Michael Smith
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My old bands:

  • Sundown - Upbeat blues
  • Blah Blah Woof Woof - Chicago & Texas blues - one studio recording
  • Hudson and Nolan - Folky/funky something music
  • Joe Pain - Fun side project band; heavy + funky = heavky?
  • Amalgam (Hexadecimal) - Hardcore that hurts your feelings and damages your hearing - two studio recordings, one radio show (page no longer updated)
  • Tulgey Wood - Fo'sho Mississippi delta blues; played a few gigs in the United Kingdom and Amsterdam - two studio recordings (page no longer updated)
  • Tulgey Wood featuring Mack E. Banks - Music that offends everyone equally
  • Kitchen Richard - Rock-a-billy-Blues-ish
  • The Downstroke - The Big One - pure bad*ss funk; several contract scares, lots of fun and lots of funk - two studio recordings, one radio show, one TV advert credit

    Travel:

  • Belgium : Brussels
  • France : Paris, Calais#, Strasbourg*, Provins
  • Germany : Stuttgart+
  • Japan : Tokyo#, Tsukuba*
  • Netherlands : Breda, Gent, Amsterdam#
  • United Kingdom : London#, Dover#, Bath#, Brighton, Bristol, Box#, and everywhere in-between
  • USA : Mississippi*, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, Florida, Colorado*, DC

    * presented scientific research : Silicon Carbide Junction Field-Effect Transistor (SiC JFET), other topics (see CV/Pubs (PDF) for details)
    + gave "sonderseminar" (PDF) at Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung on cold-wall chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of silicon carbide
    # music-related whatnot - played or booked gigs
    Freeware: (The last two work, but need to be debugged, and I ditched my landline.)

  • Mayatron : Convert Gregorian calendar dates to Mayan long count, Tzolkin, and Haab. (email me for the MSVB source) (Old Version)

    Mayatron has been improved and translated into Spanish, by Miguel at http://tzolkinmaya.tripod.com/; one zip file containing the English and Spanish versions is available here.

  • VoX10 : Voice recognition/synthesis interface for X10 modules and a the serial port X10 wireless transmitter. Latest version also includes SMTP and POP3 support for receiving/reading/sending email via voice commands with speech synthesis output.
  • CallBack : Call your PC, speak a password; the PC dials your ISP, gets your email messages, calls you back, asks for a second password, then reads the messages to you.

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    Furthermore, these images all depict fiction - the subjects in the images were not actually together, were not in the setting in which they appear to be, and did not take part in the activities that appear to be taking place.

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