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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
I came home to Westport to see old friends this weekend. Last night we watched [title], which was super-fun. As expected from all the reviews I’d read, it’s a member of no genre I can identify, a surrealist farce that … Continue reading
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Encouraging
We only have two rehearsals left before the big VoiceLab concert, and I was beginning to get really worried about this… but I found this rehearsal pretty encouraging. We went through every song in our planned repertoire, and we really … Continue reading
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Barbeque
I went to a barbeque with some OLPC/Sugar folks, and spent most of the evening chatting with the good old boys about the good old days. I learned that one of them designed this album cover for the Talking Heads … Continue reading
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Harvard VoiceLab Winter Concert: Friday Dec. 10th at 8 PM
Harvard VoiceLab will be holding our annual Winter Concert on Friday, the 10th of December at 8 PM in the Dudley House Common Room, Lehman Hall. Admission is free of charge, and we’ll provide some seasonally appropriate refreshments to accompany … Continue reading
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Transparent Video with GStreamer
So you wrote a script to generate an animation with ImageMagick or something. You have a folder full of transparent PNGs, one for each frame. Now you want to do some alpha-channel compositing in gstreamer (e.g. with PiTiVi). Instead of … Continue reading
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Fall Concert 2010
I went to the Chorallaries fall concert last night. It was simply great stuff, with huge block chords in the back and real performers up front. I heard hardly a trace of the fiddly nigh-impossible backgrounds that dominated while I … Continue reading
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The Tesla Roadster
A good friend of mine, who lives in one of the Harvard College Houses, called me up on Saturday night with an intriguing challenge. A buddy of his from college was coming into town tomorrow on business, and this buddy … Continue reading
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Rally Signs
I’ve been trying to think of what to say about the rally, which has turned out to be harder than I expected. Some experiences are difficult to translate into text. What if you wandered into a crowd of 250,000 people, … Continue reading
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FLOODTHECLUB
Seemingly for years now I have been getting text message spam that announces itself as being from FLOODTHECLUB and inviting me to attend various unappealing events at disreputable-sounding establishments. Usually they arrive while I am in the middle of something, … Continue reading
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Backup^2
I was sufficiently scared by last weekend’s server crash (it turned out to be the death throes of a faulty and superfluous graphics card) that I decided to get my backup system working again. I’d hate to lose the contents … Continue reading
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