My work is one of the most political environments I’ve ever set foot in. Smoke and mirrors, backstabbery, setting up other managers to take your fall and empire building are all daily events in the building. Well, today I had a set of magnets made as a tribute to middle management everywhere. I present to you my first work of magnetic commentary:
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| What Would Machiavelli Do? |
For those of you who don’t know, this is the esteemed Niccolò Machiavelli. A 16th century diplomat, political philosopher, musician, poet, playwright, author of The Prince, and all around political badass. Far and away, his most famous quote from The Prince is “It is best to be both feared and loved; however, if one cannot be both it is better to be feared than loved.”
Personally, I plan on giving these things out like candy. If your work happens to also be a political nightmare, you can get your own in the evilsoft store at cafe press.
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately working on various electronics projects, but for some reason I haven’t been posting the results. Well, I’ve decided to end that with my latest project. A bit over a month ago, I was reading Jonathan Guberman’s call for other people to join his project to make an RGB 40h monome clone. It looked like a lot of fun, so I decided to get in on his board order and join the project.
So after a few weekends of soldering, and lots of waiting for numerous part orders from digikey and sparkfun, I have gotten my Tinct (since dubbed Tinct 1) up and running about 7 days after Tinct 0 first bathed Jonathan in it’s cool LED glow. So, here it is, along with some other photos in my new flickr photo stream
Now I need to get crackin on making some useful command line utils for Tinct, as I’m on a linux box, and the vast majority of the software for monome appears to be for the proprietary Max/MSP environment, which does not run on linux. Besides, I think that this has a lot of potential as a visual feedback device for a unix box.
