Friday, May 30, 2003
Too much frozen pizza can drive you mad contest!
Posted by Daev @ 08:46 PM CST [Link]
I spent Männertag working on a little tune for my friends at the BRN.
Claudia and some other friends are planning a puppet making workshop for the kiddies, and then a puppet show Saturday and Sunday at 19:00 in the Talstrasse. The Talstrasse is probably the least visited street at the festival, but it is truly the soul of BRN.
Anyway the girls have been working hard at putting together a spoof soap opera puppet show, and they enlisted me to make a theme song for it. I couldn't back down; I bragged too much about how I studied music and even took a film scoring class. So, today I threw together this jam. Complete with a short little guitar solo by yours truly.
I won't be in the puppet show, but I will most probably be ramming notes on garbage cans again this year at the corner of Tal and Louis.
Posted by Daev @ 03:45 AM CST [Link]
Thursday, May 29, 2003
No computery news today. I went out with my best gal to celebrate our 2 aniversary. Two whole years, and it seems like just 15 minutes. Underwater. Har har har...
We saw the Matrix film, as I might have already mentioned in class. Despite the critics, who are right, it is a fun film. I was surprised that it wasn't as bad for me as I had expected (from reading reviews) and actually kind of philosophical for an action flick. Not sublimely deep, but deeper than expected.
And Claudi grudgingly admitted it wasn't so bad, and capitulated and conceded that we'll probably have to see part three this fall just to see how it all turns out.
I am a happy sheep. Bääääh.
Posted by Daev @ 12:29 AM CST [Link]
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Oh, look at the time. I've just spent an hour chatting with
alan.
He can talk, too, you know.
Posted by Daev @ 08:30 PM CST [Link]
Because of the water damage, and because I had to clear out the kitchen for the wall dryer, I've been eating lots of frozen food which requires very little preparation, such as this
pizza.
Posted by Daev @ 02:41 PM CST [Link]
Monday, May 26, 2003
Today two things from snappy high-tech business mag Business 2.0:
Hack your X-box, piss off Microsoft, enhance your quality of life. Apparently some clever kids are finding all sorts of auxiliary uses for their hacked X-boxes.
Here.
The things only cost 200 bucks, and apparently are getting cheaper. I'd get one, but wait... I don't own a TV.
And,
this little darlin' is even cooler than a V-board.
Posted by Daev @ 06:20 PM CST [Link]
Sunday, May 25, 2003
As my students probably guessed by now, I hate shaving. And why not? Any guy who genuinely looks forward to that morning shave is probably still going through puberty.
But lately I am getting a bit tired of the stubbly pirate look (even though my girlfriend thinks it is very manly) so fortunately I have found a possible solution.
Posted by Daev @ 02:21 AM CST [Link]
Friday, May 23, 2003
Just two silly links today.
Build your own uphill waterfall and amaze your friends!
And,
Heroic monk catches crook, saves a cop. Be sure to watch the video to catch the --yechh-- surprise ending.
Have a nice weekend.
Posted by Daev @ 07:15 PM CST [Link]
Nothing to do with computers, really, but relevant to the hacker mentality:
lifters.
Build your own levitating triangle!
Posted by Daev @ 12:41 AM CST [Link]
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
As long as you are going to listen to that godaweful racket, you may as well be informed about it. Know your techno history. --uhmm
Posted by Daev @ 07:47 PM CST [Link]
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Would-be war criminal's Total Info database likes the way you walk, mama
Most of the article linked below isn't news; it covers the TIA database and a few little updates. I linked to it because it has the word petabyte in it. Say it real fast. Petabyte. Petabyte. Knabbergebäck.
"The amounts of data that will need to be stored and accessed will be unprecedented, measured in petabytes [...a petabyte is a quadrillion -- 1,000,000,000,000,000 -- bytes]."
story here
Posted by Daev @ 12:44 PM CST [Link]
Monday, May 19, 2003
Not much to report today. I've been busy goofing around with Denim, which is a very silly program.
It's very amusing, but maybe the snazzyness of concept on-paper far outstrips the practical worth in reality.
And I made a crappy font. And I did some translating for my other job--language correspondent for Rammstein--sorta.
Posted by Daev @ 10:18 PM CST [Link]
Sunday, May 18, 2003
Posted by Daev @ 01:21 AM CST [Link]
Friday, May 16, 2003
White collar shirkers
Posted by Daev @ 01:54 AM CST [Link]
Thursday, May 15, 2003
Oh wait: it wasn't a hoax after all.
Why do I bother reading the news at all?
Posted by Daev @ 12:57 AM CST [Link]
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
So That fancy toilet I mentioned on Monday in class turns out to be a hoax. I bought it. But to make matters worse, I believed two other widespread hoaxes exposed this week alone. Must be something in the water.
Screw 'em.. Here is a link to an article at m-w.com about American youth slang. You'll love it and find it enlightening and amusing, I am sure. Because people are always coming up to me and bugging me about this kind of stuff.
Posted by Daev @ 10:14 PM CST [Link]
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Denim is a downloadable web design program from those crazy kids at UC Berkeley. The twist is that you can design a working website by scribblin' it together with your tablet. Neato. I'll have to check it out as soon as I have a free day.
Posted by Daev @ 02:54 AM CST [Link]
Monday, May 12, 2003
Here is a funny story I heard on Mothers' day on All things considered. It's about a woman who inherits her late mother's pet parrot, and how it's almost as if Mom never moved on. It's pretty sweet, but also interesting for linguistic freaks.
Posted by Daev @ 03:19 AM CST [Link]
Sunday, May 11, 2003
"The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."
--Fred Astaire, whose birthday was yesterday.
Posted by Daev @ 04:35 AM CST [Link]
Saturday, May 10, 2003
Here is a site which would have tickled some of my business-type classes pink. The show is called "How to Bow" and deals with Japanese business manners. At a first glance, it seems kind of satirical, but from what I have learned it the past, it pretty much checks out.
You decide. The cartoons are at any rate rather funny.
Posted by Daev @ 07:01 AM CST [Link]
Friday, May 9, 2003
The world's most widely known and most enigmatic blogger Salam Pax has started blogging again... sorta.
The young cynical lad, who lives in a Baghdad burb, has been an object of speculative fascination months before the invasion of Iraq. Cynical and eloquent, readers and journalists alike were dying to find out if this guy is for real or not.
His blog abruptly broke off in the first few days of the invasion, late March. Last week, he's started up again.
We sighed a puff of relief. But wait a sec... There's something fishy here. It occurred to me 1) this guy almost never makes any grammatical or idiomatic errors in his writing. That is weird, because even when one apparently speaks near perfect (second language), writing is a whole different matter. He writes at least as well as I, and much better than many native speakers you and I read on the internet.
And
2) why the hell is this guy still blogging? He's literally had millions of readers, coverage in CNN, BBC, etc. He could easily walk up to the first ratty tabloid he sees and sell his story for a cool mil. Bestseller, baby.
Posted by Daev @ 02:56 AM CST [Link]
Thursday, May 8, 2003
The latest Gates presentation
leaves the casual reader with the need to re-read the article once or twice more just to get exactly what was being presented.
Libertarians and privacy advocates and bucketfuls of my students have expressed some reservation to certain parts of this here new-fangled stuff.
We certainly have come a long way from this.
Posted by Daev @ 03:05 AM CST [Link]
Tuesday, May 6, 2003
The brothers Chaps really outdid themselves in this week's installment of Strongbad's Email.
Posted by Daev @ 09:16 PM CST [Link]
Happy Birthday to late Wunderkind-turned-big-fat-jerk Orson Welles. Among other great things attributed to him, he was the inspiration for the mad scientist mouse Brain from "Pinky and the Brain".
Posted by Daev @ 05:28 PM CST [Link]
From a whacky list of the
101 dumbest moves in business (2002), dumbness items 48-51: Gates et al feebly attempt to explain .Net to the hoi polloi.
Posted by Daev @ 01:01 AM CST [Link]
Monday, May 5, 2003
Here is a cute little site I happened upon today. Called World Wide Words, it deals with the etymology of English words and colorful expressions. Quite interesting for gatherers of inane knowledge, such as myself.
I used to read another similar site with a similar reader-asks-I-answer format, but this one is different because the columnist is British this time, and his bank of expressions are not solely of his homeland.
I'll put it on the links page sometime; for now I am all htmelled out.
Posted by Daev @ 10:38 PM CST [Link]
Sunday, May 4, 2003
Oh Boy!
Another article about my favorite classroom topic: Robot Soccer Dogs!
They're good dogs.
Posted by Daev @ 11:01 PM CST [Link]
who that rabbit contest
Any student o' mine who can tell me the significance (meaning: gets the joke) of this space bunny's name wins... um... a Haribo Gummi kleiner Preis.
Posted by Daev @ 08:37 PM CST [Link]
Saturday, May 3, 2003
Apparently these are the English instructions for a hot toy from Japan. Have it corrected by next class. Kidding.
This set is a special set for right spin. Is since the beginning of recorded history most’s comeing at limit!
The Evolutionary from of the beygoma, power up for the 21st Century with supe speed!! Arrangin the old-fashioned beygoma to fit needs of today.
This is super coming at nucleus! Isin possession of having history think of most’s comeing at limit. It have two ply structure. Wing piece freeing to fields rotate!
This is engineered new anise model heavy plate, iscapable of keepping centrifugal force raise, at prolonged battle give play to his or its function
This is right rotate single-purpose system spares. Because placing metal acting gearing, comeing at force and defending force simultaneously raise!
With rotating cog wheel arrive receational in the past flat engineered main frame. Can high-speed move enemy with mughtiness come at.
What on earth are they talking about? Fighting top, based on this old fashioned game.
Posted by Daev @ 03:10 AM CST [Link]
Friday, May 2, 2003
May Day was relaxing. Claudi and I went down to the streetfest in Königstrasse. We attended a wine tasting from a local vinyard, where the two wine expert hosts sang cute little wine songs and read literature, told anecdotes.
The Madonna remixes I made last Tuesday sure have led to a whole lotta traffic, i.e. 20 times more than usual. I sure hope I don't run outta throughput.
Posted by Daev @ 02:26 AM CST [Link]
