tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41338715922680855022011-12-20T14:17:55.853-05:00the end of the world news...Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-81679106360310744822007-05-10T03:03:00.001-05:002007-05-10T03:03:29.575-05:00

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-13951420203133086822007-05-02T02:28:00.001-05:002007-05-02T02:28:27.483-05:00

Great movie, great scene.

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-4124146271740936372007-04-22T13:47:00.001-05:002007-04-22T20:26:16.114-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Flaming Lips Concert, originally uploaded by brownbeatle. This past weekend was the Spring Weekend at Brown University, with the Flaming Lips putting on a nice show with a lot of balloons everywhere...Here is a set of

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-67450294839131090382007-03-26T22:19:00.001-05:002007-03-26T22:19:33.481-05:00

Sign-up at www.unwatch.org -- UN Watc... Sign-up at www.unwatch.org -- UN Watch exposes the monumental hypocrisies, terrible lies and moral inversions of the new and supposedly reformed UN Human Rights Council. Millions of victims and 191 countries ignored. Darfur atrocities outright denied. Self-proclaimed defenders of Palestinian rights -- Assad, Ahamadinejad, Khaddafi and UN expert John

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-13777100579713368452007-03-26T22:03:00.001-05:002007-03-26T22:03:02.860-05:00

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-19357114863990231062007-03-26T21:50:00.001-05:002007-03-26T21:50:02.447-05:00

Great song - I tried to find a decent live version but this should do it as well.

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-71741884466078372042007-03-19T09:45:00.001-05:002007-03-19T09:46:25.345-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Parade 2, originally uploaded by brownbeatle. I bumped into this protest walk yesterday in NY. I really like this picture, not only because I've taken it.I think the location was Lexington and 42nd, Manhattan, NY.

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-3443673058240364232007-03-11T20:16:00.001-05:002007-03-11T20:16:46.381-05:00

Great song by Alan Parsons Project, with some wonderful video that reminds me of the cartoons back in the 80's.

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-12103179167009681842007-03-08T21:29:00.000-05:002007-03-09T13:44:11.922-05:00

This issue is absolutely serious. It really hurts when the so called democratic environments like the US Congress (which by the way claims that it is a government unit of the people) decide in favor of the corporations who rely on unbelievable lobbying power.To learn more about the issue, here is an informative blog post.Here is the directory of the Congressional Representatives by zip-code. If

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-63658522207326535802007-03-07T17:47:00.000-05:002007-03-07T17:56:34.547-05:00

A few weeks ago, I found about this cool feature for listeners of RadioParadise, it's called ZoobTube. From the creators words: "Thanks for checking out the Radio Paradise ZoobTube. It's one of my new digital creations that harvests and combines some of the amazing art (and sometimes dreck) that's out there in cyber space. It grabs the artist and title of the most most recent song played on

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-90514246060007427112007-02-28T17:39:00.001-05:002007-02-28T18:24:31.326-05:00

"If we're looking at the highlights of human development, you have to look at the evolution of the organism and then at the development of its interaction with the environment. Evolution of the organism will begin with the evolution of life perceived through the hominid coming to the evolution of mankind. Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man. Now, interestingly, what you're looking at here are three

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-26119387943712875532007-02-25T20:25:00.001-05:002007-02-25T20:26:43.168-05:00

I haven't been posting for a while and I also haven't been listening to this song for a while. So here you go: Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone, the movie is a by a couple of kids...

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-60323001145308184042007-02-05T19:18:00.000-05:002007-02-05T19:38:28.372-05:00

If you're interested in sharing and finding great music, this past year is probably a glorious one with all the web2.0 stuff going on. There have been many online so called Social Music sites, (with pandora being my favorite). Here is a nice review of the current market leaders.Speaking of pandora, here is a tool called pandora's jar that enables you to save the streaming songs from pandora to

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-33154779991318470442007-02-04T19:44:00.001-05:002007-02-04T19:47:54.367-05:00

"WTF??!! (a message from Technorati)" is a delicious superbowl commercial from Technorati that was able to find its way to youtube (unfortunately not the superbowl). It includes a scene from one of my favourite movies.There are more in here.

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-69973852025785850872007-01-27T13:49:00.000-05:002007-01-27T13:53:46.311-05:00

The teaser:and the trailer:

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-2416533414454799222007-01-25T18:46:00.000-05:002007-01-25T18:54:22.473-05:00

Can sent me a Mr. Bean video which took me back to my days in high school where substitute teacher for English classes would make us watch this hilarious guy. I just found a better one:I have no idea if he's still doing his thing but along with Benny Hill, they constitute a group of weird but funny childhood memories for me.

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-38516296517759230392007-01-19T18:45:00.001-05:002007-01-19T18:46:38.394-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Melvis, originally uploaded by brownbeatle.My current research at grad school is about speech processing and microphone arrays and this is our current solution to a repeatable human talker model.Melvis = matt + elvisMatt is the

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-32627871284962204552007-01-15T16:55:00.000-05:002007-01-15T17:37:45.006-05:00

I think it was my first ever post in this blog that I mentioned about buying a portable music device in the near future. Normally, this is no more complicated than buying a dvd player, camera or a stereo system. Fix a budget with some uncertainty, do a search on existing models, look at the up and coming models, prioritize your needs from the device and buy the best product that matches your

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-65825409259795755712007-01-12T11:47:00.000-05:002007-01-12T12:15:00.673-05:00

I haven't been posting in a week due to some work and non-work related events in my life although I have to admit that all is pretty well. In the mean time here are two interesting photo sets from flickr that might be interesting.1) Olivia Leigh - Reflections of Oneself2) Defensor Fortis - ...my operation iraqi freedom...dec 05-jun06...Enjoy.

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-30173771384837080832007-01-04T22:42:00.001-05:002007-01-04T22:46:35.834-05:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Manning Chapel, originally uploaded by brownbeatle. I was introduced the flickr a while ago, though it may be seen as a simple photo sharing service, it contains a lot of inspirational photos. I was around the campus today,

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-25469754018508747442007-01-03T14:47:00.000-05:002007-01-03T16:00:57.679-05:00

I just had very good Indian Food at Not Just Snacks - here are some pictures of the food itself.

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-39688419697731002522007-01-02T21:18:00.000-05:002007-01-02T22:22:47.572-05:00

It's the year 2007, and judging from it's first 2 days it's promising to be a very busy year for me...I spent the last couple of days in Washington DC to visit a few "longtimenosee" friends from back home who now live there. My main aim was to get out of Providence for a few days and relax before coming back to work - which worked out. However there's more to it:Having traveled the road between

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-29998357005690272752006-12-27T15:03:00.000-05:002006-12-27T15:14:10.508-05:00

I was introduced to Magnetic Poetry a while ago but it took me a while to buy a set. It's basically a lot of words, in form of small magnets that you can put together to produce meaningful/less sentences, phrases and poetry...It's a very useful tool to keep yourself entertained, especially if one's the kind of person enjoying joining little pieces together (like jigsaw puzzles maybe) and a very

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-37217958509278496182006-12-22T13:35:00.000-05:002006-12-22T13:54:18.482-05:00

I've been watching the magnificent tv series Deadwood from the dvd's for a while now and I have to say it is the best production I've ever seen on tv. Last night I watched 4 episodes in a row and I've made it to the 5th episode of the second season. I'd really would love to read and learn about Deadwood, it's characters and it's setting from different web sites and write about it. That'll have to

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-61264052033149011342006-12-20T10:25:00.000-05:002006-12-20T11:25:46.143-05:00

A fantastic and underrated Led Zeppelin song from their last album, In Through the Out Door. Youtube doesn't feature a live Led Zep video of this song (probably because the album was recorded in 1978 and the group disbanded after Bonham's death in 1980) however I managed to find a very good cover of the song by Ween. The altered intro is fantastic, the solo is also a little bit altered (read:

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-70980083570775860852006-12-19T12:44:00.000-05:002006-12-19T12:57:16.472-05:00

I finally managed to make my good friend Batur take me to Seekonk, MA where I bought myself a digital camera from best buy and a beginner's acoustic guitar from target. Ever since I've laid my hands on the guitar (2 days), this magnificent song by Pearl Jam is what I've been trying to play. It sounds pretty easy and the chords are very simple but even to create a tiny little resemblance to the

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-3394329946981284032006-12-18T20:19:00.000-05:002006-12-18T20:35:04.392-05:00

Although typepad is a very nice blog publishing enviroment, after a month of trial period I came to a conclusion that for my purposes, it's no different than free blog publishing sites like blogger. (Typepad costs 5$ per month). Tomorrow is the last day of my free period. Sometime in the next 24 hours this infant blog will cease to exist in it's old home.

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-33356950724593182042006-12-11T21:31:00.000-05:002006-12-18T20:12:22.071-05:00

As expected, there are plenty of coffee shops around Brown campus. I usually get my coffee from East Side Perks on Waterman st, between Thayer and Brook streets but as in the case with many people, from time to time I pay my dues to Starbucks on Thayer st as well.I don't consider myself a coffee guy and most of the time I'm interested in the caffeine content (the more the merrier:)) rather than

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-26699269869907400952006-12-09T15:04:00.000-05:002006-12-18T20:10:48.396-05:00

As fantasy thrillers go (sorry but it's a shame to call them sci-fi), the movie War of the Worlds definitely stands out on its own. Never mind some of the absurd assumptions in the film's plot, I think Spielberg's approach to tell the story is a lot more unique compared to movies such as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. In the latter ones, you get to see the story from a few people's

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-34526806626383362006-12-07T13:57:00.000-05:002006-12-18T20:08:14.449-05:00

Good music that will stand the test of time... Iyi-kotu(dans pisti) by Sebnem Ferah

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-45959441523558716292006-12-06T18:28:00.000-05:002006-12-18T20:06:40.308-05:00

Common courtesy is a very common way for a lot of people to have an understanding of how civilized a society is. One example of showing some courtesy is to slow down while driving if you are about to go through a puddle next to a sidewalk (especially if there are pedestrians around the area).I was walking on the sidewalk near where I work when a car ran through a puddle and practically showered

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-33338795594618074662006-11-28T17:23:00.001-05:002006-12-18T20:04:57.671-05:00

The first time I encountered this musician (the one sitting and playing baglama) was through a song of Bulent Ortacgil, Pencere Onu Cicegi. He was performing it in a tribute album to Ortacgil. I got to see him live, he does pretty experimentalist and weird stuff with old Turkish Music. Here is a video of him:This song Selanik Turkusu (selanik=thessaloniki - so hard to spell the word) reminds me

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-7479343681397253402006-11-26T19:00:00.000-05:002006-12-18T20:02:42.549-05:00

This video and the subsequent 7 videos at YouTube is a woman named Brigitte Gabriel, talking about her experiences growing up in Lebanon in the 70's and 80's. It's pretty much what happened in Lebanon from her point of view.For a lot of people that watch these videos, this will all be about a Lebanese Christian lying to promote the "Zionist" interests by adding fear into the minds of regular

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-24507925192064088612006-11-24T17:17:00.000-05:002006-12-18T19:59:06.514-05:00

Raki - the so called Turkish national drink is also my favorite form of alcohol, especially in the summer time back home on the Aegean sea with some good food and good Turkish music. I unfortunately never drank ituntil the age 19 (it has a very strong aniseed flavor). It all started when I was away from home, traveling in the USA for more than 45 days. I missed it. It seemed pretty strange then

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-31548755721119209072006-11-20T20:32:00.000-05:002006-12-18T19:55:32.542-05:00

I don't know if it's a good idea to share this video - watching Seinfeld will never be the same for me again... Anyway this is Michael Richards - famous for acting Cosmo Kramer in Seinfeld caught on tape during a racist tirade.read more | digg story

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133871592268085502.post-34062753334763986892006-11-20T20:20:00.000-05:002006-12-18T19:52:58.825-05:00

My third attempt on blogging has officially begun...The first one was an extremely personal blog which eventually found its way to deletion... The second one is actually still up and on-hold, it's a blog on my research at LEMS as a graduate student at Brown University. I was actively blogging during last winter break (january 2006) however I didn't work on a lot of research on spring '06 and the

Avramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11359609835491131535noreply@blogger.com0