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audio test

Got a taste of my nephew Coleman’s latest composition “The Dopest” on his Crocigator myspace blog.  Kids nowadays — I’ve been running Live, Digital Performer, and Komplete (especially Kontakt!) for...

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palace museum

In November I received an invitation to teach a one-week workshop at the Palace Museum on two diverse subjects: solubility parameters and anoxic microenvironments.  We decided that the Christmas...

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summer camp

Just came across a nice video on Youtube from last year’s Birankai Summercamp in San Diego, and was delighted to see myself (twice).  Thank you, Masayo!

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xemacs redoubt

There are so many little and no-so-little programs out there for Mac that enable one to, say, validate a DTD, perform XSL transforms, or even batch rename some files. For some reason, I often find...

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migration

Migrating to a new server (so I can take advantage of the new fetures in WordPress and Typo3 that all require updates to PHP and MySQL), I had my ISP move the contents of muZeo to a tilde directory...

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blue unicorn

The Blue Unicorn Cafe on Hayes street, Spring of 1966, Dave Van Ronk playing on the box, newspapers scattered on the dark wooden tables, booths in the back, and thick mugs of coffee.  Scored a couple...

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usenet

A couple weeks ago AT&T Internet services decided to globally eliminate all binary newsgroups from their newsserver. This was done with absolutely no advance warning (or any after-the-fact...

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nidan

This morning after adult class we had one of our periodic dojo cleanups, as usual in the days before a seminar. In addition to about a dozen adult members, there were several children and even a parent...

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trajectory

Dropped from Presidio of Monterey just before Chinese finals, I hitched to Phoenix and got busted for weed the morning after reporting for duty, Luke AFB police squadron. Three months round my 20th...

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emacs babel tangle init

I’ve been ‘cultivating’ my .emacs to use Dropbox for initialization, as well as for literate programming modularization via org-babel. Here’s how it went: First, I moved my ~/.emacs file along with the...

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natural selection

What others might have been as brilliant as Beethoven, but were neither occasioned by his circumstances, nor corroborated by his trajectory? What potential advances of darwinian mutation were thwarted...

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the unconscious

The idea that there's both a conscious mind and an unconscious mind is a misconception brought about by language. There is what we call the conscious mind that generally emerges from the social...

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lihue

Behind the Hongwanji Buddhist Temple in Lihue, Kauai, is the dojo for the Lihui Aiki Kai. I showed up without a dogi and after a short conversation was offered a clean used one for that night’s...

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mac emacs

I’m glad that MacOSX is unix-based, but it still hides too much of the guts, making it harder than necessary to accomplish essential technical activities.  My first home computer was a Mac (actually,...

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domains

Found out yesterday that someone is now using muzeo.org (’cause I didn’t register it when I could have — heck I remember when we registered museumca.org the domain museum.com was still available and I...

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unconscious

The idea that there's both a conscious mind and an unconscious mind is a misconception brought about by language. There is what we call the conscious mind that generally emerges from the social...

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belief

Neitzsche realized that all code is untethered, and it drove him mad (the option of floating in the void not being part of his calculus). But even that aphelion is neither an apex nor a release from...

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little buddha

Tonite I said to Sean “Buddy, know what makes me smile? That you dislike poetry and philosophy, and never fail to tell me so, but still you listen politely to the end before complaining.” “Daddy,” he...

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rumi

Science is yet another fairy tale we tell ourselves, a coral reef of complicities we live within. But it's testable and reproducible, you argue, with predictable accuracy, unlike metaphysical nonsense....

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startup chime

Lot's of info online that repeats the same erroneous information, so let's be clear: To disable the startup chime on mac os x, including yosemite etc., enter the following on the command line: sudo...

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