http://stephan.com/blog art media culture dance science mobile Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:48:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MobileGates has just published two more of my iPhone apps (links go directly to iTunes) mach zehnder modulator Simon Says Fart Simon Says Party Each is 99¢, and each is a memory sequence game like Simon, but with real sounds instead of abstract beeps. Multiplayer mode has you do a task, like a ... http://stephan.com/blog/2009/02/21/two-more-iphone-apps-simon-says-fart-and-simon-says-party/ [caption id="attachment_629" align="alignright" width="320" caption="FartMobile"][/caption]My employer, MobileGates, has just published my first three iPhone apps on the application store. (links go directly to iTunes) FartMobile BurpMobile SnoreMobile If you require farts or other such noises on your iPhone, you will find these apps exceptional samples of their genre. Each is a sound machine for the ... http://stephan.com/blog/2009/02/12/my-first-three-iphone-apps-fartmobile-snoremobile-burpmobile/ I started what I call a "microproject" at the end of January. It's a twitter stream called AppDuJour. AppDuJour brings you a single short review of a great iPhone app each day via Twitter. I looked around for something like it, but no one else seemed to be ... http://stephan.com/blog/2009/02/12/appdujour-my-new-%c2%b5project/ service Originally uploaded by StephanCom. Check out my photoset on Flickr to see how I made roast duckling and a lovely duck gravy. http://stephan.com/blog/2008/12/27/roast-duck-and-duck-gravy/ [caption id="attachment_617" align="alignright" width="230" caption="classimy.com"][/caption]I've been working on this site for a month, & I think it's ready to go live. There's still features to add, and there's surely massive flaming errors yet to come... http://classimy.com/ It's a classified ads site between Craig's List and eBay, focused on face to face ... http://stephan.com/blog/2008/12/05/classimycom/ I wanted to give my Ruby on Rails app a simple jQuery driven custom boolean field, styled as a lock for security purposes. You know, click on the lock and it opens, click on it again and it closes. Just like the lock there to the right - ... http://stephan.com/blog/2008/11/21/rails-custom-formbuilder-made-way-way-easy/ I need to start this off by saying that I did, in fact, vote against Proposition 8. A great many of my friends are gay, I support them with all of my heart, and fully understand why this means so much to them. But I feel like I ... http://stephan.com/blog/2008/11/19/why-proposition-8-is-actually-sort-of-ok-with-me/ Closeup Originally uploaded by StephanCom. Here's a short clip of me playing Harry Meade, Jr. in the 1981 film Take This Job and Shove It. This was shot in 1980 in Dubuque, Iowa, so I'd be 12 years old. My father is ... http://stephan.com/blog/2008/11/13/take_this_job_and_shove_it/ In the interest of saving money, breaking the cycle of eating fast food twice a day, and cleaning the detritus from my pantry, a couple of weeks ago, I decided to trim my grocery budget to ZERO and commit to eating whatever I had in the house until it runs ... http://stephan.com/blog/2008/10/29/stephans-invention-white-trash-risotto/ Not sure if anyone is still reading here, but I thought I'd mention that my (grand)father passed away a couple of hours ago. It's not a terrible shock - he's been declining for, years, really. For a long time he's been asking "why won't jesus take me?" and wanting to ... http://stephan.com/blog/2008/10/06/my-father-passed-away/ I got called for jury duty this week, got released yesterday, here's the description I wrote for my boss: [amazonify]1878125028:right[/amazonify]I got potentially picked for a jury, gang member with face tattoos, two counts (1) felony possession of firearm, (2) possession of marijuana with intent to sell. 36 brought in, 12 needed, ... http://stephan.com/blog/2008/09/27/re-jury-duty/ Whoever is out there reading: Did you know you can send mail TO Black Rock City? Send me a letter or something! My address for the next week is: [amazonify]0810992906:right[/amazonify] Cheruborg Destiny Lounge 2:00 Portal (near the plaza) c/o BRCPO Burning Man Gerlach, NV 89142 If I've got the postage, I'll even write you back! I'd ... http://stephan.com/blog/2008/08/24/send-me-mail-in-black-rock-city/ It's official! I've signed on with Destiny Lounge, practically on the Esplanade at 3:00 - I'd guess you'd call it "3:00 Portal". Come on by and enjoy lemonade and iced tea, try our games, Fling Of Destiny and Rock Your Balls, and enjoy music by Spirit Fire. Can't wait to ... http://stephan.com/blog/2008/08/21/on-the-playa-destiny-lounge-300-keyhole/ Finished Product Originally uploaded by StephanCom. I had planned this tattoo for over a year. Once I decided I wanted the Burning Man logo, I started hunting for the "correct" version, only to find out there wasn't one.So, I designed this ... http://stephan.com/blog/2008/08/12/my-first-tattoo/ While I confess to enjoying recreational drugs from time to time, aside from pot (which is, after all, legal medicine :) I use them only rarely and with a great deal of consideration and respect. This includes alcohol, quite possibly the worst of the lot in many ways. I've ... http://stephan.com/blog/2008/06/17/affirmation/ OMFG this is hilarious!!! [amazonify]B0009RCPUC:right[/amazonify] http://stephan.com/blog/2008/05/27/hitler-plans-burning-man/ [amazonify]0976694042:right[/amazonify] n = 1000 seive = (1..n).to_a 2.upto(Math.sqrt(n)) { |i| (i*2).step(n,i) { |x| seive[x] = nil } } p seive.compact see also wow looks like this guy has me beat (2..1000).inject((2..1000).to_a) {|res, i| res.select{|n|n==i||n%i!=0} } http://stephan.com/blog/2008/05/16/seive-of-erastothenes-in-ruby/ [amazonify]B000W7BHJY[/amazonify] Space filling surface Originally uploaded by StephanCom. Cleaning and test http://stephan.com/blog/2008/05/06/space-filling-surface/ [amazonify]B0002XIB1A[/amazonify][amazonify]0596000529[/amazonify] Mazolla Originally uploaded by StephanCom. http://stephan.com/blog/2008/03/10/mozilla-mazola/ I am not a scientologist. Let's begin there. I have never given money to the Church of Scientology, nor do I intend to. I can believe that a second-rate science fiction writer with a checkered past could come up with something useful. L. Ron Hubbard was plainly a smart man. I ... http://stephan.com/blog/2008/02/10/scientopologetics-re-anonymous/