If you’ve ever thought to yourself “Man, my arteries are way too clear and free-flowing,” this is your meal. 1 hot dog 1 bun 1 strip of bacon 1 egg 2 slices of cheese 1 hot dog bun Wrap bacon strip in a spiral around hot dog, covering as much of it as possible. Use […]
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Tully Goes Down To The Docks
So, I’ve released a new track for sale on Bandcamp, entitled “Tully Goes Down To The Docks”. It’s priced at a minimum of $1.00, but you can pay whatever you think it’s worth. This piece (arranged for toy piano and strings with some digital effects) is one of my generative pieces, meaning it’s entirely composed […]
Far Gone And Out: Chapter One
A man walks down the street It’s a street in a strange world Maybe it’s the Third World Maybe it’s his first time around Doesn’t speak the language He holds no currency He is a foreign man He is surrounded by the sound, sound Of cattle in the marketplace Scatterlings in orphanages He looks around, […]
If mechanics worked like doctors
So it takes three weeks to get a mechanic to check out your car, during which time you’re rescheduled four times. “But I have to get to work, and the electrical system is totally malfunctioning! I don’t know why and I’m afraid it might catch on fire or something!” you tell the barely-apologetic receptionist, who […]
An open letter to the Web/HTML job post area of Las Vegas Craigslist.
[I originally tried to actually post this to the “Web/HTML/info job listings” area of lasvegas.craigslist.org, but I had to fill out a thing and verify another thing, and screw it. So it’s here instead.] I’m sorry, but I’ve been reading this area of Craigslist for years now and I feel like I ought to say […]
Stikki and Hauntology
[If you don’t know what Stikki.me is, now you know. 🙂] Last night, I was trying to sell a very important investor on what Stikki is — namely, my wife Rosalie. (She’s not investing money, but I take up a serious amount of our shared living space and time working on Stikki, so in that […]
Thought Of The Day
Contraception is sometimes attacked as ‘unnatural’. So it is, very unnatural. The trouble is, so is the welfare state. I think that most of us believe the welfare state is highly desirable. But you cannot have an unnatural welfare state, unless you also have unnatural birth-control, otherwise the end result will be misery even greater […]
Why cloud storage for music is really an opportunity for labels
As anybody who knows me knows, I am profoundly ambiguous about the effects of the network on the music industry — particularly the independent bits of it, such as artists (like myself) who fund, produce and distribute their own music without the benefit of big labels. However, I am completely unambiguous about the recent explosion […]
An open letter to my mobile phone provider
Dear SimpleMobile Customer Service person, Hi there! As one of your customers, I have to ask: why can’t I pay my bill online with my Mac or my iPad? (Even though your site says Firefox ought to work, it doesn’t, at least on a Mac.) Assuming your bill pay system isn’t made of magic, but […]
I need help with an algorithm
So I’m finally building out Stikki.me’s advertising system, and I’ve realized I might need some help with a geometric sorting algorithm. Stikki’s advertising is geographically-based; an advertiser “sponsors” a location — most likely the real-world location of their business — with an ad, and users see that ad if they’re within a given radius of […]