http://www.darknote.org thoughts of a darknote nature Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:46:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en one of the big reasons i prefer downloading telly on the internet is because rippers will take any adverts out of the downloadable files. Resultingly i haven't watched a steady stream of telly commercials in about five years, and thus feel outside of that aspect ... http://www.darknote.org/2008/07/16/the-evolution-of-advertising/ One of the marked differences between Classic Who and New Who is the role of the Doctor to his companions. Companions of the Doctor have always been made better people because of the Doctor, but in Classic Who, the Doctor was more of a father ... http://www.darknote.org/2008/07/07/doctorcompanion-dynamic-in-new-who/ Above is one of the charts i'm more proud of from DSR Squared, a refined version of some earlier attempts at the BPM speed up/freeze effect i've used in a few other historical charts. Someone had asked about the details of the construction of the chart to which i gave ... http://www.darknote.org/2008/06/18/overcoming-granular-limitations-of-the-stepmania-editor/ i've found that the easiest way to explain Pop'n Music to someone who doesn't know anything about it is to say, "it's basically a much more complicated version of Whac-a-Mole." and on the surface, this seems a decent analogy because you have to hit the nine buttons at a ... http://www.darknote.org/2008/05/16/when-whac-a-mole-goes-digital/ so there have been a few times when people have linked some of my writings here, and as such, i would get trackback notifications.  until today i didn't understand what was going on, and thought it was just botspam attempting to create a malicious external link. oops. i guess this hurts me ... http://www.darknote.org/2008/05/09/backtrack-on-trackbacks/ In the history of the revived Doctor Who series, there have been ten multi-episode stories thus far. If we classify these multi-episode stories into three rough categories of "hits", "misses", and "neutrals", most of them frustratingly fall into the category of misses than anything else. The most ... http://www.darknote.org/2008/05/06/mutli-episode-stories-in-the-new-who/ the biggest difference between being employed in an academic medium versus a corporate medium is what i'm dubbing "irregular regularlity versus regular regularity." as an example, in my second year at the UofO, even though my weekly schedule was fairly regular, my daily schedule was highly ... http://www.darknote.org/2008/04/24/irregular-regularity/ in the past year or so, automatic paper towel dispensers were invented, mainly for use in public restrooms. At our workplace, the motivation for switching to automatic paper towel dispensers were touted as helping to "go green", the new term for environmental friendliness. I suspect ... http://www.darknote.org/2008/04/21/automatic-paper-dispensers/ many will agree that the electoral college is an outdated system for determining our presidency, but no one can figure out what's the best way to replace it. here's my idea: everyone who decides that they're going to vote has to take a comprehensive aptitude test. but not an aptitude test ... http://www.darknote.org/2008/04/09/replacing-the-electoral-college/ whilst sitting with katie in my favorite place to get hot chocolate, she noticed that there was a painting on the wall in which the frame was not flush with the floor. Ansel Adams on a slight tilt. we've had this debate before about how i like to have a ... http://www.darknote.org/2008/03/31/crooked-windows/