The Simpsons – Hungry Hungry Homer
Homer: Kids, how would you like to go to Blockoland?
Bart and Lisa: Meh.
Homer: But the TV gave me the impression that…
Bart: We said, “Meh”.
Lisa: M-E-H. Meh.
Author: daveg
Stencil Art
Hey, I like stencil art as much as the next guy (perhaps even more) and I have pretty much zero artistic ability, but don’t you think buying pre-made stencils is a tad lame?
And now the fun is over
Now I’m back at work. That ain’t so cool. But the fun stuff I got up to last week:
- Going to Tamarama beach on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the scorching heat
- Seeing hip Aussie twee-poppers Architecture in Helsinki at the Kirk in the Slurrry (oh how I wish that I got to see Man Jam there 😉 )
- Djing at Tonic in the Cross (seeing some random dude happily gurning to Recloose’s “Up and Up” put a big smile on my face and made it all worth it)
- Drinking way too much at my 10 year school reunion at the Coogee Bay Hotel
- Finally after all these years getting to see Kenny Larkin DJ in Sydney
When I get the chance, I’ll put some pictures up of AIH and Kenny Larkin.
Update: As always Rozie beat me to it and put up the photos of Kenny Larkin up on her gallery.
Frontier First Encounters under Linux
Running in the window (it can run in fullscreen mode as well) is the JJFFE version of David Braben’s Frontier First Encounters (Elite 3). The desktop is GNOME 2.8 under Ubuntu Linux 4.10 “The Warty Warthog”. Getting FFE to compile is a snap, but you’ll need to download the rest of the game files from the Elite Club.
Also worth checking out (if you can grab it) is Elite: The New Kind. Its a reverse engineered version of the BBC version of Elite. Unfortunately due to copyright issues, I probably shouldn’t link to anywhere the source is. If you manage to track it down, you can use my Makefile to compile it under Linux. One thing I’d love to be able to do (and can’t figure out if it can) is whether it can run in windowed mode. I fear that the now unavailable EliteGL source code might be the key to getting it going.
Hot in the City
Hmmm. First day of summer. I’m loving it. This week I’ve been lucky enough to be off from work, so there’s no need to be whinging about the temperature. I’ve been to the beach Sunday, twice yesterday (Tuesday) and today. This morning the water was warm. The previous days required a moment or two to adjust to the water, but today, damnnnn it was perfect! Yesterday afternoon and this morning I took my bodyboard out. Yesterday was fun with some decent but small waves out the back of Tamarama. This morning due to the high tide, there was only a dumpy shorebreak on offer which gave me a couple of decentish waves. Still great to get out in to the water though. And not be at work. I think I’ll have to do it again tomorrow and Friday as well. Perhaps if I have time, Saturday and Sunday. Back to work next Monday though. Booo!
Tonight, Architecture in Helsinki are playing at Spectrum in Darlinghurst (the old Lizard Lounge I think…) Apparently they’re also playing at the Kirk in the Slurry as well on Thursday. If I’ve got nothing better to, and if I enjoy them today, I guess I’ll go hit up that gig as well… after I’ve been to the beach of course.
Update:
For those Architecture in Helsinki fans who are in other states, they’re playing Sunday night (Dec 5th) in Brisbane at the Zoo, Thursday 9th December in Ballarat at the Karova Lounge and then Friday 10th December in Adelaide at Jive. They’ve already played Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle so far.
Burlesque
This Friday I’m playing down at Tonic in the Cross with Sleepy, Georgee and Hoarse. It’ll be a night of deeper grooves. Its free and things kick off at 8pm and go on into the early morn’ (or until we get kicked out or something).
Details:
DJ’s: Georgee, Hoarse, RZ-1 & Sleepy
Burlesque @ Tonic – 62-64 Kellet St, Kings Cross
Friday 3rd December 2004
8pm till late
Touring soon…
Here’s my picks for music coming up:
Jeff Mills – Thursday, November 18th @ home
The Church – Friday, November 26th @ The Rocks
Quantic Soul Orchestra – Saturday, November 27th @ The Gaelic Club
Captain Comatose – Saturday, November 27th @ Mad Racket
Architecture In Helsinki – Wednesday, December 1st @ Spectrum
Burlesque – Friday, December 3rd @ Tonic
Kenny Larkin – Saturday, December 4th @ Bohem
Cobra Killer – Saturday, December 11th @ Spectrum
Marc Newson Zvezdochka’s
For the DJ with everything
Popfrenzy: King Hit
After getting yet another venue shutdown, the Popfrenzy crew are back again with King Hit, their new indie night. Its on every Friday at Suzie Q’s on 169 Oxford street (next to the 24 hour newsagency) from this week. But hey, you knew that already?
Australian Rozie Idol
Rozie had been busting to go and see Australian Idol at the studio in North Ryde and on Sunday, thanks to a friend of her brother Jamie, she got her wish. It was funny watching my wife on TV 🙂 She had a great time. And she even managed to get her “Save The Vinyl!” banner on national TV.
New Kenny Larkin Dates for Australia
Phew. It looks like Kenny Larkin isn’t coming to Sydney this week. According to ITM, he’ll be in Australia in December.
Tour Dates:
Friday November 26th – Auckland (Morrison Nightclub)
Saturday November 27th – Wellington (Sandwhiches Nightclub)
Friday December 3rd – Melbourne (Public Office/Soma Corp)
Saturday December 4th – Sydney (Gas Nightclub)
Now there’s more time to enjoy the Southern Outpost Record Launch. And here’s an interview with Kenny from earlier in the year. And also interviews with Southern Outpost from 3D World and In The Mix
Happy Birthday BJ
Making sure I don’t wish BJ a happy birthday a month late this year, Happy Birthday BJ. I swear I remembered before I read the blog entry 😉
Meh… bloody horses…
Am I the only Australian who has a zero care factor in regards to the Melbourne Cup?
Audioscrobbler and Rhythmbox
With Ubuntu, the default media player is iTunes-alike rhythmbox. One thing it was missing was an Audioscrobbler plugin. Luckily there are two plugins available for it. Neither is offically available on the Audioscrobbler site. The first one rhythmlet, requires rhythmbox 0.8.6 or higher and gdesktlets, which personally I’ve never been a huge fan of. Luckily there is another plugin called rbscrobbler which is a lot more sane. It only requires a recent version of python and gnome python. The latest version is can be downloaded from here and the forum post for it on Audioscrobbler is over here
Ubuntu and Java update
Previously I documented how to get Java installed and running under Ubuntu Linux. That seemed to work OK for most Java applications, but the Mozilla plugins didn’t work. Apparently it had something to do with the gcc version that the packages were compiled with.
Luckily there is an alternate repository with java packages that do work with Mozilla. Add this into your /etc/apt/sources.list as per usual:
deb http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/debian ./
And then its apt-get install j2re1.4 to install
Kenny Larkin to play Sydney
Unfortunately its the same night as the Southern Outpost Launch party at High Jinks, but Kenny Larkin (aka Dark Comedy) will be playing at Bohem on Pitt St, Sydney on the 6th November (umm, this Saturday).
update: Grammar and dates corrected 😛
update: looks like the dates have been shifted to December
Aaaah!
Southern Outpost Record Launch at High Jinks
To celebrate the release of TWO RECORDS at one time (which is a record in itself), and our new distribution deal with Submerge, the reclusive people at Southern Outpost have decided to come out of the lab and wreak sensorial havoc upon those who grace us with their presence.
The night off with a live audio-visual experiment featuring Miss Memory and B.A.S.I.C
Live performance by the newest Southern Outpost member SOL-37
DJ sets by Miss Memory, k.loc, The Sentinel and Da Debonair.
Look out for a scathing yet (hopefully) enlightening interview with Miss Memory and k.loc in next weeks 3Dworld magazine.
ENTRY: FREE
WHERE: HIGH JINKS, SLY FOX HOTEL, ENMORE ROAD, ENMORE
WHEN: SAT 6TH NOVEMBER 2004
START: 7PM TIL THE LIGHTS COME UP
