http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog Science and engineering in the public interest Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:12:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's the trick: record in quad. In Audacity, invert either the front or the rear track. What happens is that the ambient noise which hits all four mics about equally is significantly subtracted out, leaving the voices (which are significantly different between front and rear mics) synchronize out. Works really well, I was ... http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/cooltools/zoom-h2-quadraphonic-four-microphone-four-track-audio-interview-recording-trick-723 http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topic/show?id=2097821%3ATopic%3A1766 20 minutes, audio only, discussion about the global swadeshi ideal, global capitalism, and long term futures. Great stuff. http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/global-swadeshi-dialogs-steinn-e-sigur%c3%b0arson-of-fsfi-722 see http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topic/show?id=2097821%3ATopic%3A1761 This one is actually quite nice to watch :-) which makes a nice change. http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/new-global-swadeshi-dialog-mark-charmer-of-akvo-and-chris-watkins-of-appropedia-721 I gave ten years to sharpening the axe and weaving the noose I learned to wait with patience while the cogs of life spun to my desired settings You must treat the mind as a body to be cultured before climbing into space the delicate coordination of extraordinary and mundane is the key to opening life as heaven ========================= I don't write much about meditation. ... http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/five-verses-on-training-the-mind-720 Shows roughly how the infrastructure works in a modern society. It's the "general case" - to really get the detail down requires configuring the diagram for a specific place and time, but I think the rapid overview picture is still extremely useful. A work in progress. Five things on the chart. 1> Six ... http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/global-systems-mapping-2-719 Post moved. Please see http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/global-systems-mapping-2-719 http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/global-systems-mapping-716 The commercial hexayurt will live here. http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/progressive-building-solutions-site-now-live-713 Founder of the Hare Krishnas - surprisingly clear and lucid and direct. No mention (so far) of chanting Gournanga and being Happy. I'd never seen any of his material directly, only filtered by the organization, and he's more impressive than they make him look. http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/surprising-712 So here's what I did. 1> Copy Gizmo.App to Gizmo copy.App 2> Run Gizmo copy.App After months of "Starting Agent" hanging, it Just Works. I have no idea why this is the case, but I picked up the idea from one of the forum posts, and it seemed to do the trick. http://forums.gizmo5.com/viewtopic.php?p=20101&sid=1b01b8d709adb13007829ee7f81c4f1c http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/os-x/gizmo-project-on-os-x-starting-agent-problem-fixed-711 Had some problems with the video, now all resolved, thankfully. Enjoy, it's a corker! http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/global/global-swadeshi-dialogs-smari-mccarthy-of-the-icelandic-fab-labs-project-710