| donte's birthday party tonight |
[16 Apr 2008|03:41pm] |
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at neumo's. come see me play records in between two bands, from 9-10 and 11-11:30 or so. oh yes come see the bands too. truckasaurus and sleepy eyes of death.
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| Fri Apr 11: Caro @ Branx, Portland. |
[10 Apr 2008|10:14pm] |
Kulturszene 2 year anniversary party.
w/ M. Quiet, Ava.
320 SE 2nd, PDX
$5.
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| If you are undecided about the Democrats, |
[23 Jan 2008|11:48am] |
I would like you to give Barack a half hour when you have time. The following link is to a profound, if somewhat calm, speech from 2006 where he laid out his thoughts on how to reconcile faith with public service in a pluralist society.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid353515028/bctid416343938
The full text is available here:
http://www.barack-obama.tv/barack-obama-articles-audio-video/category/barack-obama-texts/religion/
“Even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson’s, or Al Sharpton’s? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount - a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application?”
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| lazywheb, halp! |
[22 Dec 2007|01:26pm] |
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So I have the CD case for the classic Jungle album "Music for the Next Millennium" by Omni Trio. But the CD is long gone to some forgotten road trip or hacking session. If you give me the audio, I will be happy.
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| fwd: Understanding Canadians Workshop |
[30 Sep 2007|05:07pm] |
It's fun being an international student:
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Question: When a Canadian says "no" to an invitation, what else do they
usually give?
Answer: A) a smile B) an excuse C) a handshake
If you want to know the answer to this question, be sure to attend the
following free workshop hosted by IESS and Counselling Services....
Topic: Understanding Canadians - How to Make Sense of a New Culture
Date: Monday, October 1
Time: 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: David Strong Building, Room C113
Description: We will discuss Canadian behaviour and explain some Canadian
cultural values. We will also offer some tips on how to adjust to a new
culture.
Registration is not required for this event.
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| What's up with underground food? |
[05 Apr 2007|06:27pm] |
I got an invite to a party next Friday at a thing called onepot in Seattle. It looks like the cool kind of happening speakeasy-style underground food joint that's all the rage these days. I guess speakeasies have been around forever, but the first one I really had any truck with was Dunes, so I have a pretty fond impression of them in general.
I saw that whoever runs onepot is writing a book called Kill The Restaurant. Kind of a travelogue of underground restaraunts, or an effort to create a movement or something. Some of the descriptions of spots got me pretty excited, like the guy "somewhere in Washington" who makes everything from his own farm and has a strict secret handshake type policy. I started getting a little squicked out at the site though. If food is presented with love by friends for friends (and friends of friends,) what kind of a person decides to make publicizing everyone's endeavors his mission instead of just enjoying it or contributing?
Then I searched on killtherestaurant and all hell broke loose, blogographically--- seems that the person behind these literary and culinary endeavors is reviled by half of Portland for starting an illegal restaurant and parlaying it into a hyped-up legal spot that crashed and burned, leaving creditors and employees in the wreckage. Not the kind of shit Portland takes to kindly, which is why we should all live there, but we digress. Anyone know this guy? Has anyone gone to onepot?
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| new 2uptech.com |
[23 Feb 2007|03:25pm] |
Hi, I just revamped http://2uptech.com with a better design and new material including a video excerpt from my performance at Decibel last year. So, if you couldn't make it to that, now you can get some idea of what my visual music is about.
best,
Randy
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| oh hell yes |
[30 Jun 2006|12:38am] |
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The Strangers With Candy movie opens in Seattle July 7 at the Varsity. That is all.
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| ok... |
[24 Apr 2006|10:08am] |
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) orac_atom is defunct and should be deleted by anyone who can do that... orac_blog is the new syndication. gripping stuff, no? i had a great weekend so i posted about it on orac_blog.
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| who made orac_atom? |
[23 Apr 2006|10:11pm] |
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we now have a working blog feed on the orac site again. if whoever made orac_atom (or any Paid LJ person) would be so kind as to make a syndicated acct. for the new orac RSS feed, that would be awesome. thanks r
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| help computer |
[29 Mar 2006|04:38pm] |
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Can someone running IE/Windows please visit http://orac.vu and let me know if the site looks OK? Just the mainpage and the releases page should do. Thanks!
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| Ravers nesting. |
[26 Dec 2005|04:39pm] |
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Unpacking more boxes. Too many turntables. If you want an SL1200MK2, make me an offer.
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| Information for you, which may or may not help. |
[22 Dec 2005|10:02pm] |
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Are you an iCal user? One thing that always bugged me about it was how it didn't have holidays. Today I found out you can go to "Find Shared Calendars..." under the calendar menu, and download a great variety of calendars including US Holidays, UK Holidays, Japan Holidays, Mariners games, tour schedules of lame bands, etc.
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| Took the day off |
[22 Dec 2005|08:42pm] |
for retail and cocktail therapy with the lovely miss ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) goosehammer. I'm not much for shopping, usually, but it's pretty fun when you've just been staring at your computer for weeks. Clothes! Festiveness! OMG! Ran intomoog55 and his lovely wife. They helped me find my way around Westlake Center. Then we went to Hot Topic where I bought secretninja's Dad an AC/DC shirt. Vintage video games are all the rage now, apparently. Well, duh. Was there a way to invest in those? Did I miss the boat?
More retail therapy came yesterday in the form of two records I bought myself for my birthday: Fingers Inc. - "Another Side" LP and Darkman (DJ Pierre) - Annihilating Rhythm. Old DJ Pierre == the shit. If I had a digital camera I would take a picture of myself holding "Another Side" and smiling. The cover art is brilliant.
Soon after all my current work is due I'm playing at this festival in Mpls with the most excellent Mr. Ben Nevile. I have heard they still know how to rave there. Should be fun, and snowy.
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| misc. |
[15 Dec 2005|12:18pm] |
Still immersed in making visual music thingers. I'm getting somewhere, possibly. A nice vacation this weekend and then one month to go, more or less, before portfolio deadlines. Then hopefully more work on the DVD in a more leisurely fashion.
The paper I wrote with Ben Nevile for Computer Music Journal has come out. Looks like a great issue! The theme is Visual Music or something.
All the Orac back catalogue is now up on the Kompakt MP3 store. You can listen to any titles you might have missed. Too bad their playback UI is so screwed up. If you have any constructive comments, please drop Codewerkstatt a line-- maybe they'll fix it.
I'm looking forward to playing a few records for you tonight in a not-smoky Mantra Lounge. Bruno Pronsato is going to do a super secret show for us.
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| it makes no sense, |
[13 Dec 2005|12:07am] |
from an efficiency point of view, to be spending energy actively cooling one box in my office (the computer) while I actively heat other unrelated things in the house (water). So, instead of working to make computers super-energy efficient and nice to look at, just make them waterproof and design big, ugly, inefficient, cheap computers to put in the hot water tank. You could connect to them with a wireless doohickey that's just a keyboard and graphics server, super light and cheap. Yes, it's the scientific computing world of yesterday reinvented for your home of tomorrow.
I wonder if Google is teaming up with the utilities to find uses for all the heat from these trailer trucks of servers it's deploying to pwn the intarwebs?
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