Yearly Archives: 2003

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More webcollage stuff

So, client side image maps are dumb. In the list of urls in the
map info, whatever image “owns” an area first, always owns
that area. Even if later regions completely obscure it.

So, we just reverse the list and putting the newest images
(the ones on top) first in the list. Dumb and klugey but seems
to work okay.

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Headed out to see Lake Trout at
The Brewery. First time I had been to a show there in a long time (6 years? 8 years?).

The Lake Trout show was cool, though there was hardly any bass guitar in the mix,
which is fairly cruical for there sound. They seemed to do a lot more improv stuff
that I ever remember them doing recently. Pretty cool.

Spent most of saturday putting together a tremulus
lune from Commonsound. Aka, I
put together a kit for a tremolo pedal. Managed to get it working without two
many problems. Most of which were caused my me not following directions
correctly and/or losing parts and using incorrect replacements (who knew a
couple of orders of magnitude difference in a resistor value matter so much ;->)

As if working for a open source/linux company and being a prog rock fan didn’t
make me a big enough geek. Now I’m fiddling with electronics for fun. At least
the specs/design/plans for these pedals are more or less open source, which
is kind of cool. The geek doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Parent’s came into town and dropped off the flat file cabinet I bought off ebay
a few months ago. Now just to figure out what to do with it.

And in lieu of the weekends activities (and in liue of any roaming bookmarks support
in mozilla/galeon), some stompbox links.

Stompbox forum

Zachary
Vex interview

So, WTF exactly
is impedance again?

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After a mildly successful attempt at circuit bending
wednesday night (at least till I fried the toy keyboard I was playing with) I decided to
hit the thrift stores and see if they had any fun electronic toys to munge.

After not initially seeing anything, a bit more digging revealed lots of
potential candiates. Hit a couple of thrift stores, and the “Indoor Flea Market
Mall” and found plenty. 22 in total, all but one of which appear to actually
be in good working order. However, riding around with a couple bags
fille with electronic toys, many of them with batteries is a bit odd, as
everytime you turn or accellerate, one or more of the toys starts making
noises.

Since I seem to be on an electronics kick at the moment, I figured
I’d swing by Edwin Mckay used books and see if they had any
electronics books. Someone was out to taunt me, as the store
had moved. And at the new store, for whatever reason, virtually
every shelve was labeled “electronics”, regardless of what
was actually on it. Must of purchased the shelves from somewhere
else. Eventually found the actual electronics books (all 6 of them).
Picked up one or two that looked interesting.

more music geeking

webcollage wackiness continues

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webcollage wackiness

Got tired of staring at my background wondering “wtf is that?”
so hacked it up some more to generate a client side image map
and html (akin to the demo version on jwz’s page). Click
the image and it will take you to the page the image came
from. More or less. Transparency issues make it a bit wonky
at times.

And this experience has reminded me of how much I dislike perl.