The Stranger on Your Train's Blog

Judice falls in love “with my by myself”

strangeronyourtrain — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:17:26 +0000

Finger Lakes sisters chorus: Sisters always stick together, even when they fall in love.
Janice: Like with my boyfriend.
Holly: With my husband.
Nora: With my fiancé.
Judice: With my by myself.

My latest obsession is Judice, the large-foreheaded sister from the Finger Lakes featured in “The Lawrence Welk Show” on Saturday Night Live. The full episode from which I grabbed this quote is on Hulu.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: judice, lawrence welk, quote, saturday night live, snl, the lawrence welk show, with my by myself

Mobile Technology and Creativity

strangeronyourtrain — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:52:58 +0000

My first smartphone was a BlackBerry Curve 8330. It changed my life dramatically. Suddenly I could take photos whenever I wished—and that was pretty much all the time, to the annoyance of my friends—and I could look up anything, anytime.

Once I attended a lecture at a comics convention in Olympia, WA, and I felt kinda bored—so I busted out my phone and read part of an e-book (which I never finished and probably never will).

My next phone was an HTC Droid Eris, running Android OS 1.5. Switching to a touch-screen interface proved challenging and rewarding, and it occupied a lot of my attention.

After that was a Motorola Droid X.

I haven’t produced much, like, art stuff since I’ve been using smartphones. All the time on buses, trains, and planes that I used to spend writing and drawing, I now spend messing around on my phone. And yeah, I write and take photos and make drawings with my phone, but most of my time goes to playing with different apps and figuring out which ones are best for certain situations.

Ultimately, I don’t make choices anymore; I just play with them.

Filed under: My Life Tagged: android, blackberry, creativity, mobile phone, smartphone

On being 26 now and having once been a perverted child.

strangeronyourtrain — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 06:27:09 +0000

Anyone who reads this will surely notice the lack of posts this year.

Well, okay—I noticed.

Whatever.

I kinda have a real job now, in that I have to fill out tax-related stuff. It’s a pretty nice position, and it’s Web-related. So that’s great, but my motivation for other pursuits has been ebbing more than flowing.

In my parents’ garage, I recently recovered some of my childhood writings. They might contain my lost creativity… so I should probably eat them, right?

2nd-Grade Journal, v.01

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Tush and Vujyna at Home

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Home is Where the Vampires Roam

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Filed under: My Life Tagged: art, childhood, children's art, children's writing, journal, storybook, tush, vagina, vampires, writing

Nüns is dead.

strangeronyourtrain — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:28:18 +0000

Nüns is dead.

Filed under: My Life Tagged: nüns

RoadMart Infomercial

strangeronyourtrain — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:28:48 +0000

RoadMart: snazzy products for Greyhound bus travelers.

Produced in collaboration with my friend Beth.

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Beavis and Daria’s Secret Love Affair

strangeronyourtrain — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:25:14 +0000

Daria chases some tongue.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: animated gif, beavis, beavis and butthead, daria, kissing, love, love affair, making out, mtv, romance, sex, tongue

More cacophonic ringtones

strangeronyourtrain — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:52:01 +0000

I made these phone-themed sound sample thingamajigs shortly after I made the ones in the previous post, which was back in July. This set is more nuanced (if you can call it that) than the last one, as I targeted each track to a specific phone call situation. The tracks in my previous post were just song clips. I hope people who find this page will actually use these as custom ringtones for calls from their boss, ex, parents, etc. That would be funny, I think.
Ringtones, Set #2 by _______asidewalk

Filed under: My Life Tagged: audio processing, dissonance, mobile phone, noise, pop music, ringtones, sound exchange, sound samples

San Francisco

strangeronyourtrain — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:52:04 +0000

Hey, the video’s gone! Aw.

Filed under: My Life Tagged: car, city, driving, mobile phone, passenger, san Francisco, video

Ringtones

strangeronyourtrain — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:57:00 +0000

I made some clips into ringtones just for fun. Download them if you wish.
Ringtones by _______asidewalk

Filed under: My Life Tagged: audio processing, backstreet boys, bleeding love, body language, bog people, dear god i hate myself, imogen heap, jesse mccartney, leona lewis, mariah carey, noise, ringtones, sound exchange, soundcloud, sox, touch my body, xiu xiu

Prediction

strangeronyourtrain — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:24:46 +0000

In the future: brain chips/streaming soundtracks/share your stream with others via some Bluetooth-like, proximity-based mechanism. Remote, real-time sharing possible through psychic transfer protocol (tangent: personal ID codes consolidate/obviate need for social security numbers and IP addresses?). Soundtrack streaming good for jazz on moonlit date.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: brain chip, future, mental soundtrack, p2p, personal soundtrack, prediction, psychic protocol, social media, social soundtracks, soundtrack sharing, technology

Ruji’s Video Résumé

strangeronyourtrain — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:29:29 +0000

This is my video résumé. Audience beware: you might find yourself compulsively hiring me after viewing this.

Organist: Osha Johnson
Cat: Mona
Ruji: Me

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Matrix Wealth Systems Calling Natalya

strangeronyourtrain — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:50:35 +0000

This video is is is is is alt control alt control alt delete space (um) WOAAHHHH-OHHH-OHHHHH-oh-OHHH.

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New hobby: taking photos of ATM screen animations

strangeronyourtrain — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:02:10 +0000

…and turning them into GIF animations.

Filed under: My Life Tagged: animated gif, animation, atm, atm screen, automated teller machines, card, cheesiness, color quantization, dither, dithering, floyd-steinberg, gif, gif animation, gifsicle, imagemagick, replication, slot

I have no shame about my software addiction.

strangeronyourtrain — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:16:38 +0000

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: addicton, computer addiction, software, software addiction, wakoopa, wakoopa tracker

I’m so absent-minded that I tore open the bottom of this cereal bag despite “tear off here” clearly printed above zipper at top.

strangeronyourtrain — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:05:32 +0000

cereal, absent-minded

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Frankencamera

strangeronyourtrain — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:55:36 +0000

Stanford has developed an open-source camera that could “revolutionize digital photography.” All aspects of the camera are programmable. It has Internet access and runs Linux!

Checkitout:
Open-source camera could revolutionize photography

Posted in Interesting Stuffs Tagged: camera, frankencamera, linux, open source, photography, stanford

The Future of Documents

strangeronyourtrain — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:41:33 +0000

This blog has the most boring title ever as well as the most boring page design ever:
The Future of Documents

If boring could be screamed, this blog’s title and page design would scream boring. (And look at the guy’s face. Duuuude. C’mon.)

But ya know what? Oh, it’s somethin’ about, just somethin’ about the way [it] moves/I can’t figure it out/There’s somethin’ about [iiiiiit]/’Cause [docs] walk like a boss, talk like a boss, manicured nails, just set the pedicure off [...]

As in: I like this blog.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: documents, future

regina

strangeronyourtrain — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:30:34 +0000

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house mouse_

strangeronyourtrain — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:16:42 +0000

I read the phrase “mouse support,” and just at that moment, I saw a small dark thing scurry across my living room floor past the fireplace. I didn’t think it could truly be THAT–for when is life ever so eloquent? But the scurrying thing turned around and again scurried past the fireplace, and it paused just long enough for me to think just hard enough, and then it retraced its initial beeline to some place behind the couch. And surely now I’m sure that it was a mouse (the first I’ve ever seen in my house).

The Stranger on Your Train's Blog

Judice falls in love “with my by myself”

Mobile Technology and Creativity

On being 26 now and having once been a perverted child.

Nüns is dead.

RoadMart Infomercial

Beavis and Daria’s Secret Love Affair

More cacophonic ringtones

San Francisco

Ringtones

Prediction

Ruji’s Video Résumé

Matrix Wealth Systems Calling Natalya

New hobby: taking photos of ATM screen animations

I have no shame about my software addiction.

I’m so absent-minded that I tore open the bottom of this cereal bag despite “tear off here” clearly printed above zipper at top.

Frankencamera

The Future of Documents

regina

house mouse_

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