January 21, 2010 – 10:07 pm
Some of my friends were trying to have an aesthetics discussion on twitter today. And I wanted to quote this bit from Kurt Vonnegut’s “Timequake” that I thought was rather applicable, but being as it was twitter, I couldn’t fit it in 140 characters, so I just made a snide comment instead. But I promised [...]
October 24, 2009 – 8:50 pm
The other day, I went to the mall with Kristin. I usually finish up quicker than her, and this time being in possession of a shiny tiny netbook, I was able to code and tweak the water change detection algorithm for the FishApp while sitting on a bench outside of Macy’s. I had a couple [...]
October 24, 2009 – 11:57 am
The watch is a Seiko affectionately called the “Orange Monster.” It’s a huge, loud, fun, heavy watch – and it makes me quite happy. I also made and put up a giant X-Files “I Want To Believe” poster. There are several different images for this poster floating around on the net, and much to my [...]
October 4, 2009 – 10:21 pm
One of the goals of the FishApp is to have automatic water change detection available in phase 1. In order to do this, I have a Ping))) ultrasonic distance sensor pointed down at my fishtank. This little guy works by producing a sound above human hearing range, and listening for it to bounce back. If [...]
August 21, 2009 – 3:30 pm
It looks like the FishApp is already providing me with some really neat and useful insights into my aquarium. I recently added the ability to overlay and toggle multiple series on the graphs it displays, to make it easy to see if one parameter has an effect on another. Take a look at this snapshot [...]
Nothing much to report. Went to the zoo again, which I never really get tired of. Even in 90 degree heat and high humidity. Get the Flash Player to see this player.
As many of you are aware of by now, I have a (un)healthy obsession with fish. I also have a terrible memory. And the ability to program web applications. And the tendency to enjoy taking ideas all the way to their logical conclusions. Possessing any of these attributes in isolation is not so bad of [...]
I just got two Behringer BCF2000 Control Surfaces (because they were ridiculously cheap) and they are pretty nice so far. Check em out, ready to mix: I scored these two as scratch and dent deals on MusiciansFriend.com for $161 each (including shipping, no tax). I was worried that they wouldn’t play nicely with ProTools, but [...]
@joshuacaddell asked me why I wanted a netbook so bad on twitter today. The answer is too much for 140 characters, so here goes… I think a lot of people don’t put nearly enough thought into how they use a computer before they purchase one. This is especially true of laptops, since the ways people [...]
