they have a plan
Posted on July 21, 2009 - Filed Under Death, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
During a recent visit, my sister told me a chronology posited by a friend’s 4 year old son:
First there were dinosaurs.
Next came cavemen.
Then came people.
Then there were people and robots.
Next there will just be robots.
(more or less – I may have misquoted). Speaking of which.
Read More..>>Artsy Computer Marketing
Posted on May 29, 2009 - Filed Under Art, Robot Brains | 1 Comment
In “Selling the Computer Revolution“, the Computer History Museum has an excellent archive of computer marketing materials. Some of these would make excellent gig posters, I do say. (Some more than others, natch.)
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Read More..>>unpaid advert
Posted on March 4, 2009 - Filed Under Music, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Quick shout out for TagScanner, which I should have downloaded a long time ago. After a quick run through, it appears to meet all my MP3 tagging/file renaming needs — mostly for songs I get from archive.org.
I recommend this batch for starters if you’re looking: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists at Brownies (NYC) July [...]
it’s better my sweet, that we hover like bees
Posted on February 11, 2009 - Filed Under Facebook, Music, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
As with all things, Facebook is the Prime Mover. You know how it is. By fiat, I’ll put all my chain-notes on this blog & link back from there, so that all y’all aren’t required to go to FB for scoops on me if you don’t want to/can’t. I’m talking to you China and Ticha [...]
Read More..>>The Music Meme
Posted on December 5, 2008 - Filed Under Music, Robot Brains | 1 Comment
1. Put your iTunes (or any other media player you may have) on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
Go! {via}
Also, I’ve done these Magic Eight Ball MP3 quizzes in the past. This one was borderline freaky [...]
Read More..>>bitch is the new black
Posted on February 25, 2008 - Filed Under Ask The Internet, Music, Robot Brains, Statistics | Leave a Comment
new time suck found (google hot trends)as i descend into parts of the internet i never new existed, as I ponder questions such as:
Will #29 tawny kitaen be able to catch up with #28 norman mailer?
Curious as to the interest in #58 (obama turban) but when you consider that it falls well behind #45 sasquatch [...]
iTunes strikes back
Posted on February 2, 2008 - Filed Under Ask The Internet, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
looking for help to this now recurring error when I try and sync my iPod with iTunes “cannot be synced because there is not enough free space”:
Any help the internet can throw my way will be nice. So far google has failed me.
(For those scoring at home, my iTunes library is not 2 Billion gigabyes.)
As [...]
Read More..>>Cut And Run
Posted on December 17, 2007 - Filed Under Robot Brains, Sports | Leave a Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAAgfY_NHzw
Read More..>>big day of random
Posted on September 20, 2007 - Filed Under Music, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Looking at my last.fm, suspicions were confirmed — I’ve been listening to the same stuff a lot (I’m looking at you hold steady). So today, I’ve plugged my ipod into my laptop and am shuffling my entire collection. I expect to hear a lot of bad music and previously unheard songs. If you care to [...]
Read More..>>Mega-Powerful
Posted on August 7, 2007 - Filed Under Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
“The iMac continues to sport Intel Core 2 Duo processors that can now run up to 2.8 GHZ with up to 4MB of memory and up to 1Terabyte of storage.”
(I expected this typo be corrected before you ever see this, but it only fuels my speculation that Apple press releases are cut-n-paste into “news” articles [...]
BMK: Mobile
Posted on June 16, 2007 - Filed Under Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
I’m playing around with a Wordpress Plugin that makes this blog mobile device friendlier. Any mobile readers out there, please let me know any suggestions. (I’m testing it out on my new MotoQ). If yer interested, this is the plugin I used (after taking out some of the Advertising links & such) written by Andy [...]
Read More..>>I heard they were naked when they got busted
Posted on May 16, 2007 - Filed Under Faith, Music, Philosophy, Robot Brains, Vagaries of the Heart | Leave a Comment
Bob Holmes at New Scientist reports:
Fruit flies have free will. Even when deprived of any sensory input to react to, the zigs and zags of their flight reveal an intrinsic, non-random – yet still unpredictable – decision-making capacity.
If evolution has furnished humans with a similar capacity, this could help resolve one of the long-standing puzzles [...]
Swann Song
Posted on April 12, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
I see old boy Proust is picking up some blogmentum at Tingle Alley and Conversational Reading. Previously, I’ve been impressed with Microsoft Word’s Auto-Summarize feature. So, I’ve run the e-text of Moncrieff’s translation through the machine, and after 2 iterations, have come up with a condensed version for those who want to cut to the [...]
Read More..>>Murder By Death By Robot
Posted on March 12, 2007 - Filed Under Death, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
From the 30 Strangest Deaths (in HISTORY, no less):
Death by Robot
Robert Williams [wiki] was the first man ever killed by a robot. On January 25, 1979, Williams climbed into a storage rack at the Ford Motor’s Flat Rock casting plant to retrieve a part because the parts-retrieval robot malfunctioned. Suddenly, the robot reactivated and slammed [...]
my other blog – artifactual
Posted on March 12, 2007 - Filed Under Blog, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
In case anybody is interested, I’ve decided to start another blog, “artifactual” (A/F). It will focus on software development — despite appearances on this crappy blog, that’s what I do to pay the bills — something I didn’t really want to muck up BMK with. Basically, I’ve decided to divide and conquer myself. I also [...]
Read More..>>Fantasy Baseball 2.0?
Posted on March 2, 2007 - Filed Under Ask The Internet, Robot Brains, Sports | 1 Comment
I’m looking for a “social”* fantasy baseball site and welcome any recommendations you, kind Internet, may have to offer.
The closest I’ve come is a couple leads on Ning found by searching for “fantasy baseball”. Unfortunately, all two hits on this purportedly “social” site yield variations of:
I’m sure there are great reasons for having invitation-only social [...]
Read More..>>online campaining
Posted on February 21, 2007 - Filed Under Politics, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Tim O’Brien provides a fun read – breaking down the web sites (and technology behind them) for the various presidential candidates. Some highlights:
Barack and Hillary are all about video. In fact, CNN just engaged in media fusion [BARF -ed.] by playing the Clinton video on the TV. Think about this, a Cable Television channel just [...]
iScrew?
Posted on February 21, 2007 - Filed Under Perception, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Jeff “They All Suck” Atwood:
That’s the other problem with the Mac vs. PC debate: it completely misses the point. Computers aren’t couture, they’re screwdrivers. Your screwdriver rocks, and our screwdriver sucks. So what? They’re screwdrivers. If you really want to convince us, stop talking about your screwdriver, and show us what you’ve created with it.
but [...]
Code Immortal
Posted on January 24, 2007 - Filed Under Robot Brains, Time Travel and The Intergalactic | Leave a Comment
Use this software rant from Steve Yegge and metaphorize it as you see fit. Yeah, I said it – Metaphorize.
I think the second most important design principle, really a corollary to the first, is that systems must be able to grow without rebooting. A system that can’t grow over time is static, so it really [...]
Executive Summary
Posted on January 12, 2007 - Filed Under Death, Politics, Robot Brains, Turf Wars | 1 Comment
Aside from warm woolen mittens, two of my favorite things: (1) Brevity (2) Robot Brains. Happily these two passions of mine collide in Microsoft Word’s “Auto-Summarize” feature, as brought to my attention by Maud Newton.
To make a long story short: here’s the “executive summary” of our state’s executive’s summary: “Our troops in Iraq have fought [...]
