Archive for November, 2010

Scramblize ‘em

Monday, November 29th, 2010

I’m learning how to damage image files by splicing two or more together. Never produces the results you would expect, but fun none-the-less. Damnit.

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Data Storage

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

The trouble venturing into deeply technical spheres of knowledge on your own if finding your points of entry. I’ve been plugging back away on the programming front (the ole’ attempt to level-up) but I’ve been having a damn time keeping focused and finding projects at my skill level. I’ve recently plugged into Dive Into Python by Mark Pilgrim. I had been shying away from going through another Python book, because I felt, foolishly, like I knew the language, but it’s actually a thrillingly different treatment of the language than John Zelle’s excellent Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science. Anyway, I’m back into it, learning new things, having new fun.

In the meantime I’ve begun working on this:

Which is to be a Unix (written in Python) text adventure exploration game. I thought it would be swell to populate your actual file system with secrets and spooks, like exploring a creepy old mansion, so I’ve been building an interface where you actually move through the directories on your hard drive and interact with the files you find. It’s very early on, and will take a lot of work (which I may or may not put in), but it’s produced some pleasing learning results thus far. I’ll keep me posted.

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erotic encoding

Monday, November 8th, 2010

jpeg encoding in the form of one of the most photographed orifices on the internet
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Didn’t Die Young Yet Out Now

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Didn’t Die Young Yet: Stories for Strangers
A churlish collection of 36 commissioned stories for friends and strangers written over the course of 6 months by one man/mind: Jacob Cholak. Featuring: dads, forgetting, Usenet, time traveling video games, artistic robots, bus rides, violence, teeth, wandering, predictions, decline, Steve Jobs, and many other things.

order:

$12 from NaDA Publishing

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Ichabod Hate

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Ole’ Douggy-kins wants your money bad. I gave him some of mine, so as to lessen the burden on all of you, but here he is, knocking down your door. This is his band that makes your teeth smell like wasps and your ears read. So go ahead and dig.

Support Ichabod Hate’s Kickstarter

Also, if you’re feeling quieter these days, check out Douggy’s masterpiece, White Horses out by my very own, NaDA Publishing

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