Saturday, August 31, 2002

that is dope!!


does anyone know of good auto backup to
cd software. really need to find a good one. thanks!!
posted by john , 11:58 PM Þ 



"Bubble chambers have played an important role in experimental particle physics, yielding images that can be beautiful as well as informative. This image shows the interactions of a beam of particles in the first of many bubble chambers at CERN, Europe's centre for research in particle physics, near Geneva. The chamber, only 30 cm in diameter, was filled with liquid hydrogen - the simplest "target" material, as the nucleus of a hydrogen atom consists of a single proton. Here, the particles in the beam, which comes in from the left, are pions, the short-lived particles discovered originally in cosmic rays. One has interacted with a proton in the liquid near the upper left, to create a spray of new particles. One of these was a neutral (uncharged) particle, which left no track, but revealed its existence when it decayed nearer the centre of the image, to produce two charged particles that leave behind a sideways V shape. The chamber was located in a magnetic field, which made positive particles curve to the right, and negative particles to the left. Particles with high energies, including the beam particles, curve almost imperceptibly, but particles with lower energies produce fascinating spirals. These are mainly due to electrons knocked from atoms in the liquid hydrogen. From their invention by Donald Glaser in 1952, bubble chambers featured in many experiments through to the 1980s.Glaser was rewarded with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1960 for his invention."
posted by mary13 , 9:16 AM Þ 

WARNING: Written while very tired, may not be comprehensible.
I have come to the conclusion tonight that the single-threaded, shared blog (such as this one) is a vastly superior method of community communication compared to the multi-thread bulletin board system, which I believe is only useful in such situations as a technical assistance centre. These conclusions have come to me after many experiences of dealing with BBS's and their collapse.

one.
BLOGDIAL is a community that has a very slow growth. The small amount of posters is ideal because it keeps the amount of information each poster must read at a low level. This keeps things from getting confusing. If there is too much information, users get swamped and bored and will eventually leave.

two.
The single stream of information, even though it can be splintered into a few seperate arguments and random thoughts, is a much more sane method of information distribution. With a threaded bulletin board system, a user must, to remain a fully-interested part of the community, keep tabs on many different conversations that are going on at once about many different topics. As stated in point one, eventually a user will be bored with this and leave the community, fracturing it.

three.
I have observed that a BBS must have a steady influx of new users to maintain its activity. A private BBS with only a few users is too big a playing field, and eventually becomes nothing more than silence. New posters are almost constantly "hazed in," which breeds a community with a negative, jaded, and inherently close-minded view, no matter how open-minded the board purports to be. The "oldbies" of the board become dictatorial and stubborn in nature, and are a deficit to the community they formed and eventually seal its destruction.
A single threaded shared blog has so far proved to be very slow growing, and accepting of any new member that happens to wander along. New members only arrive here because of something very specific they are interested is, and that is the community of political thinkers and irdial-discs and silly people like me.

four.
The shared blog operates on a stream-of-consciousness mindset. The BBS must operate on a VERY rigid topic-and-reply system, which is suffer to topic drift, which results in gigantic topics in which users become lost. The blog allows users to introduce an idea, and other users may or may not follow up. The original idea's conversation will morph and mutate, spawning new ideas, with no structure to bother them.
The topic-reply system is also geared around, I have found, two-sided conversation. This creates unconstructive and angry arguments, which is disruptive to the community.
The single stream of the shared blog does not seem to promote negative arguments, only a positive flow of ideas and opinions that are not bound by a topic structure.

There is no topic to BLOGDIAL, other than post often, and post HARD.

Anyone want to make any additions to this?
posted by Barrie , 8:14 AM Þ 

e|nic can bite me!!

verisign are overpriced whoha chumps who deserved
to be backslapped like the streetwalkin hoes they are.
he who makes the rules has the money to make the
rules(or something like that). knobs.
posted by john , 7:20 AM Þ 

godspeed you! black emperor links major record labels with major weapons manufacture.
http://www.cstrecords.com/html/uxo.html
Very interesting.
I could make one of these charts a million times more complicated. SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN.
posted by Barrie , 6:50 AM Þ 

MOTHERFUCKER = REDEEMER

godspeed you! black emperor

yanqui u.x.o.

cst024
2xLP/CD

release dates:
europe nov 04, 2002
n. america nov 11, 2002

u.x.o. is unexploded ordnance is landmines is cluster bombs. yanqui is post-colonial imperialism is international police state is multinational corporate oligarchy. godspeed you! black emperor is complicit is guilty is resisting. the new album is just music.
recorded by steve albini at electrical audio in chicago. mixed by howard bilerman and godspeed you! black emperor at the hotel2tango in montreal. available on single compact disc and double phonograph record.
stubborn tiny lights vs. clustering darkness forever ok?
posted by Barrie , 6:46 AM Þ 
Friday, August 30, 2002

You guys kick ass. Thanks...!
posted by Mikkel , 7:15 AM Þ 
Thursday, August 29, 2002

oh Mikkel. my arms reach around the world to you.
posted by mary13 , 9:47 PM Þ 

People are few
Leaves also fall
Now and then
(Issa)

Mikkel, without death there is no life. All is love.
Peace.
posted by Alun , 2:53 PM Þ 

Mikkel, my condolences also. Take solice in that you were all there with her and the tremendous amount of love all your family have for her. My thoughts are with you.
posted by chriszanf , 1:24 PM Þ 

Dear Mikkel! I'm sorry to read about your grandmother. I hope the best for you and your family. Loosing loved ones is always hard and a matter of time... Take care
posted by Alison , 12:29 PM Þ 
posted by Alison , 12:27 PM Þ 

blessings mikkel. all our love to you. your
family sounds wonderful and strong to carry
forward. love.
posted by john , 8:47 AM Þ 

Really sorry to hear about your grandma, Mikkel. It's always hard when a loved one dies.
posted by Barrie , 2:11 AM Þ 
Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Grandma passed away today, six minutes to eight in the evening.

When I got home from work, I saw a note on the kitchentable and went over there immediately. Almost everyone was there. Their children, the children and spouses of those.

Her breath sounded like boiling water, I have never heard a worse sound in my life.

Abbe started crying, a thing I have never seen him do in my life, not even up to this. Shortly after, she took her last breath, as if she was waiting for that.

Almost symbolic how the churchbells started chiming as the realization hit us.

Ada Agnete Joensen (née Andersen)

March 14, 1914 - August 28, 2002
posted by Mikkel , 8:51 PM Þ 

posted by chriszanf , 4:08 PM Þ 
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
posted by mary13 , 10:35 PM Þ 

Chronique Davrotz - I been going through and digitising my old reel to reel tapes recently. I'm glad that as a nipper I got into bulky old reel to reel tape decks, since (when the tapes are good) I now have access to some incredibly good quality recordings of me aged 13 talking about poo and so on and doing really bad 'Young Ones' impersonations, random snippets of television and the top 40 and SW radio (no numbers alas) and lots of strange blips and clunks from the actual recording process. Of value really to absolutely no one but me but they sound great with a dash of reverb!

My tapes have been in a box since about 1992 when my last open reel deck died, and though I found another one in a skip in '99 I haven't got around to listening to them until recently. I've had to add a new head to the deck and fix it with blu tack, as the fixed heads are half-track (pretty amazing find really) but all my tapes are a mixture of mono and 4 track and everything plays at once unless a head is correctly aligned. What makes matters worse/more interesting is that back in 1982 I got my first decks, an old valve 4 track one and later a tranny 2 track one. I made loads of tapes on those with my mates and so on and then kicked the habit in about '86 in favour of guitars. Then in 1989 I got a wicked old Sony stereo deck, with speakers built into the covers, that you could record 2 track overdubs with, and I used that for a good few years and totally customised it until it died, and unfortunately in the process I "recycled" a lot of the early 80's tapes. This didn't seem a problem at the time but alas now of course I wish I hadn't, especially since the late 80's recordings consist of vast amounts of widdly guitar and synth experiments.

Now you would think all would be lost, but oddly there are whole swathes of tape where I might only have recorded on one track, or the heads were out of alignment or something, and by "searching" up and down the path of the tape with the head I've been unearthing these "lost" magnetic strata, complete with fading and print through and all sorts of other sonic patina. It's quite a trip I can tell you. "Searching" with the head produces filter-esque sweeps as you track across the bands of oxide, and old edits, twists and snags on the original tapes that were a problem then now give the audio all sorts of soft textures that VST plugins have yet to achieve, and adding into that there are the jumps in tape speed between 7.5 and 3.75 ips and the really slow one, and the "other side" of the tape going backwards, and the motors getting up to speed and slowing down. There's even some very freaky stuff that only exists on one side of the tape in reverse...

And all the while the subject matter is me, or what I was doing. It's like scrying for voices from the past. I'm currently using an old mono 1/4" tape head in place of the half track one, but I think I may experiment with a cassette head to really get down to the fine lines of oxide and see if there's anything there.

Got some nice sheep and countryside sounds yesterday too on the old MiniDisc. The archive continues. The skin may stretch but the body remains the same...
posted by captain davros , 9:58 AM Þ 

that sounds... fun, John. Good uh, luck with that.

Chronique Sonore: if not for the fact that I was too lazy to buy new minicassettes, I would have been doing the exact same thing all this year. Odd that.
posted by Barrie , 5:54 AM Þ 

yo! arrrgh. just sitting at work, still, and waiting for a outage so i can get some
hardening done. i have to do 5 boxes via dameware uping the service pack and
smtp strings et al. someone please come and rescue me!!!!!!


please....12c57n9c5u8[-3 q4ty63q61 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by john , 1:16 AM Þ 
Monday, August 26, 2002

Chronique Sonore
Ever since the early eighties, like many, I have a regular companion: a Sony walkman. (It was a stereo one, at first. But already for many years, I use a much cheaper mono machine, which in fact is only suitable for use with the 'normal type' cassette-tapes.) Unlike most, however, I never ever use my walkman to listen to music. I use it to record. Whichever sounds for whatever reason wherever suddenly make me listen. I have a little booklet (on the cover of which, long ago, I wrote the silly Dutch word 'Snapschoten' - kind of a 'dutchification' of 'snapshots', of course) in which I note date, place and time of each recorded fragment.
In the course of the years this gave rise to an extensive collection of 'lo-fi' recorded real life sound-samples.
posted by Josh Carr , 4:46 PM Þ 
posted by Josh Carr , 2:33 PM Þ 
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