OMFG

So I agreed many months ago to record a version of Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe In Anything” for my friends Alex and Laurenn’s wedding. They wanted to have their first dance to it, but the original is way too fast and indie rawk to slow dance to. I’ve put together a massive orchestral version that […]

Paul Smith ripped off Robert Hodgin!

Apparently one of designer Paul Smith’s patterns is a pixel-by-pixel copy of a Flickr image by Robert Hodgin (who wrote the Magnetosphere visualizer that is now the default visualizer in iTunes, and who has also been an immense help to me with my Processing code)! Robert says, to be fair, that the “birds” in his […]

Pimpin' Lost A Hero

Rudy Ray Moore, better known as “Dolemite”, died today. Sigh. Way down in the jungle deep, The bad ass lion stepped on the signifyin monkey’s feet. The monkey said, “Muthafucka, can’t you see? Why, you standin on my goddamn feet!” The lion said, “I ain’t heard a word you said.” Said, “If you say three […]

DIY Storage

A couple of years ago, I read an article online about a dude who bought a tiny house in Marin County — so tiny he didn’t really have space for all of his computer gear. So he got himself a wire bread rack, replaced the crappy plastic shelves with hardwood, and stored not only his […]

Oh hell, interlude

Topicane 4% lidocaine topical anaesthetic: $16.50 Disposable pocket scalpel: $0.69 Medical precision tweezers: $4.33 Sterile sutures: $10.00 Information from the Web on various procedures to remove stone from Wharton’s duct: free Not having to pay some retard doctor $2500 for an hour’s worth of simple surgical procedure? Priceless. [Update: No, I’m not really going to […]

Oh, Hell, part 2

So I definitely have a blocked sublingual gland. I’ve been alleviating the symptoms by…well, you don’t want to know. I seem to have a salivary calculus, or stone, in my sublingual gland under my tongue. I’ve been trying to dislodge it (which is ungodly painful), but I think it’s too big. (This just happens sometimes, […]