http://www.taybin.com dubious thrills Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:10:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just wanted to announce my new music blog: http://www.quiet-too-quiet.com/ . It only has three posts, but since I've set it up so all mp3s I post are automatically deleted after two weeks, I figured I better actually announce it. I imagine it'll mostly be shoegaze and indie-pop. I'm ... http://www.taybin.com/2008/04/21/new-website/ I made a couple easter eggs. One of them almost looked animated: The other one featured a giant robot shooting lasers out of his head at a tank, soldier, helicopter, and jet bomber. (not pictured, the dude on a bmx bike sticker doing a wheelie behind the robot) http://www.taybin.com/2008/03/24/happy-easter/ On my recent vacation I bought a whole bunch of CDs at Amoeba in SF. Whole lotta indie-pop. Marine Research, Call and Response, Bishop Allen, Foundry Field Recordings, Cub, Beulah, Voxtrot.Anyways, Call and Response have this song "California in Floating in Space" which is perfect for this footage ... http://www.taybin.com/2007/10/09/santa-monica-floating-in-space/ Only got half-way through before I gave up. They dispense with Freud very early on, but then seemingly rehash his theories. Apparently everything I do is a reflection on how well my mother parented me as an infant and toddler. And I am destined to only be ... http://www.taybin.com/2007/09/03/review-a-general-theory-of-love/ with your click click click click camera. I just heard this song on a Music That Matters podcast and it's great. I had heard a couple Bishop Allen songs before, but nothing as super as this song. Didn't know they were local to Brooklyn either. Maybe I can ... http://www.taybin.com/2007/08/24/take-another-picture/ I've seen a lot of blog updates talking about the true cost of the iPhone, including the monthly fees. It comes to about $2000+ for two years. Which is true, and should be considered if you've never had a cell phone before. They should be subtracting the current fees ... http://www.taybin.com/2007/06/27/iphone-costs/ More photos Night 2: The Smittens were great. Bought their t-shirt and two albums. Night 3: Brown Spider Recluse. Bought their album. The Besties. Already had their album. My Teenage Stride. Bought the album. Ballboy. Scottish shoegaze. Bought three albums. The Ballet. They have a song about seducing someone with a ... http://www.taybin.com/2007/06/14/nyc-popfest-nights-2-3/ I had a great time last night at show 1 of NYC Popfest. Lots of great people and I took some great photos. More after the cut. Lispector. She seemed pretty cool. Kinda like The Blow. 4 year old boy. There was this little kid with a sword ... http://www.taybin.com/2007/05/25/nyc-popfest-2007-night-1/ I had a hard time finding a definitive statement on MacOS X memory alignment so I did my own tests. On 10.4/intel, both stack and heap memory is 16 byte aligned. So people porting software can stop looking for memalign() and posix_memalign(). It's not needed. http://www.taybin.com/2007/04/03/macos-x-memory-alignment/ This is an excerpt from a work in progress video project. I'm actually not going to use this footage, as much as I like it. I want to redo it in widescreen format. An HD video camera would also be nice, but HD for home movies is overkill ... http://www.taybin.com/2007/03/28/shadows-excerpt/