philosopher.
I propose that we get rid of this rest in peace bullshit for atheists, it is meaningless for us. Instead, I propose we use JFD. Just Fucking Dead. That, in the least, makes me feel better.
I’m too lazy to pull the thread that this came from, but I don’t think I ever posted it.
If he keeps this up, Obama is going to hand him his dentures.
And then there is also this problem:
Morgan + Monome 4eva from Scott VanDenPlas on Vimeo.
So last night, Zach and I worked on getting Dustin’s Monome up and running with the Boiingg application. It is kind of crazy. Crazy awesome.
So we played with MLR for a bit, which was fun, but we really wanted to get the monome playing well with everything else. So the setup was something along these lines:
Monome -> Monome Serial -> OSC -> MaxMSP -> Boiingg Max patch -> MIDI -> VS-2 Virtual Synth -> My ears
I am really impressed with the design of the Monome. I have to say, it is one of the most intuitive and flexible devices I have ever used. Not to mention that it is simply beautiful.
I don’t have much to add to Harper’s post on our TechCocktail presentation.
But I can add the rough math we did to compare costs for label printing:
Big Vendor solution:
Ginormous Canon Printer 110ppm – $150,000
(Redundancy? $300,000.)
Service – $1000/month
Print cost per page – $0.005
Part Availability – 10-12 days
skinnyCorp solution:
3 x HP 9040n’s 120ppm – $9,000 (and already redundant!)
Service – $195/month
Consumables – $700/month
Print cost per page – $0.0045
Part Availability – 4 hour on call response (Average response time <2 hours)
We also have Nagios querying the printers for Maintenance kit and Toner levels. When Maintenance kits are low, it pages a printer ninja for service.
