µstudio
Originally uploaded by nekotaku

This is how my µstudio at home is set up. not seeing huge amounts of use yet due to school and what-not, except of course as loki's bed before she gets chased off.

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I found an 'iDose' of 'viagra' here. Be warned, it's really fucking annoying, and it's nothing more than an FM synthesis trick - it's a PWM wave playing a continuous tone that increases in pitch from low to high, while that is being modulated by a sine wave at about 4 Hz (you can actually count this if you listen, but turn the volume down and don't bother with the whole thing) - this same trick is used by drum and bass and jungle and music similar - surely you've heard a dance track that has that "wub wub wub" type bass going on? This is the same fucking thing, and it's lamer than shit. The only thing at work here is the placebo effect, if at all.

P.S. doesn't work, I don't have any boner, let alone one lasting for four hours :(. Sorry USA Today, you're the Fail Whale Today. | 0 Comments

USA Today is really fucking stupid. They are talking about 'binaural beats' as digital drugs.

The only thing binaural beats can do is help stimulate certain kinds of brainwaves - and they do this by offsetting the left-right channels of your headphones by 3, 5, 8 or 13 Hz etc - which you can't audibly hear, but your brain can detect the cycle of offset and synchronize your brainwaves to the same pattern.

Drugs do affect your brainwaves, but brainwaves alone will not cause complex druglike effects, especially if you know anything about neurochemistry and the many parts of the reward systems of your brain that drugs stimulate. The article is Am-Scare-Ica at it's best. Oh no! Our children are listening to music that will put their brains into a state of zen-like meditation (and yes, I know Zen means meditation, but most people don't.) | 0 Comments

I think a lot of people missed the point in GTA:IV - all those crappy minigames you hate, the variety of wacky interfaces and systems you must learn - that is the point of GTA:IV - if you can conquer that, you can conquer any system a computer can throw at you. In the digital age, things evolve so fast there will be no more getting used to a system you use for years or a lifetime. You'll have to get used to a system you use for months, and eventually, days. However, these systems will all be evolutions of one-another, making coping with them a matter of practice. Reacting quickly to changing systems and stimuli is what made primitive man so great and caused modern man to achieve so much.

So far it's taken nature 13.7 billion years to evolve human intelligence - an introspective endeavour that demands of us taking control of our evolution and our destinies. Are you on the side of life or on the side of the inorganic? Life desires more change and more order, who are we to deny such universal imperatives? Everywhere we look in the universe there are galaxies, with their attendant stars and planets. Life, as we know it and not, will be found everywhere some day.

That demands of us constant and quick action and reaction to ever-changing stimuli, rules and interface options. That is the lesson of GTA:IV.

Though I do wish there were an option to turn off the tutorial dialogs - allow the self-starters to check the briefing if they need any help with the game controls, otherwise let them figure it out. | 0 Comments

So the class of materials the military is developing for it's visual cloaking techniques (I wish I was kidding, but apparently it's coming along) may also be useful in routing fiberoptic networks - by slowing the light, the light can be 'stored' and then sent, and they're saying they should have today's closet sized router down to the size of a fingernail by the time this technology is cooking with gas.

The more I read about quantum mechanics, the more scared and hopeful I am.

Light is made up of photons - photons are quantum. If you are manipulating light to run your computer, you have just accidentally built a near-quantum computer. Who knows, maybe it'll be so fast that the penultimate quantum computer will be a footnote in history a few years later. | 0 Comments

After years of nothing but peeps from the previews department, at last I finally feel confident enough to not embarrass myself officially posting a new track to my website.

You may click on the title link of this post to download the track. My fiancee enjoyed it, and my cat seemed to enjoy the intro but ran away when the heavy growly bits appeared. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for the world. | 0 Comments

Stalking 2
Originally uploaded by JaneIngrid

lazy but accomplished. I may may the comments more prettier at some point in the future, but lets not count on it, functionality first. Loki says hello to everyone, she helped me fix the commenting system. Who knew that my cat would enjoy watching HTML. She watches family guy with us as well. She also likes me blogging from flickr.

I have a theory - i think cats are really feline anthropologists, studying our ways to be successful like us - one day they will make their move. just wait till that frontal lobe evolves.

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IMG_2142
Originally uploaded by nekotaku

This was on the beach the day I proposed to my future wife. It's on the Photoshop diet.

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ambient dance track i've been working on. figured i should unleash that upon the world. i need to look into turning comments back on in here, in the meantime, i guess you can email me at pretty much anything at clubneko.net and it'll get to me. | 0 Comments

backyardhdr
Originally uploaded by nekotaku

I was trying for an impossible old-timey look with some higher definition radiosity. However due to the angle of the sun there are some burnt spots, thankfully the rest of the photo is interesting enough that you don't notice unless you're looking for them.

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