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You are at the bottom of a long winding staircase.
To your east is a small narrow passageway. To your
north is a rocky trail leading down.

It is very dark.

From the distance, you hear strange noises. You
find them odd and confusing, but somehow enjoyable.
The sounds swirl around you, but it sounds like they
must be coming from the north trail.

> GO NORTH
You decide to venture north in the direction of the
sound of the noises.

You find a small dark L shaped room, with mysterious
artifacts hanging on the wall. You inspect them closely
before resting your weary feet on the nearest chair.

>From the back of the room, two odd looking men with
ornamented weapons enter. They begin manipulating
a series of lighted objects on the floor.

> TAKE DUMP
I do not know the word “DUMP”

> LISTEN
The men begin tapping the weapons while staring
at the array of dizzying lighted devices. Soon
wondrous and otherworldly sounds pour forth from
all corners of the room. You are entranced.

> DRINK WINE
The caretaker of the establishment fetches you
a fine beverage and thanks you for your patronage.

Your mind slowly begins to grasp the structure of
what you are hearing, and it compels you to stay.
You listen for approximately 25 minutes.

> TAKE TACO FROM MONKEY
There is no monkey here. It does not have a taco.

> CLAP HANDS
You have been eaten by a grue. The end.

Phasmatodea is playing this Thursday at
919noise night at Bickett Gallery in Raleigh.
The show starts at 9:30 and we should be playing
first and starting on time. We will be playing
with Feral Cat Scan and Khate.

We will also be playing Dec 4 at the Nightlight
in Chapel Hill. We would appreciate it if you
came out.

the random shuffle on the mp3 player seems to be particularly fond of
Godflesh, Laurie Anderson, Buckethead and Nanci Griffith today. I wonder
if it is trying to tell me something.

decided to update an old, small, but useful utility…
Made a first attempt at updating color_cvs
to support Subversion as well. Pretty simple change.

Though, I really just need to rewrite it python and
get rid of the external module requirements, but I’m
very lazy…

Now if I could only remember by password to that account
to update the webpage…

random thought of the day…

On a whim starting reading websites about reading speed and speed reading
and what not. The general consensus seems to be that reading speed
is limited by “sub vocalization”. Aka, peoples tendency to “hear”
the words as they read them.

So the thought is, does this apply to purely visual languages?
Ie, languages that are not a graphical way to represent spoken
language.

The first example that comes to mind is American Sign Language.
But of course, the rate at which it can be “spoken” is limited.

But it seems like you could abstract it some, and do a purely
visual language based on it that could be “spoken” very fast.
Since there wouldnt be a vocal part of the language to “hear”,
it might be possible to read it at a very high rate.

No idea if that would actually work or not…

weekend and such…

made some sushi, turned out fairly well, the barbeque pork
rib rolls worked out nicely

had a Phasmatodea
practice Sunday. Seemed to go pretty well.

Got a garage space at the apartment for the Mustang, so
that should help.

attention universe: I do not want a Rolex watch.

iPhoto has consistently annoyed me. Is there a better or
more stable way to get images off a digital camera for
osx?

Every time I use iPhoto I spend about ten minutes
waiting for it to respond (lots of spinning rainbow
cursors… ). Not useful.

update: looks like iPhoto just has craptastic
support for my camera