Full disclosure: the last post came courtesy of Music Thing. This one comes courtesy of Emily Thompson. I rarely find this stuff on my own. If you scroll down through this article on the sonic characteristics of different atmospheres, you can hear a Deep Purple riff run through filters that model the atmospheres of Earth, …
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Want to know what a Helmholtz siren sounds like? Now you can. and here’s some information about them.
Gadget Report
I promised one and I’m delivering. I’ve made three big gadget purchases recently, though I’ve only really explored one to its fullest. The two I won’t say much about are 1) the Edirol R-09 voice recorder, which is amazingly light and easy-to-use. I bought it and promptly lent it to Erin, a doctoral student of …
Conference Report
I’m not sure I’ve ever experienced anything like the last week. Our department has (nominally) 14 faculty members, so it’s not a particularly big place. And yet there were three conferences in a single week, all based in our department and all exquisitely executed. I couldn’t have managed full attendance at every event given other …
A Whole Week of Conferences
I’ve always said Canadians love conferences, and this week is an intense one, with me not even leaving town. T&W: I’m at a workshop for my Augmented Reality Research Team (well, it’s not my team; I’m just on it) Th: [CTRL]: TAS : Technology : Art : Society — organized by a grad student collective …
Back from DC — more family gossip
Wow. I don’t know if we’ll do that drive again. It was over 14 hours there because of traffic jams. When it’s already a long trip, a few traffic jams can really mess you up. I have a major gadget report coming your way, but in the meantime, the family history discovery of the year …
Vegetarian Paella and Travel
I’m up early, so you get a blog entry before I hit the road. We’re off to Washington DC for a few days for my annual family get-together around the Myron M. Weinstein Memorial Lecture. Some years we fly, some years we drive. This year, we’re driving. It’s a long drive, but we like the …