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Interim Solutions: Dispatches from the graveyard shift
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Moments of clarity from the rugged path to enlightenment in life, science, philosophy and (for the most part) working with computers. Saturday, March 14, 2015. Dispatches from the graveyard shift. Over the past couple weeks of parental leave, Ive found myself alone with the tv most evenings, so have been enjoying clearing my backed-up to-watch list:. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996): Definitely one of the lesser oeuvres in the Tarantino canon, but has its moments. Planet Terror (2007): another piece of self-in...
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Interim Solutions: March 2015
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Moments of clarity from the rugged path to enlightenment in life, science, philosophy and (for the most part) working with computers. Saturday, March 14, 2015. Dispatches from the graveyard shift. Over the past couple weeks of parental leave, Ive found myself alone with the tv most evenings, so have been enjoying clearing my backed-up to-watch list:. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996): Definitely one of the lesser oeuvres in the Tarantino canon, but has its moments. Planet Terror (2007): another piece of self-in...
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Interim Solutions: January 2013
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Moments of clarity from the rugged path to enlightenment in life, science, philosophy and (for the most part) working with computers. Friday, January 18, 2013. You Can't Do That On AndroidTube. I've been suffering a bad case of blog-stipation, so let me try to squeeze out a very brief précis of my recent Android-Tubing pleasure…. Nice little retro alien horror flick. Lots of stylistic throwbacks to the kind of flicks children of the 80s grew up loving. Rik Mayall's follow-up to The Young Ones, also featu...
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Interim Solutions: February 2015
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Moments of clarity from the rugged path to enlightenment in life, science, philosophy and (for the most part) working with computers. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Hannibal (Seasons 1 2): Very decent adaptation of the Hannibal Lecter franchise, though the gore factor is pretty full on. Black Mirror (Seasons 1 2): anthology series of dystopian techno-tales of the unexpected by Charlie Brooker from The Guardian. "The Entire History of You (season 1, episode 3) was particularly good. The Tunnel (2013): Britis...
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Interim Solutions: myRig
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Moments of clarity from the rugged path to enlightenment in life, science, philosophy and (for the most part) working with computers. Monday, February 2, 2015. I’ve recently devoted a bit of effort to setting up a decent practice environment on my iMac. Here are the ins and outs of what’s working for me:. IN: Running my guitar direct into the computer via an Apogee Jam audio interface. It’s a quick plugin and the audio interface doesn’t take up any deskspace. Or save it off as a new project. OUT: Lilypon...
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Interim Solutions: movies + tv
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Moments of clarity from the rugged path to enlightenment in life, science, philosophy and (for the most part) working with computers. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Hannibal (Seasons 1 2): Very decent adaptation of the Hannibal Lecter franchise, though the gore factor is pretty full on. Black Mirror (Seasons 1 2): anthology series of dystopian techno-tales of the unexpected by Charlie Brooker from The Guardian. "The Entire History of You (season 1, episode 3) was particularly good. The Tunnel (2013): Britis...
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Interim Solutions: September 2012
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Moments of clarity from the rugged path to enlightenment in life, science, philosophy and (for the most part) working with computers. Sunday, September 23, 2012. The Devil and Simon Flagg. I originally came across this delightful short story. In a mathematical text on Fermat's Last Theorem (I've forgotten its name, but suffice it to say I probably wasn't reading it in any depth). It says more about academics than it does about the Devil. Wednesday, September 12, 2012. Of course, as you'll have noticed fr...
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Interim Solutions: July 2014
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Moments of clarity from the rugged path to enlightenment in life, science, philosophy and (for the most part) working with computers. Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The exception to prove this rule occurred over the weekend, as I polished off the following:. The Man From Earth. Interesting low-budget sci-fi flick from a few years back. The premise is of a university lecturer who, at his farewall get-together before he leaves town, confesses to a group of his friends and colleagues that he is actually 14,000...
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Interim Solutions: May 2013
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Moments of clarity from the rugged path to enlightenment in life, science, philosophy and (for the most part) working with computers. Friday, May 17, 2013. THX 1138: low key early hard sci-fi effort from George Lucas, which I watched because I just read that it was the inspiration for the Toto song 99. If only Lucas had applied a similarly minimalist approach to dialog in his star wars prequels. Killing Them Softly (2012): reasonably entertaining gangster yarn. Ted (2012): surprisingly funny. The Wire: P...
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Interim Solutions: March 2014
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Moments of clarity from the rugged path to enlightenment in life, science, philosophy and (for the most part) working with computers. Saturday, March 15, 2014. Apple TV and tidying up my media library. So far, it's working out very well. For the most part, as per Apple's catch cry, everything "just works". AirPlay works really well from computer or iPad (except if you try to stream HD video while mirroring your computer screen - - but of course that's a silly thing to try to do anyway). And one problem w...
