Red Hot Chili Peppers discography, part 2

Fourth, their 1989 album Mother's Milk:

• Subway to Venus...great rhythm...and horns! Again with the reminders of Oingo Boingo
• "Nobody Weird Like Me"...flaming bass
• The last EMI album and the first with John Frusciante and Chad Smith.
• Liking the bonus tracks on the 2003 remastered album
• Much better on headphones than my crappy laptop speakers....
• "Salute to Kareem"...great bass line

Fifth, their 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik:

• "Funky Monks"...really liking the funk : o )
• "The Righteous & the Wicked"...nice
• Watched the SNL 1992 version of Under the Bridge a few times and can see the tension...John had checked out in more ways than one at that performance....
• Magik from the Houdini mansion?
• Frusciante looked way different with short hair and then the mohawk during the Houdini mansion recordings of the album...the beard growth in a few videos shows what he would end up looking like later 
• My high school administration allowed the student council to play "Under the Bridge" over the loudspeakers the last hour of the last day of class of my junior year, I think
• "Naked in the Rain" ... great bass solo
• "Apache Rose Peacock"...love the funk
• "Sir Psycho Sexy"...too fun...would be a great karaoke song
• "Little Miss Lover" great bass kick
• Learned something new: Soul to Squeeze appeared as a b-side and not on the album
• "Sikamikanico"...yes! : o ) 
• "Fela's Cock"...Intentional typo's and great rhythm
• Frusciante quit in April of 1992...

Sixth, their 1995 album One Hot Minute:

• Enter Dave Navarro
• "My Friends" : had no idea the song talked about Flea's life...assumed it referred to Anthony's
• "Coffee Shop"...darker driving mood : o )
• "One Big Mob"...back to the funk! : o ) Then chills out for a while, then back....
• "Walkabout" has lots to like: a nice funk and guitar riff throughout ...very nice--they used a cuíca to get that squeaky sound : o )
• "Tearjerker" -- lots of vulnerabilities in the lyrics...a bit of a bluesy guitar for a few seconds
• "Shallow Be Thy Game": picks up the pace again...slap bass
• "Transcending": smoothness, a triangle, then distortion
• "Bob" sort of reminds me of a Jimi Hendrix guitar riff...apparently Navarro lists Hendrix as an influence, which makes sense
• Exit Dave Navarro

Seventh, their 1999 album Californication:

• John Frusciante returns
• "All Around the World": hard to top that opening. Epic.
• "Get on Top" : great bass groove
• "I Like Dirt" : funky
• "The Velvet Glove" : great opening riffs and melody
• "Purple Stain" has a really catchy bass hook
• "Right On Time" shows a bit of a preview of where Anthony goes "Can't Stop"
• "Gong Li" : wow, an mbira! : o )
• "Over Funk": hurray for more funk
• "How Strong" sounds like country-western funk in the beginning
• "Instrumental #1"...great bass line...melancholy 
• "Instrumental #2" ...liking these instrumental jams
• "Teatro Jam" distortion fun

Top coder

Top coder hints:
http://www.quora.com/TopCoder/I-am-a-rookie-with-0-competitive-programming-experience-Tell-me-what-do-I-do-everyday-for-how-many-hours-so-that-Im-at-a-level-where-I-can-approach-the-Div-1-500-pt-problems-on-TopCoder-with-confidence

Red Hot Chili Peppers discography

Listening through the RHCP discography....

First up, their eponymous 1984 album:

• "Get up and jump"
• "Mommy, Where's Daddy?"
• "Out in L.A."
• "Police Helicopter"
• What it is (demo)
• Reminds me of Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo

Second, their 1985 album, Freaky Styley:

• Loving the funk-great horns on American Ghost Dance : o )
• Just love this album...funk FTW

Third, their 1987 album The Uplift Mojo Party Plan:

• Slovak's guitar much more pronounced than before
• Special Secret Song Inside...heh
• No Chump Love Sucker...blistering
• Love Trilogy
• The last Hillal Slovak and Jack Irons album....

That's it for tonight.

Initial D (2005)

"You know what somebody told me once? The most important thing is to find a world you can belong to. Our lives only begin to mean something when we find that wold. And for you, I'm pretty sure that world is racing, Takumi'."

Wow, the dubbing sucked hard on this movie.

In it's defense, they had lots of little touches which I enjoyed: the pedal shots, the cam under the cars as they passed, the exposition about the cars...lots of little bits like that which I noticed.

Homophobic comments and extremely negative female roles really drag this movie down, though. I mean, really? The love interest Natsuki ends up a whore; Takumi's mother leaves his family after his father gives up everything for her; Miya ends up kissing Itsuki even after the extremely creepy "gods have urges" spiel....

Sublime Text 2 nitpickiness

Some issues with Sublime Text 2:

• Selecting block of text (for example, using column selection via SHIFT + right-mouse button), scrolling back to the top of the block of selected text, and then indenting/outdenting moves changes the visible window screen area back down to the beginning of the cursor position. It should stay with where I scrolled to.
• Column selecting a block of text and CTRL + dragging that text to a blank part of the line (for example, to the left) should append the column-selected text to each line in turn. Instead, it inserts all the text on the line at and under the cursor.
• I emit spaces for tabs, but selecting Backspace goes back one full tab stop instead of one space. 
• I CTRL + H to search/replace, type in the Find field, tab to get to the Replace field, and it does not auto-highlight the existing value; also, I cannot hit CTRL+A to replace all occurances
• After column selecting, SHIFT + TAB continues to indent instead of outdenting; backspace does outdent (normally, TAB indents while SHIFT+TAB outdents)
• Entered Distraction free mode and copied the same preferences from Preferences > Settings - Default to Preferences > Settings - More > Distraction Free - User, and the font and font size got all messed up. Leaving Distraction free mode reverts back to the "stock" font and size. Corrected by deleting everything from the Distraction Free preferences except for "color_scheme"....
• Word wrap...always on even though I have disabled in all the Preferences.....OK, turns out you have to edit file  %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 2\Packages\Default\Distraction Free.sublime-settings or   %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 2\Packages\User\Distraction Free.sublime-settings .... there may or may not be a difference between "false" and false....(no quotes)...even though Sublime Text 2 shows that as the default? These detailed file settings seem like a double-edged sword...pretty cool now that I am looking at them.
• Right-clicking at a spot (for example, the end of line) and selecting Paste pastes the text at where the cursor was, not where you right-click.
• Keeps forgetting I have selected "In Selection" for Search/Replace
• Column-selecting text and indenting/outdenting does not display the column number as I go...

I'm With You

Listening to Flea tear it up on "Goodbye Hooray"...yes.

Highlight + drag & drop in Sublime Text 2

Noticed this feature missing in the stable release of Sublime Text 2 this evening...could not believe it.

Happily, they have included it in dev builds from 2182 onward. Whew.

Radical left

Sounds fairly spot-on, actually.

Euclid Tsakalotos, the left's top economic adviser and economic professor at the University of Athens, on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/23/153519634/radical-left-reshaping-face-of-politics-in-greece

Navajo Prayer of the Twelfth Night

From CBC Q on May 23:

"Composer, conductor, and musician David Amram who brought jazz and folk influences into classical music."

Sounded a lot of positive notes. He mentioned something similar to this, from an earlier interview: "The Navajo Prayer of the Twelfth Night refers to being on a trail or path where all the beauty that surrounds us every day, the prayer of beauty above me, beauty beside me, on the trail of beauty, therefore I am."

Kind of woo-woo but positive. I Google'd for the text and did not find a specific match, but a number of Navajo prayers exist in a secular sense which seem to fit the bill.

The Barber's Speech

From Charlie Chaplin's portrayal of the Jewish barber, from his movie The Great Dictator (1940):

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness — not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. 

In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. 

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world — millions of despairing men, women and little children — victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say — do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed — the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish. 

Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes — men who despise you — enslave you — who regiment your lives — tell you what to do — what to think or what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men — machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate! Only the unloved hate — the unloved and the unnatural! 

Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St. Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" — not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power — the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. 

Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power! Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth the future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill their promise; they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people! Now, let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. 

Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite! 

[Cheers] 

Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up, Hannah. The clouds are lifting. The sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world, a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and brutality. Look up, Hannah. The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow — into the light of hope, into the future, the glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up, Hannah. Look up.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin#The_Barber.27s_speech

Vanilla Ice

Heard an interview between Vanilla Ice and Jian Ghomeshi on NPR today:

http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2012/05/22/vanilla-ice-on-ice-ice-baby-and-his-new-career-in-tv/

He had a lot of little sayings:

• Shake a hand, make a friend
• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery

I can die when I'm done...

Heard Gnarls Barkley's song "Crazy" on the radio this morning; it contained the lyrics:

My heroes are at the heart
To the life I wanna live
And all I remember, is thinking
I wanna be like them
Mmhmm
Ever since I was little,
Ever since I was little it looked like fun
And as no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done

The last line struck me...

Sacramento population

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Shark swimming

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Electric car conversions

http://www.gavinshoebridge.com/

Green cars

http://www.greencarreports.com/ (via)

Greater Sacramento Electric Auto Association
www.greatersaceaa.org/ (via)

• "He chose electric because of the dramatically lower cost of fuel and maintenance."
• “You have to keep in mind that a lot of people only look at the money you’re saving on gas. They’ve got valve adjustments, smog checks, clutch problems, oil checks. All those things don’t exist with electric cars,”

A 2010 Prius seems to retail for about $19-20k.

The Sacramento City Parking Garages offer free parking to registered EV. They also have several spots with free J1772 charging stations. (Via)

Media Matters busts some myths
http://mediamatters.org/research/201202080012

Temporarily blinded

It works : o )

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120508-why-your-brain-loves-to-tune-out

Boiling coolant

Someone else noticed coolant boiling out of our car this evening.

Towed it home and looked up details online; it seems like one of the following:

1. Water pump (replaced July 2010...unlikely)
2. Bad hoses...seem to check out OK
3. Bad thermostat (quite possible)
4. Bad radiator cap
5. Fan relay
6. Blown head gasket

Hoping not the blown head gasket.

UPDATE: mechanic replaced a burned-out fan motor and partially melted relays. 

Travis Continuous Integration (CI)

https://love.travis-ci.org/

La Rochefoucauld

"We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."

A small world

A social network for the very well off:

http://www.asmallworld.net/

Via

Harp seal has no job

Love it

http://boingboing.net/2012/05/17/lazy-harp-seal-has-no-job.html

Church street boxing

Hilarious

http://vimeo.com/42209600

Quartus 2 and X windows

Locally installed various X servers this evening to test X11 forwarding for Quartus II 9.0:

• Xming: did not work
• XWin-32: worked
• Cygwin/X: worked

Trending

Chrome beats IE for a weekend

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3942766

Anagrams

Zilch Vet Sunk
Zincs Vet Hulk
Zinc Vets Hulk
Zinc Vest Hulk
Zinc Vet Hulks


Via

How would an unlimited airline ticket change your life?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0506-golden-ticket-20120506,0,3094073,full.story

reads to /bin will hit the disk only once every month or so

Blows my mind:

Then there is the frequency with which you reboot your computer. It's true every item must be read at least once, but, with enough RAM, it's read only once per boot - if you keep your machine on for a month at at time, reads to /bin will hit the disk only once every month or so. Disk writes can be trickier, since waiting for the physical write may halt the thread for a while, but, unless you specify writes to be synchronous, there is no reason not to trust the OS with the data and let it flush the cache when it's more convenient. And subsequent reads to the data you wrote won't hit the disk again until the memory is needed for something else. Reads from RAM are still orders of magnitude faster than reads from disk.

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Wolfenstein 3D in a web browser

http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game_NA.php

150 for $20

How we serve 150 free lunches for less than 20 cents each using homebrew equipment
http://izbicki.me/blog/how-i-serve-150-free-lunches-for-less-than-20-cents-each-using-homebrew-equipment

Crushing kibble

Blender

Scissors

Plastic cutting board + book

Plastic wrap

Introverts

YES

"A mountain of studies has shown that face-to-face brainstorming and teamwork often lead to inferior decisionmaking. That’s because social dynamics lead groups astray; they coalesce around the loudest extrovert’s most confidently asserted idea, no matter how daft it might be."

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/03/st_thompson_introvert/

Movie: Last call at the oasis

The "Hoover Dam...will stop generating electricity in four years if water levels continue to fall at current rates." o_O

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/03/151471280/for-americans-water-its-last-call-at-the-oasis

Trailer #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LSUyrF3p-s

UC-Davis Sword and sandals secret society: lamest ever?

Lamest looking secret society meeting ever:

http://daviswiki.org/Sword_and_Sandals?action=Files&do=view&target=IMG_1245.jpg

Via: http://daviswiki.org/Sword_and_Sandals

Davis apartments

The very first line: "Apartments are things in which most non-freshman students live (except engineering students, who live in Kemper Hall)."

Possible locations in Davis:

Cranbrook apartments
http://daviswiki.org/Cranbrook_Apartments

Hanover apartments
http://daviswiki.org/Hanover_Place_Apartments

Aspen Village
Silverstone Apartment Homes
Arbors
Alder Ridge Apartments
La Salle Apartments
Sacramento:

The Lofts at Natomas
Medici Apartment Homes
Heritage Park Apartments
Regatta Apartments