collaborative filtering

wow what a phrase. my new favorite phrase. collaborative filtering. it's already how you experience the internet.

a group of people filter out bad information and identify and highlight the good information. this is how certain forums get their value.

looking for something? someone's found it for you and wants you to know.

-inspired by the nytimes article Netflix Competitors Learn the Power of Teamwork

the truman, i mean the marbury show

stephon marbury is my new favorite person. because he's amazing.

"Going bald at 19 is not sexy. Its not the jump-off."

after the 24 hour ustream thing he then did a nother justin.tv thing.

he's at justin.tv/starburytv

it's like the truman show! except it's the marbury show!

it looks like he's gonna be on the web until he signs a new contract! and if he doesnt? well, i guess we have a lot to look forward to

here's the 24 hour transcript with some good quotes -- marbury 24hr transcript | nba musings

i'll let you find the other links. yeah stephon! taking the internet by storm.

have words will travel

must...play...basketball...outside...now

"take me somewhere"

-The Visioneers (2008)

and here are somerville farmers markets

yo

yo, this whole thing with Prof. Gates sucks. and it happened with my police department. what a mess. it's on front cover of nytimes? jeez.

nother cool album cover to lighten the mood.

pouring rain

raining pour

random cool album cover

hi

hi how are you? i can't really talk, so we'll have to catch each other sometime soon.

here's a funny photo that's joking about the boston college quarterback situation. haha very funny, but who's actually gonna be the quarterback? will bc win any games? time will tell.

yah. everything's good. weather hasn't been so bad, i havent dropped any air conditioners on anyones head, haven't gotten any parking tickets, so i cant really complain.

so yeah, task at hand. gotta focus on the task at hand.

bonjour!

boating fail

someone get this guy a bailer

hey

hey im busy running around and stuff. weve put air conditioners in, but, like a fool, i brought my roommates up. now that hes put his in we run the risk of tripping the breaker (the electric wiring in this old apt is horrible, and ive had to go reset the breaker box many times)

here are all the cambrige farmers markets. what an exciting screenshot. i got a dozen eggs in central sq today. im gonna try 3 of them tmrw. am very excited. cya

NS 8 Flow 2

i saw unmistaken child today. it blew me away. i cried like 15 times. what a beautiful, stunning, pretty much unfathomable movie. wow.

and i wanna go back and see the hurt locker tmrw.

went to soulelujah. now my legs hurt.

here's the link for the trailer for unmistaken child. i'd recommend you see it if it's playing in your area. otherwise it's at the kendall sq cinema for the rest of the week.

Unmistaken Child

i'm slowly getting my words back, allow me to collect the alphabet

swami

the idea is to make it to the farmers markets, then the pool

oh yeah and i finally put in the air conditioner. i think this is a record for the latest date that ive had an air conditioner in my room. ahhh it feels nice tho

hey

hey i was out of town for a day im still getting caught up lemme get back to ya

yo

yo in 30 seconds here's how it went down -- 4th of july weekend was great. busy and fun and such. this past weekend was also terrific. busy and fun and friends.

tonight i went and saw dj rupture and dj c at enormous room. totally impromptu show. thank god i get the enormous room emails, otherwise i wouldnt have known about it. went with some friends, bumped into a friend, good times.

i got a question as to where i got these strange photos from (i've posted a couple more)

here's the answer -- Carlo Van de Roer. just click on portfolio then the aura portrait machine. don't ask me how i found this, cause i don't really recall. but the photos are awesome

yeah. so i didnt do weekend recaps the past couple weekends. but everything has been pretty fantastic. and today i sat in the sun (lil sunburn) and played basketball (lil sore).

i had my first real introduction to cumbia tonight, and it was so cool. i had listened to it a bunch but for the first time tonight i got to hear it loud and live. i'll try to dig up some more information about it.

cumbia es en mi alma!

and here we are

right here

note to self

when you have a large party and you expect there to be a lot of people in your kitchen, temporarily remove the knobs for the burners on your gas stove

also -- guys in Massachusetts have no style. sad but true sometimes. i was told this tonight, and had to share it.

hope you had a good one

-D

"What are you going to do about it? What are you ever going to do about anything?"

-sag harbor, p. 96

a fair trade booster seat

“I went back and it freaked me out,’’ the 39-year-old Brooklyn resident wrote. “Davis Square used to be a seedy area but a decent place to get a slice and a coke, or catch a game over a beer, but now appears to be a terrific place to sip a latte and, I don’t know, shop for a fair trade booster seat?’’

from On tiles, a story of gentrification

ya know those tiles in the davis sq t station? just as you enter on the side upstairs? even i remember those from taking the t as a teenager. pretty cool.

i guess that the tiles were created at a school, the Powderhouse Community School. i lived on powderhouse blvd right by tufts til i was 5. haha good work globe.

you can can also look at the projects web site, but it's crashed right now, due to extra traffic? who knows, but at least you can look at some more of the tiles on the background

The Davis Square Tiles Project

deriving meaning from quotes

how about this one -- "Never write if you can speak. Never speak if you can nod. And never nod if you can wink."

here's my version, adapted for the 21st century -- "Never email if you can talk. Never talk if you can smile. Never smile if you can hug."

or how about -- "Never email if you can chat. Never chat if you can talk. Never talk if you can smile."

whoa, i managed to make my two similarly meaningless (or not?). i'll leave it up to you

what does it mean to you? all that i can think about is how i prefer talking on my cellphone to texting. as in, id rather that you just call me instead of text. ya know what i mean? not that there's anything wrong with either one.

another thing it means to me -- never email or chat online or talk on the phone if you can talk to someone in person. it's that simple. hmm.

did i already post this album cover? i'm diggin it...

the death race

terrific nytimes article and video. you should definitely watch the video first. or not. but just make sure you watch the video cause it's pretty good.

the death race is a ridiculous "race" set up in vermont where only a small percentage of people actually finish. there's a lot of barbed wire and problems and stuff. really entertaining.

i dont think i could ever do something like this. or maybe i could. but it looks really, really hard.

that being said, anyone wanna get in shape with me and try it next year? could be one of the biggest regrets of our lives! haha jk.

the two winners this year were marines, one american and one british. no way am i anywhere close to being as fit or tough or these guys. it's inspiring tho! you gotta be a little nuts to do this thing...

Pushing the Limit -- You Created It, Tough Guy. So Let’s See You Finish It.

PANIC - The Zebra mussel has arrived in massachusetts

the sky is falling. massachusetts will never be the same...

THE ZEBRA MUSSEL HAS ARRIVED

im only half kidding. these suckers are like kudzu. they've made lives miserable for a lotttttt of people

Invasive mussel found in Bay State lake

shoot. hopefully they can get rid of these buggers.

facebook status of the day

" In a few minutes, it'll be 12:34:56 07/08/09!"

makes me wanna listen to bruce willis

Nov 18th

lyrics from "Nov 18th" by Drake.

"I swear like everytime we find ourself in this situation
I just get that feeling like I mean Houston candy paint switching colors in the light it's about like 11 p.m.
And you just roaming through the city
Bumpin' that screw
Big Mo,UGK,Lil Keke"

yo dave where's the content

oops, let me, here it is, right...over...here

ahhh there it is i found it it was in the corner

hmmmmmm content content content content

the rain

does not go away

rain go away

“Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.” – Sir Terry Pratchett

where ya headed tonite...where you goin?

Happy 4th of July everyone!

yayyyy the sun is out!

trivia question for the day -- do they have a 4th of july in scotland?

answer -- yes. it comes after July 3rd and before July 5th :)

couple links -- article about twitter and sports and stuff, good globe analysis Keeping you posted

crazy video of the robot doctor helping ppl out, pretty cool -- Hospital robot helps doctors treat distant patients

have good celebrations everyone, peace

cambridge dance party tubes

i've come to peace with twitter

ok i'm not hostile towards twitter any more. it still symbolizes two things to me

1. the death of writing. it's now a special pleasure to read something written by someone that is not in txt form. actually writing something legible has just become a very rare and important thing. i really think this is a shift change in our culture. just look at me! -- i don't even capitalize anything! everyone is affected -- once you start txting and twittering you lose a sort of formality with language (granted, this is possibly a good and bad thing)

2. the ease of blogging. we call it twittering or tweeting, but it's just blogging. i actually think that's kinda cool. if ppl want to maintain a website from their phone, then more power to them. of course it's just one more thing that adds to us being so busy and overwhelmed with technology all the time, but i think that learning from using computers is one of the most important skills in the world today, and using twitter can actually be productive, so i back it.

sun is shining

in my imagination. rain pervades.

i'm swimming in a pool in california. it's 80 degrees. in my imagination...

quiet beeps

"I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever."

- Daniel Webster, 1830

the new mount kimbie ep is called "Sketch On Glass"

here's a review. watch out.

we ride

so i think this website has been submitted to search engines and stuff. bout to blow up. are search engines finding me now? who knows. will this website ever help someone wanting to find something via a search engine? who knows.

well lets see. i can attract search engine traffic. here let me list some keywords. britney spears. michael jackson. there that should do it.

or heck, let's throw in a couple more, see if we can really bring in that traffic -- cuttlefish, vacuums, wyomimg, quantum mechanics, trampolines, fighter jets. there that should be good. all those random keywords might get picked up my some search engine crawler.

but i dont want to get in trouble for using bad methods to drive traffic to my website. so yeah, lets pretend that this blog is about cuttlefish, vacuums, wyoming, quantum mechanics, trampolines, and fighter jets.

it has been all along

here's the first photo i took at the starkey show. it's of a different dj but still pretty cool.

now it looks fine tho

k nevermind

these photos are from sf tweed, you get the idea

"On my flag got red and blue.
Yes I said it red and blue."

my blog ain't loadin right in firefox

looks messed up. might have to switch templates.

firefox 3.5 is pretty excellent tho. finally, a decent web browser. it only took til 2009.

when i drop my cellphone on the ground

when i accidentally drop my cellphone on the ground or elbow it off a table in my room, it harmlessly falls to the ground. there's a case on it. it doesnt break. like an iphone. the screen stays intact. thank goodness.

friday night was the cambridge dance party. i wouldnt have made it if jeff hadnt tipped me off about it. i went last year after finding out about it on boston.com, pretty much outta nowhere. i relied on chance this year too, and thankfully made it.

it was madness. i swear everyone shows up to this thing. more ppl than you can imagine. they close down a part of mass ave, get a professional soundsystem, all these crazy lights, its awesome. there are 4 huge speaker stanchions (ooooh good word, almost as good as evince), images projected on city hall, a dj booth, etc.

i showed up after 9 or something, the guy played michael jackson the whole time, which was pretty awesome, and a fitting tribute. it's sad that he passed, but it was good that we celebrated his life and music.

so yeah, there were more young ppl out in the middle of the street than at anywhere else in greater boston from about 7-11pm on friday night. they have to shut it down at 11pm cause there's a senior center right there.

i showed up with matt and adam, we danced a bunch, watched some breakdancing, sang along, watched it rain, watched the rain miraculously disappear, etc. there are 3 youtube videos that ill post in case you want to check it out some more

later!

"trying to think of LL lines in the back of my head"

rap lyrics again. this might become a theme.

i went and saw Starkey at goodlife bar in boston on wednesday night. the starkbot. the starkbass. the man of seclusiasis. the man from illadelphia. the legend from mary anne hobbs's generation bass show.

going in, i knew that the bar was high. this show had the potential to be better than the Caspa show that i saw last year, but it would be a tall order.

the winner? Starkey, by a nose. or a record. or a laptop. no matter -- he killed it. dropped exclusive tunes, got on the mic, got the crowd fired up, played straight for an hour and a half, very high energy. had the place thumping.

though it was raining, a good crowd showed up. rowdy and loud and amped. i took some photos that ill post later. here's the terrible flyer (not just my opinion, the boston dubstep djs felt the same way).

it was Starkey's first show in Boston, so we had to show him how we get down. i screamed a lot. i tried not to elbow anyone. a speaker blew out suddenly but came back to life, Starkey accidentally shut off his system at one point, but it was an amazing set with many highlights.

i talked to dj alex incyde for a while. we talked about hotflush recordings (the label he works on), online publishing, the north shore, nyc, sub.fm, bedroom broadcasting, etc. dj pandai'a dropped a brand new mount kimbie tune. incredible.

here's the link for hotflush. they've gotten a lot of attention with mount kimbie. i really feel that mount kimbie is revolutionary and making their own sound.

Hotflush Recordings

i'm very lucky to live in boston where i get to see some of the best dubstep djs in the world, though Starkey says that he plays "street bass." his gutter music is chock full of thick bass and big beats. a night i wont forget

davesplat.com

it's official -- i've registered a domain. which you might ask? what else...

davesplat.com

it's been fun doing this blog and having ppl read it. i wanna give a shoutout to the top readers/non creepers -- you know who you are. i'd post your names but i'm actually not even entirely sure who reads this anymore.

please support me by commenting, emailing, etc. i actually have an email address @davesplat.com now, but i dont feel like putting it on the blog. so, if you dont have my email address and want to get in touch with me, please just post a comment.

thanks yall. couldn't have done it without you (oh yeah and im allowed to feel particularly good about maintaining a blog and not letting it die because now you all have twitter and i cant even understand what's going with all the @'s and stuff. it doesnt make any sense. but please keep it up, cause ive started checking yall out.)

this blog is a creative outlet for me, it lets me be weird, and it helps to have a responsive audience. so crush me, cause it's the best kind of motivation

and in the spirit of randomness, here's the first google image result for davesplat. this is not me, but it's still a dave, and he's still a splat.

peace

-d

there was a soccer game yesterday

one team lost. one team won. i may write about it later, but i just read a couple terrible writeups about the game, so i'm just gonna let us all enjoy the moment for a bit before i chime in. best to just criticize bad sports writing rather than produce your own.

misteeryus

party all dudes party jake party bens. sleep sleep back to sleep. rain rain mist rain. humid humid sticky.

and when we left, and it was all, i had to go, on my way, i was just, it was good, 9:48, out of bed, catching up on, whenever, show up at, on our way, hi im, here take, do you want, man im, you guys got, with, lets, whatup, hi!, take this, i cant, i need to, my knees, the loudest, what time, its late, thanks for, still, just, make us wait, all over you, rewire, me in, stay, after dinner, in front, water, good job, to think, look tired, comin from, out.

life is a game of chance of precipitation

haha! had to get that one out there

also, Mr. Kanye West has taken over Mr. 6Blocc as my favorite artist. i realized that last night. kanye is ahead of everyone. i really feel like he's always ahead of the game, ahead of the media, ahead of entertainment, ahead of everyone else. he's ahead of new york, he's ahead of la, etc. not sure if that makes much sense.

but if you listen to him its like he's from the future. fast forward.

the hollow tree

rainbow-colored raindrops cling to branches and plop in myriad hues on forest floor.

the edges of numbers become fractals when magnified.

beat matching blends dual vibrations into a shimmering thump.

Let me- Let me- Let me talk to ya

here's a great photo of Rena and Jed getting married. and there's Gabe, marrying them, as a justice of the peace of the great state of Vermont. what a beautiful photo.

im still not feelin 100 percent, weather is muggy, but at least it isnt raining nonstop. went to atwoods and sox game tonight with family, good times. dice k is struggling tho. totally cause he did the world baseball classic

oh well. at least letting daisuke win the world baseball classic for Japan made a lot of people in japan happy. like, millions of people. i guess thats cool. theyre down with boston.

I- I- I talk that

illllllness

i'm illlllllllll.

i'm a little sick, not feeling so great. just fighting something, im not in rough shape or anything, im starting to sound a lil like a frog tho.

kg and big baby will get me amped and help me kick this thing

bluegrass at the cantab and way too many links

went and saw bluegrass at the cantab with arthur last night and some friends. bumped into some friends on the way out. arthur made dinner. amazing. a great night for which i thanked him.

i have a bunch of stuff that ive been saving (slash starring emails that i send to myself for later posting). i dono why i hold on to these things for so long then finally put them up months later. but better late than never

first, go check out Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds. you just enter in an address or some text and it abstracts it and colors the words and stuff. i did one for my blog but it wasnt very exciting, but ill try it again and post the image.

second, enjoy this link One Greg Oden, 365 Days Project. this professional photographer took a photo every day with a greg oden action figure. the captions are amazing. i really really liked this one. found it via 365 days with an inanimate Greg Oden

third, pure fun silliness - Dickensurl.com. enter in a URL and it "shortens" it with a dickens quote. just tried it with my blog address and got this http://dickensurl.com/b0c4/Oh_gracious_why_wasnt_I_born_old_and_ugly. you know those url shortening things? i like this more than bitly or whatever the other ones are :)

fourth, very sad but necessary link - AP poll: Most students stressed, some depressed. it's a long article and not very exciting, but the gist is that an enormous percentage of college students are depressed. plain and simple. like, hundreds of thousands of kids it has to be. makes you wonder what kind of resources are available to them on campus, and how easy it is for them to ask for/get help

some more quick ones: Over the Wall - Abstract City Blog (artsy rendition of the berlin wall, its good to not forget about stuff like this)

Some Thoughts on the Lost Art of Reading Aloud. i use the tagline "a blog to be read aloud" because i think it's kind of funny, and because my Dad used to tell me to read stuff like poetry aloud, that it's the only way it can really be understood. i can't really state anything unequivocal about reading aloud, because i honestly dont do it that much and i dont read enough poetry, but its something to keep in mind

that's it for now. i hate to overwhelm, but this is the only way to post some stuff that impressed me. phew, im out of breath.

cya

I have to admit i love the title

a new poem by Rena Mosteirin (thanks again!).
originally posted on White Whale Crossing


I have to admit i love the title

(a poem composed of fragments of Davesplat)


First of all, ladies and gentleman,
these boats have like 12 people on them

and they're on the ocean for days and weeks at a time
and there's like no space (the T was crowded but bearable)

and the captain was from Winchester too, believe it or not. Massachusetts.
(Get this -- the coxswain is from Winchester!)

Some guy who just wanted to shoot jump shots with me
went and got his shoes.
A good day (except the celtics lost, we're not gonna talk about it)

and i sound nothing like Yeezy.
This song rules.

There was an enormous oil tanker right in the middle of it all,
make it your desktop and you'll be able to get through the offseason.