Node Chomsky

Someone used my OLED LIB! COOL! I started to move my stuff to github!

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:01:40 -0600

Yeah, it let me finally make use of that screen, i appreciate it. The oscilloscope project was just for fun, but I have several future projects I may be using your code in.

memphistechno: turboGlitch a short film about coffee

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:24:54 -0500

memphistechno:

turboGlitch

a short film about coffee

Skinner...

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:25:48 -0500

I am becoming convinced that Skinner is by far the most existencial and cynical of modern philosophers, and in a certain (conceptual) way is in greater opposition to my theistic beliefs than anything written by Nietzsche, Rand, or even Leo Strauss. Viva la Noam Chomsky for keeping the idea that definition is an antecedent existence alive.

A true work of art.

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:28:31 -0500

A true work of art.

Made up word of the moment.

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:23:38 -0500

Anismism - The sentiment that most things that end with the suffix ‘-ism’ are generally a pretty bad idea.

"Zizek’s roughly 600-square-foot apartment looks as though Tito were still in power. It consists of..."

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:54:18 -0500

“Zizek’s roughly 600-square-foot apartment looks as though Tito were still in power. It consists of three rooms and is carelessly furnished. A poster from a Mark Rothko exhibition hangs on the wall above the sofa in Soviet-era colors; otherwise, the furnishings consist of a rack of DVDs, bookshelves, mountains of “Star Wars” Legos and his laundry, which he keeps in his kitchen cabinets. He serves iced tea in Disney cups.”

- http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,705164-2,00.html (via thelukaskaiser) (via fuckyeahzizek) (via thenoobyorker)

I just want 4 walls and a poster from a mark rothko exhibition for ma girllsssssss

(via metonymia)

(via notational)

May 21st Yada Yada Yada

Sat, 21 May 2011 12:46:00 -0500

The problem with people who claim they know when the second coming of Jesus will happen is that the part of the bible that talks about that specific idea explicitly states that no one knows when it will happen, and people who claim to are either fools or liars. If you take the Douglass Adams apositive approach to interpreting that, you must conclude that claiming the world will end on a certain day will actually make it a complete impossibility on that particular day. One thing to note, is that this guy picked a Saturday (the traditional sabbath) celebrated by many faiths including the especially nutty 7th-Day Adventists church. 7th-Day Adventists have an extensive history of predicting the Second Coming and getting it pathetically wrong, and in fact their church doctrine was formed around an attempt to justify why they had gotten it so wrong. Many SDAs have a habit of convincing themselves that they are Jesus. David Koresh is a fine example of one. They have a culture of unqualified prophesy, and tend to be obsessed with the Holy Spirit. There is actually a way to categorize their belief system in that regard, but such an explanation would be long and really really boring. Suffice to say, they are not really in keeping with typical protestant churches, and are regarded as borderline christians by most other churches which are otherwise fairly open-minded about doctrine. They are not quite as far off of the beaten path as Mormons (another group that has repeatedly and unsuccessfully predicted the world, as well as made doctrinal changes to explain the failure of its prophesy) but they certainly stay pretty far away from the doctrines of mainstream christianity. This May 21st guy sounds like some type of independent Baptist from what I have read, but most Baptists I have met were not quite spectacularly weird as this guy, and don’t try to predict the Second Coming. If he hasn’t looked into joining one of the other quasi-christian doom cults out there, he really should, he may meet some like minded people, and they can eat canned fish on a mountaintop all day. Or, better yet, he can attempt to rewrite the bible in order to fit his world view like the SDAs did in the late 19th century, and then he will never have to justify any of it. Anyway, just let it be know that the average christian is equally (if not more so) offended by this guy as anyone with delicate agnostic/atheistic sensibilities.

Clients From Hell: Me: “Good morning ma’am, I am calling because our records shows a debt...

Sat, 21 May 2011 12:44:09 -0500

Clients From Hell: Me: “Good morning ma’am, I am calling because our records shows a debt...:

clientsfromhell:

Me: “Good morning ma’am, I am calling because our records shows a debt on your cellphone line.”

Client: “Oh, yes, sorry. I missed the deadline. Can I pay it with my credit card?”

Me: “Sure, you can do it right know if you wish.”

Client: “Great…Did you get the numbers?”

Me: “Sorry, what?”

memphistechno: Self-Organizing 26-Neighbor Summation...

Mon, 16 May 2011 07:53:26 -0500

memphistechno:

Self-Organizing

26-Neighbor Summation Automaton

We need a visit from our president right now.

Mon, 16 May 2011 07:47:00 -0500

We need a visit from our president right now.:

I think Obama will be one of our most important presidents of the modern era. (if he isn’t already)

Just got a batch of these in, now all I need are the crystals.

Sun, 15 May 2011 19:07:50 -0500

Just got a batch of these in, now all I need are the crystals.

"If you are in school today the technologies you will use as an adult tomorrow have not been invented..."

Sun, 01 May 2011 23:15:25 -0500

“If you are in school today the technologies you will use as an adult tomorrow have not been invented yet. Therefore, the life skill you need most is not the mastery of specific technologies, but mastery of the technium as a whole — how technology in general works. I like to think of this ability to deal with any type of new technology as techno-literacy”

- Kevin Kelly (via protoslacker)

notational: Interactive Video Portraits (by...

Sun, 01 May 2011 18:22:38 -0500

notational:

Interactive Video Portraits (by rgbcolormonitor

)

Interactive Video Portraits is an interactive audiovisual installation realized in SPECS, UPF (Barcelona-Spain) under the Inov-Art program, MC & DGArts (Lisbon-Portugal).
Made with Pure Data, openFrameworks [OSCVideoServer] and Processing.

The IVP installation includes a touchscreen through which the users can choose six different interactive video portraits that are constantly displayed for selection indicated by 14 iconic faces in a “sleeping mode”.
A widescreen, tilted to portrait mode, immediately displays the user’s selection, thus “bringing the characters to life”. The user can interact with the sequence of the video portraits and thus with the characters by means of his/her position in space. This requires a video camera (set on the ceiling, above the user) that is tracking the user’s position in relation to the widescreen display. The user’s position in space is translated into 9 different, equal-sized, sections. Each section is labeled with a different video loop and each loop contains a different action or expression played by the character.

Eve Sussman is brilliant.

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:24:30 -0500

Eve Sussman is brilliant.

It's a surreal moment when you realize how a student completely and utterly trusts you, just because you are her teacher.

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:18:16 -0500

I have certainly had this experience.

northgarlandmontessorischool:

I know this is entirely obvious....

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:16:14 -0500

…but Mad Max 2 is a brilliant movie.

This is one of the better digital photographs (I presume it is...

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:40:11 -0500

This is one of the better digital photographs (I presume it is digital) I have seen that works with framing in a nearly classical manner. It’s almost a complete reverse of Chiaroscuro while still accomplishing similar visual volume. It almost hides it’s own negative space, and harks to Magritte in it’s obscured female face (instead of a sheet, her own hair has a similar visual effect in how it drapes over her contours).

"I feel like Mad Max right now. But I need hot water more than gas."

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:23:00 -0500

“I feel like Mad Max right now. But I need hot water more than gas.”

memphistechno: Gear Lust Iterated Function System

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:21:20 -0500

memphistechno:

Gear Lust

Iterated Function System

memphistechno: Tiles Iterated Function System

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:21:08 -0500

memphistechno:

Tiles

Iterated Function System