http://melinthropy.org because sometimes you just need a little melinthropy Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:44:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just finished attending MWRC2010, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The presentations were all excellent. Below are the notes I took during the presentations, really for my own reference... Day One Archeopteryx @gilesgoatboy Ruby library for making music uses midi gem install midilib -- for files gem install midiator -- for live midi google giles ... http://melinthropy.org/2010/03/13/mountainwest-ruby-conf-2010-notes/ div.item {margin-top: 40px;} I recently moved from doing full-time Java & Oracle PL/SQL in a Windows environment (with Rails development in my free time) to doing full-time Rails development on Mac OS X.  This post lists a few helpful little tidbits that I've found along the way that I thought someone ... http://melinthropy.org/2009/08/08/web-development-tidbits-part-i/ My husband and I took the dogs for a walk in the snow this afternoon -- it was really coming down!  While we were having some hot chocolate afterwards, I started improvising a snowy day piece on the piano.  Here's what came out of it. I called it "Snowy Day". The ... http://melinthropy.org/2009/03/01/music-for-a-snowy-day/ I bought the new iLife when it came out, mainly so that I could try out the new GarageBand.  Sure, it has some other cool features, such as the auto face recognition in iPhoto, but I don't take that many pictures, so I haven't played with it much.  Anyways, one ... http://melinthropy.org/2009/02/22/garage-band-artist-lessons/ Yes, the marvels of modern science have concluded what was extremely obvious to the casual observer. My husband and I recently sent in a sample of our dog Doobie's DNA to BioPet to find out what the heck he is.  We got back the results a few days ago and we ... http://melinthropy.org/2009/01/01/dna-test-reveals-my-dog-is-a-mutt/ For Christmas, I asked my husband to get me an Arduino starter kit (specifically, this one from Hacktronics ) along with the book Getting Started with Arduino .  What is the Arduino?  Arduino is basically a little electronic board with input/output capability (meaning it can read from sensors - input, and ... http://melinthropy.org/2008/12/31/hello-arduino/ That's right, I'm seriously addicted to World of Goo .  I've been playing it for the last day or two or three straight.  (Yeah, I'm not sure what day it is.  Vacation rocks.)  Also, the irony is not lost on me that I'm sick and sneezing goo the whole time I'm ... http://melinthropy.org/2008/12/28/addicted-to-world-of-goo/ Incase you didn't already know, I am turning the BIG THREE-OH in a few weeks.  But I already got an early birthday present from my husband!  It's the melinthropy.org domain!  Yay! I think all of my friends have already turned 30, so I probably won't get any sympathy.  And anyways, I'm ... http://melinthropy.org/2008/05/11/early-birthday-present/ I ran across this video on youtube.  Check it out!  She types in a melody, and these machines that shoot balls into the air landing on a marimba, along with some wine glasses and percussion, improvise on it! [youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1e9AJVtuCKc] The really cool thing is you can actually go to the website here ... http://melinthropy.org/2008/04/02/absolut-ly-cool/ I just wanted to post this little  video I put together on Easter (filmed on The Flip!) that shows Bunny Cakes being assembled. But of course, I had to be difficult, and embed the video rather than posting a link (since I want to start using more video in ... http://melinthropy.org/2008/03/29/easter-bunny-cake/