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Sunrise (Draft 01)

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A first draft on an Eno-esque ambient thing.

A JavaScript application randomizes note order from a list of allowed notes and pipes them to the Web MIDI Api They then enter Ableton Live which routes the MIDI to an E-Mu Proteus/2 that does the actual sound generating. The sound from the Proteus is then treated with delay, reverb and Valhalla Shimmer in Live.

This is very much inspired by the article JavaScript Systems Music and by Eno’s Airports 2/1.

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Zodiac

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Yesterday when Iris was asleep in her bed, Linn and I sat down on the couch to watch some TV. We’ve just finished the latest season on Modern Family that’s available on Netflix in Sweden1, so we needed to find something new. While browsing for a while, not managing to agree on something, Linns sleepiness got the best of her and she decided to fall asleep on the couch instead.

Even though I was really tired I decided to watch something. Initially I was going to start watching Luke Cage but while browsing a list Zodiac by David Fincher showed up. I tend to really like Fincher’s movies and since I hadn’t watched this one, and since it was still reasonably early in the evening, I went with it. At first I thought I might watch half of it or something and then continue another day but the movie drew me in.

It’s a mystery-thriller based on the actual case of a serial killer who called himself ”The Zodiac”. It features a great cast, including Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr. and Chloë Sevigny, and I loved it.

I knew very little about it when going into it. I wasn’t even sure if the text at the beginning that proclaimed it to be based on actual events were true or not2 but it totally got me hooked in just a few minutes.

The thing that I really like about David Fincher’s movies is that he thinks, or at least the movies gives the impression that he thinks, that I the viewer is an intelligent and observant person. He loves exposition but not in a bad way.

Also this movie, unlike Fight Club and Gone Girl – which are the two most Fincher movies that I saw most recently3 – is free of irony. It’s an honest thriller that has me invested in solving the crime and that, in a few instances, makes me genuinely scared.

Oh, and in case you don’t obsessive click all the links that I put in this post, you should absolutely check out this one, David Fincher – And the Other Way is Wrong, from Every Frame a Painting. It’s a great analysis of Fincher’s style and as far as I can tell it doesn’t really spoil any of his movies, so you can watch it even if you haven’t watched all his films yet.

  1. I think it’s season 7. ↩
  2. It is. ↩
  3. I saw Gone Girl for the first time, Fight Club was a rewatching. ↩
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The basic building blocks of Twitter

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At its core, Twitter is just three fairly simple things.

  1. A simple way to post short status updates.
  2. A list of people who’s post you follow.
  3. A timeline that mashes the posts from those people together into one stream.

Every piece of the puzzle was there long before Twitter. For posting we had, and still have, blogs. For following we have things like blogrolls, remember those? And the timeline is just a river style feed reader.

The indie web movement are trying to recreate this, but I think what they/we lack is a turn-key solution for new users to get all this. The pieces are there, but they need to be combined.

Today I learned more about an upcoming service that I’ve been keeping my eye on for some time, that will bring these pieces together in what looks like a great way. Exciting times!

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My alcoholic beverage of choice for tonight is a Tom Collins

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Using and AirPort Express as a wired extension to an AirPort Extreme

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Part of moving into the new house off course involves setting up the wired and wireless network for the home. Since I have both an Apple AirPort Extreme and an Airport Express, and since the house is too big for the wireless network from one to cover all of it, I wanted to use the latter to extend the formers wifi. I’ve struggled with this previously and failed.

This time I decided not to quit until it worked. There’s just no way this can’t be done, right?

After some googling I found a webpage that helped me on the way, Airport Express as an extender. (Apple.com).

The way to do it is to connect a Cat5e/Cat6 wire between one of the ports of the Extreme and the port1 of the Express. So far, so good.

Then, and here’s the catch, you setup the Extreme as a wifi access point. Once it’s up and running you setup the Express and the important thing is to not set it up as an extension of an existing network. Instead you should set it up as a new network, give it a unique device name and then use the same network name and password as you did on the Extreme. Finally you set the Express to work in bridge mode.2

Is you do these steps it should work. Yay!

  1. I have the older Express that only has one Ethernet port. ↩
  2. Apple calls this ”roaming” and you can read more about it in the manual. ↩
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Första kvällen i huset

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Nu är vi på plats i huset. ”Vi” är jag, Linn, Iris och min bror som är här och hjälper oss med flytten. Vi har kört ett rejält lass hit till huset idag så vi har allt vi behöver men just nu är det lite svårt att veta var någonting är. Fyrtio kartonger betyder att det finns gott om ställen att leta på. :)

Vi har även byggt ihop ett gäng möbler och har massor kvar och i morgon ska vi hämta ännu mer prylar och förhoppningsvis ska jag även få fart på det trådlösa nätverket i huset.

Det kan även vara så att vi så småningom får roa oss med att klättra på taket och sätta upp en tv-antenn. En av de många tjusningarna med ett helt nytt hus är ju att det inte finns några antenner eller nåt på det. Fiber finns draget in i huset och det är den vägen vi kommer konsumera merparten av den tv vi tittar på. Jag vill inte skaffa någon box och/eller något abonnemang från någon kabeltv-leverantör men jag vill att vi om möjligt ska kunna titta på sändningar från SVT och TV4, även om internetuppkopplingen av någon anledning slutar fungera. Så därav en vanlig tv-antenn för marksänd digital-tv. Stay tuned för mer av det äventyret. (I’ll see myself out.)

Hursomhelst så känns det väldigt, väldigt bra att sitta vid köksbordet, visserligen ett väldigt rörigt köksbord men ändå, i sitt eget hus och njuta av en öl och av tystnaden. Ingen vältrafikerad bilväg som stör, inga grannar som låter genom väggarna som vi delar. Ingen vändplan där raggarbilarna står och brötar ut bas. Bara värmepannan som surrar i bakgrunden. (Det kan vara så att jag behöver köpa en tjockare dörr till tvättstugan där pannan sitter, annars kanske jag så småningom blir sinnessjuk.)

Det är mycket kvar att göra innan allt är klart inne i huset och trädgården är en enda ler- och stenhög just nu men det känns att det kommer bli väldigt bra och jag trivs redan.

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Microcast #19

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I just (re)watched American Beauty.

Download and listen to Microcast #19

(Also on Anchor.)

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Microcast #4

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Just a quick wave/microcast about what I’m doing today.

Download Microcast #4

I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to use Anchor and the microcast feed on my blog, so today I thought I’d try to speak a little off the cuff about what I’m doing.

(You can subscribe to the microcast RSS feed here.)

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House of Cards

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Ikväll har Linn och jag äntligen börjat titta på ”House of Cards”. Jag misstänker att vi kommer gilla den serien rejält så småningom men nu, efter ett avsnitt, känns det förvirrande med många gubbar med dolda agendor hit och dit och väldigt oklart vad någon egentligen vill.

Fördelen med att börja att se en sån här serie ganska sent är att nu har vi tre hela säsonger att se innan vi måste börja vänta på nytt.

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Forest Rider

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This is the first picture I’ve taken with my new camera that I’m reasonable happy with. More will likely come.

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