Archive for the ‘weird’ Category.
13th September 2006, 11:05 am
If you bought a game for your ipod and are getting a message saying something like:
The game “(whichever game you bought)” was not copied to the iPod “my ipod” because you are not authorized to play it on this computer
check out this kbase article: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=639297&tstart=30 … I bought Zuma and had a little trouble getting it to work, but followed the instructions on that linked page and was successful getting the game to sync up.
Technorati Tags: ipod, ipod games, apple
25th June 2006, 10:07 pm
at some point when I was finishing my projector, I shorted a circuit and tripped a breaker… the only problem was that I couldn’t figure out which breaker was the one I tripped. None of the circuit breakers in the box fixed the dead outlets in the garage… ok, well, the dead outlet in the garage. The other two outlets in the garage were fine. Turns out the two good ones were accurately labeled “plugs” in the breaker box. But the main outlet I use for all my powertools wasn’t working. Also not working was the garage door opener. I guess it was on the same circuit with some magical non-breaker. I was starting to worry because I just couldn’t figure out how to get those outlets working again.
Then more interesting things happen. The outlets on the outside of the house aren’t working. so that’s three that I can’t trace to a breaker now. Then R said that her outlet in her bathroom wasn’t working. wow, 4 outlets not hooked up to a breaker? That’s just too freakin’ weird. Huh.. well her outlet is GFCI protected, yeah? It should have the red thingy to reset the outlet… Oh. a sticker saying it’s GFCI, but no red reset thingy. Mine has one of the red reset thingies…
wait.. this one outlet is the circuit breaker for all these other outlets? In my bathroom? You gotta be kidding me. I pushed the reset button, and guess what? All the outlets are working again! :-\
Technorati Tags: gfci
18th November 2005, 03:28 pm
I was in Orlando for a sales conference recently.. I took 2 busses to get to a mall so I could buy a charger for my phone.. here are the notes I took about the surroundings:
- lots of off-kilter buildings
- lots of Mini / “Adventure” Golf
- lots of regular golf
- Lots of “World” stores: “Outdoor World” - “Bargain World” - “World’s largest gift store”
- “Supermarket of Shoes”
- lots of good busses, with a cool name for the transit system : “Lynx”
- lots of “$5.99 disney t-shirt” stores
12th October 2005, 05:53 pm
What a hoot, Rudy Rucker and Bruce freakin‘ Sterling in my recently old stomping grounds. I’ve purchased luggage from that store in the back ground!
Bruce Sterling Visits:
We walked down to Sharper Image on Santa Cruz Ave. in Los Gatos and looked at some of the robots for sale. Bruce is into design these days, he's been a guest professor at Art Center in Pasadena, and has a book on Ubiquitous Computatoin coming out from MIT Press. This morning when I woke up he was gone, off to get some righteous bucks from the Global Business Network in SF. You gotta get up pretty dang early in the morning to keep up with my man Bruce!
3rd May 2005, 02:45 pm
Tiger: Free Real-Time Interactive Eye Candy Maker — Quartz Composer: “Joshua Ellis (zenarchery.com) writes us with an insanely cool discovery on the Mac OS X 10.4 developer DVD. I’m still waiting on my Tiger shipment, but this will definitely be on my install. Josh writes:
So I’m playing with the new Quartz Composer in OS X 10.4, which allows you to do weird sort of graphic installation-y stuff, plus design your own screensavers. It’s basically a drag-and-drop OpenGL composer, sort of like Max/MSP for making eye candy. You can load images or QuickTime movies and do real-time graphics processing on them.
In the list of controller tools? MIDI Clock, MIDI Controllers (aka pitch and mod wheel) and MIDI Notes. I haven’t gotten all my drivers updated yet, but it appears that this eye candy can be controlled via MIDI (in addition to the keyboard, an LFO, RSS feeds, the command line…pretty much anything). And you can write your eye candy out as an actual application. Which other people can download.
You have to install the XCode Tools to get this on Tiger, but they’re included free on the DVD. The app is called ‘Quartz Composer’. I think Macs may have just gotten a couple of hundred times more interesting.
Josh also tells us you can interactively map audio inputs to assign volume peak and spectrum to other controllers(!) While this is no substitute for Max/MSP and Jitter, for some visual fun and Swiss Army Knife-interactivity, looks like a must-install. Stay tuned..”
(Via createdigitalmusic.com.)
wow! WOW! wowowowow! Download an example I made. Here’s a small screen grab movie clip for those of you who aren’t on tiger yet. YEssss… here’s another. This is so much fun. What isn’t mentioned in the article is there’s drag and drop VIDEO support 3d transforms, Bonjour services, image getter, RSS feed support… IT’S OFF THE HOOK, PEOPLE!
update check out http://quartzcomps.com/ … thanks jono!
28th February 2005, 11:13 am
The Joy of Tech has a great panel on Jef Raskin. Thank you Jef.
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1st February 2005, 01:42 pm
Andrew Knauss, worked with you at Ad Assist Group in woodland hills. Bill, too. Michael Clarke, I worked with you at Graphic Pizza. Heck, whatever happened to all of you people from Graphic Pizza? April from electric pencil on Melrose… you were into Kraftwerk and a woman with a bull whip. Jeez, “chasing amy” much? Ryan Olsen, trombone player in high school, one year after me. Leanne Jones of simi valley, went to school at cal poly. Jessica Wood, we used to go to F.A.M.I.L.Y. parties. Mr. Kanagai, you recruited kids in the classroom into your MLM businesses… oof. Mr. Detmer, shop teacher, dude, you were great. I never took shop with you, but you let me test out that computer operated lathe. Dr. Jerry (Gerald) Feight, marketing, humanities, and US History teacher at moorpark college (they are all the same, aren’t they). Mr. Flores, ceramics teacher at moorpark, too. Ken Farkash, I’ve already mentioned.. fellow ceramics student.
WHERE ARE ALL YOU PEOPLE???
27th December 2004, 11:54 am
Lemmings’ suicide myths started by Disney nature photogs: “Cory Doctorow:
Lemmings are widely considered to be suicidal beasts, throwing themselves en masse off cliffs. It turns out that this isn’t true, but rather a legend begun through some unethical trick photography executed by Disney nature photos in the fifties.
The myth of mass lemming suicide began when the Walt Disney movie, Wild Wilderness was released in 1958. It was filmed in Alberta, Canada, far from the sea and not a native home to lemmings. So the filmmakers imported lemmings, by buying them from Inuit children. The migration sequence was filmed by placing the lemmings on a spinning turntable that was covered with snow, and then shooting it from many different angles. The cliff-death-plunge sequence was done by herding the lemmings over a small cliff into a river. It’s easy to understand why the filmmakers did this - wild animals are notoriously uncooperative, and a migration-of-doom followed by a cliff-of-death sequence is far more dramatic to show than the lemmings’ self-implemented population-density management plan.
So lemmings do not commit mass suicide. Indeed, animals live to thrive and survive. Consider a company like Disney, where one rodent, namely Mickey Mouse, was Royalty. It’s rather odd to think that Disney could be so unkind to another rodent, the lemming..
Link
(via The Disney Blog)”
(Via Boing Boing.)
This rather destroys the entire premise for one of my favorite games in the whole world.
21st December 2004, 05:20 pm
I don’t know these people, but I like ‘em. You gotta give it up for this family. You just KNOW you’ve felt like this at some certain age.
I mean, come on, the expression on the blonde girl in front of mom is priceless. And, see the girl with the black hair? That’s the age I’m talking about.
14th December 2004, 01:06 pm
A talented and hilarious electro/rap/closet goth in San Jose: Agent2a03
18th November 2004, 01:15 pm
My old artist friend Ken Farkash (HEY, I’d love to reconnect with you, first to probably tell me I forgot how to spell your name, sorry man!) once told me about Too Much Coffee Man. Jono triggered that memory for me this morning.
still at it. Funny as ever.
25th October 2004, 06:05 pm
Limecat: “is not pleased”
But i am. 
25th October 2004, 11:48 am
This is extremely impressive… Pretty smart compared to the “AI” I’ve seen in the past…
http://y.20q.net/anon
10th October 2004, 01:30 pm
Now that I’ve migrated us from Wordpress 1.0 to Wordpress 1.2, it’s time to give mars edit another shot. I guess it’s weird, it’s an idea, and you had to be there.
