antimac.org http://antimac.org What used to be code and minutae is now bootlegs and what not. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:29:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en More Bike Trip Panoramas http://antimac.org/106-more-bike-trip-panoramas.html http://antimac.org/106-more-bike-trip-panoramas.html#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:29:09 +0000 Dan http://antimac.org/?p=106 Mount Saint Helens

I didn’t really put much effort into them other than trying to stand still, but I think they came out well enough.

]]> http://antimac.org/106-more-bike-trip-panoramas.html/feed The License Plates In Our Bathroom http://antimac.org/103-the-license-plates-in-our-bathroom.html http://antimac.org/103-the-license-plates-in-our-bathroom.html#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:37:21 +0000 Dan http://antimac.org/?p=103

]]> http://antimac.org/103-the-license-plates-in-our-bathroom.html/feed Guns ‘n’ Roses Leakage http://antimac.org/95-guns-n-roses-leakage.html http://antimac.org/95-guns-n-roses-leakage.html#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:41:58 +0000 Dan http://antimac.org/?p=95 (As previously mentioned here, I’m the “host”.)

I don’t really care about GnR one way or another, but I’ll be god damned if they aren’t bitchy as fuck.  Check it out, I was spoken to:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0827082gnr1.html

$150k per song is a pretty ridiculous sum for a fine.  Particularly for an album that has little likelihood of turning a profit.  Good luck, Skwerl!

]]> http://antimac.org/95-guns-n-roses-leakage.html/feed Concerts + Google Maps = BandMaps.org http://antimac.org/90-concerts-google-maps-bandmapsorg.html http://antimac.org/90-concerts-google-maps-bandmapsorg.html#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:54:37 +0000 Dan http://antimac.org/?p=90 Pearl Jam 1992 Tour Map

Last weekend, I was experimenting with Google Maps and geo-location. The result was http://bandmaps.org/.

Band Maps is a geographical concert tour viewer: it places onto the map all of the tour dates for a given artist in a given year, connected by colored lines and directional arrows. The user can then choose a show from the list or use her arrow keys to navigate chronologically, viewing a small bit of information about each show in the Google Maps “infowindow” (the thing that pops up when you click an icon on the map.)

Having collected all of the tour information myself, I’m surprised there are so many artists in the database already (and with semi-complete tour histories too.)  Bands currently supported: A Perfect Circle, Brad, Fuck Buttons, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, Mogwai, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, The Mars Volta, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, and Zwan.

The plan now is to make the info window for each tour date a wiki entry, such that the users will be able to add show reviews, photos, setlists, and other information to the site. It’d also be nice if it was kept up-to-date with upcoming shows too, giving one a way to find shows in one’s area. I guess. It started out as an experiment and I’m not sure it deserves more work.

Anyway, not bad for a weekend’s code output.

]]> http://antimac.org/90-concerts-google-maps-bandmapsorg.html/feed Shup v0.26 http://antimac.org/80-shup-v026.html http://antimac.org/80-shup-v026.html#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:30:08 +0000 Dan http://antimac.org/80-shup-v026.html Online Help (CTRL+H) now links to the [...]]]> I released a new version of Shup last night with the following changes:

* Added upload support for ScrnShots.com
* Added cancel buttons to uploader dialogs
* Nicer upload error message + editor doesn’t close if upload fails
* Uploaders are now listed in mostly-alphabetical order
* The main window menu Help -> Online Help (CTRL+H) now links to the Shup Wiki
* Fixed a bunch of crash bugs
* REAPER Stash uploader now requires proper Shupport credentials

It is good. Download it here.

]]> http://antimac.org/80-shup-v026.html/feed The House of (Tall) Bruce http://antimac.org/79-the-house-of-tall-bruce.html http://antimac.org/79-the-house-of-tall-bruce.html#comments Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:08:56 +0000 Dan http://antimac.org/79-the-house-of-tall-bruce.html Last night, at the behest of Dan Brown, I made a new subforum on toolnavy.  In this forum, posts have no identifying user information and get provided with one of 40 avatars (this image split into 40 equal pieces).  With 40 posts on each page, things got pretty wild as you can imagine.

Not content to rest there, Mr. Brown contributed this page of posts and achieved more in one evening than most will ever even dare to dream.

]]> http://antimac.org/79-the-house-of-tall-bruce.html/feed Pearl Jam - Vancouver, BC, Canada 2005-09-02 http://antimac.org/76-pearl-jam-vancouver-bc-canada-2005-09-02.html http://antimac.org/76-pearl-jam-vancouver-bc-canada-2005-09-02.html#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:36:52 +0000 Dan http://antimac.org/76-pearl-jam-vancouver-bc-canada-2005-09-02.html The day after Mr. Kiahtipesopolous and I saw Pearl Jam at The Gorge in 2005, we drove to Vancouver for a follow-up show. It was spine-tinglingly good. It was one of those shows where you’re just like, yes. Except when the Supersuckers were playing, then I was like, maybe.

The setlist:

  1. Release
  2. Go
  3. Animal
  4. Save You
  5. Given To Fly
  6. Corduroy
  7. Love Boat Captain
  8. Evenflow
  9. Betterman
  10. Half Full
  11. Daughter
  12. Wishlist
  13. Lukin
  14. Grievance
  15. Immortality
  16. Nothing Man
  17. Down
  18. Do The Evolution
  19. Blood
  20. Footsteps
  21. Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town
  22. U
  23. Alive
  24. Encore Break 1
  25. Bee Girl
  26. Black
  27. Porch
  28. I Believe In Miracles
  29. Baba O’riley
  30. Yellow Ledbetter

The prime cuts from this show were Release, Half Full (What the FUCK?), Lukin + Grievance, Immortality, Black…I could go on but those will be enough to get you where you’re looking to go.

Download it here, complete with photos.

]]> http://antimac.org/76-pearl-jam-vancouver-bc-canada-2005-09-02.html/feed camelcamelcamel - my new project http://antimac.org/75-camelcamelcamel-my-new-project.html http://antimac.org/75-camelcamelcamel-my-new-project.html#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:13:33 +0000 Dan http://antimac.org/75-camelcamelcamel-my-new-project.html Lately I’ve been coding something new! It’s called camelcamelcamel and it is for tracking the pricing and availability of products on Amazon.com. The user simply finds a product in which she is interested and enters the price point at which she would like to receive an alert. The site constantly monitors Amazon’s product data and emails the user the moment changes are detected.

c3 (brilliant shorthand, don’t you think?) is mainly–second to the love–an experiment in utilizing the Associates Web Service (AWS), but there are some underlying possible data sets that could prove interesting. For example, one could easily determine what price people are willing to pay for the latest iPod; this could help set the price of future products or the discounts in the next sale. It is also interesting to watch the price of products prior to becoming, during, and after being a Deal of the Day or Goldbox promotion; do prices jump right before, to justify the huge savings during the sale? And where do said prices end up when the sale is over?

These questions and more will be answered in due time. The database needs time to expand, to gorge, to imbibe. To this end, I am doing some eager tracking: the Goldbox and Deal of the Day (as well as many categories’ worth of the Best-seller, Most Wished For, and New Releases) data feeds are being imported regularly, so that the site can provide users with plenty of historical data on the most popular products.

Check it out at http://camelcamelcamel.com. I appreciate any feedback you care to give. =)

(Thus begins the countdown - how long until I kick myself for not using PHP?)

]]> http://antimac.org/75-camelcamelcamel-my-new-project.html/feed St. Maarten http://antimac.org/74-st-maarten.html http://antimac.org/74-st-maarten.html#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:44:38 +0000 Dan http://antimac.org/74-st-maarten.html I, along with a couple of friends, flew out to St. Maarten in the Caribbean for a few days of relaxation. Here are some panoramic photographs I made while there!

]]> http://antimac.org/74-st-maarten.html/feed Who is really out of touch with Middle America? http://antimac.org/73-who-is-really-out-of-touch-with-middle-america.html http://antimac.org/73-who-is-really-out-of-touch-with-middle-america.html#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:49:16 +0000 Dan http://antimac.org/73-who-is-really-out-of-touch-with-middle-america.html People who don’t believe this:

“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” Obama was quoted as saying by the Huffington Post.

“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” he said.

Growing up in Butt Fucking Egypt (Price, UT), I have the experience and justification to say Obama is correct when he says that Middle America clings to guns/religion/anti-immigrant sentiment, and that Clinton and McCain are posturing fools for attempting to claim otherwise.

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