the stuff in my head

The First Law of Sampling: The amount of sampling allowed, even with an agreement with the record company, is inversely proportionate to the amount of money that could be garnered by suing over the sample.

The Second Law of Sampling: The number of former managers, band members, and rights holders willing to sue over the smallest sample, even buried under layers of original instrumentation, is directly proportinate to the popularity of the song that contains the sample.

The Third Law of Sampling: If it goes to court, you’re probably screwed (and/or broke) whether you win or not.

The Fourth Law of Sampling: Even if you manage to settle out of court, you still may lose your livelihood, your band, and possibly your mind.

The First Law of Dealing with People Used to Making Money for the Rest of Their Lives for a 5 Minute Song They Created 20 Years Ago (and possibly did not even create, but merely purchased the rights to): They are a bunch of greedy, greedy people. Stay away from them, and don’t sample their songs under any circumstances, you’ll probably regret it.

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It’s a good thing we now have Creative Commons to bring some sanity to this mess!

For a few days last month, NickCiske.com (my personal site) had a bigger reach than BillyGraham.org (my former employer) according to Alexa.

Of course, as always, it’s all due to my binary converter.

I just finished writing a research paper entitled Comparing the Ethernet and Semaphores [PDF 100KB].

Here’s the absract:

Permutable technology and multicast algorithms have garnered improbable interest from both electrical engineers and statisticians in the last several years. In our research, we argue the construction of extreme programming. Although this is mostly a compelling mission, it has ample historical precendence. HURR, our new algorithm for atomic methodologies, is the solution to all of these problems.

It was exhausting, but I think my reasearch is a breakthrough in Ethernet Semaphore comparison.

OK, I didn’t really write a paper, I used SCIgen – An Automatic CS Paper Generator. You can write your own paper, in just a few clicks. Pretty cool stuff.

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It’s from 1999, but it’s still hilarious!

Some guy left the most unbelieveably funny feedback on Ebay.

You gotta check it out: andy46477

Andrea from Willow Communications (part of BGEA) says “A Day Without a Mexican” is a good movie and y’all should watch it.

That is all.

PS- This is a blog by proxy. A… bloxy? Is there a term for this?