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The Beginning of Something BeautifulAugust 30 2008

Work in progress…this was actually an accident while trying to create something that will hopefully be much more badass. Stay tchuned!

Tendrils (make your own!)

Inspired by:
Like Spinning Plates (Live) - Radiohead

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Processing Hearts AIR While Merapi Lends a HandAugust 25 2008

As promised at my brief demo at 360|Flex San Jose last week, I’m now releasing the Merapi library for Processing.

Processing is a Java-variant built mostly for artists or for anyone who wants to create quick prototypes.

Merapi is an opensource Java library that gives access to Java from AIR - Adobe’s own OS-agnostic runtime (for the desktop, not a browser plugin) built around the Flash Player.

But most of you already knew that.

It’s really nothing too complicated (just wrapping the JAR file correctly), but it will make it a bit easier for you to get started with Merapi in Processing.

What to do:
1) Download Merapi Processing Lib Beta - Merapi is not being publicly released yet.
2) Wherever your actual Processing binary resides, you will find a folder called “libraries”. Unzip merapi.zip into this directory. (Your directory structure should be {ProcessingDir}/libraries/merapi/library/… which will contain all the necessary JAR files for Merapi.)
3) Open your Processing IDE (restart if it’s already open), go to the Menu->Sketch->Import Library->merapi. This will import the necessary packages, but there’s one last step before you’re in the clear. The way that Processing imports all of the packages becomes a bit troublesome. If you simply try to create an instance of the Merapi “Bridge” class, you will get a compile error. To resolve this… (See Step 4)
4) Change the import line import merapi.*” to “import merapi.Bridge;”

Also, Adam Flater whipped up this quick video demonstrating the Lego Mindstorm robot cruising around thanks to BluetoothJava/MerapiAIR.

Relocation ElationJune 30 2008

I moved to Denver. I live in Denver now. Here I am in Denver, just living, after my move.

I’m really looking forward to living here. I’ve been here for a couple of weeks, and I’ve already seen more natural beauty than ever before in my life. The mountains, the lakes, the parks, the people (SURPRISE! Women don’t have to wear makeup to be beautiful!).

Oklahoma was beginning to wear me out because I felt that I was around a lot of miserable people. I was surrounded by a lot of positivity as well, but for me, the majority just didn’t seem to want to be alive. It seems to be an oversimplification, but on my own personal level, I attribute this wet blanket to the weather…which is…a wet blanket. The summers are so hot and humid that it’s miserable to be outside for more than 30 minutes (unless you have a pool!) The winters are bitter and have very little excitement to offer…and people generally go nuts in the winter in Oklahoma (including me). I LOVE being outside, so summer and winter are just TORTURE in a place like that. Spring and Fall are, of course, beautiful, but it seems that Oklahoma doesn’t have those any more…just two long Seasons of Suck.

Pan to Denver, where the sun is always shinin’ and breeze is always blowin’…where you can drive an hour and be in the beautiful mountains…where you can find people embracing life everywhere, all day long…where most people seem to be happy to be alive, and treat you acc

RumiJune 4 2008

Love is reckless; not reason.
Reason seeks a profit.
Love comes on strong, consuming herself, unabashed.

Yet in the midst of suffering
Love proceeds like a millstone,
hard surfaced and straight-forward.

Having died to self-interest,
she risks everything and asks for nothing.
Love gambles away every gift God bestows.

Without cause God gave us Being;
without cause give it back again.
Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion.

Religion seeks grace and favor,
but those who gamble these away are God’s favorites,
for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.

LifeJune 3 2008

“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”
-Bumper Sticker

“The best things in life aren’t things.”
-Bumper Sticker

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
-Ekhart Tolle

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive…And then go, and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
-Harold Whitman