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200 Miles, 8 Runners, 31 Hours: A Race Log
Introduction I’ve always thought of distance running as an individual sport. You throw on some shoes, pop in some earbuds and put one foot in front of the other for a long time. Sure you may go out in a group from time to time, but if you can have a conversation than you’re not [...]
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Casio PG-380 Midi Guitar
Several months ago Jason asked me if I could fix a MIDI Guitar. I didn’t have the slightest idea how to fix one, and had only speculative knowledge about how they work, so naturally I said “yeah, sure, piece of cake”. If I’d have known at the time the kind of gear lust this project [...]
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The Evernote Workout Log
A few weeks back I wrote about a little fitness experiment I had started to try and reduce the amount of time I spent training while maximizing results. During the experiment I needed a place to document my workouts so I could review my progress and see if I was meeting my goals, as well [...]
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Drawing a Hexagon in Processing / Java
As part of my little HarmonicTable project I spent a lot of time figuring out how to draw a proper hexagon. It seems I wasn’t alone in this endeavor, as I’ve received a few comments and e-mails about how exactly to do this. At the request of others I’ve moved the Hexagon class back into [...]
Read MoreProgramming, Languages, and Hacking the Way We Think
Last night I read a wonderful article about programming languages. It opened with a quote: A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. Alan Perlis After a few minutes of thinking about it, I changed the quote to read: A language that doesn’t change the way you think [...]
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 [...]
Atlas Shrugged Part 1: From Tome to Train Wreck
Ever try to read the Lord of The Rings Trilogy out loud? If you have, you probably noticed that you sound like a big damn dork. When Ian McKellan renders a line like “A wizard arrives precisely when he means to”, you believe he’s a wizard; you on the other hand sound like thirteen year [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
