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    Coffee Sack Sound Baffles

    Several years ago I began acoustically treating my studio for recording drums and mixing. I did some research and pricing; it didn’t take a spreadsheet to discover that acoustic paneling was both overpriced and hideous. I searched some more and devised a solution that was both economical and classy.Acoustic paneling is simple stuff. You get [...]

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    Another Schwinn Prelude?

    After a leisurely lunch on the Marietta Square yesterday, I came across this: Another Schwinn Prelude! It seems I’m not the only one who was unimpressed with the original rusted gunmetal gray look. The owner of this Prelude painted theirs similarly to mine. A base coat of cream with an accent color for the lugs [...]

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    Todo-CL 2.0.0

    A while back I created a simple command line tool that allowed me to create tasks from Launchy and send them directly to Toodledo. My process was simple. I’d create a bunch of tasks throughout the day while doing other stuff, then sometime that night (or the next morning) I’d go through all those tasks [...]

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    Is it Avant Jazz Industrial Noise? No, It’s STFUnity.

    Its not jazz. It’s not fusion. It’s not electronic. It’s not industrial. I don’t have a word to describe what happened when musicians of very different backgrounds got together virtually to create music. I can only call it STFUnity. Finished while I was on holiday in India, STFUnity is what happens when an anarchist saxophonist [...]

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    In Defense of Shoes

    Go to your favorite hiking trail. Walk down the path, then sit down for a moment and take off your shoes and socks. Keep walking. Notice where your eyes go. If you’re anything like me, or the people I’ve watched perform this same exercise, your eyes go directly to the path in front of you. [...]

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I write.

I make software.

I make music.

I play the drums.

I travel

I make things out of other things.

I train hard.

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Keep Your Eyes on Your Keyboard

I recently read Accidental Genius by Mark Levy. I did so begrudgingly; I usually don’t go for books that promise to unlock the power of my mind through special techniques. I’m glad that I could put aside my stubbornness because the book contained a wealth of advice on tapping into ideas that you may not [...]

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Coffee Roasting: Build or Buy?

For the last five years I’ve been roasting coffee in this: My Frankenstein Turbo Crazy. But alas, after five years of operating “outside of normal temperature ranges”, this happened: It seems that convection ovens weren’t meant to have their temperature limiters removed and run for hours on end. The handle, which controls the reed switch [...]

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

Think about the way you think. Think about that thought, and this one. Did you think using words? Did you see the words? Sound them out mentally? If someone asked you describe yourself, you would probably think of a series of adjectives (at least if you’re an English speaker). We think via language, spoken or [...]

Be Careful With your Redis BitSets and Java

Fast, easy, realtime metrics using Redis Bitmaps A while back a popular article hit Hacker News. Written by the guys over at Spool, it contained a slick methodology for storing metrics such as user logins per day, song plays by user, etc using using Redis BitSets. How about a basic example. When a user logs [...]

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A Big Day In Banos

We met Franco El Blanco in the lobby at 4:30 AM. After a few checks to make sure we had everything we needed Frank introduced us to our ride. It seemed that Cary and I couldn’t escape from Ecudar’s two primary modes of transportation: buses and single cab trucks. Cary rode up front, three across [...]