I just finished my role as the Lighting Designer for The Winter's Tale at Theatre@First. Opening tonight, it's playing for three weeks, and you can score tickets here. It's a beautiful production with great performances, and it's accompanied by originally scored, live music.

I'm so tired of getting parking tickets for street sweeping, that I wrote a python script that SMSs my cell phone 24 hours before the event, telling me which side my car needs to be parked on. I post it here for posterity. The constructor for Sweep() takes an "odd" and "even" argument, which you can use to plug in your street sweeping days ( Read more... )

• 00:23 "I would like to learn to bartend!" said by the girl at the bar to the bartender. #

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Last month, I made a cool toy: a persistence of vision display using a hard drive. I just spent the past weekend documenting the entire affair, so that others can build the same. You can view the results here.

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For the past few weeks, I've been cranking out the control system for Ensemble Robot's "Boticello". It will be debuting in a concert tonight in New York City. Here's video of a dry-run we made a few days ago. The sound is kind of rough, and we're still learning the best ways to use it.

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For the techno-philes, I built the system with an Atmega ( Read more... )

• 17:51 Flu shot at polling place, feeling politically vacinated. #

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• 16:30 after seven years at the farb, i'm now unemployed. thinking about being a cocktail waitress. #

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• 13:17 @ donred looking forward to being ear-gored by the Flaming Tusk demo. #

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• 02:28 Genius is promising, but not amazing. Large libraries help, and you need to seed from a well known artist. #

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• 18:16 Rogue Waves: tinyurl.com/2aqpzc, www.roguewave.com/, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave_(oceanography) #

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