Author Archives: adrian

phone

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I finally decided to upgrade from my phone from a craptastic nokia to a craptacular motorrola razr.

It does have some nice improvements though. Like useable gprs and bluetooth. I got the osx box syncing to it, and able to get to the internet using it as a bluetooth modem. Took a few hours, but finally found the info I need on the cingular site. Though, the cingular docs on how to connect from osc actually have you firing up a terminal and typing in AT commands at one. Thats pretty awesome. Found a better way elsewhere.

The linux box is next. I got it talking to it via a usb bluetooth dongle, but couldn’t really test anything since I still don’t really get any GPRS connection at home.

Next up is getting the blog to accept phone posts. It seems to work for text, but something goes wonky with images. I really need to update the version of wordpress anyway, since it seems like 1.5.x is now unsupported. I’ve had to hack up the themes and whatnot to make the captcha stuff work, but hopefully thats not an issue in 2.x.

Automatic Caution Door debut

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Automatic Caution Door will make it’s performance debut this friday at Badgerhaus opening up for The Subliminator.

Who is Automatic Caution Door? Well, that would be me. Doing “stuff”. I’m not entirely sure what that will be at the moment. But it’s safe to assume it will be partially, if not completely improvised.

I mean, er, come out and enjoy a carefully considered and painstakingly perfected masterpiece in it’s performance debut and retirement.

laptop

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I got bored and decorated one of my laptops.

Process was:
– doodle onto paper with pen
– scan paper with scanner
– clean up scan with gimp
– import scan into inkscape
– autotrace doodle into a vector image
– resize as needed
– print onto “window decal” inkjet paper
– apply

Of course, for those images, some of those steps were separated by years.

sturgis

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I’ve just noticed that I have failed to mentioned that I will be taking a two week vacation and riding the motorcycle to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. I’ll be riding out there with my dad and some of his friends.

Looks to be about a 4,000 mile round trip. It will take most of the middle of August. Not exactly sure what to expect, but it should be interesting at least.

BarCampRDU

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Went to BarCampRDUthis Saturday. It went pretty well for an “unconference”.

Some good talks were seen, and Greg presented some of our ideas in the “Destroy The Music Industry” talk. It seemed to have been well accepted.

Talked to some of the folks from Raleighing and mugshot. The place seemed to be filled with ibiblio and lulu folks as well.

I skipped the ever present agile/extreme talks. For some reason it seems like every time I go to one of those talks it is someone trying to sell a book. I always get a very snake oil vibe that consistently turns me off from the concept.

The “wetware” talk was pretty good, though it hit upon alot of well tread territory (a touch of GTD, mindmaps, personal wiki’s, etc).

The “Future Of Social Browsing” talk was interesting. It was mostly centered around claimid, flock, and mugshot. I like the general idea of openid/claimid alot, but some of the ideas associated with it seem a bit useless (XFN, etc) and seemed to focus mostly on ways geeks can keep up with other geeks.

The “Future of Publishing” talk was pretty lame. More of a sales pitch for a computer book publisher than any real insight. Maybe 10 minutes into the future of publishing, instead of 10 years into the future I was hoping for.

But for a free “unconference”, it was quite interesting. Mostly because of the people there. Which is of course, more or less the point.

[view at adrianlikins.com ]

inkscape tracing

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I finally decided to give inkscape a try at importing and vectorizing some of my doodles.

It did a much better job than I expected. It choked on some of the larger doodles, but then, I can’t really blame it for choking on say, doodle31.

Take a look at some of the example traced svgs. That just includes the SVG’s that do not crash firefox ;->

Which reminds me that I need to catch up on the doodle scanning. I think I’m one or two dozen behind.