Archive for June 2008


George Carlin: He’s just fucking dead.

June 23rd, 2008 — 7:37am

George.

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.

1 comment » | philosophy

Biofuel Menace

June 19th, 2008 — 9:49pm

I’m too lazy to pull the thread that this came from, but I don’t think I ever posted it.

http://www.biofuelmenace.com/

Comment » | Uncategorized

Wanted….

June 19th, 2008 — 4:48pm

FreeTheAirwaves.com

A wall fell down near work. Speedy and I took the proper corrective measures.

oh yeah

oh no

oh yeah

oh yeah

32 comments » | Chicago, job

Sweet zombie jesus… John McCain has some work ahead of him

June 17th, 2008 — 11:17am

If he keeps this up, Obama is going to hand him his dentures.

And then there is also this problem:

Comment » | Uncategorized

Monome videos with very unfortunate sound.

June 6th, 2008 — 10:19am


Morgan + Monome 4eva from Scott VanDenPlas on Vimeo.


Morgan, Zach, and Monome. from Scott VanDenPlas on Vimeo.

Comment » | music

Monome.

June 5th, 2008 — 5:03pm

Zach->Mac->Monome->MaxMSP->VS-2 Synth

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.

Comment » | music

We have better printers than twitter. TechCocktail recap.

June 3rd, 2008 — 10:42pm

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.

Comment » | job, technology

Back to top