the light

My First Real Post

hello friends

so i have this urge to start talking about how i’ve never done a blog before. i also have this urge to start commenting on my feelings while writing this. for instance, i feel dumb, i don’t want to write dumb things, is there a point to what i am writing? who even cares?

as usual, i am going to ignore those bad feelings and just continue on naturally.

so here is my first natural thing to say: my life sucks so hard right now. yes i know it could suck worse and life is a blessing and that i’m probably a stupid spoiled bitch for even saying something like that. haha maybe it would be really funny if i told you why my life sucks.

ignoring the usual reasons (lack of point, lack of time, lack of money) it sucks right now because i totally just deleted a whole month of data that i’ve been collecting for my urop with james mclurkin. through the magic of computers here is a transcript of what i did:


java.io.FileNotFoundException: 2007-07-31_16-02-44-big/positions-actual-measured-estimate-0.0001-1000-0.1-100.csv (No space left on device)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:179)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:131)
at java.io.FileWriter.(FileWriter.java:73)
at experiment.kalman.KalmanStates.printOutKalmanData(KalmanStates.java:345)
at experiment.kalman.KalmanStates.main(KalmanStates.java:76)

rian@talkincat:/var/swarmshares/KalmanFilter/datasets$ ls -l
total 964
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nogroup 634880 2007-08-06 17:57 2007-07-12_15-25-49
drwxrwxrwx 2 rian rian 319488 2007-08-06 22:00 2007-07-12_15-43-24-fast
drwxrwxrwx 2 rian rian 4096 2007-08-06 22:03 2007-07-12_15-59-44-slow
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nogroup 4096 2007-08-07 01:13 2007-07-23_18-18-57-orientation
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nogroup 4096 2007-08-07 03:57 2007-07-23_18-57-04-orientation-newslope
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nogroup 4096 2007-07-24 20:40 2007-07-24_20-26-59-manyrobots
drwxr-xr-x 2 rian rian 4096 2007-08-07 05:53 2007-07-31_15-50-04-big-fast
drwxr-xr-x 2 rian rian 4096 2007-08-07 07:33 2007-07-31_16-02-44-big
rian@talkincat:/var/swarmshares/KalmanFilter/datasets$ ls
2007-07-12_15-25-49 2007-07-12_15-59-44-slow 2007-07-23_18-57-04-orientation-newslope 2007-07-31_15-50-04-big-fast
2007-07-12_15-43-24-fast 2007-07-23_18-18-57-orientation 2007-07-24_20-26-59-manyrobots 2007-07-31_16-02-44-big
rian@talkincat:/var/swarmshares/KalmanFilter/datasets$ for I in `ls`; do rm $I/positions*; done;
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-24_20-26-59-manyrobots/positions*': No such file or directory
rian@talkincat:/var/swarmshares/KalmanFilter/datasets$ for I in `ls`; do rm $I/positions*; done;
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-12_15-59-44-slow/positions*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-23_18-18-57-orientation/positions*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-23_18-57-04-orientation-newslope/positions*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-24_20-26-59-manyrobots/positions*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-31_15-50-04-big-fast/positions*': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-31_16-02-44-big/positions*': No such file or directory
rian@talkincat:/var/swarmshares/KalmanFilter/datasets$ for I in `ls`; do for J in `ls $I/positions*`; do rm $J; done; done;
bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
ls: 2007-07-12_15-59-44-slow/positions*: No such file or directory
ls: 2007-07-23_18-18-57-orientation/positions*: No such file or directory
ls: 2007-07-23_18-57-04-orientation-newslope/positions*: No such file or directory
ls: 2007-07-24_20-26-59-manyrobots/positions*: No such file or directory
ls: 2007-07-31_15-50-04-big-fast/positions*: No such file or directory
ls: 2007-07-31_16-02-44-big/positions*: No such file or directory
rian@talkincat:/var/swarmshares/KalmanFilter/datasets$ for I in `ls`; do find $I -name '*' | xargs rm; done;
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-12_15-25-49': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-12_15-43-24-fast': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-12_15-59-44-slow': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-23_18-18-57-orientation': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-23_18-57-04-orientation-newslope': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-24_20-26-59-manyrobots': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-31_15-50-04-big-fast': Is a directory
rm: cannot remove `2007-07-31_16-02-44-big': Is a directory


i don’t have any more time to write, i have to collect data (the most boring thing ever) all day.

we’ll face your face

shampoo and the space faces return this month with a brand new ep of sweeeet jamz. the third of august is even longer/better/stupider than the third of july. drenched in vintage organ sounds and guitar harmony, this is the most abstract yet coherent space faces material TO DATE. don’t miss out on the hottttest summer record EVER! download both ep’s here and crank it. and no, it’s definitely not too early to get excited for the third of september.

A scented vice

oh hAY

so this is how this thing works:
this is the world’s FIRST multiperson blog! sirsly. the FIRST and LAST(?). we are truly innovative. anyway, right now there are three of us bloggin’ and it’s fun. the page will randomly display one when you first load it, then you can navigate through the others using the menu at the top. and this is the best part: TRANSITIONS. for those of you familiar with desktop manager, the idea won’t seem quite as unbelievably imaginitive (but just keep in mind that part about this being the FIRST multiperson blog), but it’s still pretty sweet. just try it out. as of this post, there are 6 transitions that the browser randomly chooses from each time you go from one person’s blog to another’s. and here’s the second best part: if you want to be a part of this blog, we think THAT’S GREAT. all you have to do is write a script for a new transition and you’re in. send us an email if you are interested and we’ll let you know everything you need to know to write one.

ok, now that all that is taken care of, you might be wondering what kinds of CRUCIAL SOCIAL ISSUES, NEW ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS, EXCITING SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES, &c. we’ll be addressing on this blog. well, it will probably be more like useless blather, but we swear it will be fun. and occassionally maybe we’ll write about something important. but not today. today i tell you everything that i’m thinking of right now:

1) jessica came back from her internship in california this week! we hung out today for a while. also, check out the family portrait at flowerelectronics.com.
2) galaxie 500 totally rules
3) restorative beers totally rule
4) barry leaves 41w tomorrow!!!
5) those are sad exclamation points, e.g. denial punctuation and not excitement punctuation
6) i may have a hammond organ in my room next year
7) i hate homer