still trying

2007-07-29 – tychoish

I futzed around with this idea for a bit using php bloxsom, and well, I got it to handle markdown the way I want it to, and the page header stuff. but other than that. not so much. sigh. well what’s time anyway.

I think the problem with this is that bloxsom is too blog-oriented, and for that, wordpress does a slightly better job, or at least, I’m more comfortable with it, even if I don’t need very many of the features.

Though I have to say, for the notebook idea, which is what tychoish is supposed to be, I think bloxosm is better, I just don’t feel like fucking around with it.

anyone with better ideas?

Family Runion for 29 July 2007

2007-07-28 – tychoish

I’m going to fly by the seat of my pants in terms of song length, but here is the playlist I’m planning for the radio show tomorrow. You can listen to it live, or archived at the station’s website. I’ll be on from 10 am till 12 Noon. I’m a bit heavy on the songs, but I figure, what the hell, it makes sense. The list is in the Following format.

  • Song Title
    • Artist
    • Label

CD 1

CD 2

  • Thick as a Brick (Side 1)
  • This is My Family
  • Triad
  • Icarus
    • Martin and Jessica Simpson
    • Red Roses
    • Thunderbird
  • Soldier, Soldier / The Flowers of Edinburgh
    • Brass Monkey
    • Sound and Rumor
    • Topic Records

CD 3

  • Sell Your Labour, Not Your Soul
    • Brian McNeill
    • If it Wisnae For The Union
    • Greentrax
  • The World Turned Upside Down
    • Lehto and Wright
    • The Thrashing Machine and Other Stories
    • New Folk Records
  • Ned of the Hill
    • Kate Rusby and Kathryn Roberts
    • Kate Rusby and Kathryn Roberts
    • Compass Records
  • Andalus/Radio Marrakesh
    • Richard Thompson
    • Strict Tempo!
    • Hannibal
  • July, July!
    • The Decemberists
    • Castaways and Cutouts
    • Kill Rock Stars
  • King James Version
    • Eliza Carthy
    • Rough Music
    • Topic Records
  • The Rose in June
    • Ian Robb
    • Jiig
    • Fallen Angle Music
  • Hallelujah
    • Jeff Buckley
    • Grace
    • Sony
  • The Lord is in this Place
    • Fairport Convention
    • What we did on our Holidays
    • Umvd Import

Deleuzian Reading List

2007-07-27 – tychoish

I wrote this piece last Sunday for today, and then promptly forgot about it. See today’s other post for the reason why that the mentioned post doesn’t appear. Sorry for the weird ass blogging. Cheers, ty

This week I got, from the library, a copy of `The Sexual Self: The Construction of Sexual Scripts <http://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Self-Construction-Scripts/dp/0826515584>`_ edited by Michael Kimmel, on the recommendation of my old advisor, and I think I’m going to spend some of my “non-internets”1 reading time on this book. Also I’m sitting on `Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts and the Politics of the Para-literary <http://www.amazon.com/Shorter-Views-Thoughts-Politics-Paraliterary/dp/0819563692/ref=sr_1_1/103-7241147-6496611?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185110406&sr=1-1>`_, which I think I need to give some time to again.

My initial idea for the Friday Deleuze series was to make an excuse-opportunity to read something that I wanted to read, that would be helpful to have read, that would be fun, and that I probably wouldn’t read unless I had an excuse (like a TealArt post.) A while back I swore off writing about my academic interests and projects because I wanted to erect a slightly firmer boundary between work and play, and because I didn’t want to have to divide energy on those projects between the “real,” and blogging projects. I think not being in school at the moment changes things a bit, but on the whole I’d like to maintain this divide, even if it’s illusory.

The other thing that I realized is that, I’ve written 8 installments in this series, and perhaps I’m just running out of steam, given the “trudging” that is generally required of this kind of reading, I’m not sure that it makes the best second degree reading2.

On the other hand, as small as my contribution to the TheoryBlogging community is, I’m hesitant to give it up entirely. So I think formal Deleuze blogging is probably going to go on break for a while while I get caught up with myself.

For this week, I thought about doing a kind of “reverse” reading list, rather than say “I want to read these books,” this list would have “questions that I want to answer.” And while I like this issue, I can’t think of a TealArt appropriate way that would be intelligible by anyone other than me. I think while I’m taking a break from AO, and before I dive into D&R, I’m going to read some articles that I’ve had lying around for a long time, and just see what happens.

See you later today.

  1. In our household, we’ve taken to referring to the interminable periods spent in front of the computer, reading RSS feeds and other pieces of internet treasure, as “reading the internets, all of them.” My father, has even taken to referring to syndicated RSS items as internets, leading to statements like “I have 43 more internets to read.” ↩︎

  2. and besides, who wants to read about someone else’s trudging. “I reads another chapter and it was interesting but unhelpful, and probably laid the groundwork for something that’s comming in the next couple of pages, but it was mostly abstruse.” I mean a lot of the book is rather playful… but…. ↩︎

frickin' templates

2007-07-27 – tychoish

I got the chance to do some writing today at work. While the station keeping season finale isn’t done, and that’s ok, and I do have a little bit of revising to do on a couple of episodes, I think I’m pretty much done with this first season. Which rocks something fierce.

I’m busy transcribing my notes for season three into the new moleskine from the various bits of paper they were on. This of course means that I’m using a paper notebook more. This one’s a reporter notebook and I like it, but I’m starting to think that the book with lines option isn’t/wasn’t that bad, but I think that’s just nostalgia. Part of my problem with it, seems to have been the ink, which I loved dearly, but wasn’t fast enough drying. sigh

I think I need to write an essay about pipes and writing, and how it’s important to keep projects in all stages of development and production, otherwise you get hung up in one stage and can theoretically finish something and not have anything to do with various kinds of momentum, which is a terrible thing.

we’ll be in touch!

Friday Essay

2007-07-27 – tychoish

Hello friends, it’s good to talk with you.

I’ve had a week that that can only be described as weird. I once again, put off writing my friday Deleuze essay until Thursday night, which was predicated on the assumption that I’d get some free time during the week to read it, not to mention the fact that I’d be able to deal with focused thought by this point in the week…. Alas I’m not.

However, after drafting 74 words of pathetic blogging, I realized that I wrote, last weekend, a post for today. Aren’t I the prepared blogger? Ok, guilt-fest over, I’ll post that this afternoon, although I will note that I promised, in that essay, to write a post later that day. In the project of total honesty, I’ll not edit that out. I will, however, write a few notes that I’ve been thinking about and pondering this week. Because really, bulleted list blogging is really awesome.

  • I’m doing the radio show on Sunday morning from 10 am to Noon on KDHX FM 88.1 in St. Louis. I had hoped to play an episode of one of my favorite fiction pod-casts, but I haven’t heard back from him. Luckily I have the next three weeks, so maybe it’ll come through. In any case, I’m planning on playing side one of Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick. Because I can, damnit. You should listen, it streams and is archived on line if you misss it.
  • I think part of the reason why I’m feeling so fried, is that thanks to an eager undergrad, I was able to start working on different projects at work. This meant that I could listen to podcasts again. The downside, I did a lot of thinking, and apparently that’s a semi-finite resource. Note to self. Listen to more music. Also, while I find many podcasts to be refreshing and inspiring, I cannot listen to people talking and write or even plan things to write.
  • My moleskine, which I’ve been toting along with myself for some months, is almost full, but not quite, but the spine is starting to fall apart. I want to finish out to book before I start the new one, but at the same time, I don’t want it to fall apart, because I’d like to keep the book, mostly intact for archival purposes. Also I’m kind of excited that my new book, that I’ve had in store is a reporter notebook (so bound like a steno pad) and doesn’t have lines. The left-handed guy in me really likes this prospect.)
  • I listened to one of Cory Doctorow’s podcasts, which was his posting of an interview that “Oort Cloud” did with him, and I quite enjoyed it. There are a few topics that I think I’ll probably be visiting here in the future. One, he was able to talk about false consciousness in a straightforward and appropriate way, which was delightful. Also he talked about habitualizing writing as opposed to ritualizing it, and although his argument is pretty sound, I think the example he gives isn’t quite right, particularly in my case.
  • Also Cory talked about his method of podcasting, which is to use it as a motivation to finish writing stories in a very barebones, low-editing sort of way, which I think is still really good. Anyway, this lit the podcasting bug under my ass, and while I don’t quite have the computer power to start at the moment,1 at some point I’ll get my ass (and computer) into gear and get started.
  • I have a personal/theoretical piece planned out about how “gender” as a location for analysis, for the kind of social science that I’m interested in, doesn’t quite work. While as I’m trying to explain this argument, I’ve realized some interesting ways of approaching this question, my main project in this planned essay was to explain explore why I (and probably some of my cohort) came into college with an interest in gender studies, but have left college with projects that are related, clearly, but quite distinct.
  • I’m teaching a knitting class this Saturday. You probably don’t care much, but it meant that I had to write a rather extensive pattern/instruction handout. While I quite enjoyed this writing, and I think it will be a useful piece to have in reserve for future projects, it was a lot of writing by anyone’s standards, and understandably that took a lot out of me. Ironically, though most of my fiction and tealart writing time was sucked up by knitting, I haven’t gotten much time to knit; fortunately the knitting is helpful in refreshing me, I find.

That’s about all I have for today. I hope you enjoy, Talk to you soon.

Cheers, tycho

  1. Frankly, my computer isn’t really set up to deal with my email database, let alone audio production. Or perhaps more exactly, my computer can’t cope with audio production tasks and cope with all the other things that I need my computer to do all the time. ↩︎

ishnesses

2007-07-27 – tychoish

I did a computer restart a few days ago1, and never reopened NetNewsWire. This means that I haven’t been reading blogs for a few days: pathetically, this doesn’t mean that I’m any more behind than I typically am, alas. As a consequence I don’t have as many funny things to post for you.

Having said that, to restart, I wanted to be able to close bunches of tabs and have a record of where I was. I think I was offline at the time of the restart. So I made a text file and copy and pasted the urls. Given that I have nothing else to post, here it is. After all, tychoish is my notebook. Right?

Enjoy!

LaTeX/Geek Things:

Podcast Culture/Geek:

Hypertexts

  1. It’s funny that this is such a noteworthy sort of event. I routinely stay up for 3-4 weeks, sometimes more I think. ↩︎

knitting progress

2007-07-26 – tychoish

I’m 3-4 rows from the point where I add in the sleeves of the stranded sweater I was knitting at knitting camp. I haven’t really finished sleeves, but I made 1 stranded sock, and the toe of two others.

I’m going to knit the sleeves down from a provisional cast on. This could be interesting because, because the color pattern means that I’ll be half a stitch off for a row. Frankly I think if I choose the row carefully, and do some creative increasing/decreasing I should be able to make that blip pretty inconspicuous. Famous last words, right?

Sorry I don’t post more about knitting. I think about posting more, I swear.

Cheers!

Adventures in Transcription

2007-07-25 – tychoish

SUBJECT: That they were brought in to…

INTERVIEWER: Say the (proper noun)…

SUBJECT: The (proper noun)? They were brought in to…

INTERVIEWER: No, I’m sorry, you just need to start the sentence…

SUBJECT: Oh, the (proper noun).

INTERVIEWER: Right…