It is pretty easy these days to slow down or speed up sound without shifting the frequency – appropriate routines are easily available and there are even players out there which let you arbitrarily do that in real time. Now, get a GPS unit and set up a script to request current motion speed. Record [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2004
Strategy.
Friday, November 19, 2004
When I don’t understand what’s going on, my favorite strategy was what I often described as ‘throwing grenades around in search of a light switch’ — doing something as confusing as possible to make whoever has the advantage of understanding the situation lose this advantage. This works as often as it doesn’t. But while game [...]
Daily idiocy
Sunday, November 7, 2004
I came home and quickly found that my Zaurus’ power supply doesn’t work. It’s not an original Sharp power supply, these things are 100-volt only and don’t work in most countries other than Japan anymore, so the machine came with a local-made one. Closer inspection revealed a short inside, probably due to a jolt, but [...]