Month: July 2005

Chadwick you complete monkey;

I just reread my copy of Thank You and OK! before I donate it to the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple, and read the section where you mention “nine clay balls.” I’m sure you recall, you never do get around to describing what it means.

So, I’m thinking, this is the Information Age, it’s been a while since he wrote that, maybe someone somewhere has published what that phrase actually means.

So I Google it… guess what. There are only two articles containing that phrase that are archived by Google. One of them is a list of names of punk bands, singled out for their terrible names (Dogen-inspired punks?). The other is… you.

And you still don’t describe what it means.

So? Did you make it up? Is it your version of “the thing with the cup“? Is it some scatalogical koan equivalent?

Tell me tell me

Brian

PS

• The thing with the cup (PDF)
• Chadwick’s comments page
• the band list
• Wikipedia: David Chadwick

A blog about sound generation- I first saw this with his listing of Speech Synthesis Audio Samples And History, originally linked from a “daleks” page.

mmm daleks

Web link of note: Dave’s Imaginary Sounrd
(At http://spaces.msn.com/members/soundblog/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c01_blogpart=blogmgmt&_c=blogpart)

I saw a guy playing with this with his iSight and a Powerbook at a party- Boinx iStopMotion is a super slick way to make stop motion animation extremely easily.

BRAIN: In my day, we had to haev a super 8 with a single frame attachment and about a hundred bucks worth of lights from OSH… then you had to wait a week to get it developed to see if you had made a mistake. You damn kids.

Much much sexier than Stop Motion Pro, which needed a Windows machine

Check out the site! mmmmm iLookAndFeel.

Pretty insane- it’s a Sherlock channel someone (the Sherlock-infamous Jussi-Pekka Mantere) cobbled together to post Movable Type entries through Sherlock’s interface.

Me, I’m sticking with ecto
Web link of note: Sherlock Channel for Movable Type
(At http://lists.apple.com/archives/Sherlock-channel-dev/2002/Dec/msg00136.html)

Thomas J Elpel’s etc etc- it’s a site for sustainable living… but also for primitive technology, like making your own soap or hunting deer with sticks. They even have a school.
Web link of note: Hollowtop
(At http://www.hollowtop.com/)

From Singapore Paranormal Investigators… These guys are incredibly funny. It’s like a club? I can’t figure it out.
Web link of note: Unraveling the Myths of Pontianak
(At http://www.spi.com.sg/spi_files/pontianak/)

Beowulf translated. I like the illustrations.

I was surprised to learn that it only exists in a single copy. I thought it was some classic of Old English… when actually it could have been written by some obscure crank over a thousand years ago.
Web link of note: Beowulf
(At http://www.lone-star.net/literature/beowulf/)

Like the 48 Hour Film Project… but this one, you only have the course of a single day.
Web link of note: CinemaSports
(At http://www.cinemasports.com)

I met this guy “Mike” at a party in Novato. He has some films up.
Web link of note: Bum Steer Productions
(At http://bumsteerproductions.com/)

This sweetened condensed milk, the organic stuff, doesn’t kick as much ass as the crappy “asian” stuff I got at Ranch 99. The organic stuff I got at Berkeley Bowl.

I’m using this to make Vietnamese Coffee, which they call French Coffee. Normally it cranks the hell out of my brain. I am full on crazy for like a day and a half. But lately not so much.

Has my coffee gone stale (it’s been sitting in the freezer)? Or is there a lot of unlisted crap in my usual condensed milk selection that is the real thrill in my coffee? Better living through chemistry.

Making “asian” coffee? Then use the “asian” milk. It’s not Chinese, it’s not Vietnamese or Thai, it’s certainly not Japanese… it’s “ASIAN.” Ehyeah.