read more... )

I am looking for a device that will do something to generate a random number for me, notify me, but not be obvious about what it is doing. I am thinking of some kind of wristwatch that will randomly vibrate or something to tap me ( Read more... )

I have a vested interest in being able to measure some things about myself objectively. Right now I have a few lame ways of doing the things on this list, but I thought I would throw this out there to my livejournal to see if anyone knew of anything on the web or any sort of computer program that would do it in a quicker, more automated fashion for ( Read more... )

Yesterday, invited me to the Red Sox game so of course I went. At the top of the ninth inning we were down by one run; so in case you are totally clueless about baseball like I was as of last year that means we have one more chance to bat before the game is over. So of course, there are groups of people who... leave and go home early? I mean I ( Read more... )

So, I found some music I was looking for, and I figured out where Squarepusher and those guys are not doing their job, I think. I have been listening to The Well Tempered Clavier by Bach. Go here and click on the links on the left to listen to it. It is amazing. It is very simple in that it is just a piano playing, but it is very musically complex ( Read more... )

In Squarepusher's wikipedia entry he says that he thinks that classical composers were restrained by their instruments and that computers have allowed modern composers musical freedom from that restraint. His point is excellent, and it has to logically be true. There are only so many sounds a violin can make, only so many sounds a tuba or a cello ( Read more... )

For the past few days I have been walking around thinking it is 2008. I was thinking that I had been at MIT for 8 years, but it hasn't been that long. I wrote 2008 on a couple purchases I made. I think I dated my rent check 2008-- nice to know that the bank cashed it anyway. Weird.

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I forget if I posted it to here before, but earlier this year I figured out how to walk. I figured it out while I was walking down the street in front of my apartment, analyzing how walking worked and sort of experimenting with different ways of walking. I discovered that if I bend my knees more walking was a lot easier on my legs. I think it is ( Read more... )