I’m really intrigued by the Switch, a multitool that you can add or remove components from yourself. The circular hole/pivot point reminds me of my own pocket knife, the Gerber Remix, which I carry with me constantly. The Remix is a skeletonized…well, remix of the older Gerber Chameleon, of which I owned two before I […]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Cooking miscellany
So I’ve got a smoked black bean soup on the stove cooking right now, and I thought I’d drop some of my totally anecdotal cooking science on you. I’m an improvisational cook; I tend to make recipes based on what I have in the kitchen, rather than buying ingredients to make specific dishes. Because of […]
Money. Goddamnit.
Just wrote a long letter to a family friend asking for advice on raising a small bit of money to keep me afloat until I can finish Stikki.me. Now it’s 3 am and I’m sitting here, spooked, and hoping the power company will let me make payments before shutting off the lights. I’ve thought about […]
Sleepwalking
So I’ve been under the weather recently. About two weeks ago, I started having a weird sensation in my chest. It felt like my heart was leaping, the way it does when you go over the curve on a rollercoaster or get startled. My heart would do a strange thump and it would be as […]
Slide, slide, slippety slide
One of the things I love most about using the ipad as a musical instrument is that several of my favorite tools (Bebot, Nanostudio) allow me to treat the screen as a continuous or ribbon controller. A bit of history here: though the good old fashioned piano keyboard has always been the primary interface for synthesizers, […]
of iPad magazines and online publishing
So Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily iPad “newspaper” is in the news, mainly because it’s failed to appear. It seems that publishers are falling all over themselves to come up with their own iPad app-based publications — Wired and Scientific American were early, semi-successful contenders in the field. I have an iPad, and frankly, I completely […]
Current Listening 1-13-2011
The Church, Starfish The Chameleons UK, Strange Times Orange Juice, The Very Best Of Black Dub, Black Dub The Lightning Seeds, The Very Best Of Foals, Total Life Forever
This is why NASA is important
This brought a tear to my eye.
Rhapsody Blind
Just a shout-out here on something my friend John has created: Rhapsody Blind, a set of scripts that allow visually-impaired Windows users to navigate Rhapsody, the streaming music service. From what I can tell, there aren’t really a whole lot of good tools for blind computer users; we rarely think about how the traditional GUI […]
Essential iPad Tools
So I’ve had an iPad for a few weeks now; I’m beginning to learn iOS development and it seemed like a useful thing to have, as I no longer have an iPhone. (I lost it.) Also, I needed something portable to carry other than my aging MacBook Pro, which is definitely showing signs of wear […]