The Old Farmer's Almanac Posts on ruk.caCommentary and ideas about The Old Farmer's Almanac from Peter RukavinaLife is Never Dull, Part 37- July 8, 2005 We're in the final throes of launching a new website for Yankee -- stay tuned -- and tonight's job was to develop a system that, given a temperature, creates a sonic simulation of a cricket's chirp when it's that temperature outside (cricket chirp frequency changes in relation to temperature using a very handy formula). In addition to the algorithms and the fiddling with sound munging applications for Linux, this project also involved cricket copyright clearance issues. And a lot of listening.http://ruk.ca/article/2982 Frank Gehry Photostream- July 7, 2005 I've subscribed to the Flickr tag frankgehry with NetNewsWire. As a result, I get a constant flow of photographs, taken all over the world by people from all over the world, of Frank Gehry-designed buildings. It enlivens my soul.http://ruk.ca/article/2981 |