Thinking of heading out to see The Mercury Program/Sixs Part Seven/Utah!
show at Go! tonight. Looks to be the most interesting show going tonight.
Utah is guitar/drums/cello and a bit mathy. The Mercury Program
apparently consist of two vibraphonists, guitar and drums. Sounds
interesting if nothing else. Anyone else interested?

And on a sad note, it appears my TiVo died. Came back from
shopping and the green power led was no longer on, and I can’t
seem to get it powered back up. There was a mild thunderstorm
while I was gone, so that could be the root, though nothing else
seems to indicate I lost power.

Xach Beane is a genius

A archive of a email thread with someone sending out one of the
“nigerian escape/fund escape” spams.

http://www.appliedautonomy.com/
Check out the “projects” especially the “graffitwriter”. Nifty

Browsing though the website for the Spectator
and the Independent. This
weeks Independent features a focus on “gear” including Moog synths,
and local effects and amp builders, and even an article on circuit bending.
Nifty.

But then I decided to check the show listings to see if the Japan
Air. Hmm, not good.

The Spectator list that night as being Southern Championship Wrestling

and The Independent doesn’t doesn’t list a
show at all and has the Shadow Of A Great Name playing at Humble Pie that night.

Wonder how one goes about correcting these things.

Got a copy of th Death Cube K/Buckethead cd “Dreamatorium” yesterday. It
includes a 7 year old copy of Fractint. As an unhidden track one on the cd.

Reminder: Japan Air and Shadow of a Great Name
show at Kings next Thursday.

Favorite bug of
the day

Interesting there have been long threads on the mailing list about the
content of the “ransom notes”[*] and even one of the default desktop
backgrounds in the beta. For those that haven’t installed the beta,
the background in question is a nice photo of a dragonfly of some
sort. Apparently the idea of having a “bug” as a background for
the beta went over most folks heads.

And the thread about what exactly a cheetah flip is, and why
there is a reference to it in the installer is meandering quite randomly.
One of the other ransom notes mentioned a cheetah flip.

[*] of course, the use of the term “ransom notes” to describe those
little images that take up unused screen space doing doesn’t make
sense to most people, including “insiders” anymore. But it’s such
a fun term.

Heh. Well, some of the bits of code I’ve been complaining about
for three months finally got noticed by my boss. He seems to
agree that they suck (no one else seems to…). Thats the good
news. The bad news is he wants to rewrite them under pretty
extreme time pressure. At least for the most part, it someone
else’s code, though it most likely will change the way some
of the uglier bits of my code.

It’s kind of warped version of “build or buy”. Except, were
not buying anything. Guess it’s more of a ‘reinvent it
here, or add even more dependencies” issue.

In non boring work blabber, stumbled across
industrial.org. I never
really considered myself a fan of “industrial’ music,
but most of the stuff linked off there seems pretty cool.
Guess I just got burned on the early 90’s “bad
drum machine beat, metal riff played on keyboard,
insert voice sample from movie here” crap that seemed
to be so common at the time. But then, I do like Ministry
from that time period, so who knows…

I think I have reached a new dangerous plateau…

I’ve started buying cd’s off of eBay. This could get
out of hand. I always knew it was there, just never
actually bothered to try to look for things. But
then I did. And I found things. And I bought things.
Weird, hard to find cd’s pop up like candy. Mmmm.

It’s times like this that I’m glad I’m both really cheap[*],
and fairly well payed. Otherwise I could
easily send myself into debt.

* the other day I was browsing the magazine section
of the book store and stumbled across Adbusters. I’ve
read other peoples copies before, but never actually
bought one. Sometimes you just need some good
glossy art-damaged self contradicting anti-corporate
reading material. So I was standing there, looking
at it and thinking “hmm, this is interesting, but gasp
$6.75! thats expensive.” And then I noticed the theme
of the issue was “I want you to curb your consumption”.
So I bought it.

random noise band link. It just
caught my attention because the background on the page is made with
an old GIMP script I wrote.

I still get a bit of a kick when I stumble across a random web page
and noticed they used something I wrote to do the graphics.

Stumbled across the above link from the list of noise bands
at All That Noise,
linked off metafilter of all things.

More up2date fixing. Mostly gui stuff. But then most of the bug reports
are always about gui stuff. I can be completely broken in dependency
solving and I’ll get 1 bug report. But If I put a common in a wrong
place, or use 4 “.”‘s in an ellipsis instead of 3, I’ll get 10 bug reports.
Some rollback/undo stuff soon as well, waiting on rpm fixes.

Left work relatively early last night. Went home and watched
“Beat the Geeks” off the Tivo. Looks like the “Music Geek”
is a big King Crimson fan. The host made a point of “King
Crimson” being the geeks favorite two words, and then
he answered a question about the guest guitarist on
NIN’s Downward Spiral with a long complimentary
and dead on correct answer about how Adrian Belew
is one of the best musicians ever. Nifty.

Then after words, more noise making with the mixers
and random effects pulled out of the big pile. This
time a bos rds-10 delay, the digitech “rock box”
chorus/distorion, the boss “auto wah”, and of course,
the vortex. I’m pretty sure anyone else forced to listen
to the results would run screaming covering their ears,
but it’s a lot of fun to do it ;->

One of those late night discussions at work brought up old weird
tv shows.

My personal favorite old tv show was Probe.
Or here.

Kind of a cross between Mr Wizard and Macgyver.

The conversation was started when someone mentioned they are making
a movie of “The Greatest American Hero”

And now to torture folks…

Believe it or not,
I’m walking on air.
I never thought I could feel so free-.
Flying away on a wing and a prayer.
Who could it be?
Believe it or not it’s just me.