Play with the Machine » good-old-days http://www.machinelake.com Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:08:33 +0000 en hourly 1 More reminiscing http://www.machinelake.com/2008/01/12/more-reminiscing/ http://www.machinelake.com/2008/01/12/more-reminiscing/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:00:03 +0000 gavin http://www.machinelake.com/2008/01/12/more-reminiscing/ In lieu of anything actually new, how about a walk down memory lane Play with the Machine style?

January 2005

Tara Mcpherson: “Fantastic poster maker & illustrator. Letterpress-esque, check out the Stereolab one. She sells them, Stereolab is on $35.” Timely even! Her stuff is featured prominently in Juno’s (from the movie Juno) bedroom.

January 2004

FSDB: “FSDB is a file system data base. FSDB provides a thread-safe, process-safe Database class which uses the native file system as its back end and allows multiple file formats and serialization methods. Users access objects in terms of their paths relative to the base directory of the database […]” This was (is?) and all Ruby thing. Still kicking it seems—last updated October 2006. I never did anything with it, my Ruby love already fading in 2004. So many alternatives nowadays. What to choose? Amazon S3 and SimpleDB and Thrudb all look interesting.

January 2003

Foreign Groceries Museum: “Nice. Lingua de Gato isn’t what you think.” This one is bittersweet. Steve recently lost the 5000+ photos he had on Flickr to a phishing scam. The above link clicks thru to a Flickr Not Found error page. I don’t like to throw the word tragic around but I think this qualifies. Such a loss.

January 2002

I had a thing for photologs in 2002 it seems:

PixelPile now defunct.

lightningfield still around sorta, last updated March 2007.

Noah Grey still very much alive & kicking.

April 2001 (earliest I have with easy archive access)

Turning Point For BeOS, Users?: “It’s funny, I reformatted my BeOS partition this weekend. Needed more room for linux. Hadn’t booted into Be for over a year. Sad.” Everything in that sentence & title is long gone. No Byte, no Be. A lot can happen in 7 years.

Guess what still works? Amazon urls from 2001! For example, L’aventure Fantastique! Back in the day I used the weblog as my del.icio.us.

Thanks for your indulgence. One last one:

“Experience merely forgotten is seldom beyond recall, if we try hard and patiently to bring it back. It is only when we forget having forgotten that a door closes between us and the past.” Robert Grudin “Time and the Art of Living”

New stuff coming up! Really.

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]]> http://www.machinelake.com/2006/10/06/good-old-days/feed/ 0 The Conversations – Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film http://www.machinelake.com/2004/05/14/the-conversations-walter-murch-and-the-art-of-editing-film/ http://www.machinelake.com/2004/05/14/the-conversations-walter-murch-and-the-art-of-editing-film/#comments Fri, 14 May 2004 18:51:32 +0000 gavin http://www.machinelake.com/2004/05/14/the-conversations-walter-murch-and-the-art-of-editing-film/ The Conversations : Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film / “Walter Murch is a true oddity in Hollywood. A genuine intellectual and renaissance man who appears wise and private at the centre of various temporary storms to do with film making and his whole generation of filmmakers. He knows, probably, where a lot of the bodies are buried.” Put this one in the must-read stack for info architecture & interaction design. Perfect quote; he’s a genius. I found his visual notation system for planning film edits utterly fascinating. (I thought I mentioned this awhile ago…. Sorry if I repeat myself.)

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]]> http://www.machinelake.com/2002/03/17/boodler/feed/ 0 Peep: The Network Auralizer http://www.machinelake.com/2001/10/25/peep-the-network-auralizer/ http://www.machinelake.com/2001/10/25/peep-the-network-auralizer/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:39:00 +0000 gavin http://www.machinelake.com/2001/10/25/peep-the-network-auralizer/ Peep: The Network Auralizer — Straight from sweetcode, this is a wonderful app! “Peep is a network monitoring tool that represents network information via audio output. Network diagnosis with Peep is made not only based on singular network events, but on whether the network as a whole “sounds normal”. ” Go listen to the samples.

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