Update to my two previous posts: ICM Final in Progress: Musical Typewriter ICM Final Project Proposal: Text2Drum After getting help from the ICM email list, I changed my AudioPlayer objects to AudioSamples, which only need to be triggered once, as opposed to AudioPlayer objects that require play and rewind functions.  This tweak solved my latency [...]

Dagens Nyheter, a Swedish newspaper, came out with an article yesterday about the internet phenomenon (and now book) Stuff White People Like.  It’s got some great commentary and a precious interview with the SWPL author Christian Lander.  Here is the original article (in Swedish) My rough translation below: Photo caption: Christian Lander makes fun of [...]

I got tagged by S @ 52 Faces with this whack internet meme.  Here it goes: 1. Where is your cell phone? Pocket 2. Your significant other? Spidermonkey 3. Your hair? black 4. Your mother? same 5. Your father? same 6. Your favorite thing? Exploration 7. Your dream last night? Gorillas 8 Your favorite drink? [...]

Check out my recent online conversation with Sophia of 52 Faces about “settling” and commitment in relationships. In Sophia’s original post, “Confessions of a Settler,” she talks about her own personal journey towards commitment and comments on Lori Gottlieb’s controversial Atlantic piece on “Settling for Mr. Good Enough.” I pose the question as to whether [...]

From Tom’s Farewell Party in Brooklyn Heights – 16 June 2007