Poop bags. They are a great idea. I applaud those who brave the warm squishy feeling in order to make the trail better for everyone. I’m happy not to have to watch every step as I take my evening stroll on Ashland’s wonderfil TI ditch trail. There is trouble in paradise however, it seems some have begun to abuse the use of the crap bag.
Lately I’ve been noticing a huge increase of brightly colored, bulbus, sagging double knotted bags of joy littering the side of the trail. Whats up with this? Like I said, gret if you pick up your dogs excretion, but why not finish the job? Its like washing the dishes but not putting them away. What gives?
Please throw away your used bags. By leaving them on the side of the trail you are not doing a good thing. You are doing a worse thing. Thank you.
This is a fun track – a mashup of the 25 most popular songs of 2009 (according to Billboard) in one song. Kinda makes you realize that a lot of these pop songs sound exactly the same… DJ Earworm – United States of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop)
Im not entirely sure what I just watched. But I like it. From the artist’s description:
Syn Emergence is a project which examines my own associative relationships between sound, form and space.
The project is constructed according to a range of specific sonic and spatial scale rule sets (micro, component, meso and macro) which I designed as part of a cross-disciplinary notation/cartographic system.
Dead week is upon us. That terrible time when months of procrastination finally catch up to you. For all of you typing 10 page essays the day before they are due, this is for you. Hopefully these tunes can help you out a bit.
Cool track from this band out of Manchester, to get that intro paragraph done.
Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before? Eko, a traffic light concept by Damjan Stanković that counts down the time until the light changes. According to his description the benefits of the light include: Less fuel consumption because drivers can turn off their engine as they wait for the light to change. Less stress, you should be free to text message if you know the light wont change for another minute. What he forgot to mention was the huge benefit it would give to cyclists. Knowing when a light will change can mean not slamming on the brakes at the last minute at yellows, as well as saving energy from slowing down unnecessarily at reds about to turn green.
Ah, the end of the quarter. For some reason it always seems to mean movies, movies… movies in class. Today I watched two films about global warming – one about the sinking nation of Tuvalu and the other An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s most lasting contribution to society. Ironically last night was my first night back at the robot hut, of course, the heater is broken again. I had a dream I was wrapped in a hundred blankets, when I woke I thought I had frostbite on the tip of my nose. Who cares, lets just get to the music.
Thanks to Andrew for trading a few CDs with me last night! Heres a sweet track he made that he also gave me:
Have conversations with yourself. You’d be surprised how much you have in common.
Take the slightest driving errors by others completely out of context (this includes driving < 80 in the fast lane). Express your feelings with your horn, and be liberal with threatening gestures and cuss words. Dont worry – everyone understands.
You don’t really need food. Only eat when your car does at gas stations. Rockstar and pretzels. Nuff said.
Have someone make you a CD before you leave so you can listen to something unpredictable. Who cares if its dance music and you are stuck in traffic, and that someone slipped a Paris Hilton track in there – take it like a man.
Listen to bangin’ tracks like these until you reach your destination:
There is a really cool kit made by Future Kit that will allow you to pretty easily make your own LED VU meter. The kit comes with 15 leds, the PC board, all the components and a little bit of solder. The solder that comes with the kit is pretty big so I just used my own 60/40 rosin core solder from Radioshack. You have to attach your own power supply and the kit accepts 9 – 12v. I didnt want a huge AAx8 power supply so I just stuck with a 9v battery at the expense of slightly dimmer LEDs. It stays in the box with velcro. I wanted the whole thing to be something I could easily carry around (party trick!) so I decided to place mine in a box. Project boxes from Radioshack work well, they are fairly cheap and the material is easy to cut. One thing to watch out for the is the microphone – it has no leads. You have to solder wires on to the solder pads on the back of the mic. Be very careful, if any of the solder drips and touches anything else on the mic it will short out the circuit.
Put together a mix today while recovering from the mayhem of last night. Good to see all you HMB people that I love! And for all of you that I saw last night that I hadn’t seen for years, it was good seeing you too. I dedicate this mix to all you.
Youtube links to all but 1 song:
