Give Moore's Law a Boost: Eliminate Graphics

I am reminded of what Mark Twain the secret of Modern English is, and was, more than a century ago: "eliminate adjectives".  Sometimes I rephrase it as "eliminate spurious adjectives" to be the paradoxical solipsist ad linguam that i am. 

What does "eliminate adjectives" mean, especially in investigative reporting?  Essentially, my eighth grad English teacher showed us that active verbs are the essence of truthful prose.  Adjectives introduce subjectivity, as in the writer thinks so and so is sad, or righteous, or bluesy.  Get rid of this sensory stimulation, and go for the facts, man.

A devotion to sonic displays.  Using an Arm Cortex to synthesize sound can give a user as much information as staring at a display, but without the wasted energy of backlighting, and rendering, both which contribute to environmental heat as well as personal heat.  Thus the environmental statement is "through sound, reduced emissions". 

Do we really need graphics in a world full of visual stimulation already?  It's like how Mark Twain asked it, do we need so many adjectives?

Tune to Sixty Hurts

A band of musicians should tune to whatever their power source is.  Those lucky enough to play off of solar batteries have the luxury of truly free music because their power is DC, and has no tonal implication at all.  But the bulk of rock bands use amps powered by the wall, which in america, resonates at sixty hertz.  Hertz is a homophone with hurts, and it is ironic because the frequency of sixty hertz is the most lethal for electricity.  Also confer with the argument, stated in TIMARATERIALS, that Fox Strangways, when he transcribed the musics of tribal peoples into hertz and cents, that he hurt them by setting a fixed tone to their music. 

Rock musicians have two decisions: just stand up there on stage rocking away ignorant of this massive buzzing tone that is irrelevant to their music, or they can make it relevant, and in so doing, harness the power of all our american dynamos, the dams and nuclear plants that spin them at this giant frequency sixty hurts. 

My Rock band, the Gongs, did tune to sixty hurts at one point, with our primitive string "guys", in a seven tone equal tempered scale.  We also had a drum machine, called "the man with the red steam," that I would tune the oscillators of to harmonize with sixty hurts.  That drum machine, "the man with the red steam," has gone into hiding at D.L.'s house, and i am left with no machine.  But lo, i have changed that, and brought this drum machine back under the name "Plumbutter".  The only other parts of the Gongs equation, are a chakhe, a long slide string, and guys, the simple seventet tars.  Then I could call up the members of that band, in New York, Oakland, and somewhere in Ohio, and get back together as middle agers w/w/o babies.

In personal news, I am working on a program that recreates some of the feel of previous solo records "The Sound of Doves in a Cave" and "Luteus".  This program mixes evenly computer music and analog synthesis.  I have always explored this dialectic by putting representative pieces side by side on vinyl. 

The computer music is composed in SuperCollider 2, on Macintosh OS Nine.  The pieces mostly are about modelling some botanical concept, such as various mulberry trees, or a pawpaw plant through the seasons.  The analog pieces will be solo explorations on the Plumbutter, based loosely on the theme of "Polychlorinated Biphenyls".  Any of these pieces have arbitrary tones, like the Solar Battery Musician, generated by computer music or analog modules equally.  These arbitrary tones, synthesized, are then mimiced by mine own vocal cords and also a chakhe, a solo long string bluesy slidey instrument.  This time around, I will subcontract the chakhe work to my musical friend, Carson.

Also, some lullabies that I sang to my baby when he was really small, vocal improvisations.  And speaking of my baby, I do need to put Spiderman 67 through the Cocoquantus.

A Bit Note to Current Customers

A Note to Current Customers:
Due to a sudden spike in banana attractiveness, the workbench has been filled to the brim with pieces.  Currently I have finished all the cases, in wood and plum colored ink.  Thanks to everyone who ordered this contiguous batch, and I respect your pioneering spirit in synthesis.  So I will make sure in the next step, to voice all the instruments well, as I install the circuit boards.  Remember, I'm just one man here.  For the consistency of the instruments, I do them in batches.  Voicing them means, in this first batch, to fine tune the capacitors to the right range.  Imagine what this would sound like if these were all running at once!  Well, I leave that to your capable hands to beat the drums, and impeach upon you to have patience with me as I finish your instruments.  Has it been two and a half weeks yet?  I don't know but I will cover all of you in a timely manner. 

Seeking Burgundy Light

A typical dream- trying to order Burgundy LEDs on Mouser.com, and finding none; thus thinking inductively, I posit that a church must have such colors in its inventory (for simulating and highlighting wine, mellow spirits of peace, candle light, and other blood ceremonies), and track down a church in Rhode Island.  There it is found that I own the crawlspace above the altar (which has been removed now the church is Unitarian and teenagers have their Friday night garage bands there.  Liking this safe crawlspace, I decide to make burgundy instruments there, but lo it is morning and the shafts of light have penetrated the cloister, and the birds are making a great noise- i must turn back to my Mouser order, and its red, "dim orange", and blue LEDs of the lower sphere, the realm of concrete and aesphalt and steel.

Heavy Metal Fondant

May of now: Charm City Cakes and Westside Metals team up, to produce a decorative cake featuring the vibrant colors of RoHS metals in its Fondant.  For those of us who don't know what "Fondant" is, it is a sort of structural crust, that encapsulates the cake, and softer icings which may be inside.  Fondant is usually made out of pure "diabetic" sugar, mixed with various food grade dies.  Now, the Charm City/Westside Metals cake, as it is known, features a fondant made up of up to 50 percent deprecated metals, such as Cadmium, Mercury, and Lead.  Although the inside is made out of flour, cream, and eggs, it is not intended to be eaten, rather buried alive in a sarcophagus of heavy metals- it is purely for decoration purposes.  Says Monsieur Duff of the cake company: "It was totally liberating to think in terms of non-edibility.  Look at this brilliant red mercury iodide!  And over here, the cadmium sulfide almost glows in the dark when mixed with sugar.  I now can add lead to anything and it makes the cake have that 50s sputnik, heavy cars, heavy metal feel."  Although this is primarily meant to be a safe way to dispose of RoHS metals, the CCCWM team hopes to move on to other poisonous, but not RoHS compounds, such as Copper Sulfate, for turquiose.  Also not mentioned in the RoHS series, are the Polybrominated Biphenyls and Polybrominated Biphenyl Ethers, which have no real color to speak of, but may be a good centerpiece at a party, when shaped into the proper cake.

TOMMYLEE/PAMELA anderson

Thought I had already uploaded this.  It is from the papers associated with producing "LABORATORY ROOLZ-GEWEI".  Oh now I know where I uploaded it: on that synth's facebook page!  Yes, it is the phirst synth to have a "FACE" on "FACEBOOK".  Now, this image is about the dichotomy between Drum and Drama, as seen in the overt flesh of Male and Female.  Against a backdrop of the sea- CD4015 silicon topology (dimensions may differ, contact your sales office) for an 8 stage shift register.  He projects his boogy board, and his tattoos.  He is- CD4013, dual flip flop.  She- a CD40106 hex schmitt inverter.  Look closely.  These wonderful little black and white labyrinths are actually the lithography print for silicon chips.  These images are from the older, Texas Instruments data sheets, which actually tried to give you a picture of what the chip looks like "on the inside".  I thought of them as sort of "tattoos" for signal flow.  Tommy Lee came in when I saw a Youtube video of him talking about electronic music "drum machines".  Well, Roolz is a drum machine; so let's appropriate tommy into this, and see how it ties into drama, by introducing Pamela, the object of desires, the source of hexing.  These three chips- the background sea 4015, the tommy lee 4013, and the pamela 40106 hex, are used in the Roolz-Gewei drum machine, they make up his "FACE".  Note they all start with 40, which means they are part of the classic, "4000 series" of logic chips, from the 20th century: 4000_series

What's Green in Electronics?

When looking at how organic farming is, or wood working, which uses natural materials, an electronics engineer becomes jealous because there is so little possibility 2 B Green there.  There are two possible answers: PCBs and PCBs.

To summarize, "What's Green in Electronics?" is thusly answered:

1. PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards)
2. PCBs (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)