I have this dream
June 16, 2011
June 16, 2011
where I'm flying through space
hoping there are no power lines
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A fascinating article from 1987
May 14, 2011
Reading this piece from the New Yorker about the Mississippi River from 1987 (at schwa's recommendation). I wish it had pictures, but wow.
May 14, 2011
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Music
April 22, 2011
louie - 1 -- [6:28]
April 22, 2011
louie - 2 -- [7:01]
louie - 3 -- [10:30]
louie - 4 -- [4:55]
louie - 5 -- [4:13]
louie - 6 -- [6:58]
tame impala
April 19, 2011
I love these guys, I can't wait until next week for their show. Anyway some of their (old?) demos/unreleased tracks have shown up on youtube, and are really wonderful. Such low quality and such good result. Here's a little playlist of some of them I put together:April 19, 2011
Also, I would highly recommend their album "Innerspeaker", as well as the EP that has the song "half full glass of wine" on it. Both of those are outstanding.
Recordings:
freeform jam with louie
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power consumption
April 12, 2011
I wonder what the total number of kW hours required to say, run the Apollo 11 mission. One factor would be in the fuel required, but I also mean in running the whole operation, manufacturering components, running control rooms, processing fuel, moving the rockets around, etc etc.
April 12, 2011
Which brings me to the fact that I just got a "Kill-A-Watt", after reading this blog post. I haven't tested everything yet (nor will I ever hah), but here are the results for the things I have:
- iPhone charger: 0.0W when no iPhone connected, 6W when charging (the classic "you should unplug wall warts when not in use" thing doesn't necessarily apply!)
- ReadyNAS NV (old sparc model, 3 WD and 1 Seagate 1TB disks): 50W
- Samsung 24" LCD: 45W, or 0W when in powersave mode
- Q6600 2.4ghz computer with single 7200rpm disk, GeForce 8600 GT, UAD-1 PCI-E card, idle: 115W, full load (with UAD-1 going): 185W.
- Sony VPC-Z12 laptop (dual core i7, SSD, 13" 1920x1080 screen, full brightness): 17W when idle in "speed" mode. 35W when idle and charging battery, 77W under full CPU load while charging battery.*
- Updated: Brother laser printer/scanner/fax: 6W idle
- Updated: Thinkpad X60 (1.83ghz C2D): idle 23W, 28W with full brightness setting
- Updated: PS3: 1W off, 100W idle, 120W in RE5.
- Updated: LG 36" LCD: 0.5W off, 45W on
- Updated: 24" C2D iMac: 125W idle, screen at full brightness, 146W full load
- Updated: ZT lunchbox amp: 18W cranked but not playing anything, 23W when playing loud
*I should also mention that this laptop is really wonderful, despite lacking home/end/pgup/pgdown keys, which makes me sad. It weighs only 3LBs, and is fast (i7 dual core, 4 threads, goes up to 3.2ghz or so in singlecore mode automatically), and even has an optical drive built in.
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Music
April 11, 2011
freeform jam with louie
April 11, 2011
Music
April 6, 2011
louie - 1 -- [18:02]
April 6, 2011
louie - 2 -- [12:53]
louie - 3 -- [26:53]
louie - 4 -- [23:39]
Music
March 28, 2011
freeform jam with justins and alex and and and guy
March 28, 2011
beautiful ground
March 21, 2011
I love this song, and this version is particularly good:March 21, 2011
Oh and this one too:
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Music
March 9, 2011
freeform jam with louie
March 9, 2011
another one
March 8, 2011
funny days (the internet), includes samples from this video.
March 8, 2011
Recordings:
funny days
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a little ditty
March 7, 2011
rainy sad sunday -or- notes written in pencil. I did some lyrics which were a bit crap, so I left them out of this mix. Space harmonica ftw.
March 7, 2011
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