Pink Saturday was amazing.. there were at least a trillion people there!
Peliom took this picture of TikiTV VJ’ing on the main stage at Castro and Market:
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We switched to Blue Bottle beans at work. Just look at this giant bag of Giant Steps!
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Playin Donkey Kong with you:
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Tagged: autotune , news
I went to bed at 2am last night. The alarm went off at 6am this morning . It was waaaay too early to do much other than check the internets, so that’s what I did, and found inbflat.net. This site is magic.
Eventually I realized I had to stop playing with it and do some work, but I wanted to keep listening. So I made the Bb Buddha Machine.
It probably doesn’t work in IE. It brings linux machines to their knees. But I listened to it for at least eight hours today. Enjoy!
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OneEighteen, a ship pilot in Houston, has posted this beautiful timelapse he took during a six-hour run through the Port of Houston:
More info about the timelapse. CC by-nc licensed. Part 2 below:
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This is Auto-Tune the News #2. It gets awesome at 1m 23s:
Also, Michael Gregory’s other videos.
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They have a few more in their collection than I do..
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Tagged: rum , trader vics
Here are some old pics of Sam and Peliom vj-ing with the open source TikiTV software at the Timothy Leary Archives event at 111 Minna. Way fun!
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These are not your average Transformers fans:
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I’ve already made most of you watch this video of Maru the Cat, walking around the house with a bag on his head. It is maybe the most awesome video on the internet:
Well, here is the hedgehog version, via reddit:
Also, here is a video of Maru playing with a box:
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Upstart is Ubuntu’s init.d replacement. It greatly simplifies writing init.d scripts and has a great respawn feature similar to daemontool’s supervise or monit. And it comes with Ubuntu by default.
For some reason, almost no one uses upstart. Even Ubuntu’s services use traditional /etc/init.d scripts instead of upstart scripts. I think this might be due to upstart’s non-existent documentation. There is no man page for upstart, and multiple people I know who have read the online docs somehow missed the three important commands that control upstart jobs: /sbin/start, /sbin/stop, and /sbin/status!
Here is how it works: put an upstart script in /etc/event.d. Let’s call it /etc/event.d/foo. This script is now immediately available under upstart. Just type sudo start foo. That’s it.
I converted Ubuntu’s /etc/init.d/lighttpd script to a much shorter upstart script. The big advantage of this is upstart will restart lighttpd if it dies for some reason. This is what the upstart script looks like:
#this is an upstart script that starts lighttpd start on runlevel 2 start on runlevel 3 start on runlevel 4 start on runlevel 5 stop on runlevel 0 stop on runlevel 1 stop on runlevel 6 respawn exec sudo -u www-data lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd-infobase.conf
That’s it! Save this script as /etc/event.d/OL-lighttpd, and then type sudo start OL-lighttpd. You can kill off the lighttpd process and it will get restarted.
If you want to configure your lighttpd to write out a pid file, you can use pre-start and post-stop script to prepare and clean up the pid file:
#this is an upstart script that starts lighttpd start on runlevel 2 start on runlevel 3 start on runlevel 4 start on runlevel 5 stop on runlevel 0 stop on runlevel 1 stop on runlevel 6 pre-start script #make sure there is a place to write the pid file (optional): mkdir -p /var/run/lighttpd > /dev/null 2> /dev/null chown www-data:www-data /var/run/lighttpd chmod 0750 /var/run/lighttpd end script respawn exec sudo -u www-data lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd-infobase.conf post-stop script #remove pid file (optional) #add server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd/lighttpd.pid" to lighttpd.conf file to have it generate the pid file rm -f /var/run/lighttpd/lighttpd.pid end script
If you want to stop lighttpd, just type sudo stop OL-lighttpd. You can also type sudo initctl list for a list of all jobs under upstart.
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I hooked up my first-generation MacBook Pro to my Samsung LCD TV with a DVI->HDMI cable. The mac was able to output 1920×1080p at 60Hz to the TV. There was noticeable judder when trying to view 24fps content. I searched the net and no one seems to have gotten their mac to output 24p to their Samsung TV.
OK, here is how to get your mac to output 24p to your Samsung series 6 (or higher) TV:
I’m mostly happy with my new TV (in true redneck fashion, I traded my pickup truck for it). I originally got a Series 5, but It could only do 1080p60, and I really wanted 1080p24, so I had to upgrade to the Series 6. Unfortunately, the Series 6 arrived with a dead pixel. I don’t know what to do about that..
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I’m sure all of you have seen the amazing Trip Down Market Street, shot on a cable car in 1905. And you’ve probably seen the same route shot in 1906 after the earthquake (skip to middle).
But have you seen this footage shot from a Barcelona street car in 1908?
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Our Frigidaire gas dryer broke! It seemed to be working properly except it produced no heat. Replacing the gas coils for the solenoid valves fixed the problem. Here is a guide on how to replace the gas coils in your dryer:
Our Frigidaire dryer is model GLGQ332A, and is manufactured by Electrolux. The parts catalog shows where the solenoid valves are and which replacement coils to buy. Since the primary and secondary coils are sold together, I replaced them both without actually troubleshooting which part was bad. I needed parts 71 and 72 (part numbers 5303307291 and 5303307292). I got replacement kit 5303931775 (which contains both coils) from Reliable Parts in SF (on Howard and 12th) for $37. This same package is available for $10 online, but I paid extra so I could get the parts the same day.
OK. Let’s get started. First step is to UNPLUG YOUR DRYER.
Next, we are going to lift the top up. There are two clips in the front of the dryer holding the top on, and two hinges on the back. Use a putty knife to press the clips in so the top pops off. Here is how to detatch the clip on the left:
This is what the clip looks like when popped off:
Now lift the top up and look on the right side, near the timer. You should see a 9-pin molex connector, which you need to detatch. To make my life easier, I always use a sharpie to mark the connector direction. There is a zip tie holding the wires to the frame of the dryer. You are going to take the front of the dryer off, so you will have to cut this ziptie.
Now we are going to take the front of the dryer off. There is a screw on each side of the dryer holding the front on, and there also a few clips. This picture shows both a screw and a clip on the left side:
I think there were three clips on the left and two on the right. You can get them off by pushing up on them and pulling the front out. They are kind of a pain to get off. Since they are designed to snap under force, I think repair guys just yank the front off and then replace them with new ones.
Once all the screws and clips are out, you will be able to pull the front off. Pull the top part of the front towards you and the front will disengage from the tumbler. There are two clips on the bottom. Lift the front off of these clips:
Set the front aside. You can take this opportunity to clean out any lint stuck in the lint chute, seen here in the lower left:
This is what the inside of your dryer looks like:
The gas valves are on the lower left:
Unscrew and remove the metal cover holding the coils in place:
Now lift the coils off of the solenoid shafts, unclip the connectors, and put the new ones in place:
You are now ready put everything back together. Hopefully your dryer now has heat!
If you want to be more rigorous, here are some resistance measurements I made on the new coils. Supposedly you can tell which coil is bad if the resistance measurement is different, but my old, bad coils seemed to have similar resistance:
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We got a $92 check for having the Amazon widget in our sidebar and used it to fund four Kiva microloans. We helped fund loans to a fish seller and a jewelry artist in Nicaragua, and two farmers in Tajikistan.
Also check out this great video that tracks the lifetime of a Kiva loan and Banker to the Poor.
Every time we get a check for having the amazon sidebar on our blog, we round it up to $100 and donate it to a worthy cause. Where should we donate next?
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I just finished setting up the RanCH bLoG and am getting pretty good at setting up WordPress. Here are the steps I take after installing a new WordPress 2.7 blog:
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TikiTV is an awesome open-source video mixing application for Mac OSX, developed by peliom and VJ Science. If you are a video nerd, you should check this out:
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Timmmii and crew changed all the Bush St. signs to read OBAMA St. They got the *entire* street before the cops stopped them!
Satisfied Clients
Originally uploaded by Matthew Williams Design
This pic is awesome:
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Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland – “Aer OBAMA”
The following is a mixed-media stop motion music video and celebration commemorating the election and inauguration of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of these United States. Audibly showcasing Adam Freeland’s remix of Daft Punk’s “Aerodynamic” and the imaginative stylings of forward thinking toy artists Dalek, Bill McMullen and Kubrick to name just a few. Independently animated and directed by the progressive minds of the directing team GOLD, the piece is a labor of love that invites everyone to join in or create their own celebration this coming Tuesday January the 20th.
dunno how I missed this until now! via Laughing Squid.
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I couldn’t figure this out, so Andy had to help me.. Thanks Andy!
Hopefully in the future we can use open-source, gpl’ed java, but until then:
/bin/echo -e 'sun-java6-bin shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 boolean true\nsun-java6-jre shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 boolean true' | sudo debconf-set-selections DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get --force-yes -qq install sun-java6-bin
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This is a great video that a Kiva volunteer made to document the path that a $25 microfinance loan made in London took to reach a rice farmer in Cambodia. The $25 loan is paid back in 12 monthly installments of $2.08, and one of the repayments is captured in the video. It’s awesome to see the connection between the people in London who made the loan, the Kiva employees in SF who brokers the loan, the microfinance institution in Cambodia who processes the loan, and the farmer who receives it. Yay Kiva! Our next Amazon check should go towards a microloan!
A Fistful Of Dollars: The Story of a Kiva.org Loan from Kieran Ball on Vimeo.
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TikiRobot is donating $100 to the SF Food Bank this winter. They feed 132,000 people every year, and this year their dry good supplies are down 15%. If you are in town over the holidays, they need volunteers.
Every time we get a check from Amazon for having their widget in our sidebar, we’re rounding it up to $100 and donating to a worthy cause.
cc by-nc picture by Veronica Belmont
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