Category: Legacy

Demos n’ Schtuff

Posted on by lhl

Andy recently posted a link to MFX’s Aether, which is a good demo, but nowhere near my recent favs:

  • Moppi’s Assembly 2004 Invite (the mesmerizing flower effect is also available as a Windows screen saver!)
  • Binary Flow – this invite for Assembly 2005 is pretty astounding considering it’s a 64K.
  • fresh! – it really is. A great 64K, and not a glow or blur in sight 😉
  • 155/95 – this won Breakpoint, and is sort of a one-trick pony, but my is that some trick (HDR, baby)
  • Planet Risk – a ridiculous amount of effects. Not one falls on its face
  • Breakpoint 2005 Invite – it’s a bit long, but has a real old-skool feel to it and a nice party flavor that’s really hard to resist
  • we cell – ahh, gotta love that fecal blur – an impressive number of organic effects
  • The Popular Demo – it’s 2 years old, but still one of my favs. The production values and execution are great

If you’re looking to get into demos, some good sites to get started:

Self-Signed Certs w/ OS X’s Mail.app

Posted on by lhl

A long-standing problem I’ve had w/ Mail.app was the continuing confirmation dialogs I’d get even after I thought I’d manually added the certs into my X509Anchors. Since 10.3, Apple has had an easier way [illustrated], but like for many people, doing the option-drag (or any kind of drag) would immediately lock up Mail.app.

Finally, I got a breakthrough. A comment here saying that the second server confirmation would work, but the first would cause lockups led me to experiment (since I have different self-signed certs for my IMAP and SMTP servers) a bit, and I’ve found a general solution that works w/ no lockups.

The secret to being able to successfully drag and drop is to cancel the initial (on-load) security dialog, and then to go back online. It seems that any certificates you try to drag immediately on startup will cause a lockup, but after that (after mailboxes have loaded?) it works fine.

Count Me In

Posted on by lhl

The following is the first communique from a group calling itself Unitarian Jihad…

We are Unitarian Jihad, and our motto is: “Sincerity is not enough.” We have heard from enough sincere people to last a lifetime already. Just because you believe it’s true doesn’t make it true. Just because your motives are pure doesn’t mean you are not doing harm. Get a dog, or comfort someone in a nursing home, or just feed the birds in the park. Play basketball. Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.

See also: Unitarian Jihad Name Generator

Happy Music Fun Hour

Posted on by lhl

In celebration of a day mostly spend sleeping in, and of having a laptop that has working sound again, I finished a mix that’s been floating around in my head half-formed for a while. The flow is a bit unpolished, but there’s some pretty killer tracks, so hopefully that makes up for it.

2005-04-01: April Showers… [M3U]

Some Blues Julie Doiron 3:47
Regeneration No. 1 M. Ward 1:18
One Step Inside Doesn’t Mean You Understand The Notwist 3:14
This Modern Love Bloc Party 4:25
Misread Kings of Convenience 3:08
Home Lou Barlow 3:23
Tom Courtenay (Acoustic) Yo La Tengo 3:12
Duet The Farewell Bikeride 4:29
The Negatives… Hood 3:43
Seventeen Years Ratatat 4:26
Human After All Daft Punk 5:19
American Gigolo Weezer 2:42
The Answer Bloc Party 4:04
Sky Stars Falling Doves 4:11
The Sporting Life The Decemberists 4:40
They Never Got You Spoon 5:30
Singing In The Rain (FuzzyGroove Mix) Mint Royale 2:46
Since U Been Gone Ted Leo 3:38

And I’m outta here.

Whoa, stress

Posted on by lhl

Today I was so stressed out about flying out tonight at 1AM, but it turns out I’m not flying out until the night after.

I’ll be in Taiwan until the 10th. I think I’m going to also lay off the keyboard for the week. My wrists have been acting up again and that’s starting to be quite worrying.

Ah, Events…

Posted on by lhl

Tonight I’m reminded of how badly publicized campus events are. I’m sitting in a big lecture room where Battleground (see a hi-res version the incredible trailer) has just screened. The room wasn’t empty, but it could have been much fuller – I personally know at least a half-dozen people who might have wanted to be here.

A search showed one link on LA Indymedia which was how I was able to find out the screening time (I had heard about it a while back, and only found the exact time about 10-min before, luckilly I was only a 2 buildings down).

Speaking with one of the organizers afterwards, they neither knew about submitting events via the USC Events Calendar, nor other event systems (ahem, ahem).