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Welcome to warp zone

Monday, August 17, 2009

When I was a kid I played a lot, and I mean a lot, of Super Mario Bros. My grandpa once asked me to explain the game to him after he’d watched me play it for the nine thousandth hour. I tried hard and couldn’t do it. There’s a lot that defies intuition. Like how [...]

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Jimi Hendrix, electronic musician

Monday, July 6, 2009

People had been playing electric guitar for decades before Jimi Hendrix. Mostly it had been used as a louder, less effortful version of the acoustic guitar. Jimi was one of the first to think of the guitar amp as a musical instrument unto itself, an early analog synth, with the guitar as a very sophisticated [...]

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The more I learn about electricity, the less I understand it

Thursday, February 19, 2009

There’s an episode of Family Guy where they go to the science museum, and under a banner reading ‘The Miracle Of Electricity’ is an old man turning an ordinary household lamp on and off. When he sees the crowd staring at him, he says, “What? You don’t think this is a miracle? When I saw [...]

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