| Parting Remarks |
[Apr. 1st, 2006|03:48 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | creation, creativity, daft punk, hacking, livejournal, metaemotion, music, princess, vitamins | ] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Emi's House, Basking Ridge, New Jersey | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | eager | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Daft Punk - Emotion | ] |
Before I finally go to bed here are some more things I wanted to say:
- Meta-emotion often occurs very late at night. Whether it is caused by being awake at night or the feeling itself causes one to stay up later is up for debate.
- Becoming a princess is a relatively easy feat. One can marry into a royal family, or even consume the remains of a long-dead Egyptian Princess to absorb her regal essence.
- The last song on the album I was listening to as I wrote these entries tonight (Human After All) is entitled Emotion, which I did not remember until after the song had begun to play.
- I want to create some more userpics for myself even though I really don't have any use for more.
- I still want to create games, but the games themselves aren't what I find the most interesting, what I really, really want to do is create worlds.
- Anyone who sees me taking my vitamin pills must think I'm addicted to drugs on a massive scale.
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| Chicago (No, not the musical/movie!) |
[Feb. 6th, 2006|02:33 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | music | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  excited | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Sufjan Stevens - Chicago | ] |
So I heard this song (Chicago by Sufjan Stevens) on the radio (internet, of course) recently, and I really really like it. If anyone knows about this guy/band, or any similar music, please let me know. It's very cool. |
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| SuprGlu |
[Feb. 6th, 2006|01:49 pm] |
I know this idea has been tossed around for a while, and I've personally been (just a tiny tiny bit) involved with the development of Rhyzomatic, but today I just signed up for SuprGlu, which seems like a pretty convenient way just to see all of my most recent contributions to the web. Check it out.
PS: I'm wearing sandals today. |
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| The Fragile |
[Nov. 2nd, 2005|01:25 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | music | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  sick | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Nine Inch Nails - Complication | ] |
Complication is the new Frail |
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| Party Night Deux |
[Sep. 25th, 2005|01:30 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | arina, iv, movie, music, party | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | good | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Gorillaz - 19-2000 (Soulchild Remix) | ] |
Damn I've been keepin busy this weekend. Yesterday started with Arina and I taking the bus down to Santa Barbara where we hung out and shopped. We went into this really cool antique store, and a cool outdoor Indian place where they sold cool rugs and jewelery and stuff. Oh, and we also ate at Chipotle on State Street. I really do have to say that Freebirds is superior to Chipotle, now that I've been properly indoctrinated.
Anyways, after we got back we rented Wayne's World and ended up napping through the movie. It's a good film though; I haven't seen it in quite a while. Anyways, when the movie was done it was just about time to head over to the Sugarcult concert.
When we got there we met up with Michael. I didn't realize it at the time, but after I spoke with him for a while, he confided in me that he was truly the Archangel Michael is here on Earth as the Angel of Justice and Punishment. I spoke with Michael during the opening band and through the intermission, but when Sugarcult came on Arina and I went up into the crowd and Michael stayed back to tell some others about why he was here.
The concert was pretty damn awesome. I didn't realize it at the time, but Sugarcult is the band who plays that "I'm bouncin' off the walls again" song. Of course in retrospect I feel pretty dumb for not having known that, but whatever. Their other songs are also pretty good, and they also covered a Modern English song, which was pretty cool.
After the concert we took a quick break to run through some sprinklers, and then we set out for IV. Tonight we got into some parties right away. There weren't any cool live bands playing at the parties we went to, but one of them at least had a nice sound system and was playing Darude, so we took some time to dance.
One thing I'm coming to understand more and more about partying on DP is that they don't really make drinks here. Everything is distributed straight up. Last night I partook of Cobra, Jose Cuerbo, Captain Morgan, and some cheap vodka of which I never learned the name.
After we were done partying we decided to go for a walk on the beach. After we were only down there for like five or so minutes who do we encounter roaming the coast but Zac. He seems to be there just about every time we go to the beach. We joined him, and ended up walking about two miles further along the coast, so we were well away from school. Anyways, being the bright kids we are, we decided to go swimming at that point. To make a long story short we had a couple mile journey back to Manzanita in wet, cold clothes.
When we did get back here we found some guys sitting around with a soccer ball, so we joined them and had a little passing and monkey in the middle. Eventually we all got tired of that, so we headed over to San Nic. We watched part of Fight Club, but by this point we were all exhausted (it was close to 4 by now) so we all just crashed there. |
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| Punk |
[Aug. 27th, 2005|02:18 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | music, school | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | busy | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Gorillaz - Punk | ] |
Alright, well I moved my speakers and my woofer down here, and being able to play music while I arrange my new "room" is making me feel a lot better than I was this morning.
I think I'm at the point now where everyone else has been for a while: I'm ready for school to start. But I've still got three more weeks that I've gotta stick around in Pleasanton for, so I'm going to try to make the best of them. Maybe I'll start working again; that should help the time pass much more quickly. Or perhaps I should start a new software project, or finish one I've already started. Or I could start downloading and watching some of those television shows I've been talking about lately.
The garage-room is actually pretty cool...even though I don't have as much personal stuff down here, the room itself is much more spacious, even when you count all the junk that is down here. It's also the coldest room in the house, which is perfect during these evil warm months.
Arina says she might be coming up to the Bay Area around Labor Day, so if she does we're gonna meet up and hang out. She kept trying to get me to come see her in Fresno, but the only time I ever pass through there is on my way too or from San Diego. I also keep promising Bonnie I'll hang out with her, but I've never really made time to do so; so I think I will. Finally, I'm considering driving up to Sacramento for a day or two to stay with Nicole and Kristina, but I'll probably be too lazy to do that. Anyways, I'm not really done moving yet even though my deadline was yesterday, so I'd better get back to work. Late.
P.S. The Frail just came up on shuffle mode. This makes Carl happy. |
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| At least I have my iPod... |
[Aug. 11th, 2005|11:08 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | allie, music | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  blah | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | John Williams - A New Hope and End Credits | ] |
Well, I'm in Canada now. I'm having a good time for the most part, but I'm feeling kind of bummed out right now for no particular reason. Well, there are a couple of reasons, but they're all small so I should really just get over it. I lost at poker; but I'm only down a toonie (that's two dollars Canadian). I don't get to hang out with my counsin tonight, cause she's meeting her friends at a bar and the drinking age here is 19, so I miss by five months. And because I stuck around here to finish the poker game that I would eventually lose, I missed my last chance to catch a ride back to Oma's house, where all of my clothes and my laptop are. Finally, even though it's only been two days I really miss Allie, and it sucks to think I don't get to see her until Thursday.
I'm done complaining for now. My cousin (other cousin) has D2 on this computer, so maybe I'll start a char and play a round or two of that. Since I've got an entire month until school starts anyways I might as well start (or re-start) another time consuming addiction. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 22nd, 2005|06:04 pm] |
I just wanted to say that the song Complication by Nine Inch Nails is really, really good. Like, it's in the same league as The Frail. |
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| Barracuda Mark IV |
[Jul. 6th, 2005|10:15 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | music, robotics | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | productive | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Daft Punk - Human After All | ] |
Feeling a lot better today already. I'm going to submerge myself (hahahaha!) in working on the submarine. It just hit me that we have less than a month to get it up and running before we arrive in San Diego. It's definately crunch time.
At DevHouse this weekend I'm definately going to be working on AUVAI now.
The website and the journal paper are due on July 15th. I've delegated the site to Randal and given him complete autonomy as far as that goes. I'm taking care of the paper myself. I think Stu and I will divide most of the programming work, and I think Randal is qualified to help with a little bit of that as well. Tim is doing a great job on the hardware so far, so I'm going to have him and Damian keep doing what needs to be done with that.
The two engineering hurdles we face currently are the rewrite of the image processing code and the solution of the hydrophone problem.
Lesser hurdles include bug-hunting in AUVSI and hoping that the parts to finish the endcap arrive before we leave for the competition.
I think I'm also going to make a team soundtrack. So far I'm going to have some robot-like Daft Punk songs, as well as Yellow Submarine on there. Does anyone else have any ideas for submarine or robot themed songs? |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 27th, 2005|08:28 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | allie, music, ramble | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  contemplative | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me | ] |
School parking lot; six o'clock.
Music: some I haven't heard in years, some I listen to every day.
All of this has happened before, yet it all feels so new.
History is fractally cyclical, with events continuously repeating themselves on every imaginable scale.
Was going to go out tonight, but ended up canceling for a variety of reasons.
Did yardwork today that I've been putting off for weaks. Other odd jobs, too.
I've done a pretty good job of writing actual entries lately, instead of seemingly unconnected thought fragments, so I feel that I've earned the right to post this one.
I want to compile a soundtrack for my life out of music that I do and have listened to, but I want to mix them all together, using certain components as leitmotifs and such. I'd need over 18 years of continuous music to accomplish this, but since I'll be reusing some samples I don't think it'd be that hard to do. You know, except for remembering every little thing that has happened to me on the way.
Blah. I'm not communicating effectively. |
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| Miscellaneous |
[Mar. 7th, 2005|09:38 pm] |
Daft Punk has a new album coming out later this month. I just found out, but I'm sure its going to be awesome. Also, Halo 19 is due to be released in May, which is also eagerly anticipated by yours truly.
Speaking of music, I'm currently involved in a love-hate relationship with iTunes. It's organizational facility is wonderful, but ever since I upgraded my machine to SP2 it has responded very poorly; music actually skips when I play it off my hard drive. Granted this happens under WinAmp now too, so I'm sure it's a windows problem; I just wish I knew what. iTunes is also keeping me from abandoning Windows entirely. If I could run it natively under Linux I'd have no reason to keep RedmondOS on my computer.
I'm thinking about asking for a Mac laptop for graduation. I still haven't decided for sure; I'm really kind of looking for a good reason why not to. I could certainly get a more powerful x86 laptop for the same cost, but OSX is just so damn sexy. It's a true conundrum. Luckily I've got a few months to decide yet.
I'm also just going to throw in another shameless plug for DoopTrivia because I think its really cool, and more people should check it out. Props to Val for adding it to her friends list.
I also keep making mental notes to check out overstock.com, but I never get around to it. I suppose I could go now, but that would defeat the purpose of me writing it here. Perhaps someday I'll look back upon this and check it out.
I'm going to have to go back through my entries to see if I've ever posted Music Sounds Better With You as by Daft Punk before, and correct it. Oh well.
This entry is boring, and over. |
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| I have named my iPod Jenny. |
[Jan. 23rd, 2005|02:17 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | apple, music | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | accomplished | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | The Darkness - Permission to Land | ] |
And she will be mine.
And she will be my Jenny. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 19th, 2005|11:36 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | compcivix, health, music, sleep | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  depressed | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have | ] |
I don't often feel the effects of stress, and even rarer is it that I experience them in a negative way. However, everything seems to have all crashed down upon me at once, and I'm having trouble dealing with it all. Every night all week I have been out working on Comp Civix until after my entire family is asleep. Then I have to whip out my Calculus and English homework, to save my flailing grades in those classes. That is, of course, if I've done enough civix for the day, which has never happened.
Last night I spent about three hours doing a complete rewrite of our second presentation. I completed everything other than an introduction and a conclusion (which we're still stuck on). I felt really, really good about it, and Kendall thought it was awesome too. Today, however, we found a post on the message board from Mr. Ladd stating " I think you should scrap the whole thing and start over...". I first wanted to scream, then cry, then just kill myself. He didn't even leave any criticism. It wasn't until half an hour later that he posted "Not really, but you need a GREAT intro...". It would have been funny, if it hadn't almost resulted in my complete emotional breakdown.
It also didn't help that when I tried to solve our Introduction problem my unit tore it to shreds. Apparently my suggestion was flawed on so many levels; in concept, in boringness, in implementation, and in word choice that it wasn't even worth attempting to salvage. Now, neitehr is my ego.
I've queued up a list of my favorite NIN songs and am now going to sleep with Trent's beutiful voice and bleak message on repeat in the background. Definately something that I haven't done in a long time, but right now I need it. Goodnight. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 6th, 2004|04:26 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | computer, money, music | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | contemplative | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Calibur - Lost | ] |
I'm thinking abotu selling Fernando. I should be able to get $500-$600 on EBay, which should almost completly cover buying an iPod AND my new (used) desktop. What do you think? |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 18th, 2004|12:55 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | caitlin, music | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Seatbelts - Heavy Metal Queen | ] |
Very excited right now. Caitlin finally brought me the Cowboy Bebop mp3 CD she's been promising. I've been using mainly a few of Jeff's songs and a few of Jay's songs to test out the mp3 stuff I've been working on, and it's really good to have a much larger variety of music to listen to while I'm working. |
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| UberAmp |
[Apr. 30th, 2004|04:35 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | hacking, music | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | wishful | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Muse - Endlessly | ] |
It's a habit of mine to nearly always listen to music by queueing up every song on my computer, and then playing them in random order. This is great most of the time, but often when I'm in a certain kind of mood I feel like listening to a certain type of music. I also like to have as much music on my hard drive as possible, although I like to hear some songs much more often than others.
I've always wanted to design a media playing program that allowed me to not only put it on random, but to have all my music play in random order at frequencies corresponding to how much I like it. I want to have how much I like the song stored permenantly, so I don't have to re-enter the value each time. In addition to the overall preference number, all of my songs would have various other preference numbers, each corresponding to a different sort of playlist. For example, if I was feeling depressed, I could play my "depressed music", which would probably have my Nine Inch Nails songs all at much higher frequencies, and groups like Scooter wouldn't even play on that list at all. The order would still all be random, though, but weighted random.
The program would also be able to change the values for each song while they are playing. This would make it simple to load all of your songs into the player with a default priority of say 50%, and then adjust the value for each song as you hear it. It'd have the end effect of being the ideal radio station, where you never know what is going to play next but you know it'll be a song you like.
This actually wouldn't be all to hard to do on a linux system, where there are a handful of open source mp3 players already out there which I could modify to do this. I'd have to store the preference information in some sort of database; probably just a flat XML file. I'm adding this to the list of projects for this summer. |
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| Music |
[Apr. 30th, 2004|04:29 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | jeff, music | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | resigned | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | David Bowie - Bring Me The Disco King | ] |
I've been downloading a lot of music lately; mostly from groups I've never heard of just to check them out. I've found a lot of cool stuff.
My enjoyment of David Bowie music has also been growing lately. I discovered the song Bring Me The Disco King, and it's eerily pleasing. It's not to the point of being as prolific in my life as The Frail yet, though.
Jeff also mentioned that he recorded some tunes from Sonic, here. I haven't downloaded them yet, but I will soon.
Other notable groups I've discovered lately (in no particular order):
The Clash
Muse
Explosions in the Sky
Aphex Twin
I have over 6 GB of Music on my hard disk at last count, and it's ever increasing. My only regret is that sometimes I download way faster than I can listen, and it can take me a few days or weeks to catch up and hear every song I download.
I like music. |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 11th, 2004|02:00 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | health, linux, music | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Nine Inch Nails - The Frail (Things Falling Apart) | ] |
Well, I'm on a plane right now, and I'm on my way to Salt Lake City. From there we're going to drive 23 miles to Park City, and it'll just be a short ways from there to our condo. I'm still not sure if we're going to have interent when I'm there, so if I end up writing more entries while I'm away I might just upload them all at once. I think I can backdate them to the correct time, anyways.
Yeah, I'm listening to The Frail again. Not sure at all why, the music just kinda draws me sometimes.
Anyways, Fedora is working out okay for me so far. There are still things that I'd be much quicker doing in Windows, and I'm still not used to using the Open Source equivilents for document creation, programming, and system management, but I'm figuring them out. I'm actually writing this entry in a program called "gedit" which I'm beginning to like. When I open source files in here it color codes the keywords and comments, like it's meant for coding. Very cool.
The land we're flying over is really weird. There are snow-capped mountains right next to huge lakes of sand, and the land in-between is irrigated and green.
We're flying Southwest, and it's kinda weird to me; I've never flown them before. Firstly, there is no assigned seating, it's first-come first-serve. They also don't really clean the planes between flights, they just land, disembark, refuel, and board. I guess it's how they keep the flights so cheap, but it's pretty gross nonetheless.
I'm still worried about my wrist, I'm almost positive I have the early stages of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Gahh. I hope they cure it soon; maybe I should find a charity and donate some money to research. I've also gotta start doing wrist excercises, and I'm going to look into a rub-on product that supposodly relieves symptoms and actually relieves the disorder that I saw an add for. |
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| A Thing Called Love |
[Apr. 9th, 2004|09:05 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | hacking, linux, music, ramble | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  weird | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | The Darkness - I believe in a Thing Called Love | ] |
Heehee...I've been listening to The Darkness lately. I blame Shelby, and Live 105.
The best part about staying home alone overnight is being able to listen to your music at any volume with no concern for your sleeping family members. And being able to watch TV and violent movies as loud as I want. And being able to walk around wearing as little as I want, because I don't have to worry about mentally scarring my family.
Everyone is splitting up for Spring Break. It's kind of cool, because everyone is going somewhere cool that they like, but even though it's only a week, I'm gonna miss everyone.
I've got a big list of stuff that I have to get done by noon, cause thats when we have to leave for Saratoga. I'll probably leave it all to the last minute, and try to get it all done in a last-minute mad rush.
Snowboarding will be fun, although every time I've gone since I broke my arm I've always been more careful. I think breaking my arm last year caused part of me to wuss-out permenantly. A permenant loss of courage, if you will. Oh well.
This is going to be kind of a rambling entry, with no real point other than to babble on about things. Kind of like my whole blog, I guess, except with even less focus.
Blahhh....everyone lies once in a while, right? And if it doesn't hurt anyone there's no problem, right?
I'll be bringing my laptop to Utah, even though I've only been running Linux on it for a few days. I'm hoping that that won't stop me from getting anything productive done. The only problem I'd anticipate would be getting online. I'm not sure if the dialer program my company uses to connect on the road even runs on linux, so unless I reinstall Windows, I might be stuck witout 'net access in Utah. Which wouldn't be that bad, really, just means no blogging and no email.
I'm going to transfer a lot of my source over to the laptop so I'll be able to work on that in Utah, as well, but I'm not really sure what project I'd work on. Without net access it'd make it somewhat more difficult to work on CMS, although not impossible. I could just install Apache and become my own webserver.
BFP might be difficult, too, although only because I've never setup Java on Linux. |
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| Homework, Computer Games, Life |
[Feb. 19th, 2004|12:04 am] |
It's technically Thursday now, and I'm still not tired yet.
I promised myself that I would get a good start on my notes packet for history tonight, but I've only gotten it 1/6th finished. Looks like I'm going to have a wonderful all-nighter tomorrow.
I'm getting really excited about the new computer game I'm working on. The project really only started on Tuesday, but I've gotten an awesome amount of coding done, as well as lots of conceptual work. As usual, of course, there is a great likelihood that I will loose interest/commitment in the near future, and like so many past attempts this will fade to nothingness.
I really don't want this to happen to this game, for a number of issues other than the usual ones.
Firstly, I still haven't heard back from EA about the internship, and if they do call me in for an interview I want to have something impressive to show them. I also would like to start establishing more of a professional image, and having a successful project, even if small under my belt will look very good.
Secondly, I want to put something useful and worthwhile on my website. All of you who have checked it out know that there is nothing of value, yet.
Thirdly, I would like to start establishing some more income. I can't hold a full-time job during school for obvious reasons, but I feel that I can start earning more money by publishing games. Not box-selling in stores, of course. Right now I'm considering either going the shareware (read: beg for money) route or publishing through Openware Games. It's a really cool concept, and I'd love to support Jeff's initiative, but I'm not sure how successful that model can be.
Fourthly, I want to have an original game available at the LAN party I'm planning. It doesn't have to be polished, it will probably still be in alpha, but I think it would be an awesome opportunity both for my friends to play a brand new game, and also for me to get feedback from people further from the development process.
Well, I listened to The Frail once yesterday, and ever since I woke up this morning it's been stuck in my head. I must have listened to both versions of this song (Halo 16, Halo 17) more than 25 times since I've gotten home. It's becoming compulsive. I also borrowed my brothers CD player, and am burning them onto a CD so I can listen to them during school tomorrow.
Well, off to try to do some more parts of the history, and hopefully pass my test tomorrow.
Late.
P.S. I forgot to hit spellcheck on that one, and have retroactively corrected my entry. I mispelt three different words, including tomorrow, which I spelt wrong three times as “tommorow”. I don’t know why I do this, but it’s an evil, evil habit. |
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