Augmented Memory

1. Good lord this book is long!
2. Only 62 pages in, and we’ve already gone through a generation and a half of characters.
3. Is all of this history just a setup for the “real” story?

Sometime after Make magazine Volume 4 came out, I built the circuit board for a CMoy headphone amplifier. I tried to fit the amp in an altoids tin as the article suggested, but with the larger capacitors I used it was just a little too big. I put the completed board aside for a while, until my girlfriend bought an iPod shuffle. The clear plastic box the iPod came in proved to have plenty of room for the CMoy. I just wish I’d been a little more organized with the wiring.

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Since I tend to forget things, I’m going to start a list here of This American Life episodes that I would like to listen to when I have some time:

Niagra, Babysitting, MacGyver, Can You Fight City Hall If You Are City Hall?, Kid Logic, Pimp Anthropology

Last night I dreamed that I was lost in a large complex that was some strange amalgamation of a huge hospital and an electronics store. The most memorable image from this dream was an underground hallway with a beautiful terrazzo floor. Although I don’t remember most of my dreams, there are some recurring themes in the ones I can recall:

1. Architecture - The interior layout of a building is important in many of my dreams. Often, I find myslef on a quest to reach the “coolest” part of the building. The layout of the building(s) often changes over the course of the dream. At the beginning of one dream my parents’ house was in its normal configuration, by the end it had sprouted towers and secret passages.
2. Confusion - A feeling of being “dropped” into the middle of a situation with no knowledge of what led up to it. I also often have the feeling that I’m supposed to be doing something, but can’t do it because I don’t know what it is.
3. Physical/Mental Limitation - Frequently in my dreams I am subject to some sort of disability that prevents me from functioning properly. In some dreams my vision is so fuzzy that I am essentially blind. In many (most?), I am unable to walk properly (e.g. I walk stooped over, or very slowly, or fall down frequently). Sometimes I’m just not able to think.

I’m sure the psychoanalysts could have a field day with this information (a Freudian Field Day, hehehe).

Here’s all the states I’ve visited so far.

create your own personalized map of the USA

Updated 8/2006 to include Oregon and Washington

Added Oklahoma 12/2007, although I actually went there in July 

I’ve been working on archiving all of my CDs in FLAC format and making them available on the network at the house via Slimserver. Since I have an Xbox hooked up to the stereo system in the living room, it would be nice to use that to stream music, rather than dropping $250 on a squeezebox. I found SoftSqueeze, a software implementation of the squeezebox (it even emulates the nifty VFD), written in Java. Here’s how I got it running on the Xbox:

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I finally got django up and running on my dreamhost account using these instructions. While I didn’t have as much trouble as some people, I did have a few problems. Dreamhost is an awesome hosting provider, but they may not be the best option if you really want to do stuff with django. I’ll write more about what i’m doing with django once I get my application going.

Henry’s PostMap idea is on digg:

“This guy is asking for random postcards to be sent to him. He is then tracking their locations around the globe with Google Maps and posting links to the actual cards on this site.”

read more | digg story

go to the Douglas County Assessor’s Map Viewer
turn on the “Colored Aerials” layer. Resolution is much better than google earth, probably better than 6 inches.

Bram Cohen

“If I could write software that didn’t have to run on a computer…”, “Call os.unfuck()”