steve cooley presents

• Omg rock bottom brewery's seasonal ipa "h-bomb" is phenomenal! ( assuming h is for hops). #beer #
• Hey Michael Jackson fans. Tell *all* your friends, I'm not the attorney general for Los Angeles. I'm an engineer in silicon valley. #
• Hundreds of Twitter apps and not one that lets you block tweets by key words. Think outside the API, folks. #differentiation #
• Beatseqr software and firmware is now open source: http://beatseqr.com/blog/ #
• Eagle should be priced by the layer instead of by the feature. I'm never going to produce more than a 2 layer board. 4pcb instead, I guess #
• friggin' earthquakes! #
• Friggen' adrenaline! #
• almost everyone here felt it @sfearthquakes A 3.2 quake just happened 4 mi NE of Alum Rock, CA. ( http://bit.ly/bqryQU ) #
• Didnt we have a 3.03 earthquake today, too? RT @unsaturated: it's 3/03 yall #thisisacid (via @connerrrr) #
• Not much difference to go from no selection to a nose election. #
• Hey 4sq/gowalla/locaware user. You're screwing up the signal to noise ratio. #blocktweetbykeyword #unfollowingisnotagoodsolution #

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• Guess whos on the makezine blog? http://bit.ly/ajIpZt #
• Now in the long tail of makezine blog traffic. 1000+ hits in 2 days, really nice. One beatseqr still available. #
• Aww man! Empty keg. oh well, time to brew up some more. Back to an IPA I think. #
• Filemaker could rock a larger portion of the world if they'd ship with an easy MySQL ODBC driver. C'mon guys, all that cash in the bank. wtf #
• Aaand now I'm in a totally unexpected meeting with a filemaker team. :-} #
• Playing live techno at Works/San Jose 2010-02-24 (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/1tWz) #

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• Great release! RT @boxbanga: new on dobox:: 'NHT' release by Keckclip http://doboxrecordings.com #
• It makes me sad that opensoundcontrol.org is overrun with wiki spam. #
• watching pairs skating… r: know why they're all falling? me: no, why? r: Because it's effin' hard. #
• RT @boxbanga: new on dobox:: 'Circulation EP' by Jemset http://doboxrecordings.com/db/index.php/2010/02/16/circulation-ep-by-jemset/ #
• Watching PBS nova's show on how Mayan iconography was deciphered and experiencing a profound mind explosion. #indigenous #typography #
• twitter, allow block by originating app.. learn a lesson from facebook #
• Sigh. #
• big updates for my beatseqr project! http://bit.ly/cUABRa and more on the way #
• Hey, beatseqr on the Makers Market! http://bit.ly/92fRIw deep breath… #
• Protip: Don't bring a PowerPoint preso to a Keynote fight. #
• Followup tip: it's always a Keynote fight. #
• RT @dan_at_makezine: Beatseqr V3 just hit Makers Market. Check out his video. http://makersmarket.com/products/431-beatseqr-v3 #

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• Oh, thank God. Arduino 0018 works with the libraries I'm using and serial. Now I can stop using 0015. WHEW. #
• And so a jazz mutant is heard crying a sad song… #
• Now on Etsy: Beatseqr – an arduino mega based computer interface by steve cooley http://bit.ly/drPK2X #
• omfg RT @nokapixel RT @nsobject: Jason Fried of 37signals nails it: http://bit.ly/interruptions #
• retweeting @processingjs: http://iProcessing.org a framework for making native iPhone/iPad apps using the processing.js framework. SWEET! #
• Hey, I'm writing a wordpress plugin to embed etsy listings. Check it out: beatseqr on etsy http://bit.ly/ar3Od1 #
• Wow. Just lost an hour and a half's worth of work. Sigh. Oh, man! NOW I find the autosave preference. #
• I can hardly believe we're actually talking about legalization AND taxation! I predict a high turnout for the vote. :-} #
• Lip syncing at the opening ceremonies FTW. #
• Man, much respect for such a strong representation of native people in the opening ceremonies. That'd never happen in the USA. #

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• Apple, war on tinkering… That's really an amazingly unimaginitive concept. #
• All this analysis of the iPad's lack of flash as some kind of flaw. It's not. Don't waste your time hoping someday it'll be there. It won't. #
• The way it is and always will be: Update the tools in your toolbox in order to stay employable. #
• during lunch I submitted our proposal for Beatseqr at the San Mateo Maker Faire. Crossing fingers, and considering New York, too… #
• entrepreneurialism: spending money and hoping it'll come back. #
• Hey, check out what my friend Joel has done with his virtual theremin and dj scratching http://bit.ly/9i0a3z #
• http://www.sc-fa.com/blog/2010/02/02/airdeck-at-mojos-dojo/ New post: () … #
• New Link Posted: Mojo's Dojo http://mojosdojo.com/ #
• Digging into maxmsp. Watch out for falling random basslines. #
• Trying not to comment about you guys and your Lost. I've been hurt by jj abrams before, and I learned my lesson. that's all I'll say. #
• A nice DJ set from Alixr, then my band Haptic Synapses interview and first part of our live set from Radio Integrated: http://bit.ly/aWY4Sg #
• I have a beatseqr for sale. Details: http://beatseqr.com/blog/ #
• These Tamagotchis are really advanced!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GBnasJEaQ8 thx @todbot #

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• during lunch I submitted our proposal for Beatseqr at the San Mateo Maker Faire. Crossing fingers, and considering New York, too… #
• entrepreneurialism: spending money and hoping it'll come back. #

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I’ve changed the daily digest to a weekly digest. That should be much nicer.

I, like every blogger alive prior to the advent of Twitter and Facebook, am still trying to figure out how to keep my content on my site while participating in the modern age. So, it’s obvious that Twitter is a preferred mode of being pithy by many, and facebook is really where people I know go to comment on tweets, that seems to leave blog posts out in the cold to some degree, doesn’t it?

But, I’ve been craving a bit more than the short attention span that Twitter allows, and the overwhelming force of a thousand pieces of marginally meaningful information that facebook throws at you all day long… so if you want to participate everywhere, you have to learn how to be more prolific.

Right now, my brain is enjoying being able to say things without having to say it in 140 characters, and being able to string two whole sentences together without worrying about them showing up backwards from the intended order of meaning. It’s kind of sad to feel like you’ve fallen into such a restricted confinement, not by choice, but by the nature of the fact that everyone else is doing it. Oh well. I will say that twitter forces you to edit your idea to its core. That probably counts for something.

• Apple, war on tinkering… That's really an amazingly unimaginitive concept. #
• All this analysis of the iPad's lack of flash as some kind of flaw. It's not. Don't waste your time hoping someday it'll be there. It won't. #
• The way it is and always will be: Update the tools in your toolbox in order to stay employable. #

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• TONIGHT: http://hapticsynapses.com #
• Looking forward to demoing #beatseqr to @donald tonight, although it won't be the highest quality piece of gear he's seen all week. #

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• 36 #
• I wasn't crazy about the name MacBook Pro when they announced it, either. Now I don't even think about it. #
• No birthday present from Uncle Steve this year… *sniff* oh well. #

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• New! Brain yoga on #SoundCloud http://soundcloud.com/stevecooley/brain-yoga #
• my band Haptic Synapses is playing a live radio show this friday night sometime during 9pm to 2am. http://bit.ly/aGDIAW tune in! #
• Dreaming of a USB port this morning. #
• 11:19am AAPL stock goes into green territory #
• CNBC, from the sidelines, tries creating something from nothing. #
• No camera means no roadblocks for government use. #

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• New! Brain stretches on #SoundCloud http://soundcloud.com/stevecooley/brain-stretches #
• Just saw a live scribe demo. Holy hell. #
• Thanks, Terry McGraw. Nice one. #

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• Freebird. #conan #
• Great night in Cupertino: Avatar in IMAX 3d, then alexanders steak house. Both were amazing! #

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• RE: http://bit.ly/4N9eTD thanks for the plug @grandmabomb ! #
• http://yfrog.com/4ffmvuwj I'm legging my red! #
• Lol! I'm KEGGING my red! http://yfrog.com/4a92114019j #beer #

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• yay! I figured out how to run 2 #beatseqr boxes at the same time! D
  rums, meet bass. #
• Wouldn't it be awesome to have an executable arduino code uploader, sans IDE? http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1263933094 #

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