Monthly Archives: July 2008 - Page 2

Quick Music Update

Posted by on July 16, 2008 No comments

SenseSurface lets you attach physical controls to an LCD screen directly over the on-screen controls. Pretty neat in theory but not sure how it would work in practice. Perhaps a secondary monitor, with all these stuck to it would be handy? Not very portable though.

I just grabbed Intua Beatmaker for my iPhone. I’ll post up a review and maybe some samples in a bit.

Jamming with folks again reminds me that I need to upgrade my copy of Ableton Live to take advantage of the tempo nudge feature, if nothing else. Playing with folks that aren’t midi-synced to your perfectly synced performance makes things a little wonky and that tempo nudge would simplify staying in sync with live musicians.

I need piles of money so I can get all the gear I want. Still need a padKontrol, and I’ve been eyeing tons of other stuff… I also need more space so I can start bending these toy keyboards I bought months ago.

I’ve got a gig coming up at Beyond on July 23. My set will be a combination of live and DJ stuff, and should be good times. Come out and buy me a beer!

New demo mix coming soon, hopefully.

Fun with science!

Posted by on July 14, 2008 3 comments

Making better wind turbines… by mimicking whale flippers.

Cornstarch + Water + Subwoofer = Fun with Physics

This guy takes advantage of the Leidenfrost Effect to dip his fingers into boiling oil to retrieve fried goods and doesn’t burn himself

And finally, this looks like an awesome time. The Mythbusters are attempting to recreate the legendary Archimedes Death Ray.. and you can volunteer to help!

And in something that isn’t related to science… I love coffee. I hate pretentious baristi.

Long Time, No Update

Posted by on July 11, 2008 1 comment

It’s been just over a month since I last posted. It isn’t that I don’t have time, it’s that I just don’t really think about it. A lot of the time I’ll find something really interesting during my work day but by the time I get home it has made the rounds so much I’m tired of hearing about it and don’t feel like writing about it. The big problem is that blogging is sort of frowned upon from my work computer and blogging from my iPhone is a little rough over EDGE and the iPhone-friendly WordPress admin plugin I installed. There is some pain involved with typing out links and such with two or three fingers. Then there is the fact that there is no copy and paste. I’m hoping there winds up being a free WordPress blogging application in the App Store soon. That won’t resolve the typing long entries issue or the copy and paste issue, but it will resolve the web interface issue and might make other things easier.

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