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Price Gouging and Speculative Costs
Let's say you see a potential pandemic coming, and you produce a product that could be critical. Maybe you make respirator masks, maybe you make ventilators, maybe you make PCR test reagents. You can...
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Overhead of MessageChannel
The Channel Messaging API gives you a way to pass information asynchronously between different origins on the web, such as cross-origin iframes. Traditionally you would use window.postMessage(), but...
View ArticleApproaches to Electronic Contra
I've been thinking about the various ways that musicians have approached combining elements of electronic dance music with contra dance. Examples: Lisa Greenleaf, Concord 2008YDW 2008Asheville...
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs PS3 Review
Growing up we didn't have a video game system and I've never played very much, but a friend found that working from home was not compatible to having their PS3 around, so now we have theirs. I was...
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Building Toe Buttons
In controlling my rhythm stage setup I have been bringing instruments in and out by pressing buttons on my axis 49. It has plenty of buttons, but needing to press them with my fingers doesn't combine...
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Beantown Stomp 2020 Retrospective
It's a bit weird to be writing a retrospective for an event that didn't take place, but there was still a lot of planning and organizing, both before and after the decision to cancel. The week after...
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Authorities and Amateurs
People are writing a lot about the coronavirus, and I've seen a lot of pushback on how pieces often haven't been written by people with epidemiology or public health credentials. For example, Flatten...
View ArticleWhen to Donate Masks?
As people start coming into hospitals with the coronavirus, the number of masks we go through with standard protocols goes up enormously. These masks are normally single-use, and you put on a new mask...
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King and Princess
Sometimes Lily tells me that she is a princess and wants me to be the king. We'll sit together, me on the throne and her at my side, and we'll hear cases from our people. An imaginary petitioner...
View ArticleSeries Singing
Normally we sing in parallel, everyone at once. We're all in the same room, so the time from when you make a sound to when I hear it is very small compared to the speed at which we perceive music....
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It's Time To Stop Dancing
At this point it is likely that the coronavirus will spread widely, and the majority of people will get it. Still, it matters enormously whether we all get it at once, or over a longer period. This is...
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Stepping Up Isolation
I've been really impressed by the coronavirus response in my communities. People are cancelling gatherings, working from home, and generally trying their best to flatten the curve. Slowing down the...
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Making a Standing Desk
With it looking like I might need to remotely for a while I've been thinking about how to make that more ergonomic. There's no position where I can use a laptop for very long without hurting either my...
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Coming Back to Biking
For about a year and a half starting in September 2008, I rode my bike everywhere. I was very into it, in a retrogrouch way. Over time my knees started hurting so I stopped biking. I just tried coming...
View ArticleBleach
Update 2020-03-36: The CDC is recommending 1000 PPM for covid-19. Per quart of water this is 4 tsp of 5.5% bleach, or 1 tbsp of 8.6% bleach. Traditional chlorine bleach, appropriately diluted, can be...
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Covid-19: Things I'm Doing Differently
The coronavirus is now spreading through multiple communities, and while there isn't yet evidence of it in Boston I expect there will be soon. Because of the long incubation period and large testing...
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What Noise Does a Tambourine Make?
I recorded myself playing around with a tambourine, and I was somewhat surprised to see what it looked like: (mp3) I'm thinking of it as four notes, and I hear four notes, but there are really more...
View ArticleHoarding and Shortages
One of the main responses to yesterday's post on preparing for a potential quarantine was something like: Hoarding causes shortages. Leave masks for people that need them. Another commenter made a...
View ArticleStretching the Beat
Initially when I started playing around with having my rhythm setup subdivide the beat I went with a very simple division of four equal pieces. This works well for some things, but it is also a very...
View ArticleAssembling Sets for Contra
Contra dances usually run about eight minutes, which is really kind of long. [1] To keep things interesting, it's common for bands to play sets: a series of tunes that go together. But what does "go...
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