HOT COINS You Can't Pray For Your Soul (12")
You Can't Pray For Your Soul
Christmas Day

Christmas Day is the cut I need this for. 115BPM slomo dance heaven.


DOROTHYS FORTRESS
Django The Bastard Edits EP (12") Destroy All Planets
Silencer
Enter Castillo
Couple De Ville
The Revenger Of El Santoro



6TH BOROUGH PROJECT Part One (12") Instruments Of Rapture

Hang On
The Formula (Dub Vibes)
Nights Over Memphis (The Revenge Dub)

minitek 3 saturday review

Very briefly

Took the F train to Coney, exited the subway and immediately started hearing sub bass. GOOD SIGN. Everything went much smoother but not without glaring hitches here and there. I only spent 5 minutes in line going in on saturday at about 3pm and apparently most people didnt spend much longer than that all day. The music was for the most part fantastic. I will be honest, I came here to see jeremy p caufield. He blew the roof off once again. The first few tracks he played were hitting all the right spots and then he went into a bit of a lull for 30 minutes, then as the sun went down and it got darker and he went into a succession of 25-30 minutes of highly energetic soul creating/destroying techno destruction. The two guys next to me were looking over at me as if to say HOLY SHIT... this is blowing my mind. I concurred, and continued raving. Thanks Jeremy.

Friday night as most of the net already knows was a bust. I wont talk too much about that as I want things like this to happen more and dont want to get too down on the promoters as im sure they are going to have to deal with a pretty big shitstorm with VIP ticket holders shouting at them for the next few weeks. No one told me the party was moved to Rebel so i went back to my friends house in back of pratt inst. and went to bed. Woke up and visited with my cousin Spencer, ate some stewed goat and yellow rice and beans at Pena on De Kalb Ave.

When I arrived at coney island Afternoon Coffee was playing a live set and were keeping people grooving... they were loooking like they were having fun and seemed happy to be there.

I spoke with the nice folks at confined media from san fran. Wish I could remember your names... a few afternoon gin and tonics and i forget everything! They had a booth setup by the entrance that they paid 400$ for! ouch. Great meeting you if I dont see you again today.

shiny happy techno from titontin duvante

always thought Titonton was a bit to the left with his production, this can be good and bad. im going through his back catalogue and just found "turn2look" from the refreak LP on the "design concept label and that is on a similar sonic spectrum as reverse cowboy. ChiDaro from the nippon connection on Das Modular's label also has this really playful sonic energy too. Playful warm synths, bouncy, and totally upbeat. Duvante, if his music is indicative of his personality must be pretty eccentric and happy... eclectic, perhaps a bit anal and a pleasure to be around, detail oriented and sometimes prone to bursting with feelings of ecstasy.

nice pep talk Mrs. Palin! I'm sold. Vote GOP cuz were teh energy conservatives

"Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems - as if we all didn’t know that already. But the fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we’re going to lay more pipelines...build more nuclear plants...create jobs with clean coal...and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources. We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers." - sarah palin

opal =

A microscopic superlattice arrangement of silica microspherulites, each with a small central nano-nucleus, followed by Bragg diffraction of white light, gives precious opal its pseudochromatic ‘fire’. Pre-sedimentation heterogeneous microspherulite growth within siliceous groundwater takes place on a central radioactive catalyst core. Neutron activation and secondary ion spectroscopy (SIMS) of precious opal reveals thorium, uranium, lead, and anomalous concentrations of daughter nuclides from natural uranium fission. Gamma-ray radioactive logging of drill holes and opencut mine walls demonstrates natural radioactivity surrounding opal deposits, increasing in intensity towards the central precious opal zone. Case histories of new gemstone discoveries are described, and the high intrinsic value of this unique technique confirmed.

http://www.australiangemmologist.com.au/

buy this

moments of zen

The life of a freelancer

Despite not having any benefits or a paycheck that is directly deposited on a bi-weekly basis freelancing is a great way to live. My recent jobs have been regularly arriving in my email inbox with directions exhorting me to a street address typically in New Hampshire or Vermont. These "missions" are sent from 1402 miles north-west of Boston. There lays a town called Eden Prairie Minnesota. In this town a company called BHI Corp. is nestled in a very normal looking office building just a few hundred meters from route 5 which inconsequently happens to be very close to the Minnesota Vikings training camp. Micah Garneau (a close friend of mine) is in the employ of this company and very often gives me jobs related to BHI customers in NH and VT. Thank you Micah!

Typically jobs for BHI are related to setting up a router/firewall and unhooking their expensive local ISP connection and installing a cheaper verizon or Covad alternative. Whenever I set up one of these stores they also become a free wifi hotspot. Take that starbucks. ITS FREE. HA. The remote access abilities of network admins now is pretty amazing. After setting up each router and connecting to the broadband connection BHI techs link in and start configuring anything they didn't pre-program into the asus routers on location in HQ. It's a pretty neat operation and allows me to travel around and see some pretty spots especially in vermont. Nashua and Manchester are alright but if you know these places, you'd probably agree you would rather be in Brattleboro or Burlington VT. That is... if you are anything like me.

Aside from that I am spending alot of time with my lady Heather, on Beacon Hill or at her place of work MIT. Hanging out and exploring MIT has been a thing of fascination for me as its a very stimulating area. Very intl, sciency, and actually quite pretty campus on the memorial drive side. The Lewis music library is fantastic and so is the humanities and science library. Wifi blankets the entire campus as an added plus so I sometimes sit outside and bang off resumes while looking for a "real" job.

I've been at this point in my life before and it definitely feels like I am in some sort of a circular holding pattern. Getting re-lodged in a corporate job seems like the next logical step if I am indeed cycling.


If you know me and you need to hire a fantastic out of work tech support rep feel free to call me!

nicely written peice by david pearce

http://www.mdma.net/index.html

In Western culture, a capacity for reflective self-insight is not highly prized. Introspective genius and a talent for meditation aren't respected in either academia or business. Nothing in our education system is geared toward making young people feel that introspective self-analysis, enhanced self-awareness or personal growth matters in the slightest. How can they be tested, graded and quantified? What's their market value? Anyone in Western society with a tendency to quiet contemplation is likely to be stigmatised as lazy, feckless and unenterprising - unlike the sound and fury of the lionised Man Of Action, and his larger-than-life ego on whose life-energies lesser mortals may feed. In similar manner, our (limited) vision of future civilisations tends to focus on their technological marvels - and the supposed Darwinian dominance-battles of their science-fictional inhabitants - rather than on odysseys into the inner depths of their souls. Yet the design of long-acting entactogens - and their neurological analogues - should allow introspective depth and a capacity for higher-order self-reflection to be fabulously enriched as well. Tomorrow's counterparts of today's bunch of furtive adolescent introspectionists won't have to shuffle around faint little tickles of thought. Drugs to enrich self-insight and heighten self-reflection may eventually become commonplace. They may be distributed as freely as aspirin if not smarties; and prove safer in excess than either.

http://www.mdma.net/index.html

wifi radios/mp3 players i have known and loved.

Bought the sansa connect 4gb in february and I've been liking the embedded wifi abilities. You are limited to the yahoo radio stations. The upside to that is they are surprisingly good. The next generation better cut that type of closed network shit out right now! the device doubles as hand held ssid browser, also showing the security status of each network. The WORST THING about this is the once again awful choice of going with yahoo music exclusively. filling up the base 4gb (2gb micro sd card slot inlcluded) requires you to put on an obnoxious media player akin to rhapsody's full version. I find that installing just the sansa restore utility alone lets you add files in a windows explorer environment which i prefer yes i detest itunes as well. my tiny mp3 player of choice is now foobar.

this ccrane radio with wifi also looks improves on my most favorite little tivoli radio by adding an unlocked wifi radio station browser with shitttttonnes of stations

"During our tests, we were able to easily tune in over 2,000 popular US radio stations. Just for fun, we tuned in some English stations from Norway, Germany, Argentina and more. As if that were not enough, the AE Wi-Fi Radio can even tune in to MP3, Real Media, and other WMA compatible audio files saved on your computer's hard drive — and it's all wireless!"

sometimes i wonder if i need to have 30,000 radio station options while showering or going to the loo... but then it might be fun.

developing story

http://www.creditunionruse.com/
http://www.taxfoundation.org/press/show/216.html
http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/217.html

I have been wanting to leave key bank for years now and never cut the cord. Suffice to say I have gotten somewhere in the neghborhood of 50 overdrafts in the course of 5 years. Its my fault. I suck. BUT key bank sucks for not giving me overdraft protection. So there.

My master plan included getting a nice mom and pop credit union like my sister has. They would only hit me up for one overdraft when something like this comes along
BALANCE = -1
sandwhich 6$ at subway/ticket to movies 11$ at loews theatre/29.99 for cable bill from comcast
BALANCE = -47.99

if I was under 0 when these things cleared I would be in the hole 3x 33.00 + 47 = 146.00 for a very short 50$ loan.

MIT swapfest

Stopped into this just before the last 3 people closed up their tables. What a great little collection of humanity this swapfest is. Cheap CHEAP CHEEEEEEEAP cables to be had here. If you ever need 100 feet of rca cable for 5-10$ this is the place to get it.

I will definitely be attending the next swapfest.

highlights:
a table brought by an ex printer engineer cum swapfest hocker. He had hundreds of motors and position sensing optical doohickeys. He had a lineup of motors all plugged in and spinning different test pattern papers on the tips of the motors. The market for this type of a person is so niche its scary.

read here from sukimons experience at a swapfest in 2006 which obviously had a bit more flavor to delight in.


http://www.sukimon.com/2006/09/yardsale-for-geeks-the-mit-swapfest/


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This coming Sunday...

*** In our Traditional GARAGE and adjacent lot !!!! *****
so rain or shine or super heat the SWAP is ON !!!!

COMPUTERS - ELECTRONICS - HAM RADIO - COMPUTERS - ELECTRONICS

SWAPFEST all SUMMER at MIT
September 16th 2007
9AM-2PM

Come to the Albany St garage for a great SWAP - plenty of free parking.

BUY SELL or SWAP almost anything Electronic

MIT's electronics and ham radio SWAPFEST will take
place on the third Sunday of each month this summer,
April thru October.

There is tailgate space for over 600 sellers and
free, off-street parking for >2000 cars!

Buyers admission is $5 (you get $1 off if
you have a Harvard or MIT ID) and sellers
spaces are $20 for the first and $15 for
each additional at the gate.

The swap will be held at the corner of Albany and
Main streets in Cambridge; right in the Kendall
Square area from 9AM to 2PM, with sellers set-up
time starting at 7AM.

*** Attention Sellers ***
Prepaid vendors.. Season Pass or monthly,
will be admitted FIRST.
Separate lines will form prior to gate opening
for prepaid and nonprepaid vendors

See http://www.swapfest.us for selling info.

!! RAIN or SHINE !! Have no fear of rain, a covered
well illuminated tailgate area is available for all
sellers (6'8" clearance).

Talk-in: 145.23- (PL 88.5) W1BOS/R and
W1XM/R-449.725/444.725 (PL 114.8/2A).

Sponsors: MIT Electronics Research Society
MIT UHF Repeater Association (W1XM)
MIT Radio Society (W1MX)
Harvard Wireless Club (W1AF)

For more info / advanced reservations 617 253 3776

********** $1 buyers discount with hard copy of this notice ************

*******************************************************************************
Steve Finberg W1GSL w1...@mit.edu
PO Box 82 MIT Br Cambridge MA 02139-7082 617 258 3754
*******************************************************************************

weird folders appearing in my external drive

two of the folders have i386 folders in the first level

the folder marked beae3801848e7b5288c4d1055f2eda contains a exe called mrtstub which apparently has something to do with the microsoft malicious software removal tool OR is spyware. Not sure which is which yet. If anyone knows the deal please comment!

went running on the charles today with Martin and Cleo. so sticky...

also interviewed at micro center in cambridge. wish me luck!

MIT students create "wal mart" cheap solar concentrator

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/solar-dish-0618.html

Frequently Asked Questions


Q: Didn't Mythbusters/that guy on the internet/everyone in the 80s do this already?
A: YES! We're following in the footsteps of many brilliant people. Our innovation is to make them so cheap and easy that they can finally be used across the US, and eventually the world.


Q: Isn't it dangerous?
A: Anything that produces a lot of energy, from cars to wind turbines, is somewhat dangerous. However, the focus point is so concentrated and so high off the ground that the danger of a person wandering into it is minimal.


Q: Can you put solar panels on the end of it?
A: Normal solar panels couldn't handle that much sunlight. However, there is research into high concentration PV, and our system provides the unusually constant flux required to operate them efficiently.


Q: Are you going to use these in the developing world?
A: Because of the simplicity of the design, and use of widely available materials, the Dish has huge potential to address the energy problems of the rapidly developing third world. However, To get the business off the ground, we're focusing on large US installations in the short term.

fast food map.

interpret as you see fit

-
erik perkins 1999

http://www.fastfoodmaps.com/static.html