Progress in audio localization

January 16, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

So years ago in grad school at UNM, I worked on audio localization. My work was on the idea of doing the convolution (applying the filter to the audio) in the wavelet domain, to extend the results from a phd student in the group. My results were poor, read about them on this page. Then […]

Infrastructure

January 12, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Highway 805, and they ran the high-tension lines under: Some clever engineering there.

Shake your bootie

January 5, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’m a fan of musical mashups, which often have clever superpositions of melody and counterpoint in them. Or just be catchy. Or good to sing/dance/drive to. The ‘Best of Bootie‘ annual is a great place to go, with free downloads of singles and full mixes. The 2018 disc just dropped and I’m enjoying it now. […]

The power of rage

January 5, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The plain fact of the matter is that for a lot of Americans, life simply sucks and isn’t getting better. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-warren-2020-presidential-run-beto-biden-bernie_us_5c2a9683e4b08aaf7a93090f?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067&ec_carp=2982874089032511906 An interesting and worthwhile read, found via LGM.

F and E Buckles and Bands closing sale

January 5, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

One of my go-to shops for watch bands is the inexpensive F&E Bands. I got the email today that they are closing: My customers,I have decided to get out of the watch strap business for good. I must liquidate my inventory before I close. In order to do this, I am having a closing sale. […]

What I like

January 3, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’ve come full circle on quartz as I transition from watch geek/writer into ‘person who needs a good watch’.

Three good things

January 1, 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

I had a good Christmas and wanted to share! First off, a Kickstarter that delivered on time, a really good Raspberry Pi case, the Argon ONE: Here’s the back, showing the magnetic GPIO cover and rearranged port layout. Simple, clean and elegant. You can get one via their Kickstarter page. It adds a shutdown/reboot circuit, […]