Have conversations with yourself. You’d be surprised how much you have in common.
Take the slightest driving errors by others completely out of context (this includes driving < 80 in the fast lane). Express your feelings with your horn, and be liberal with threatening gestures and cuss words. Dont worry – everyone understands.
You don’t really need food. Only eat when your car does at gas stations. Rockstar and pretzels. Nuff said.
Have someone make you a CD before you leave so you can listen to something unpredictable. Who cares if its dance music and you are stuck in traffic, and that someone slipped a Paris Hilton track in there – take it like a man.
Listen to bangin’ tracks like these until you reach your destination:
There is a really cool kit made by Future Kit that will allow you to pretty easily make your own LED VU meter. The kit comes with 15 leds, the PC board, all the components and a little bit of solder. The solder that comes with the kit is pretty big so I just used my own 60/40 rosin core solder from Radioshack. You have to attach your own power supply and the kit accepts 9 – 12v. I didnt want a huge AAx8 power supply so I just stuck with a 9v battery at the expense of slightly dimmer LEDs. It stays in the box with velcro. I wanted the whole thing to be something I could easily carry around (party trick!) so I decided to place mine in a box. Project boxes from Radioshack work well, they are fairly cheap and the material is easy to cut. One thing to watch out for the is the microphone – it has no leads. You have to solder wires on to the solder pads on the back of the mic. Be very careful, if any of the solder drips and touches anything else on the mic it will short out the circuit.
Put together a mix today while recovering from the mayhem of last night. Good to see all you HMB people that I love! And for all of you that I saw last night that I hadn’t seen for years, it was good seeing you too. I dedicate this mix to all you.
Youtube links to all but 1 song:
You love music, and you are impressed by flashy lights. Put them together and you have entertainment for hours. Peter Menich has created quite possibly be the best musical visualization ever created. Watch thousands of particles move to the sweet sounds of the piano:
I bought austinriba.com a long time ago and for ages it just sat and collected dust. Now I’ve decided to actually do something with it – for better or worse. Hopefully in the near future I’ll put up some more content, resumes, projects, things I think are cool, etc.
Awesome window manager is great, if you haven’t tried it yet. Unfortunately, the version in the official ubuntu repos is the ancient 2.x version, even in Jaunty. You can find a deb easy enough for version 3.2, but you will run into dependency hell. So, I’ve packaged here awesome wm version 3.2, along with most other dependencies you will need to get it installed. If anything is missing, it can be found in the official ubuntu repos. Enjoy!
Just wanted to post a little promotion for a site I just finished: www.toxiccode.com
Its a website where you can post scripts, dotfiles, config files, or anything else linux. Other people can comment and rate your stuff. Very cool for us people who love the hand crafted linux enviroment. Check it out! Its text based browser friendly as well!
In “King Henry VI, Part II,”
Shakespeare has Dick Butcher suggest to
his fellow antiestablishment
rabblerousers, “The first thing we do,
let’s kill all the lawyers.” That
action may be extreme but a similar
sentiment was expressed by Thomas K.
Connellan, president of The Management
Group, Inc. Speaking to business
executives in Chicago and quoted in
Automotive News, Connellan attributed a
measure of America’s falling
productivity to an excess of attorneys
and accountants, and a dearth of
production experts. Lawyers and
accountants “do not make the economic
pie any bigger; they only figure out
how the pie gets divided. Neither
profession provides any added value to
product.” According to Connellan, the
highly productive Japanese society has
10 lawyers and 30 accountants per
100,000 population. The U.S. has 200
lawyers and 700 accountants. This
suggests that “the U.S. proportion of
piebakers and piedividers is way out
of whack.” Could Dick Butcher have been
an efficiency expert? Motor Trend,
May 1983
