proudly up and running! did not lose anything I apparently needed that badly, though my dyslexia is worse! obviously you can't see me type! ha!
godspeed starstuff
2009/08/31
2009/08/27
the answer to last night's question on happiness:
Happiness is found to be most closely associated with health, followed by wealth and then education.
I was wrong! weather has little to do with it!
source: University of Leicester Produces the first ever World Map of Happiness; Happiness is ...being Healthy, Wealthy and Wise
also, to enhance your happy bone (not boner) check out Positive Psychology
2009/08/26
movie night was awesome. we played:
interviews of rape victims in Iranian prisons:
Interview 1, part 1
Interview 1, part 2
Interview 2
more on Iran:
Persepolis 2.0
and thanks to one of the wonderful new guests (Luna from Denmark), we played a video of the recent confrontations between police and Danish youth. can't provide a link for that but here's an article on what it's about.
no exodus from the yard this time! fuck yeah!
humans expected: 2
godspeed stargrub
interviews of rape victims in Iranian prisons:
Interview 1, part 1
Interview 1, part 2
Interview 2
more on Iran:
Persepolis 2.0
and thanks to one of the wonderful new guests (Luna from Denmark), we played a video of the recent confrontations between police and Danish youth. can't provide a link for that but here's an article on what it's about.
no exodus from the yard this time! fuck yeah!
humans expected: 2
godspeed stargrub
2009/08/25
2009/08/24
last night I had no guests. apart from the occasional visit, I got to sleep a whole night. it was amazing
the house now has a field manual. it's blunt, offensive, callous, but has most of what I've been repeating for the past 350 guests. I'll start testing it out today with my new guests, we'll see how it goes. I might post it here soon
keys are to be multiplied (hopefully today). I've concluded sleeping in two hour bits has been ruining my productivity at work, and even though I only half-wakeup, it's still tiring
a common task when doing these graphic multi page things is how to combine all the pdfs. here's a good one-liner to combine multiple pdfs into one. I found it somewhere on the multivax (commandlinefu source).
godspeed starcrumb
the house now has a field manual. it's blunt, offensive, callous, but has most of what I've been repeating for the past 350 guests. I'll start testing it out today with my new guests, we'll see how it goes. I might post it here soon
keys are to be multiplied (hopefully today). I've concluded sleeping in two hour bits has been ruining my productivity at work, and even though I only half-wakeup, it's still tiring
a common task when doing these graphic multi page things is how to combine all the pdfs. here's a good one-liner to combine multiple pdfs into one. I found it somewhere on the multivax (commandlinefu source).
gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf page1.pdf page2.pdfgodspeed starcrumb
2009/08/23
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2009/08/21
movie night was ok, we played Burma VJ as expected and a part of the video art by Vysehrad, a portuguese electronic music artist
what's fucking annoying is how nobody gives a shit. I play documentaries or general thoughtful videos and movies that everyone should be exposed to. just check out Burma VJ, a powerful statement on helplessness and fragility, but also of courage and relentlessness. everybody should know about it. but what consistently happens at the house is the depressing exodus of everyone from the backyard, only to replace a cultural experience with some lighthearted full-of-shit moment of tourist obliviousness.
yesterday we were about 10 people. at the end of the documentary, we were two. but the two HAD ALREADY BEEN EXPOSED TO THIS ISSUE! therefore, the usefulness of such an event is nullified. I mean: of the 10 people, the two that actually saw the whole thing, were the two that didn't need to see the whole thing! for fuck's sake! what the fuck is wrong with you people!
on a lighter note, here's how to have Edge editions read out loud for you (buggy but works). I might do a whole app based on this. the {x} is the edition number (there are up until today 298 editions, quite remarkable). the url can change, but edge is a good choice. my old robot podcaster might be turned on again
you can use any other tts tool, but festival has a nice voice. also, I don't remove the urls and should. definitely needs some more filtering than that wimpy
godspeed starmuck
what's fucking annoying is how nobody gives a shit. I play documentaries or general thoughtful videos and movies that everyone should be exposed to. just check out Burma VJ, a powerful statement on helplessness and fragility, but also of courage and relentlessness. everybody should know about it. but what consistently happens at the house is the depressing exodus of everyone from the backyard, only to replace a cultural experience with some lighthearted full-of-shit moment of tourist obliviousness.
yesterday we were about 10 people. at the end of the documentary, we were two. but the two HAD ALREADY BEEN EXPOSED TO THIS ISSUE! therefore, the usefulness of such an event is nullified. I mean: of the 10 people, the two that actually saw the whole thing, were the two that didn't need to see the whole thing! for fuck's sake! what the fuck is wrong with you people!
on a lighter note, here's how to have Edge editions read out loud for you (buggy but works). I might do a whole app based on this. the {x} is the edition number (there are up until today 298 editions, quite remarkable). the url can change, but edge is a good choice. my old robot podcaster might be turned on again
curl http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge{x}.html | html2text -nobs | tr -d '_|=[]' | festival --ttsyou can use any other tts tool, but festival has a nice voice. also, I don't remove the urls and should. definitely needs some more filtering than that wimpy
tr.godspeed starmuck
2009/08/20
2009/08/19
movie for this thursday: Burma VJ by Anders Østergaard (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333634/ )
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333634/ )
it was a cool movie night. we played:
Sky Train by Ryan Moser
Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action
Ants: The Invisible Majority with Dr. Brian Fisher
Janine Benyus's talk was a highlight, though toning down the hippie wouldn't hurt.
after, a poetry reading by myself of assorted poems by Fernando Pessoa, Eva's request, and a wonderful one I must say.
godspeed starpulp
Sky Train by Ryan Moser
Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action
Ants: The Invisible Majority with Dr. Brian Fisher
Janine Benyus's talk was a highlight, though toning down the hippie wouldn't hurt.
after, a poetry reading by myself of assorted poems by Fernando Pessoa, Eva's request, and a wonderful one I must say.
godspeed starpulp
2009/08/18
2009/08/13
movie night tonight. we played:
Sky Train by Ryan Moser
Timescape by Alexander Pappas
Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water drinkable
Antonio Damasio: This Time With Feeling
Damasio's talk was a definite highlight, as was Sky Train.
godspeed stardust
Sky Train by Ryan Moser
Timescape by Alexander Pappas
Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water drinkable
Antonio Damasio: This Time With Feeling
Damasio's talk was a definite highlight, as was Sky Train.
godspeed stardust
2009/08/04
currently hard at work at ELEKTROCUTION Festival, hence no updates, and probably for a couple more days. soon, though.
godspeed stardust
godspeed stardust
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