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Revision as of 15:19, 5 December 2014
I have been around since the founding, am interested in the intersection of technology and creativity and make and repair software for a living.
Prime Directives:
- Have Fun
- Play is as important as work
- Not everything has to have a higher purpose
- Embrace Kaizen
- Always be improving your skills
- Always be documenting
- Leave things cleaner and more organized than when you started
Current Obsessions
This category is really exciting my need to inventory and is destined to grow more branches and leaves
- Coffee
- Science Fiction (SF, not Sci Fi, dammit!)
- Phil Dick
- Cyberpunk from way back
- William Gibson
- Bruce Sterling
- Rudy Rucker
- Neal Stephenson
- Blade Runner
- Existential Horror
- Lovecraft
- Peter Watts
- Alien
- New Space Opera
- Alestair Reynolds
- More SF to come…
- Music, Sound, and Noise
- Keyboards and Synthesizers
- Noise
- Means
- Devices, pedals, and gadgets
- Electroacoustic/digital hybrids like the Emitters
- Computer generated with Max/MSP, Pure Data
- Venues
- Live improvised performance - what I generally do
- Recording - not so much
- Means
- Singing - I kill
- Automata
- Complexity
- Worst Case Scenarios
- Best Case Scenarios
- Bicycles
- Making
- Science
- Space Travel
- Worst Case Scenarios
- Best Case Scenarios
- Far out theories
Skills and Infrastructure
- Computing
- OSes
- Mac OS X - currently Mavericks, on desktops
- Launchbar - launching apps from the keyboard
- Total Terminal - was Visor, an always available command line
- Total Finder - like a Visor for graphical file browsing
- Divvy - keyboard based window paning
- HomeBrew - compiling and installing open source software
- Keyboard Fu - not software, wetware
- Linux - servers
- Windows - Windows XP and 7, resisting windows 8, use for games or when forced to
- Mac OS X - currently Mavericks, on desktops
- Hardware
- Mac Hardware - Specialize in used - haven't bought new in a while
- Mac Pros - the classic aluminum expandable tower form factor, not the closed "trash can"
- Mac Pro 1.1
- Mac Pro 4.1
- Desktops
- Mac Pros - the classic aluminum expandable tower form factor, not the closed "trash can"
- Quicksilver - retired
- Blue and White - retired
- Mini - destined to be repurposes as a low power home server
- Laptops
- Late 2011 Macbook Pro 8.3 - current
- Mid 2009 - deceased
- Pismo - deceased
- Laptops
- PC hardware
- Ancient P5 ATX tower - retired
- Boot camp on Mac Pro 1.1
- Boot camp on Mac Laptop (need to migrate)
- Mac Hardware - Specialize in used - haven't bought new in a while
- OSes
- Programming
- Languages Used - in order of current usage level
- Javascript - starting to get very serious about this one
- Perl
- SQL
- Max/MSP, Pure Data - visual, not semantic programming useful for video and sound
- Arduino / Processing - ramping these up for the wearable electronics
- Java - can't believe I used to love it
- Bash
- C Shell
- Ruby
- Objective C
- C
- C++
- Pascal
- Basic
- Languages of interest - slated for future acquisition
- Functional Languages like Haskell
- Python
- Languages Used - in order of current usage level
Projects
This I intend to flesh out and make the major feature of my page with statuses, sound, video, etc.
- Smart Bicycle Jacket
- Emitters
- 2nd Generation Emitters
- Programmable effects box
- Hubbub