My graduate thesis involved collecting English translations of the Tao Te Ching and using the various translations to concoct narratives. In those pre-Google days, I was translating the original text character by character using an old weighty character dictionary. Now, you can literally read the entire 500 word classic in the original classical […]
Here are the first 34 measures of a new arrangement of The World Outside my 45’s. I cleaned the cello part up, added a decent rhythm track (beats actually on time!), added the bitcrushed guitar part sooner in the song, and tempered the rhythm guitar to give more space during the verses. Ignore […]
Steve and Steve in 1977
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on how he invented the Apple II computer:
I took a lot of lucky, accidental directions, and they all converged… I stumbled into it so accidentally.
Link to BusinessWeek Interview
I love this idea that great things can come about by accident. Or rather, how seemingly random sets of […]
The Huygens probe landed on Titan on January 14, 2005. NASA funded a camera which recorded the descent onto the surface of Titan. They put together a time lapse video (11 MB, QT) which shows the 4 hour descent in 5 minutes.
The most oddly surreal thing about the video is its […]
Cecil Kleakins is an eccentric academic known for appreciating noise, researching invisible topics, and taking long baths. When he is not feeding grapes to his leopards, he adores a finely crafted claret and, like the Duke of Burgundy, Philiip the Bold, disdains the ignoble Gamay.
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