Never been one to let the carrier drop

here is a really cool URL for us propeller-heads about the generation of white and pink noise. here is a helpful link for understanding the output of a pink noise generator.

I got involved in looking into pink noise generators because I’ve been dissecting the Hemi-Sync products produced by the Monroe Institute, in a attempt to understand how they work.

{I can, incidentally, wholeheartedly and without reservation reccomend trying these CDs. They may do nothing to you. They may do all kinds of neat things to you. They’re audio, they can’t hurt you, and while they contain some spiritual content, it’s so generic that I can’t imagine anyone would find it offensive. Except for me, at first, and I’m over that. ;-)}

Anyway, as usual, give me a toy, I want to take it apart.

So far as I can tell, I have a few options for generating my own hemi-sync content to feed myself.

Option one is a really creative reprogramming of my Quadraverb II. Doesn’t appear to be anything stopping me from having a midi-modulation-source controlled pitch changer that routes to the opposite channel. Fine and course tuning, and there you go, a hemi-sync generator. I bet the p2k even would let you do it with their patch cord arrangements, though that might be a bit more difficult.

Option one doesn’t cover the need for white noise, but I imagine one can come up with it somewhere. 😉

Option two is to get a pink noise generator, run it through a parametric eq and a flexable phase changer, and take two function generators. All into a modern mixing board, and there ya go..

We won’t even get into my theories concerning visual stimulation. I don’t buy that hemi-sync is limited to audio..

I wonder how many hz we can see?

Anyway, onto more mundane matters – the mk3 – I’m going to write a bios for it. At first I was thinking I’d just write a bootloader, but it occurs to me that I really need to go ahead and write a entire BIOS into the bootloader section. Bug-free read and write from RAM, network, dataflash, EE, etc.

Then I can write a program on top of it to manage batteries.

Well, this ought to be interesting.

I already have most of the code, I just need to rewrite, codify, shuffle, and do all that fun stuff.

I wonder. If the BIOS was written in assembly, could the rest of the thing be written in C? Probebly.

The fun never ends, as Leeper would say.

The fun never ends.

You do not help others learn nearly as much by sharing your answers as you do by sharing your questions.

this is pretty cool stuff.

That last was a bit of it.

A list of defence stocks. Just what we need. ‘buy these, you’ll get rich, and we’ll blow things up’.

I bet they will skyrocket.

Thanks a lot, microsoft.

S.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P18602.asp

I heard a strange rumor on the radio.. that the recent budget approved by the house included a request for the department of defense to research the possibility of using nuclear-tipped intercepters.

This strikes me, if true, as not exactly the safest idea one could come up with.

I mean, we’ve got rockets that _can not find their targets when they are carrying homing beacons_ – and now some crazy (word omitted) wants to strap BOMBS to them???

I guess the theory is that if you make a big enough explosion, it won’t matter if you’re even remotely in the right neighborhood. Never mind what this does to the people under it.

And, to be any good at all, a system like that has to be automated – or run by humans that are awake 24/7 – and frankly I’m not sure which scares me more.

Look, these are the people who spend a billion dollars on ‘stealth bombers’ to spy on the USSR. Like, duh, it’s cold and they’ve got no flipping money!

I mean, how exactly was russia going to ‘take over’ the united states? How do you wipe the people off a country? People, have you ever driven across the US? I have, many times! It’s a BIG country! It CAN NOT BE taken over as long as it has good lines of communication. It doesn’t _need_ a standing army. It certainly doesn’t need 21,000 nuclear warheads. 21,000. THINK ABOUT THAT!

As countries go, we’re assholes. Okay. There’s no other way to say it. Is that what we want to be?

‘You’re the one who learned my song, I love you’
‘You’re the one who learned my song, I hate you’

‘there is a way for everything to be saved’

Oh, if I could only remember the questions. They rhymed. Bizarre.

I turned down enron.

That’s awesome. I never thought about that before. I was handed a situation, I followed my hunches.. and they were right.

[warning – do not read the below if you do not enjoy seeing ranting]

Memo to the investing public: Investing for the maximum return on investment is not actaully the best way to get a good return on investment, short term.

Hello, people. INVEST IN THE KIND OF WORLD YOU WANT TO SEE!

This is NOT that difficult. when you put money into a company, you are giving a stamp of aproval to, if not neccesarily every little thing that company does, at least their general outlook on life. Hence, with your dollars, you vote for what kind of world we have. Yes, you, the high rollers, too! You’re just as responsable.

If you own a mutual fund, how difficult is that? I think I should sell out of my mutual funds.. that’s like appointing someone else your concience. Do you know what’s in your mutual fund? I don’t know what’s in mine.. I try to find ‘green’ funds, but what can you do in a world where enron would be considered ‘green’?

No, seriously, you are responsable for any company’s actions that you hold stock in. I realize there isn’t actually any law to allow you to suffer for your actions – except in the pocketbook when lawsuits occur, and even then it will only dip into your profits and possibly your stock price – but if you own stock in a corperation, you are saying that it is _right_ to take money for loaning money to this organization.

Funny how no one wants to invest money in the internet any more. Could it be because the companies that were there tried to grow up too quickly?

Anyway, I am guilty for Intel, but I hold more AMD and even more TMTA. I put my support behind the future I want. I hold more EVRC than you’d want to think about, because I beleive in what Evercel is doing. [And because face it, I love having a 100 mile range car]

I won’t bore you all with stock prices and things like that, but I’ll point out that even if doing the right thing costs you in the short run, in the long run it pays off for the human race.

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[Angel.]

Yah, I buy that.