Re-posted from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) markeris because I really am that knackered... here's what we've been up to lately. Repeat: Not. Dead. Yet. ;-)
A reminder that we will be playing at the splendid Amalgamation festival in Leeds on 21st November - http://www.amalgamation.org.uk/ - an unprecedented THIRD live appearance for us this year. Be happy. Balls deep as we are into a lot of rather exciting new material it's very likely that this will be the last outing for a while for a lot of the back catalogue. So come along and whoop like you want my babies.
Also, talking of said new material, the first spaff of this new load is 2072 (imminent mix) which has made it's way onto the compilation that comes free with the latest issue of Nocturnal Magazine - http://www.nocturnalpublications.net/site/index.php - and gives just the slightest hint of some of the new directions we're staggering off in. And is a pretty cool track in its own right. There's some sort of slightly baroque procedure whereby you need to join their community and then it will give you access to a paypal button, but once you get there it's only a quid, and this mix is exclusive to the compilation. |
Those of you who know The Foundry (big artists' pub on Old Street) may have heard that an application has been made to demolish the place so that a hotel can be built in its place. If you know the Foundry and you're any friend of mine then I dare say this doesn't sound like a good thing to you. People have until November 20th to send letters of complaint to this address:
Hackney Planning Services
Dorothy Hodgkin House
12 Reading Lane
London E8 1HJ
More details under the cut.
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My nearly-five-year-old daughter just came out with a good one. She claimed she knew "how we grow up"... the steps were:
1.
2. You begin as a twinkle in your dad's eye
3. You grow in your mummy's tummy
4. You grow up with plenty of good food, sleep, and exercise
( Can you guess what step 1 was? ) |
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Cause Announcement from SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence)
Hi everyone,
All day today, we've been just fractionally ahead of the competing cause in 3banana's "Share to Win" challenge. We still are... but really fractionally, just half a dozen votre, despite both us and them having added several hundred votes today. There are still nearly three hours to go - voting ends at midnight Paciic time. Everyone who sees this in time: please, if you haven't already done so, take the few seconds necessary to register your support for SENS at this page:
http://3banana.com/m/0JQ/-kDPA_iEv7i
and help our cause to secure not only $5,000 but also a slew of gret free publicity and promotion. The more we are supported, the more we will be communicating to major donors the legitimacy and popularity of the crusade against aging. Please don't delay. Thanks so much!
Sep. 28th, 2009 @ 12:34 pm
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Most people who know me, know that I'm a transhumanist. That means I think human limitations are essentially problems to be solved, rather than virtues-in-disguise. One such limitation - in fact, almost certainly the biggest & baddest - is death due to old age.
Researchers at SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence: http://www.sens.org) are working to identify the various ways that our bodies fall apart that are associated with ageing. If their work inspires others, it may lead to you living a longer and healthier life.
Right now, SENS are very close to winning a competition (basically a popularity contest) run by 3banana.com... if they get more comments than anyone else entered, the researchers get $5,000 toward the work and - perhaps more importantly - a bunch of associated publicity.
Want to do your bit to help beat ageing? Then click the link below and leave a comment!
http://www.3banana.com/m/0JQ/-kDPA_iEv7i
(please feel free to re-post this!)
Sep. 22nd, 2009 @ 04:21 pm
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| » The continuing twitterization of LJ |
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Ah, Roni Size, I would like to have your little drumnbass babies.
Jul. 10th, 2009 @ 01:59 pm
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| » Oi! "Representative Democracy"! No! |
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Pete saying the kinds of things about (British) politics that I've long thought also. I just don't mention them often because saying you don't truck with modern representative "democracy" tends to get people labelling you a totalitarian.
Jun. 9th, 2009 @ 11:33 am
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| » Shout-Out for a Lovely Old Lady! ;) |
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Happy Birthday disastrid!! :)
May. 15th, 2009 @ 10:57 am
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| » Ping |
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Jeez, I suck at LJ these days. Thought I'd throw this out just to let people know I'm still alive.
Job hunting was baaaaaaaaaaad. I've never had it so rough in my life, and in the end was lucky to bag a one-year contract back at my old place. It's a good job, and hopefully before the contract winds up I can get my own company rolling. Anyway, I'll be back at work next Friday after four months off.
I think that the most irritating thing is that I haven't had four months of free time. Don't ask why, the details are too boring. I should just be thankful that I have something lined up now.
Managed to go on a brief holiday to Greece & Turkey which was booked before all this recession business rolled in. It was great, though it was more about running around like headless chickens than chillin'.
I'm not at Whitby, and for some reason the idea of being there right now actually appeals. Maybe it's just that I want to be down the pub.
Apr. 23rd, 2009 @ 06:17 pm
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| » Watchmen |
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For those who care about such things, here are my brief & belated thoughts on Watchmen, posted as a comment on neefsck's journal. May contain traces of spoilers, but I figure you've seen the movie by now anyway.
Mar. 17th, 2009 @ 08:16 am
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I have just banned slahpri and stardustwings77 for being phishers. The stardust account is a subtle one, so... if you are stardustwings77 and you're actually a real person just looking to say hi, email me to prove it, please. Giving no contact details on your user info page is a bad sign for someone trying to work out if you're for real.
[EDIT: To clarify - my objections to phishers are maybe slightly different to many of my friends'... This journal is totally public, always has been, always will be. I don't use it for much in the way of momentous personal revelations, but rather for random observations and band propaganda. If someone wants to add me, I don't care if I don't know them IRL, as long as they're actually a real person who seriously is trying to make some kind of social connection rather than tricking me into clicking an evil link. After all, half the people I know here - many of whom I've now met IRL - I'd never have met if I didn't add strangers]
Feb. 19th, 2009 @ 10:04 am
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| » Modulated thunder music! |
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Speaking of experimentalism, check out these guys (ArcAttack), who use MIDI to control a pair of 15 foot Tesla Coils to make music - basically modulated thunder. They cover "popcorn" and "doctor who" ;)
http://tinyurl.com/clfjva
Feb. 18th, 2009 @ 12:49 pm
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| » No-one likes a smartass |
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I had a job interview today. In it, I had to speak clever about Optical Coherence Tomography, Heidelberg Retinal Tomography, Confocal Microscopy, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Medical Ultrasonography, Signal Detection Theory, Receiver Operating Characteristic curves, Linear Discriminant Analysis, the Mahalanobis Distance, Artificial Neural Networks, and Principal Components Analysis.
I don't know if I got the job, but I do know that I've hit my fancy word quota for this month.
Jan. 29th, 2009 @ 07:55 pm
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| » Hopes and Fears |
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Hopes and Fears, get yer Hopes and Fears here...
I gather that this project is about to enter the next phase, now that disastrid has 5,000 shiny A7 stickers to cause mischief with...
Jan. 28th, 2009 @ 09:55 am
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| » I don't usually do memes, but... |
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...this one involves actual honest-to-gods creativity:
The first five six people to respond to this post will get something made by me!
My choice. For you.
This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
* I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
* What I create will be with you in mind.
* It'll be done sometime this year (2009)
* You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be something written, some physical thing made, could be anything at all, but I will make it myself. It's entirely my choice what it is. No quibbles, no refunds.
* I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
The catch?
Oh, the catch is that you put this in your journal as well. If you don't.. You don't get anything.
Jan. 26th, 2009 @ 03:02 pm
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