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So I am trying out this app, Sleep Cycle for the iPhone.

It claims that it can sense your sleep patterns from your motion in bed, and after calibrating over a few days, wake you up within a half hour time frame when you are sleeping the lightest, therefore giving you the best wake experience.

Last night was the first night, and as such, it waited until the end of the half hour period. I had actually woken up 10 minutes prior.

The chart it produced was fairly right on. I was in and out of sleep early in the night and wide awake at 2am. Not sure if this app can address those issues, but any edge I can get on sleep, I’ll take it.

I’ll let it go for a few days and update with the progress.

tags: iphone, Sleep

Let’s see… a track with a French chick singing? Check. A Yeah Yeah Yeahs remix? Check. Some mashups? Check. A Dunproofin’ track? Check. Yep, all the hallmarks of another mixtape.  Just some of the tracks that I’ve been loving lately. A little something extra at the end.

1. Homerun (Dabo “on the beach” Remix) – Man & Man
2. Seventeen (The Glass Remix) – Casxio
3. Earthquake (Treasure Fingers’ Epicwave Remix) – Little Boots
4. Comme Ci Comme Ça (The Twelves Remix) – Terry Poison
5. Honey Trap (Le Matos Remix) – We Have Band
6. Like A Player (fourthrock edit) – Lorenz Rhode
7. Hello Dust – dadahack ft. Hannah Robinson
8. 4h30 – Danger
9. Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10. Sex Diary (Kings of Leon vs. Yazoo) – Divide and Kreate
11. Bedroom Shotgun – Suck Shaft
12. Zzzz (ZZ Top vs. Miss Napalm & 4Kuba) – Dunproofin’
13. Our Time (Kap10Kurt Remix) – Ocelot

(download)

tags: mashup, mixtape, music, Remix albums, shiny

tags: mischief, plans, status, update

tags: 99 problems, chart

tags: 99 problems

(via Achewood)

And thus begins my attempt to send more content to my blog instead of the whirlpool of Twitter or the cesspools of Spicealley.  I’m trying to define a separation for what kinds of “content” I generate on my various digital haunts. Oh, sure the massively cross-linked auto-update plugins will shovel this crap around to various places, but I think if I can develop the right mindset, I can use this thing for more creative purposes than just Achewood comics and links to my latest mixes.

We’ll see. After all, it’s only January 4th after a crazy New Year’s Four Day Weekend. My mind and body are still yelling “Payback’s a bitch” at me.

tags: Achewood, New Year's Day

A couple of months have gone by, and its time for me to compile the tracks that have found a way to stick around here in the lab. Just in time for Halloween, here is the MixDLT where we keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool. (In retrospect, had I known I would have finished these today, I may have gone for “Trick or Treat”).

In reality, the Hot side is filled with squelchy bits and rumbly bits, while the Cool side is Late Night Makeout Disco™

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1. Heartbreaking Maps (Metronomy vs Yeah Yeah Yeahs) – DJ Clivester
2. This Must Be It (Rex The Dog K-DART Remix) – Röyksopp
3. I’m Not Your Toy (DATA Remix) – La Roux
4. Love.Cure.All (Suck Shaft Remix) – Baron Bane
5. Spektrum John – Dunproofin’
6. Mama Used To Say – Jupiter
7. Qui Est Cette Fille – Yelle
8. Distant Star (Deluce Remix) – Triobelisk
9. I Might Like Ghosts Better (Amanda Blank + Bad Cabbage vs. Deadmau5) – DJ Paul V.

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1. Shelter (Them Jeans Drum Edit) – The xx
2. Stuck On You (Ouputmessage Remix) – Dmerit
3. What You Need (DCUP Remix) – Priors
4. Fight For You – Morgan Page
5. Sometimes – Miami Horror
6. Shooting Stars (Kris Menace Remix) – Bag Raiders
7. Starlighter (Steve Moore Remix) – Jupiter
8. Gold In The Fire – MONARCHY
9. Starlove – Marchand

(download)

tags: Entertainment/Culture, Remix albums

Last weekend, while camping, I fell and broke my hand. To be exact, I broke the proximal phalanxes of my left index, middle, and ring fingers – right near the knuckle line. Doc says its one of the nastier breaks he’s seen and its good I write code for a living and not wield a hammer or other grip related activity.

The hand specialist said no to surgery, but instead I am doing twice a week therapy. At each session, they are molding a new lightweight splint specifically for where I am in my recovery.

Ongoing pics of the damage/recovery are here at Flickr

tags: hand, injury

Before starting, let me make it clear that a) I don’t own a Kindle and b) I don’t  think it has a plugin architecture. But a) I will eventually (or one of its descendants) and b) it really should.

So, what I want is a plugin similar to the dictionary widget. That one allows you to look up a word in the current text you are reading. In this case, however, it triggers on currency amounts.

Suppose you are reading Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (which, oddly enough, I am) and you see a line of text that reads

For a fare of twenty francs, the vehicle went down Broadway
to Union Square, took Fourth Ave. to its junction with Bowery St.,
turned into Katrin St. and halted at Pier 34.

I want to select twenty francs and have the plugin determine the publish date and tell me what that is in today’s US Dollars. Simple. To the point. And for me, incredibly informative.

Remember, as with all my “prior art” entries, if you make it and sell it, I want my cut.

tags: Amazon Kindle, Jules Verne, plugin

I made a mixtape for you. Well, not you, but the rest of you.

The flow follows a night out for me. Starts off a little slow and cheesy, then gets kind of electro, frenetic, and mashed up, and then finally ends up on a slower tip.

Tracklisting

1. Magic – DJ Agent 86
2. Static – So I’m Jo
3. A Cause Des Garçons – Yelle
4. Fixin The Thrill (Villians remix) – Dragonette
5. Remedy (Crimes Against Disco remix) – Little Boots
6. Groove Is In The Girls – Dunproofin’
7. Phantom On The Bottom – DJ Paul V.
8. Intergalactic Human – DJ Earworm
9. Insight Tricks – Zenit Incompatible
10. Diskow Heartbeat – Celebrity Murder Party
11. Hanging On The Fax Preset – GaraGara
12. Tell Me – Panic Girl
13. Pearl’s Dream (team9 remix) – Bat For Lashes
14. I Like Watching You (Diamond Cut remix) – Cinnamon Chasers
15. I Can’t Tell You Why (revised) – Chromeo

Download it here

tags: electro, mashup, mixtape