Music
December 3, 2004
freeform jam with biderman
December 3, 2004
Getting so frustrated, porting stuff to the mac, and getting the powerpc assembly portions to work right, but now it seems like there's some other bug in my memory allocation code, ugh. Been hunting it for so long, and it's compounded by the fact that the only mac I have access to at the moment is on the other side of some terrible DSL that disconnects me after every 5 minutes (thank god for screen), bleh. I better get my old powerbook back from Brennan soon, or I'm gonna go insane with it.i rule, really.What do these two URLs have in common? http://web.archive.org/web/19990420022838/www.winamp.com/ vs http://www.digisette.com/en/products/DUOdx.asp. You're welcome for the idea, haha. Not that it appears to have been particularly successful...
December 2, 2004
Reward: To the first person who can get me a source to buy some AMD Geode NX DB1500 development boards, for a reasonable price (i.e. less than $700), within the next month or so, I will send via paypal or whatever, $200. The VIA EPIA boards are just too slow for what I need, and the pentium M boards are hot/expensive/etc. Thank you. <3
shit. shit. no really, shit. :( but everything's ok. anybody know how to do some good distortion/overdrive effects in software? All of mine sound way too digital... Definately gonna have the windows version of Jesusonic out by Christmas. Pretty much have decided it will be free, too. The effects included will be GPL'd.. On another note, amazingly, it took me all day to do the :wq for this, heh. I wrote it after midnight, now it's 4pm. anyway.
Holy crap. Ian earlier told me to listen to the band Dungen, and they are so fuckin good. The album I have is "Ta Det Lungt", and it's just ridiculously good. really. Anyhoo, I gets to go back east now, byee.
The Jesusonic Web Site is coming along, as is the software and hardware.
I really think that John Carpenter was on to something when he made Escape From LA..
Oh boy, sigh. I'm anxious to see how the provisional ballots look in Ohio. While it is doubtful that they will have an effect on the outcome, it would be interesting to see if they differ greatly from the overall vote--i.e. if they do, it would make one think that there had been some systematic (i.e. non-random) reason why a lot of people were not able to vote. 200,000 or even 100,000 people in a state of 5 million is a lot... Anyway...
The Jesusonic now can do a drum machine. The patchset in this ditty is one I hastily recorded yesterday.
getting there. Need to sand a bunch, make a lid for the far side, and get a thumbscrew for the right lid (it has a little storage compartment to put the power supply/etc in). Under linux, have the latency down to about 10ms, still working on getting it lower and more robust. I like ALSA a lot compared to other audio APIs (god knows waveOut and directsound suck for this sort of thing), though some things don't seem to work exactly the way I'd like...
Oh yeah, this episode of frontline has some good stuff in it, too. Particular the last chapter, where you see Kerry speaking right BEFORE the Iraq war, and you realize he saw it coming exactly. Watch it. Chapter 8.
Holy crap, Jon Stewart got even (how is this possible?) more awesome.
woohoo. Wish the keyboard was of the backlit variety. I need to reinforce the screen mounts, too. But yum.
almost there. We have functionality. Now to add the backlit keyboard, mount the screen above the motherboard at an angle, and finish the case. mmm. For keyboard, I'm trying to get one of these. But the rep from the distributor I talked to hasn't called me back, sigh. Hopefully they will soon.
Something has been pissing me off about these debates. It's that sometimes there are arguments that at least to me, the non-political non-accountant non-lawyer, are not being made. For example, Bush says that Kerry's tax increases for the rich will hit around 900,000 people who own small businesses that are subchapter S corporations with higher taxes, therefor making them less inclined to create jobs. Kerry's argument back is that many of these subchapter S corps are people who have tiny shares in companies, and the actual number is more like 200-300k. OK that's valid, but they are missing the BIG FUCKING POINT! My understanding of subchapter S corporations is that only PROFIT or LOSS can be passed through to the shareholders' tax returns. So really, in order for you, as a subchapter S shareholder, to be hit by a tax increase for the rich (I believe they like to stay starting at 200k) is if your business PROFITS more than 200k in a given year. Not grosses, but profits. So the argument that Bush is making, basically becomes: Small businesses that are very successful and making their owners over 200k a year will be hit with higher taxes, therefor those business owners will not be as inclined to hire more people, etc. Which just doesn't make sense, at least to me, the small business owner. If you're making over 200k a year, paying an additional 10% in taxes, really, isn't that big of a deal. Nevermind the arguments that Bush makes, that "taxing the rich won't work because they have lawyers and accountants and can get out of paying taxes". HE ACTUALLY SAID THAT (or something very close to that). AND NOBODY NOTICES!don't get me started on missle defenseI wrote up a slightly clearer version of my earlier rant, and sent it to the Kerry campaign (though I'm sure it'll never get read). Here is it: ---begin quote This is regarding the debate of whether raising taxes for individuals making over $200,000 a year is bad for small businesses. The problem with the Kerry campaign's position on the subject is that they only dispute the number of small businesses who would be affected. The reality of the way subchapter S corporations works is that only PROFITS or LOSSES for a corporation can be passed to the shareholders, so only businesses who are PROFITING over $200,000 a year would have increased tax. This is an important distinction, because it undermines the point of what Bush likes to say, that (paraphrasing) "businesses will not be able to create or maintain jobs if you increase the taxes on them". This is nonsense, because paying employees would happen pre-tax, as an expense. Please please please use this perspective at the next debate. Please. For all of us. Thank you, Justin P.S. A one line summary is: "Taxing corporate profits isn't taxing employment." ---end quote.
October 9, 2004
