Archive for April, 2007

Voder The Vocoder 1939

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Werner Meyer-Eppler, then the director of Phonetics at Bonn University, recognised the relevance of the machines to electronic music after Dudley visited the University in 1948, and used the vocoder as a basis for his future writings which in turn became the inspiration for the German “Electronische Musik” movement.
Check out the introduction:

nerd blogs don’t talk about love.

Monday, April 16th, 2007

I was thinking maybe as we express love in cheesy ways, it will eventually become a taboo.

maybe we’ll fail the moment we can

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Mars-probe failure ‘human error’
The US space agency, Nasa, has said that human error was to blame for the failure of the $154m (£77.5m) Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6554525.stm
Human mistake stops Stock Exchange
“an employee of the Central Depository had switched off one of the servers of the Stock Exchange”
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n108780
Big Bang at the atomic lab after […]

hyperwealthy people and ambition

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Question: Why want it all when you can have some and be happy? Because it’s more fun to want it all, all the time.
update may 2008:  I was listening to joseph campbell with bill moyers and he was talking about the idea that:
if you are in a journey, looking for an end, a destination, after […]

nina simone - mood indigo

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

I love the bass line on this song.

weightlessness, fullness in the head.

Friday, April 6th, 2007

BIOMEDICAL RESULTS FROM SKYLAB http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/books/skylab/ch04.htm
"…One feels this strange fullness in the head and this sensation of having a cold, and one sees the puffy look on the faces of his fellow crewmen and hears their nasal voices. He feels his body assume the strange posture that one has in weightlessness, with the shoulders hunched up, […]