Random posts from one A. Smith.
Crown Aruba’s Halloween
Record parties and better things
BOAT, Magic Centipede (via buttondave)
Great to see BOAT getting some attention these days. They write some great songs. See here for a nice write-up.
We played an all-ages show with them once, and my favorite part was seeing the drummer’s (I think) 3 year-old son sitting cross legged in the front row cheering on Dad and wearing big ol’ sound blocking ear muffs.
Funny good | pointsmiles | 8tracks
My first 8tracks mix. Captain Beefheart, Scout Niblett, Jonathan Richman, among others.
Great John Vanderslice performance - this Tiny Desk series is a brilliant idea. Thanks Rory for the pointer.
…And this explains why someone would want to bother with circuit bending. Sort of like a modern prepared piano.
Circuit Bent Casio SA-21 (via Squelchbox)
I feel like I just started seeing the term circuit bending floating around recently, and wasn’t clear what it was all about. This explains it.
Circuit Bending for Beginners, pt 3 of 4 (via benttronicsdotcom)
things, they are shaken and stirred
Today I started a new phase of my life. As if I needed another new phase after the wedding bells, maternity wards, moving boxes, etc of the fairly recent past, but when they show up, you can’t really turn these new phases away. They are insistent.
This one involved moving on from a company I really enjoyed working at — and in which I strongly believe — in order to devote my brainpower to building what is now just a small website into a real living business (happily it looks like I will be able to stay involved in the company). To help make ends meet I have taken a temporary contract at a not so small software company in Redmond, where I’ll be working on ridiculously large SEM campaigns. Fun.
Highlights!
- Today, of all days, every spambot in the world discovered our site, helpfully informing us of really compelling deals in insurance and telling us about innovative new treatments for very specific medical conditions. Thanks!
- Lined up behind the spambots were the classier search engine crawl-bots. All of them. Google had been politely swinging by every day or so to check in, then today it was like “oh, hi, great to see you AGAIN. No, that article is the same as the first four times you looked at it, but feel free to go check in on it. And oh, look, you brought your friend Yahoo! (who totally ignored us for a three weeks, but never mind) and who are those guys from Russia and China? “
- I learned that it takes well over an hour to take the bus to the above mentioned software company in Redmond. Ouch.
- I have a lot to learn about search engine marketing.
- I have a lot to learn about keeping a database intensive web application stable and happy
