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Kaossilator

Matthew — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:01:42 +0000

This one I might be able to afford. Still looks fun.

History Meme

Matthew — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:57:24 +0000

Finally a meme I don’t mind participating in. Sadly most of the interesting bits are hidden behind that “sudo”.

% history -1000 | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head 194 cd 156 sudo 73 rm 50 ls 45 less 44 vi 31 dpkg 22 kill 21 perl 21 man

Tenori Demo

Matthew — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:32:20 +0000

Following along with my “new instrument” posts, here is the Tenori.

More Fear of Girls

Matthew — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:36:04 +0000

Not as good as part 1, but worth a view.

The future of music

Matthew — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:31:54 +0000

If you haven’t seen one before this is a Monome

Marching Zeppelin

Matthew — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:41:43 +0000

If you’re a true band geek you’ll watch part 1, 2 and 3.

Marching Radiohead

Matthew — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:55:40 +0000

Being and old school band geek and Radiohead fan, this made my day and it almost works even.

Spin Cycle

Matthew — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:19:58 +0000

Our clothes washer, a 12 year old, never given us a bit of trouble, beast of a machine, sprang a leak this week. It was the kind of leak that’s hard to fix, so it wouldn’t really be worth reparing on a 12 year old piece of equipment.
As I began a search for a replacement, I was amazed at the active “washer” community that I found online. Forums, FAQ’s, reviews, video, pictures, modifications, restorations and even this amazing site. I happened upon a forum post that linked to a video of almost the exact washer I was intereted in.

Freebird + Washing machines = love!

I imagined all the wives in the other room chatting while the guys all go to the laundry to watch and video this thing run. The 1000RPM spin cycle is mesmerizing.

Drones among us

Matthew — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:18:47 +0000

Fear the future…. and on a related note Drone Modding(a work in progress).

NYTimes has a “hominy” for Hominy Grill

Matthew — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:34:36 +0000

I have my own issues with the restaurant(spamming MUSC more than once), but now we have proof something odd is going on here.

Fear of Girls

Matthew — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:38:25 +0000

True Love is but a +2 Broadsword away

The Bridge

Matthew — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:31:17 +0000

The most fantastic home movie theater Evuh!

Maybe not evil, but definitely smelly

Matthew — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:40:35 +0000

Google once again does the “not evil” thing and opens Google Talk to the rest of the Jabber network(S2S).
Also, Colson took his first and hopefully last “Aqua Dump” tonight.

Lily time

Matthew — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 06:49:00 +0000

My dog loves cats. I’m talking LOVES cats. She gets along fine with our cat Cosmo, but if she happens to see a cat outside, she goes insane. Last night Shannon left for a PTA meeting, she wouldn’t be gone long so she left the garage open. I however, didn’t know this. A little while later I decided to take Lily for a ride, open the garage door and boom, Lily is away….

Now in the past this would have been really bad, because we had a neighbor with an older cat that Lily liked to chase and an owner that hated us/Lily. That neighbor had moved so I thought, no big deal I’ll get the dog back and we’ll be off. After backing the truck out, I’m greeted by another neighbor’s, “is that your dog”.
Oh Crap!

Turns out she had gone into his garage seen his indoor cat through a screened door, gone bananas and put her head through the screen. The neighbor was initially and understandably, very ticked. I walked over to look at the damage. It appeared the the screen could be replaced easily. The neighbor calms down and decides he can repair the damage. I’m planning on sending some money and an letter apologizing anyhow.

Tough Lizard

Matthew — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:49:00 +0000

You can always tell when Lily has found something outside, her bark makes a marked change. Today I heard that bark and ran out to see what she had cornered.
She was staring down at the concrete on the back patio. I had to walk closer to see what she was looking at. It was a three inch long Anole, mouth open staring back at Lily, daring her to eat it.

Checker-board Chasers is evil

Matthew — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:50:00 +0000

That is all.

Things..

Matthew — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:23:00 +0000

Cable modem died yesterday. Payed ~$50 for it over a year ago so I at least got the value of renting one from “the company” at ~$6 a month.

Played with one of these last night. I’m such a geek, I so want one.

Robo Dump

Matthew — Sat, 13 Nov 2004 03:53:00 +0000

Great hack. Too bad we don’t have stalls in the lab.

See on /.

Matthew — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:46:00 +0000

using IE without a firewall is like having unprotected group sex blindfolded

Erg…

Matthew — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:41:00 +0000

This is weird.
Fellowship 911

Has Been

Matthew — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:52:00 +0000

Shatner is the man. I so wish I could see him/Ben in concert. You LA, folks need to go.

Star Wars

Matthew — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:32:00 +0000

The Musical

ESR is sturbo-tudly

Matthew — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:55:00 +0000

Lisp is the future and OMG what a video.

Hal 9000

Matthew — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:44:00 +0000

Too bad this cost $150K

Recent “thinkings”

Matthew — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 04:03:00 +0000

Probably coined many times before me, but any how, my first law:
No matter how many times you proof an email for posting to a listserv, an obvious error will always become immediately apparent when you read the copy of the message the list sends back to you after posting.

I think we should add a question to the ITLab interview question list. “Have you ever written a weather grabbing/parsing/caching app?” Much like every app. must evolve till it can send email, writing such an app. seems to be a rite of passage of any possibly decent coder.

Stormtroopers

Matthew — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:34:00 +0000

Charleston needs a garrison of these to do the bridge run.

cheese mobile

Matthew — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:17:00 +0000

Went to dinner tonight at Mama Fu’s. As we were leaving, we noticed something odd on the dash of the car parked next to us.

Yes, that is a huge, I’m talking Costco sized block of cheese sitting on the steering column.

fear

Matthew — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:45:00 +0000

Rode in a car today being driven by .

W

Matthew — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:24:00 +0000

games-misc/fortune-mod-dubya
Latest version available: 20040527
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 24 kB
Homepage: http://dubya.seiler.us/
Description: Quotes from George W. Bush
License: as-is

Pocketknife Reloaded

Matthew — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:09:00 +0000

Today, I replaced my favorite tool. It’s a Swiss Army knife that I have carried in my pocket nearly every day for the last ~11 years.

I hope my new tool, a Leatherman juice S2, will serve as well.

Out with the old:

In with the new: