The Emotional Brain- The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional LifeJoseph LeDouxSimon & Schuster PaperbacksNew York London Toronto Sydney—–Emotional responses are mostly generated unconsciously. We have little direct control over our emotional react…

Book Review—Music and the Emotions–by Malcolm BuddRoutledge & Kegan PaulLondon, Boston, Melbourne and HenleyEmotions—-Chpt 1Emotions have intensive magnitude and lack extensive magnitude.An emotion is not itself assigned a location in the body, bu…

(Response to Urban Computing entry: 05. Crossroads)
“What happens when two or more city streets intersect?”
I often think of the rules embedded within street intersections. Painted stripes dictating lanes and crosswalks, traffic lights and signage all orchestrate this flow of movement between people and autos. Sometimes I think it’s crazy that these simple colors and symbols [...]

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i’ve been writing some fiction as of late. i’ve tossed around some ideas in my head for some time, i thought about writing some pieces before, but good creative fiction takes time. so i have finally written some - but i’ve been holding back from posting them. it’s not so easy to [...]

Finally, I’m gonna take a moment and blog something besides Xbee code and alternative energy. Ahhhh… Almost forgot Suzanne had gotten tix for This American Life’s live tour - the show was excellent. Actually, I didn’t really realize when we got these tickets that they were for the launch of the t.v. show. I was [...]

idle sketchings

more daily sketches that i forgot to post. a butterfly, a house, my cell phone, and my house phone. what does this all mean? someone must know..

I got back to New York after a four-hour bus ride that dropped me off at (of all places) the Port Authority at 12 in the morning. It would’ve been a pretty miserable ride, except Steven Jackson was there to keep me company, I managed to get a slight bit of work done before my [...]

A more condensed version of the annual look at the triumphs and tirbulations of participatory media took place at MIT this year (too bad I didn’t realize that until after I had booked my hotel at Harvard Square) and had a decidedly more political slant to it than last year’s conference. Maybe something happens the [...]

YEPPIES| Coming of age in the eBay generation: ‘Life-shopping’ and the new life skills for the age of eBay. A review of the available research and statistics on young people’s lives and opinions conducted by Social Issues Research Centre. |SIRC|

I colleague of mind just tried to discourage me from joining Razz.com. He said I would loose 5 IQ points. Hah! Make your own Razz!

I’ve decided to go with my idea for constructing a dialogue for two people out of language or lines from their favorite “texts”. I’d like to eventually look at all sorts of texts including books, television show scripts, etc. But for the sake of ease and clarity, I’ll be starting with movie scripts. This is [...]

I love presenting, and I love critiquing other people’s presentations. I’m not Kawasaki or Conway, but I think I’m decent at it. Most of what I know is thanks to a two-week training course early in my government career, about four years ago. For 13 straight days, I watched a series of presenters stand up [...]

MUSIC IN ITS RELATION TO THE INTELLECT AND THE EMOTIONSJohn StainerMus. Doc., M.A., Prof. Mus., Oxon.London New YorkNovello, Ewer And Co.Copyright, 1892, by Novello, Ewer and Co.——-The cause of the sound works its way to us in absolute silence; sou…

one year later + i still have your fur on my clothes

we lost little zekey boy last year on the 20th. he put up a valiant effort - still trying to crawl into your lap at 15 years 8 months. i don’t think it ever gets any easier - this one’s for you little buddy.

I just came across this great recording of the first electronic speech synthesis system that was introduced by Bell Labs at the 1939 world’s fair. Here’s some more history on the Voder and below I’ve posted an audio recording of the synthesized voice being introduced to a radio audience:

happy year of the porky pig!
looking forward to all the good things it’s supposed to bring.
hope it lives up to the hype.

i made spicy tom yum soup
looks good right? well i had a little help. a friend asked me for the recipe, so here it is. in most thai/asian-ethnic supermarkets, and even in most major chains, you can find the pre-made soup packets. i think i used ‘a taste of thai’ for [...]

woke up, fell out of bed, dragggggggged the comb across my head.

following the theme of this week of sketching - i was lost in thought staring out my window when i noticed the light on the plant leaves. this plant has probably outgrown it’s pot - yet it continues to inch higher to get [...]

1 9V battery (Duracell) lasts approximately 1 week. By increasing sleep time, battery life for 8th floor circuit should improve, hopefully significantly. Reset pin 5, take low by dipping wire to ground.
XCTU Settings:
SP setting: 214 (hex = 532/60 = 8 sec)
SP is for setting/reading sleep period for cyclic sleeping remotes. Max is 268 seconds. Since [...]

What are Yahoo! Pipes?| In Yahoo! Pipes, what used to be a table in the relational database is now: a web page, an RSS feed, etc. The current list of sources includes: Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Local, Fetch (RSS feeds), Google Base and Flickr. Each source …