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amsterdam again.

nobody@vox.com(nanodust) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:14:12 -0800

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.

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bald bear

nobody@vox.com(nanodust) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:15:43 -0800

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

source

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my new new music robot

nobody@vox.com(nanodust) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:18:52 -0700

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.

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Tuesday 1:2000 jazz/life ratio

nobody@vox.com(nanodust) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:52:08 -0700

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

and i've only been once !

lame !!

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katamari democracy

nobody@vox.com(nanodust) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:46:48 -0700

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

Maya_lin_katamari

other than being lovely, i couldn't help but notice the resemblance between her new balls o funk & the fantastic Katamari Damarcy ps2 game.

exhibit A

exhibit B

full article

Also worthy of mention here is Sheldon Brown's Scalable City - a 4k version of Katamari but with generative levels, a trackball, and a million little details that make it worthy of seeking out.

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derrick carter in millennium park

nobody@vox.com(nanodust) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:01:37 -0700

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.

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first nuclear waste ever

nobody@vox.com(nanodust) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:36:29 -0700

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...

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Oo-Topos.

nobody@vox.com(nanodust) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:53:29 -0700

oo, oo-topos.

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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.

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20 year old laserdisc... fixed !

nobody@vox.com(nanodust) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:10:43 -0700

thx to a mr liu chi yung in tawian, who bothers to auction off old 20 year old parts that he somehow manages to stock new... Higgs' laserdisc player is back in working order ;)

the glory of obsolete formats!

now if i only had a record player to listen to that EP i got in the mail yesterday...

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a blind eye on crap vibes

nobody@vox.com(nanodust) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:29:14 -0700

the primary directive of the primary director is to direct, directly.

nice interview, brian !

go nudge. go.

for those realtime mograph anthropologists, here's some millenial nudge vids
stack sores divprlr orgtech

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