20-jun-2006
tuesday
| sunset
Actually I was looking for a different sunset pic to post but this one is pretty good, I think.
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10-jun-2006
saturday
| Goddamn, I hate the made-up word, "monetize".
"Republicans have treated campaigns and politics as a business, and now are treating public policy as a business, looking for the types of returns that you get in business, passing legislation that has huge ramifications for business," he said.
"It is very much being monetized, and the federal government is being monetized under Republican majorities."
From
digby.
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06-jun-2006
tuesday
| free, random music
Justin and I multi-tracked these songs last night. We each played an improvised track (starting with drums and bass), then went back and improvised more
parts over them with other instruments/vox. They're fairly listenable for being random and unrehearsed. They certainly don't sound like anything you'd hear on the radio.
Superspout: Tool-ish bass, wailin' guitar, random lyrics, whooshing Moog.
Click Monkey: Funkified bass, clickywicky guitar, bad singing, delayed Rhodes piano.
Numero Trés: Fretless bass, pickywicky guitar, reverbous singing
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| | I like helping democracy think.
as in, I voted. I also received my fourth (? I forget) $300 Bush bribe rebate check from the Treasury. I'm not cashing this one, either.
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27-may-2006
saturday
| FAITO!
I gots me the Matt Hughes v. Royce Gracie fight on PPV tonight! I think it's the first PPV event I ever purchased. Should be sweet. I'm recording it on
uber quality on my ReplayTV, since I'm going to see Mogwai play at the Fillmore tonight. Rock on.
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19-may-2006
friday
| getting rid of www dot
Yep. From now on www.badmofo.org now redirects to just plain ol' badmofo.org. It just makes more sense.
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13-may-2006
saturday
| what's up
Howdy. I finally finished putting this website into source control (using Subversion). Now I can post stuff again!
And I will. And not just to the readme section in the left pane, neither. This is all part of my plan to move the hosting for this site off my DSL and onto
something more powerful. I really, really need to give hlscript's posting system some better lovin' too. It's just barely too much hassle at this point.
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13-feb-2006
monday
| revenge of the sith vox rox, coulda roxed a bit more
Just got and (re)watched Revenge of the Sith from GreenCine.
It really is a good
movie. They can really crank out the Star Wars-ness at this point.
(Uncompensated plug: GreenCine does NOT throttle heavy users,
unlike stinky Netflix. At all. They are a lot smaller and only have the one distribution
point here in the Bay, though. Umm and they have
ALL the (region 1) anime there is to have on DVD.)
Anyway, I was looking thru the IMDB entry for Revenge of the Sith
and I noticed some interesting trivia as to Grievous's voice:
Gary fuckin' Oldman was originally
signed up for it! But SAG wouldn't let him do it (apparently Lucas is non-union), so they fell back to
(get this) John DiMaggio! Fuckin' Bender! But he couldn't do it because
he was committed to Futurama. Which is acceptable. Because he's Bender! But goddamn that would have ruled.
John DiMaggio does such great voicing and he's in almost nothing. Well,
he's the sheriff in that Vampire Hunter D remake. I wish he was the big
cross-on-forehead guy instead but ah well Bender Bender Bender!
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11-feb-2006
saturday
| wizard of id
What do you know,
the Wizard of Id is actually kinda funny/relevant
for once. Maybe I've just been buried in PDA development
for too long.
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21-jan-2006
saturday
| free, good music!
Ugress has put full-length 160kbps mp3s up of their newest 5 track EP,
Sophisticated Wickedness.
It's good stuff. Go download it.
They have quite a few other free mp3 downloads, too. My standout favorites are Decepticons (a Transformers samplestravaganza)
and SpiderEyes
(a Spider-Man theme remix). So good. Well, they're all good really.
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18-jan-2006
wednesday
| a comic I must recommend
One of the very best and most consistently funny comics on the Internet
today is
Achewood.
It's got everything I look for in an Internet comic: Funny, large-format,
an ensemble cast, persistent storylines, readable text, and most importantly,
has a fully functional RSS feed.
There are print books out too. I just bought 'em all so I can catch up.
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12-jan-2006
thursday
| this one goes to 11 haha hehe I'm so clever
So yesterday, Justin and I were at Guitar
Center. Justin was trying out guitars and I wandered over to the bass
section. I had wanted to fiddle around with this electric upright bass
they usually have set up there when I saw this guy with his back to me playing
this crazy thing:
(image
horked from his site but only to save his bandwidth)
I could only see it
from the back but I
was all I GOT to get next on that. So since the guy obviously wasn't gonna
give it up any time soon I brought Justin over to see it and that's how
we met Jean Baudin, player
of 11-string bass. (Turned out it wasn't for sale and he didn't work there. Durn.)
We had a pretty excellent conversation; he showed
us some tapping exercises, and we talked bass in general. I have a 6-string
but damnation if I knew there were or could be 2 MORE strings below the low B string.
New sub project for me: restring my 6 string to get rid of the pointless
upper B string and go down, down. Weirdly (to me) he said he doesn't really
use the lower strings.
Anyway, you may have seen the previous video of him playing the Super Mario
Brothers
theme on his 11-string but I still had to get my own clip of him doing it (well,
the first 40 seconds)
on my Treo 650:
320x240 Xvid, 2 megs
Update: here's a Quicktime version
He does the fire level music too... maybe next time.
Anyway in thanks for the clip I should mention he plays in a metal band called
Nuclear Rabbit and he'll be playing a solo show
in Berkeley on May 17. I'll be there.
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10-jan-2006
tuesday
| bdayze
Seeing as how the regular "Happy Birthday" song is copyrighted and such
I say we switch to this one. Just go ahead and improvise a new melody each time. It's
the only way it will remain free.
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09-jan-2006
monday
| now I get it
Ah ha! So this is why Bush has
not vetoed a single bill in 5 years: He keeps his fingers crossed! Judicially, that is. I'd been wondering about that.
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31-dec-2005
saturday
| if there is hope it lies in the mutants
To those on the net retardin' off on Kelsey Grammer playing The Beast in
X-Men 3, thinkin' it'll just be Frasier in a monkey suit: get a grip and
have some faith. This is
the guy who plays Sideshow Bob, after all. Maybe you should focus more on what the hell
Captain Picard is doing there in a wheelchair.
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15-dec-2005
thursday
| progress is key
Now that it's at its end of life,
there is one thing I have to give the Xbox credit for:
Support for 16:9 displays is mandatory for all titles, and surround sound too.
Hopefully Sony will catch up on the HDTV front with its PS3 because MS definitely
is on the ball here.
while I'm at it
Something I wish win32 would steal/innovate off PalmOS:
(yes, PalmOS, I am a fan, thank you)
Mandatory app serialization. Every app should come back in exactly the same
state as it was when I shut it down. It's just lazy coding otherwise.
FWIW
bmem,
debris,
and rsxe all serialize their state between runs. And each with entirely different methods:
bmem via .ini file, debris via wasabi.xmlconfig (and an ini file), and rsxe using sqlite. By the way I can't recommend sqlite
enough, if only for reliable bulletproof incorruptable storage of program state.
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13-dec-2005
tuesday
| sharing is fun
Awesome! Someone finally used some free samples from
NINJAM to remix a song. It's pretty
good, too.
Excuse me sir, did you want 10 bazillion random original licks and sounds, all CC-licensed? There
you go.
(Link horked from Justin)
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30-nov-2005
wednesday
| an album
Recently, I participated in the making of an instant album:
On Up On - The Journey. Present were: Brennan Underwood, three Daves (Biderman, Cole & Newton), Ghislain Lacroix, and Justin Frankel. We are sworn
to secrecy as to who played what, when, where, why, or how.
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28-nov-2005
monday
| appy olidays
Google Book Search is pretty cool, but what I really
want for Christmas is Google Menu Search. Er, Google Local Menu Search. With
handy dandy link to waitersonwheels.com even. Santa? You listening?
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23-nov-2005
wednesday
| readme section back up
Hooray! del.icio.us finally supports native linkrolling. So, my "readme" section has been restored back to the
left bar there. Basically whatever I find interesting enough to read but not
interesting enough to write up into a whole article will be posted in there.
It has its own RSS feed and everything.
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