Tangents

First of all, I realized I never mentioned this item of news: in the fall I'll be moving to Hanover in the fall to start my studies in the Dartmouth Digital Musics Program. It should be a lot of fun and as John McDonald told my friend Peter McMurray (he and Derek Hurst were two of the guys who first encouraged me to check out that program): "Everyone in that program seems happy as hell," and I can say from my visit that it seemed to be true--and keep in mind, I showed up in February and for people to seem that happy in New England in winter is impressive. I was just watching a little TV as I was cleaning my apartment and I saw a funny ad that made me laugh enough to decide to blog about some stuff:

Yes, that mistake is highly improbably, but I did enjoy the part where a guy gave the peace sign when having his picture taken with "Big Papi"--nice touch. When I visted Japan in 1999 tons of random girls wanted their picture taken with me (I really should go back) and quite a few of them gave the peace sign to the camera (plenty of other dudes and dudettes around Japan flashed the sign to me--I guess that's what we do in America). Now to tie the posting of a TV ad (I'll have to blog more to run this down the front page): starting in Maine, moving to Massachusetts, and now to New Hampshire, I guess I'm still going to hang in Red Sox Nation (although I only really got into it when I moved to Waltham and dated a Yankees fan). Which New England state will be next? Rhode Island, Connecticut...or even Vermont? Probably not. If I stick around New England after Hanover, NH, it will probably be to Cambridge, MA. Speaking of Connecticut, I suppose that state is pretty lucky to be in two regions: New England / Tri-State [New York] Area. Speaking of Japan, here is an awesome email Grey Filastine posted to his blog. ----- Now for two adminstrative notes:

• I'm consciously slacking on using categories and have temporarily removed the categories link from the sidebar. They will be back when I take a revise my categories.
• After the Hydra concert at Harvard in May, I will be updating my website with new bio info and a Max abstraction, externals, and javascripts page. VSTs and iPhone software coming soon after that.

I was trying out the AOL Radio application for iPhone when I decided to see what the options were available for Boston local stations. I was listening to WZLX when I heard a very disappointing Netflix commercial. The ad featured a woman in some sort of gameshow. She was asked: "What's the opposite of blue." "Purple," was her answer.

My first SETI disappointment came last month when I tried to help out here on Earth. I got a nice new 8-core Mac Pro and I thought I would use those extra cycles while chilling to crunch some SETI data. Unfortunately the software to download and crunch the packets only lets you download data to your startup disk. I don't even store my own data on my startup disk, so no alien data was going to go on there either. It was nice to see all eight cores working away helping out SETI, but I can't be fragmenting up my drives. Please give us another storage location :) The other disappointment came up more recently when reading my friend Gabe's new blog. Gabe posted a response to a Times Week in Review article on the fact that we are sending less radio transmissions to the cosmos these days. Maybe we should have some repeaters in orbit to broadcast our signals to the stars. Oh well, perhaps it will not matter if our signals are heard since we are mostly harmless.