jwz

mixtape 030

2008-05-11T18:33:06Z

This one's almost all new stuff, to make up for the fact that the last three have trended toward the old. Generally I've been aiming for the mixtapes to have about 1/3rd new stuff (where "new" means "released in the last three years or so") but that doesn't work out so well when I'm doing goofy themes like "reptiles", or obsolete genres like "vaguely industrial breakbeat".

Do you tend to prefer the mixtapes that are mostly newer stuff, or the ones that are mostly older stuff? I'm guessing that since I've had so many comments from people saying "I've never heard any of this before", most of you don't notice the difference...

Last time I asked whether you thought of this as compilation albums or a radio show. One big difference is that if it was a radio show, I wouldn't be trying as hard to avoid ever playing the same song twice.

Guilt-free download!

2008-05-11T04:07:15Z

Jane Jensen just posted 160kbps MP3s of her awesome (but out of print) 1996 album Comic Book Whore. I love this album a lot. Go get it!

The Trucks

2008-05-10T06:19:27Z

Dear everybody I know,

You fucked up.

Classic between-song banter:

"We wrote this song while PMSing. I get really emotional, like, TV commercials make me cry -- especially the ones about whales. 'The whaaaales are dyyyying!' And I feel guilty for not having any babies. When I get my period I think, 'Well, that's one more baby I'm not going to have.' Now I call it dropping yolks. Anyway. This next song is called Dead Babies."

your backup strategy

2008-05-07T22:32:40Z

Most amazing disk data recovery ever

Columbia's fragments were painstakingly and exhaustively collected. Amongst them was a 400MB Seagate hard drive which was in the sort of shape you think it would be in after being in an explosive fire and then hurled to earth from several miles up with a ferocious impact.
The Johnson Space Centre workers analysing the shuttle crash sent it off the CVX-2 (Critical Viscosity of Xenon) experiment engineers, who sent it on to Kroll Ontrack in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to see if the data, any data, could be recovered. For researcher Robert Berg and his team it was the only hope, a terribly slim hope, of salvaging significant data from the experiment looking at Xenon gas flows in microgravity.
The Kroll people managed to recover 90 percent or so of the 400MB of data from the drive with its cracked and burned casing.

oh interweb. you are truly a cornucopia

2008-05-07T17:28:38Z

"I have pubic lice in my mailbox":

Remember the crazy guy who claims he has specially bred giant Japanese crab lice that don't bite? And that they make great pets? ("Like Sea Monkeys in Your Pants!")

stupid ssh.

2008-05-07T07:41:20Z

Dear Lazyweb,

I suspect the answer to this is also "Apple horked it in a recent security update", but I still desire to know how to fix it. Lately, when I'm doing rsync+ssh backups of various machines, ssh craps out partway through. Ssh is running on MacOS 10.4 PPC (OpenSSH 4.7p1) with the latest updates, and is aimed at at various Linuxen that haven't been upgraded since, say, 2005 (OpenSSH 4.3). It dies like so:

rsync [...] building file list ... done ...dozens of files get transferred successfully... Disconnecting: Bad packet length 787964.

It's dying after transferring a bunch of data, not during connection setup. Both side are most assuredly speaking SSH2.

Googling this error message only results in very old threads where people say, "Oh, that's because you're using SSH2! You should use SSH1 instead." This answer is clearly bullshit. What's the real fix?

Stupid Flash.

2008-05-07T02:46:36Z

Dear Lazyweb, lately (this month-ish) I'm seeing that "A script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash Player 9 to run slowly" dialog all the time. Safari will go all hypnowheel for 5-10 seconds, and then that dialog appears, giving me the options of "break the web page" or "go back to the hypnowheel for another ten seconds, then everything's fine." Who broke what? No scratch that, just tell me how to fix it.

dnalounge update

2008-05-07T01:09:04Z

DNA Lounge update, wherein it is noted that our 27B stroke 6 has not been stamped.

Isabella Rossellini Bug Porn now available

2008-05-06T22:30:31Z

Previously.

Historic!

2008-05-06T20:17:23Z

Step into my office

2008-05-06T19:06:22Z

mixtape 029

2008-05-04T19:58:31Z

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 029.

"They call him the boddhisattva"

2008-05-04T03:47:15Z

An intimate theatrical experience

2008-05-04T02:45:47Z

The kind of intimate where you need a raincoat, if you know what I mean.

show me on the doll where the bad monkey touched you

2008-05-03T07:09:08Z

The many-angled ones, who lurk at the bottom of the Mandelbrot set.

2008-05-02T10:04:58Z

twitteresque 62 character review

2008-05-02T09:53:37Z

Iron Man was so awesome that I almost wish I was sober for it.

Boomerangs work in SPACE!

2008-05-01T08:26:47Z

Who knew.

dnalounge update

2008-05-01T07:56:28Z

DNA Lounge update, wherein we feed you for free! And also Flash video.

Take my cookie! Choke on it! CHOKE ON MY COOKIE!!

2008-05-01T07:14:28Z

Remember the good old days, when if you configured your web browser to remember cookies for a site forever, you wouldn't have to log in again all the fucking time? Gosh, those were the days. Before sites kept a useless shit-ton of server-side session state that they felt the need to constantly expire on you. Or before they decided to log you out every N days for "security" reasons.

Also remember when if you told your web browser to remember your user name and password for web sites, that worked? When people actually used HTTP authentication instead of crazy-assed bullshit involving JavaScript and Flash and turning off autocomplete, because they know better than you? Yeah. Those were the days.

Dear Interweb: fucking knock that shit off.

Agenda

2008-04-30T02:43:18Z

You Are Hereby Advised --

Tonight:   Xanopticon @ DNA Lounge

Wed, Apr 30:   The Breeders @ Slim's

Thu, May 01:   Iron Man @ Metreon, 8pm

Fri, May 02:   Sons and Daughters @ GAMH

Sat, May 03:   Point Break Live @ Xenodrome, 7:30pm

Tue, May 06:   Ultraviolet / Electric Valentine @ Red Devil Lounge

Thu, May 08:   Dolores Park Movie Night: Soylent Green

Thu, May 08:   Emerging Illusions Fashion Show @ DNA Lounge

Fri, May 09:   The Trucks @ Du Nord

Fri, May 16:   Hubba Hubba Revue @ DNA Lounge

Sat, May 17:   The Kills @ Slim's

Sat, May 17:   Pop Roxx @ DNA Lounge

Sun, May 18:   Dresden Dolls @ Fillmore

Mon, May 19:   Clinic @ Independent

Wed, May 21:   Presets @ Mezzanine

Thu, May 22:   Meat @ DNA Lounge

Fri, May 23:   Mortified @ Make-Out Room

Sat, May 24:   Mortified @ Make-Out Room

Sun, May 25:   Hex Rx @ DNA Lounge

Tue, May 27:   Ladytron @ Fillmore

Thu, May 29:   Bong-Ra @ DNA Lounge

Fri, May 30:   Bohemian Carnival @ DNA Lounge

from above you it devours

2008-04-29T18:06:48Z

Good Morning, Livejournal.

2008-04-27T22:12:57Z

mixtape 028

2008-04-27T20:11:01Z

By Order of His Majesty King Mob, please enjoy jwz mixtape 028.

How's this whole mixtape thing working out for you? What are your listening patterns? Do you think of them as compilation albums, or a radio show? And why do they provoke so little actual discussion of music?

a proclamation

2008-04-26T03:24:12Z

There should be Groundhog Day gifts.

It should be the same gift every year.

Tonight:	Xanopticon @ DNA Lounge
Wed, Apr 30:	The Breeders @ Slim's
Thu, May 01:	Iron Man @ Metreon, 8pm
Fri, May 02:	Sons and Daughters @ GAMH
Sat, May 03:	Point Break Live @ Xenodrome, 7:30pm
Tue, May 06:	Ultraviolet / Electric Valentine @ Red Devil Lounge
Thu, May 08:	Dolores Park Movie Night: Soylent Green
Thu, May 08:	Emerging Illusions Fashion Show @ DNA Lounge
Fri, May 09:	The Trucks @ Du Nord
Fri, May 16:	Hubba Hubba Revue @ DNA Lounge
Sat, May 17:	The Kills @ Slim's
Sat, May 17:	Pop Roxx @ DNA Lounge
Sun, May 18:	Dresden Dolls @ Fillmore
Mon, May 19:	Clinic @ Independent
Wed, May 21:	Presets @ Mezzanine
Thu, May 22:	Meat @ DNA Lounge
Fri, May 23:	Mortified @ Make-Out Room
Sat, May 24:	Mortified @ Make-Out Room
Sun, May 25:	Hex Rx @ DNA Lounge
Tue, May 27:	Ladytron @ Fillmore
Thu, May 29:	Bong-Ra @ DNA Lounge
Fri, May 30:	Bohemian Carnival @ DNA Lounge