Category Archives: reflection

Prime Spiral

By admin | Published: February 21, 2010
In my commitment to look back at abandoned projects, I must share some work with prime numbers and spirals, which deserve a link, an instruction manual and an explanation. instructions This application relies mostly on key presses in order for interaction. You may change the state of it in one of three ways: -press the number keys [...]
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the path towards randomness [pt 2]

By admin | Published: February 13, 2010
I’ve been meaning to get a good 3d Perlin noise function ( a method used to create a ‘natural’ kind of randomness, very useful in graphical programming ) into the processing.js library for the past few months, and I must admit to being rather slow at doing so. The task, originally scheduled for [...]
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Dual Parented Child

By thomas | Published: February 8, 2010
I’d like to share here the origins of the header image of this weblog, and give others a chance to play with a small toy I have enjoyed both making and interacting with. The application was created in the waning days of September 2009, in the midst of a difficult project at work, and has [...]
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95 percent

By thomas | Published: February 4, 2010
Over the last month or two, the number of unpublished posts on this weblog have burgeoned into a small crowd of pieces of writing left near 90 or 95% done. I end up sharing nothing. The reasons for this are manyfold– often times each idea leads back to another and another [...]
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to serve as a witness or signatory

By thomas | Published: January 10, 2010
On the 31st of December I woke in the bedroom of my adolescence, in my parent’s home, after a night of carousing with my younger brothers. It was already 9 am and I wanted to get back home to Minneapolis for the New Year. Upstairs for coffee, and my parents had woken [...]
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I have chosen not to be with her, and she laughs

By thomas | Published: January 1, 2010
I cannot tell you not to believe her lies When by hand she takes you among back-corner bookshelves But I’d never hope to carry Philosophy outside the library in my arms kissing- My mind, sometimes, I hear her voice. If A, then B, A so always B proving and reproving to me the [...]
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Where is the bleeding edge of the internet?

By thomas | Published: December 12, 2009
An interesting question by Metafilter[1] user Pastabagel [2], “Where do you people find the things you post to the “blue”, and how do you consistently find them before the rest of us? I should note that Metafilter’s main goal is to be a log of the best of the internet; the main site ( [...]
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a bug report for mozilla, or the importance of randomness and sound

By thomas | Published: December 5, 2009
Because I have found sound data so interesting, and also useful in my attempts to create natural motion and shapes, I have filed a bug with the Mozilla Firefox browser in regards to their audio tag. The current HTML5 audio tag does not give us the capability to analyze sound on the fly. I am confident that, if this feature is regarded as important enough, it will be implemented, and I look forward to the day when I can begin using Javascript rather than Actionscript in my efforts to build instruments.
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No one sees the barn

By thomas | Published: November 25, 2009
After reading a post [1] about watching the American Music Awards, I am reminded of a great passage from a book of the late 20th century White Noise by Don Delillo. [2] [3] We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. [...]
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one proper way to start a career, or, I wasn’t too stupid at 23

By thomas | Published: November 4, 2009
As an aside to the study of What is Philosophy?, and perhaps more as an historical note to myself, I would like to share some writing of mine from a larger email between me and a close friend, Emily August, in the June of 2006: i say that i’m confused and don’t know what the hell [...]
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