Dan Birchall

(Also Agandi, anyeong haseyo, a salaam alaikum, bonjour, buongiorno, guten tag, hai, hallo, halò, hei, hej, hello, hola, jambo, kia ora, kia orana, konnichiwa, lei ho, mabuhay, merhaba, namaste, ni hao, nuqneH, ola, oly'otya, privyet and talofa.)

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I  DECLINE  roughly 99% of all invitations I receive on Multiply, because: 99% of all invitations I receive are from people I don't know. Multiply's Terms of Service prohibit asking people you don't know to add you. I don't want to... more

Previous blog entries:
Dec 18	-	What distinguished the Rollins family, according to Daniel Webster
Nov 30	-	Just In: Everything I Do Causes Cancer.
Nov 22	-	I know almost nothing about almost nothing.
Dan's favorite blog entries:
Mar 22	-	Fine-Tuning the Social Network: Relationship Accuracy and Currency
Feb 1	-	How to have fun (and survive) lava hiking in Hawaii: 12 pointers.
Jul 15	-	Inexpensive Night Intervalometry with the Digital Rebel XT
Jul 28	-	Why I Want People to Join Multiply.

Yellowtail (1998-) by Golan Levin

An interesting little interactive "processing applet" - draw a squiggle and watch it go. :)

You can have up to 4 things going at once. To start over, just hit space.

Previous links:
Dec 20	-	Review - Windows XP
Dec 20	-	One Laptop Per Child
Nov 22	-	Nitin Sawhney - Human
Dan's favorite links:
Apr 2	-	zChocolat

Humanity

Each year, a few songs come out that I really like musically. Of those, there may be one or two that I also like lyrically. But even then, there are few songs that, on first listen, immediately make it onto my list of the great songs of all time.... more

Previous reviews:
Aug 18	-	Cafe Pesto
Aug 14	-	Noiseware
Aug 6	-	Ken's House of Pancakes

Night Shift

Start:	May 25, '08 6:30p
Location:	Hilo

Operating equipment for the Factory.

Upcoming events:
May 26	-	Night Shift
May 27	-	Night Shift
May 28	-	Night Shift

Sitarday Night

Nothing particularly unusual or ambitious - just a little ambient Indian-inspired piece I did in GarageBand a while ago. 6 minutes, MP3.

Generalized Rollup (my favorite food)

This is a flexible, frugal dish that my parents encountered in college, and have passed on to my generation. It's very filling and pretty cheap - three of us can have a meal or two for the cost of one fast-food "value meal" - so it's a good choice... more