Clutching the short straw

September 25, 2006

S.N.A.F.U.

Filed under: News — Chaovsky @ 09:01

Malas noticias. Por lo menos para mí y para la gente con la que tuviera asuntos pendientes.

Ayer, durante un reparticionamiento rutinario del disco duro, algo salió terriblemente mal y he perdido mi unidad D entera. 30 GB de datos almacenados durante unos 4 años y de los que menos de la mitad tenían backup.

Tras unas 8 horas de no despegarme de la pantalla, he logrado poner algo de orden en el registro, eliminar los cientos de entradas truncadas y conflictos que había, reinstalar gran parte del software y salvar algunos perfiles. Pero en lo que a datos se refiere, lo he perdido TODO: correo, fotos, textos, recuerdos, contactos, música. Y no hablo de mp3, hablo de MI música: bases, remezclas, masters, samples, bancos de sonidos, instrumentos virtuales, plugins, temas en los que estaba trabajando… todo lo que se os pueda pasar por la cabeza.

Por ahora, todos mis proyectos quedan congelados indefinidamente, si no directamente abandonados. Si no respondo a vuestros mails, comentarios o intentos de contacto en unos días, ya sabéis a qué se debe.

Ahora, si me disculpáis, voy a tirarme por la ventana.

September 18, 2006

“Rebis” @ Mentenebre

Filed under: Muzak,Reviews — Chaovsky @ 16:55

Parecía increíble, pero ha aparecido una nueva reseña de “Rebis” por ahí. Los responsables, de nuevo el webzine Mentenebre y su nuevo fichaje, Dagnir, quien me honra eligiendo mi trabajo para su primera reseña.

Como curiosidad, la página tiene un sistema de puntuación mediante el cual cualquier lector puede asignar una nota al trabajo reseñado, y como no, el primero en darle al botoncito tenía que ser alguien con muy mal gusto musical *ahem* :)

¡Así que no me sean vagos, pinchen ese link y dejen constancia de lo cojonudo que les ha parecido el disco!

September 15, 2006

Largest known dwarf planet named Eris

Filed under: News — Chaovsky @ 08:16

By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer Wed Sep 13, 10:54 PM ET

LOS ANGELES – A distant, icy rock whose discovery shook up the solar system and led to Pluto’s planetary demise has been given a name: Eris.

The christening of Eris, named after the Greek goddess of chaos and strife, was announced by the International Astronomical Union on Wednesday. Weeks earlier, the professional astronomers’ group stripped Pluto of its planethood under new controversial guidelines.

Since its discovery last year, Eris, which had been known as 2003 UB313, ignited a debate about what constitutes a planet.

Astronomers were split over how to classify the object because there was no universal definition. Some argued it should be welcomed as the 10th planet since it was larger than Pluto, but others felt Pluto was not a full-fledged planet.

After much bickering, astronomers last month voted to shrink the solar system to eight planets, downgrading Pluto to a “dwarf planet,” a category that also includes Eris and the asteroid Ceres.

Eris’ discoverer, Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology, said the name was an obvious choice, calling it “too perfect to resist.”

In mythology, Eris caused a quarrel among goddesses that sparked the Trojan War. In real life, Eris forced scientists to define a planet that eventually led to Pluto getting the boot. Soon after Pluto’s dismissal from the planet club, hundreds of scientists circulated a petition protesting the decision.

Eris’ moon also received a formal name: Dysnomia, the daughter of Eris known as the spirit of lawlessness.

Eris, which measures about 70 miles wider than Pluto, is the farthest known object in the solar system at 9 billion miles away from sun. It is also the third brightest object located in the Kuiper belt, a disc of icy debris beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Eris had been without a formal name while astronomers grappled over its status. Brown nicknamed it “Xena” after the fictional warrior princess pending an official designation. He admits the new name will take some getting used to.

“It’s a little sad to see Xena go away,” he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_sc/dwarf_planet

Yay! The immanentization of the eschaton is nigh!

September 9, 2006

Hole hearted

Filed under: Photo — Chaovsky @ 09:21

Man (sketch)

September 6, 2006

What the butler saw (VII of VII)

Filed under: Photo — Chaovsky @ 06:53

The Mutoscope, invented in 1895, was an early form of coin-operated motion picture device which worked on the same principle as the "flip book." The individual image frames were conventional black-and-white, silver-based photographic prints on tough, flexible opaque cards.

The patron viewed the cards, which were generally lit electrically, through a single lens enclosed by a hood. Each machine held only a single reel and was dedicated to the presentation of a single short subject, described by a poster affixed to the machine.

Mutoscopes were a popular feature of amusement arcades and pleasure piers in the UK until the introduction of decimal coinage in 1971 made the mechanisms obsolete. Both in the early days and during the revival, the themes usually included "girlie" reels which ran the gamut from risqué to outright soft-core pornography.

The title of one such reel, What the Butler Saw, became a by-word for shameful secrets or voyeurism, and Mutoscopes are commonly known in England as "What-the-Butler-Saw machines."

( Compiled from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutoscope and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Butler_Saw_%28motion_pictu… )