nanodust’s blog

AR is the new VR

yet VR still has it's place -

for instance when you see a 360 degree immersive 3d panorama far more intense than any mobile device could ever render

we saw sydney's i-cinema project populated with dutch & world history accidentally while wandering around near museumplein in Amsterdam

not been since 03, rather psyched.

mainly just going to hang out while a friend webcasts

there is certainly no shortage of things to do:

closes saturday: cory arcangel

also to check - mr andre obama posse

starts tuesday: binalle

misc:

science center
life & space trip ;)
dutch rap, rave it up, chill out, hip hop, a lil h1n1
bird jazz
l8r 80s
eddie izzard and the carnival of guilt
chinese america in holland

that's all possile this weekend.

wow.

i've never seen a bald bear before. this particular one looks so annoyed.

source

to make up for lack of tuesday jazz

i took a bit of time out to write a script to pull down new music from music websites, so i can listen to things while on the train & find new stuff w/o having to flip through the interwebs in a browser

anyway, it seems i'm a bit rusty in python... not done much since last fall, really.

as such, it took me 2 hours...

but here we go, all comes down to single loop:

for i in range(2,20):
    url = "http://this.bigstereo.net/page/"+`i`
    savelinks(getPage(url))

full source code here.

this is every tuesday, for past 5+ years at a place i put some work into

and i've only been once !

;P

lame !!

Maya Lin, of Vietnam Memorial fame (at 21!), has some new work in NYC. 

Perfect fall day downtown, except perhaps for the fact that I was @ the office.

Still, a certain majesty in walking across the street on lunch to hear chicago's finest on the decks.

so underground; the 37 other people that had also heard about it were dancing.

went to palos hills forest preserve for mountain biking.

best biking near the city; it's not even 45 min out - right @ archer & 95th - and it has 200' or so of elevation.
Laugh at will, those in more fractal geographies. but that's good in the midwest.

Even better, it closed a long loop of knowledge - i had been told that the original bricks from the squash court @ UoC - the first controlled chain reaction - the official start of It All - were randomly buried in some park on 95th st.

well this is that park - and more. In fact this is the site where they rebuilt the reactor after fermi's curious game of squash. As well as a dumping ground for the remains of that & other pre-Argonne experiments.

Fantastic & eerie to have such late summer idyll with historic nuclear waste just below.

next time i'm bringing a geiger counter...

oo, oo-topos.

had to flip the disc to run on apple ][+.

found a working copy for three dollars in madison wisconsin thrifting one morning after a party

the driver was informing me how her friend's roomate & his brother (who went to my highschool 500 miles away) had been robbing banks for a while & were now in jail. This same kid got sent to principal for selling NoDoz in 5th grade. Dull and unsuprising.

unlike oo-topos.