Music more suited to streaming than individual files or CDs

• Gregorian chants
• Ambient music
• Goa/psychadelic trance
• Nature recordings

 

(S)c(h)ool beans

Boy, summer vacation decided to just say “screw you”. I took a bike ride yesterday (last day of break) and went down a newly graded fire road to get home faster. Two wide humps, sloped downhill to the left. Went down one, started sliding towards the abyss on the second, and braked and did a frontflip and landed on my head and slid three feet.

I was wearing my helmet. If I hadn’t been I’d have a skull or neck fracture right now. Apparently, I hit the front and left side of my face (my nose is crunched up, I’ve got a cut on my chin, and my left jaw joint hurts like hell). My right elbow and knee also got cut up, and I got a rock just above the crotch.

I walked my bike down the fire road and rode to the store and got a ride home. Also, my legs are still wobbly from stress/adrenaline/whatever.

Before that, I had fun. Our trip to Fresno and the surrounding area was fun, and after seeing the traction engine at farm equipment museum I now want one with rubber tires to ride around.

Today has been better than yesterday. It is third period (Academic Workshop, the equivalent of study hall). I’ve got this period first on Wednesday and Friday, and on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday I’ve got Computer Graphics. My Geometry teacher is a nice guy, and I finished his homework (a logic problem) in class. Next I think I’ve got either American Literature or Physics, then American History, then Engineering.

Also, I have spared myself from the horrors of Spanish class or French class (I’ve heard the teachers aren’t very fun, and I have no desire to learn either) by enrolling myself in online Latin. Hooray for dead languages!

 

Driving is too complicated

Rather than learning to drive, I’m going to learn to teleport using calculus.

I will perform certain calculations (using a piece of paper or Pandora) that prove that my actual location in space is slightly different than what I had previously interpreted as my location.

There are certain dangers of this (for instance, not accounting for the movment of the Earth and thus teleporting into the mantle or into space; or accidentally translating myself through 5 dimensions and ending up sidweways in relation to this one), but I think it’s less dangerous than driving. It also costs less.

 

Electric Flute

I was sitting and thinking on enight, and I had an idea: the Electric Flute.

Take a flute, and have a long, thin wire running down the center. Add magnetic pickups like ona guitar, or use clear plastic and optical pickups.

Connect to an amplifier and have something awesome.

Would it work?

 

Another word what I have invented

• Thinkument

Don’t you go trying to steal my word. As of the time right before I wrote this, there are no hits on google. I have become the world’s only purveyor of “thinkument”.

I will use this word for something, mark my words.

 

Things I am saving up for

In this order:

• 16GB SDHC card
• Pandora
• Jumping/spring boots
• More computer memory
• Wireless headphones (A2DP)
• Packet radio transciever (2 of them, maybe)
• Digital SLR with live preview
• Driver’s license
• Car (Old beetle? Electric conversion of some old Pinto?)

Some day…

 

Clip art

I was walking along the road one day, when I spotted a Free Pile.

Hmm… Adobe Acrobat 6, How To Use Photoshop 7, blah, blah, a sleeve of clipart CDs.

Sixteen CDs in total.

I don’t know where they came from, but I’m now in posession of 8 gigabytes of clip art in several formats.

I’m uploading them to bunnitude as I write this.

They can be downloaded here. Most of them are in TIFF format, due to me not being able to find a decent batch image converter.

 

Words I have invented tonight

• Baction
• Befub

 

The Secret Internet Music Project

The Secret Internet Music project is a site/web app that I have set up to allow people to listen to various kinds of music.

http://simp.bunnitude.com

How to use:

1. Register an account. This needs a valid email to send you the activation link. Don’t worry, I don’t collect emails and sell them to evil people.

2. Go to your email and activate your account. Log in at simp.bunnitude.com.

2. Choose some playlist items. Either click on the random play links on the left, or click on the book icon () to browse around. If you want to browse, choose how you want to browse. Currently, genre, playlist, and Radio Stations aren’t very useful. I’ll get those set up later.

3. When you’ve got the songs you like added to your playlist (look to the right) with the button, click on play (). A pop-up will attempt to open with the flash player in it. If it doesn’t open, disable your popup blocker for this site. Don’t worry, there aren’t any popups.

If you’d like to add some of your own music, contact me at webmaster@bunnitude.com. I can set you up an FTP account so you can upload your music.

If there are any problems or bugs, please email me at webmaster@bunnitude.com.

And if you could do me a favor by clicking on the ad once, I’d appreciate it. It helps pay the hosting bills.

 

Seven-league boots

I’ve been thinking more about the idea of the boots.

The hydrogen/oxygen might be a problem, because the hot cylinder internals might cause them to prematurely ignite.

I’ve been thinking of a diesel engine, which would get its ignition power from compressing the fuel. It can’t ignite from the hot cylinder. The disadvantage of this is that there isn’t any way of controlling the ignition timing. The cylinder might fire when your leg was still coming down, which wouldn’t work very well. It might fire too late and bash the footpad into the pavement and knock you off balance.

An ordinary gasoline engine might still be a possibility. The disadvantage of the petroleum engines is that you have to factor in the fuel injection equipment/carburetor.

I need to find an expert at small, linear engines.

 

Fast boots and faster trains

I’ve been developing two ideas in my head lately.

First idea: hydroxy power boots.

Wear a pack on your back with a water tank and a battery, and tubes and wires going to your boots. The battery electrolizes the water (which is also used for cooling), powers the cooling pump, and fires the spark (plug? wire?). The hydrogen-oxygen gas is sent to the boots via a tube, into long cylinders.

I’m still trying to figure out how to get the stuff through the tubes, proper spark timings, and boot articulation so it’s not clumsy. I’m also trying to figure out the force the combustion would provide.

Idea two: magnetic catapult trains.

Think maglev trains, but made out of some sort of magnet-shielding material (mu-metal?). They’d go through giant Gauss guns to accelerate them to very high speeds.

Possible problems: erasing any magnetic media in the train. I’m also trying to figure out whether the people inside would be able to survive the accleration (whether in acceleration couches or not).

Hmm.

 

The longest word in the world

According to Wikipedia, the chemical name for titin, a protein which gives inactive muscles stiffness, is the longest word in the world.

It starts like this:

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyltyrosy…

More after the break.

 

ARM Linux emulator package

Here’s an archive of a QEMU package with a completely installed Debian ARM system.

Username: Pandora

Password: password

Root password: password

Sorry, but this is for 32-bit Windows only (because I don’t have access to any other systems right now).

You’ll need 7-Zip or an LZMA-capable archiver to open this. It’s been virus-scaned, so don’t worry. :)

Please don’t use up all of my bandwidth:

http://eagleswingscoop.org/junk/qemu-0.9.0-arm.7z (thanks, JavaJake!)

 

Aerialsonde.

I just had an idea.

It’s called the Aerialsonde: a compact, lightweight board for monitoring purposes.

Included in the board (there might be several variations): a radio transmitter (amateur or perhaps cellular), an altimeter, a small camera, and logic.

It could be programmed to transmit on various frequencies (via actual programming or swapping out of parts, I don’t know), to broadcast pictures at intervals, and do any number of other things.

They could be attached to balloons or kites, or dropped out of airplanes with parachutes.

They might  be useful for wind monitoring and research (extra monitoring gear could be designed in for this), or for seeing where they go, or just for taking pictures from high up.

I may or may not be developing this. Expect a website for it if I do, though.

 

I has a Twitter.

In the sidebar, I now have Twitter as an RSS feed (because there’s no Twitter wordpress widget). I also have the Twitter facebook app for syncing my Facebook status with my Twitter account.

This is neat. Maybe once I get better at programming and learn how to do something more than make an array, I’ll write a simple Twitter client to suit my needs.

My Twitter account is here, if you want to look at it.