The collected works of guardian452 - Page 7

I'll say, that's a pretty good start

Has anybody tried a lipo battery yet? I'm not sure if it's the right battery type for this application (wrt standby discharge, recharging, lack of cycling), but I bought some 240mah, 3.7V lipo cells from amazon at $2 each for my thesis project and used a lipo charging IC built into my shoe. Just a mini usb port coming out to recharge, everything else is ANT (wireless)

but the price is very right. lipo is much cheaper than the coin-cells I was planning to use, can be recharged, and has slightly higher capacity for the same size.. good thing since the battery only lasts about 20 hours in my application!

http://www.amazon.com/Upgraded-Syma-S10 ... 653&sr=8-5 (the ad says 200mah, but mine were marked 240mah, ymmv...)

The smallest lipo battery, coupled with a charging IC for when the machine is on, should ensure the battery never dies.. and if it does, just charge it up again?

Like it is getting stuck before it closes all the way, and then opening up again after two or three seconds of being closed? Try turning the whole machine upside down when it is "closed" The way these mechanisms work normally oppose gravity, and if it's weak or broken then it might need a bit of help.

Obviously a temporary solution

I really like these guys, I have both of their albums... witty lyrics* and laid back guitar on the upbeat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4RMnOdM ... e=youtu.be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monks_(UK_band )

vishnu wrote: From the sublime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmgAjkxq4Gc

wrong sublime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTCyZvb2Uzw


*e.g. "nice legs, shame about her face", et al

Generatrix wrote: I'm open to hear more along the lines of this music genre! ...where to follow?

Alan Parsons, Jean Michel Jarre, Pink Floyd, Supertramp

Art of Noise, Kraftwerk, Frank Zappa...

"The Monks" won another fan here

The Clash, Queen, Styx, etc.. Monks are kind of interesting. It's a seemingly mainstream sound, yet there's nobody else that sounds like it.

They are described as a "70s british punk band" which almost makes sense, but it's nothing like the oi/skinhead movement... almost inspired by The Clash.. I can get the rest of the album uploaded, or just share it elsewhere for you.

Sublime

my little sister is the ska/"modern punk" expert.. and she's not around for me to ask.. I'd say, try The Mighty Mighty Bosstones , Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish , Tim Armstrong, 7Minds . I also recommend Red Hot Chili Peppers (saw them play a few weeks ago, fantastic show!) and Yellowcard (with trademark electric violin, the entire "Paper Walls" album is very good)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIfDslLY7O0
In the Pit
When I'm in the pit
I'm going to punch and kick
When I'm in the pit
Don't you know, I'm going to fuck up shit

Got my wife-beater on
Steel Toe Doc Martins on my feet yeah
Run around in a little circle
I'm wondering who to beat
And you know it's really cool
'Cause I played football in high school
Gonna push some little girls tonight
Look out now... there's gonna be a fight

When I'm in the pit
I'm going to punch and kick
When I'm in the pit
Don't you know, I'm going to fuck up shit

You'll be back...

My sister took her macbook(pro) to microcenter for warranty work... they sent us a letter dated 22 june that it was ready for pickup... the paperwork with the machine said microcenter got the computer back from apple almost two months before that... now she's moved to an exotic locale for the summer, left on the 11th or thereabouts so I had to pick it up for her, and she is stuck without a computer until she gets back.

This is just a long string of misfortunes microcenter has applied to her poor little computer, which has been in the shop many times. They've put almost $4k of parts in it, and everytime they return it "fixed" there is a new problem. (first, for an innocuous dead pixel, then no hard drive, then no battery, then no wireless card) finally after the missing wifi card, we force them to send it to apple to have it fixed properly. which they did, and then sit on it for two months.

I think all that is left of the original machine is the keyboard and trackpad assembly. they've even changed out the chassis after stripping out a bunch of screw bosses. They've also "lost" the power supply and provided her with a new one, free of charge, which was nice

It's soooo nice to have a computer with a shiny new LCD screen with no dead pixel... only to display a HDD error message and nothing else. and have screws rattling around inside. And then you return it, and get it back with a working disk, and suddenly the battery only lasts for about... oh, half a second... when it worked perfectly beforehand... and later, with the new battery, suddenly, the airport card doesn't show up anywhere with any utility.. and if we look inside there is an empty slot where it used to be. Ugh.

At that age everyone I knew was throwing rocks at the Establishment and burning cop cars.

Well, I'd like to tell you all about my dream, it's a place
Where strip malls abound and diversion's mere moments away
Where culture is defined by the ones least refined
And you'll be left behind if you don't fit in
It's all distorted in americana, my way

Well, fuck you
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Well, my dream has come true
Whoa, whoa, whoa
My vision has come true

Now, give me my cable, fast food, four-by's, tat's, right away
I want it right now, 'cause my g-ggeneration don't like to wait
My future is determined by thieves, thugs, and vermin
It's quite an excursion, but it's ok
Everything's backwards in americana, my way

Well, fuck you
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Well, my dream is coming true
Whoa, whoa, whoa
My vision has come true
Yeah, it's all coming true

I'm a product
Of my environment
So don't blame me
I just work here but I wanna fuck you

My rights are denied by those least qualified
Trading profit for pride, but it's, it's ok
Everything's backwards in americana, my way

Well, fuck you
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Well, my nightmare has come true
Whoa, whoa, whoa
My nightmare has come true
Yeah, it's all coming true
Yeah, it's all coming true

Oh and I'm sure everybody here remembers these painful lessons...
a) the CRT's aquadag likes to build up a big charge the instant you remove the ultor short
b) The reason it's called a flyback transformer is because when you touch it you magically "fly back" across the room with all the swiftness and grace of a jungle cat.

so, as a layperson... I suppose it's another excuse to party?

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/20 ... 20626.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... found.html

Peter Higgs wrote: I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge

Yup. From the tomatoes on down*, phony as a three dollar bill. "Business logic ! Business ethics ! Profit ! Profit ! Gotta make a proooooofit ! Efficient use of reeeee-sources !" (As in, put it all in my bank account, you peasants.) Talk about the Big Lie .... diarrhoea is what it is.

* I have a quick civilization gauge : eat a tomato. If it tastes like cardboard, the society is worthless.

The How and Why:
http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/07 ... upermarket

better watch out! I'm in a zappa funk lately!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Oo2zzwQCg

I'm a newb. but part of our "warm up" soundtrack was st. alfonzos... when I was in high school... and you say pop like it's a bad thing! I'm a drummer. I like 4/4 time. and 3/4 and 7/8. none of this 17/19 stuff...

Isn't 13/8 the same as just alternating 4/4 and 7/8 ? Can you provide a recording?

Our bass drum tech / PA sound guy was big into FZ. He talks like FZ with the same accent and everything. "great googly-moogly!"

After deciding that I would jump into FZ's works, and not knowing with which album to begin, I simply acquired his compleet (more-or-less) works in lossless format:

While Apostrophe' is still one of my favourites, and Overnite Sensation as well (especially the flow of "Camarillo Brillo"), the technical awesomeness the polymodal "Rhymin' Man" (Broadway The Hard Way), and switching style two bars at a time is really amazing, and the irony of doing something like that over a C&W bassline.

It's a fairly severe case of "far too much good stuff" until I can actually listen to it all... Of course I tried Weasels after sky's recommendation and it was thoroughly enjoyable but demanding. I made the mistake of trying to multitask while playing "Didja Get Any Onya?".. and pretty much just sat and listened the rest of the album..

I haven't heard stuff like this in years.. Not since drum corps days.. where we would be occasionally ordered to "now play that in Ab Phrygian"... not sure if that's a marimbist thing or just a weird drumline thing..

‎"at this very moment on the stage
we have drummer "A" playing in 7/8
drummer "B" playing in 3/4
the bass playing in 3/4
the organ playing in 5/8
the tambourine playing in 3/4
and the alto sax...blowing his nose..."

hamei wrote: If you can point out any significant differences between chimpanzees Twittering away in the trees four million years ago and "social networking" I'll happily kiss your hairy black treeborne ass.

Does society want/need anything different?

frankblues wrote: I should be clearer. I think Tim Berners Lee and a NeXT box (rumored to be the one he wrote the WWW browser on) at the Olympics is inherently cool. That the American commentators didn't know who he was is pretty lousy.

But the American commentators are historically always lousy and kudos to Hope Solo (ex. especially football commentary) for finally saying something* about it. I haven't watched the 2012 ceremony (yet) but I remember for the Beijing ceremony in 2008 I simply seeked out a bittorrent from a network without commentary because the broadcast commentary where I was, was nails-on-chalkboard annoying.

Anyways, I will be for-sure looking for the cube when I watch it because that is totally awesomesauce IMO.


*added:

It would be interesting to hear from all the professional UI people on here about the tabletization of everything. It seems to me that forcing the (WIMP-y) PC into the (tile-y) tablet world is the same mistake in reverse that the early tablet people made of trying to make it WIMP-y (think Windows CE).

The mac air was sold as sort of an ipad-with-a-keyboard, at least the early 11" that I have, that was the video that sold me on it. They later took a lot of the ideas in iOS and put it in lion. So I also have an ipad (1st generation) and an old 9" symbol tablet (about 1.5 inch thick, but also waterproof dustproof etc, P3 800mhz, etc) that runs windows XP. All of these machines tend to work very well with regards to the interface. Different, but work well none the less.

Mac OS X developing toolset is over looked. Outside of iOS app developing you don't hear much about folks digging into what OS X has to offer and pretty much for free (once you own a mac).

For my thesis project I used an iphone as a host to a wireless footy monitor of sorts (using an ant transceiver to the 30pin connector). iOS is pretty cool but it definitely takes a lot of adjusting, especially for the likes of me, who's focus revolves around feet, shoes, (to a lesser extent, sensors, analog, and microcontrollers); and most definitely not software... but it was done, workable, and very reliable (never crashed on us) in the end. It sure beats having to carry around a laptop when running, or running on a treadmill..

GeneratriX wrote: Hello there!

About the subject The Monks... oh well... I guess I'll need some kind of lobotomy to remove from my brain "I Can Do Anything You Like" and "Space Fruit" among other songs... how the heck they were shielded from me for so many years? Tanked music before the tanked-anything age?

Never had too much interest for punk/ska movement, and now I hear them and I like a good chunk of their music. Good! I want more! Maybe along the rest of the weekend, maybe not... we'll see. Time to sleep a bit!

Keep adding. All the best,
Diego

I'm slowly uploading this album to youtube, since it apparently doesn't exist at all anymore. This was one of my father's favourite groups. He saw them twice in Ottawa and also in Toronto (about 4 hours journey by car). One of the shows, they did a 5-minute intro to this song, with lots of fog and other special effects, shivvvering and whispering, and that eerie solo guitar wailing riffs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0cV3qZ1mpA