On The Jazz II

I have a couple of projects on the go which will soon start to see fruition. Check back soon.

Labels: yeah right

This is not going to end well:




and this does not even start well:

if she says she's a lesbian, she's a lesbian.

(a rare case of following-up on a post. In this case, this was the original story)

Something sparkly is in your future from Ian Cameron on Vimeo.

So why is it that people that drive round with music blasting out of their car invariably have awful taste? Usually they're broadcasting some terrible dance, shit-hop or other aural abomination (note: that is not to say all hip-hop is bad - just most).

I mean seriously, when's the last time you were walking along the street and some car drove by playing out good music? For me, miraculously, it was today.

That's right. As I was walking home from Old Town a car passed me playing righteous, righteous funk. I'm not sure what it was, though it was certainly JB-ish. And the horn section was giving it some.

Sometimes I forget how good funk is. Proof that I am an idiot.

Incidentally if you're in Europe then Breakestra are currently on a European tour. For the uninitiated, Breakestra are the funkiest band alive (yes, even funkier than Calypso King and the Soul Investigators). Annoyingly they have a residency in LA, except for when I'm here. Go see them, because they are possibly the best band in the world.

Well, I've just been asked to turn the music down. Just like in every other place I've lived.
Seriously, some people just don't know good music when they hear it (through the ceiling/wall/floor).

Radiohead on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Epson LX-86 Dot Matrix Printer, HP Scanjet 4c, oscilloscope and Hard Drive array


Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

and they're going to rock your world.

Labels: rock out with your transistors out

Coffee Drinkers Have Slightly Lower Death Rates, Study Finds

I'm pretty sure human mortality rate is 100% regardless of whether you drink coffee or not.

Labels: I am invincible

El camino del Rey
Lots of nudity
Better than me
Morbid yet interesting
Dumb
Not very accurate title

Labels: video

OK, in a few tens of hours I'm heading back to CA.
Of the books I'm taking, these are the two that are shortlisted for cabin duty:

Haruki Murakami's Dance Dance Dance

and

J.M.Ledgard's Giraffe: A Novel


Any recommendations as to which goes in checked luggage and which goes hand?

code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.

more

Labels: codeswarm, python, visualisation

The Death* Star

* of a

Sex lines that is.
An article about Phillip Toledano’s book Phone Sex

quoth:

“Gary was watching a ‘World’s Strongest Women’ show and saw a woman pick up a motorcycle.
‘Oh I could do that,’ I offered.
‘Could you?’ he responded, breathless.
‘Yes. How much do you weigh?’
‘160.’
‘Oh. I could bench-press two of you.’
‘Oh my god… I’d like to see you lift up my girlfriend’s car.’
‘What kind of car does she have?’
‘A Mazda Miata.’
‘Oh yes, I could pick up a Miata. In fact, I would love to.’
‘Really?!?!??! Oh my god! What if my girlfriend was inside?’
‘I would just pick it up, lift it to my shoulder level, and then hoist it up over my head, with your girlfriend inside. I’d slowly turn around in a circle with it held up in the air, with your girlfriend screaming in the front seat.’”

A part of me may miss getting paid for this when I move on.

Labels: who you gonna call?

I ams a robot.
which is to say, I always get captchas wrong.

Labels: gotchme

I was just doing some photo library organising tonight and came across some photos from the last few months that I quite like but had completely forgotten about.

So here they are

Labels: forgotten, photo

Sorry, I know they're dull. But I got space to fill here, and this blog ain't gonna write itself.

Just more Kodak Z1085 test shots. In the library again because that's where I spend all my time (yes, I know, I live the life of a rock star).



Also, in case you don't know, the slightly misnomered 'dailies' section is here. The idea is that it's a place for me to put general day-to-day shots that I kind of like. As such, the standard is not going to be particularly high.

Labels: library, sssssssssssssshhh, the 'stud' in studying, z1085

Just for fun, a very coarse plot of an ebay auction that ended today (I was selling a 20D if you really must know).
I think bidding patterns are really interesting, as do a great many economists and even physicists.
I think at some point I'll write a quick program to plot ebay auctions more finely. Speaking of which, the above graph was plotted with python/pylab because the graphing part of OpenOffice.org, at least the version I have installed, was giving me such a headache that it was actually quicker to code it myself. Now python/pylab make it extremely easy to do simple plots like this, but it's still not a good sign for OO although to be fair I'm out of date so I imagine (hope) it's much better these days.

Labels: AJs, and yeah - I really do think, good one shaggy, nice try