Tony Levin Large
Band of the day! Today’s is Tony Levin, super bassist. I’ve long enjoyed his work in a variety of contexts, on Roches albums, as a sideman with Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Robert Fripp and many others. He played on Welcome to my Nightmare for gods sake! I am one of those people who prefers the [...]
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The Aegean Weblog
I have finally finished the reclassification of all the blog posts. Somewhere in the middle I decided to make an arts/sciencefiction and an arts/sciencefiction/conventions so there are probably some posts that got filed elsewhere that could fit. If I run across them I’ll move them. It’s not the most burningly urgent problem I’ve ever faced.
I [...]
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Replay knuckles under?
From my friend Kevin comes this article about ReplayTV possibly removing features from its products to appease the big media machine. Stories like this are why I haven’t bought a Replay or a TiVo, but am instead thinking about taking that money and building a MythTV box. I’d rather be in control, rather than having [...]
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Reclassification blues
I have now classified all the posts as far back as early September of last year. I have around 90-odd left to do. I should have that knocked out by the end of the evening and then never think about this again. I did have to break up some posts that were collections of things [...]
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Expectation Management
Having now seen The Matrix Reloaded and having read lots of reviews about what a disappointment it is, how slow it is, etc I can say unequivocally that it was exactly what I thought it should be and that I enjoyed the living hell out of it. People described it as “speech fight speech speech [...]
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The Human Touch
My friend and fellow geek Shannon (the same guy to leave the first writeback) informs me of a cool site run by a guy in Portland. It is The Human Clock. I’m going to get in on this, methinks. Darin is getting a digital camera and maybe we’ll take a few shots around work. This [...]
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Classified adds
The work continues in classifying the old posts. I’ve worked my way back to early January. As a consequence, I have to read every post I’ve ever made and I got a little misty when I got around the time that dad died, including my eulogy and associated posts. I made the command decision to [...]
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Go Annika!
I haven’t yet posted about this, but Vijay Singh really set off my hypocritometer with his comments about how Annika doesn’t deserve to play in the men’s tour and how he hoped she wouldn’t make the cut. This is strong stuff from a guy whose ethnicity would have also kept him of the tour in [...]
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Go Jackets
I’m listening to the WREK streaming feed of Georgia Tech playing Wake Forest in the ACC baseball tournament game. As it happens, the guy calling the game is my old friend Richard. He was the sports guy when we were both young undergrads at GT in the mid 80’s. Last year when GT made the [...]
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Canning floor
I just realized that in the personal hubbub of our lives, I forgot to celebrate the second anniversary of getting canned by InterTrust. I also forgot to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the bankruptcy of JStream back in February. I suppose in a way this is good, not obsessing with the failures of the past, [...]
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Writeback soon, y’all
A quick Perl script, and I now get e-mails a few times a day if I have new writebacks. That was one thing that concerned me a little was the possibility of people leaving comments that I never know about. That problem is fixed before it begins. I have even gotten an actual response now, [...]
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Back Brain Recluse
Here’s a pointer to a new catalog from Back Brain Recluse, a British small press. I interviewed Chris Reed, along with Ann Kennedy of The Silver Web a while back. Has it been a decade now? Good lord time flies.
This was found via an article on DiverseBooks.com.
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Fishburne responds to critics
The photo says it all, Laurence Fishburne on the critical response to The Matrix Reloaded
I got this from Mark Bourne’s newsgroup on SFF.net. I think Mark feels LB is being immature but I think it is funny. In the article, which is from the UK, they refer to Morpheus as being a “mack clad character.” [...]
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The Rich Get Richer…
The extremely wealthy Warren Buffett explains how the tax-cutting strategies of the Bush administration benefit the extremely wealthy. I was a little amazed to hear from one of the beneficiaries of the tax cut pointing out what we all know but somehow pretend isn’t there, namely that this doesn’t really benefit anyone other than the [...]
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Glenn Reynolds
From PNH, a link to Glenn Reynold’s thoughts about media concentration.. Good stuff. I’m too lazy to excerpt a different quote, so here is PNH’s excerpt:
Michael, here’s the deal: if you think that concentration in Old Media is okay because New Media will provide the discipline, then stand up for freeing the New Media from [...]
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For disgruntled jobseekers
I saw a reference to this in Carl Fink’s group on Dueling Modems. Fuck that Job!
WHY?
Because job hunting daily is demoralizing enough without having to deal with employers who want you to speak Swahili for low or no pay.
If you’ve got a job listing insane enough to be posted on FTJ, you can submit it [...]
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Carbon Based autonomous agents
The same Darin that comes up with a lot of stuff that ends up here found a link to the Institute of the Future. They include stuff like coursework for their Institute of Human-Human Interaction. They have coursework up there that includes this class, with an abstract of :
The complexity and unpredictability of carbon-based [...]
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Form and Function
I can already see a difference in how I weblog with this new system, and it is driven entirely by the toolset. The dictum that you do what your tools make easy is certainly holding true. My weblogging was basically freeform up until yesterday, where one entry might cover a range of topics. I’m not [...]
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Found and Found
I believe all the missing posts are back. A small change to the Perl script that parsed the TXT files, and I was able to reclaim the posts from the HTML. I added in redirections the .htaccess for the newly processed files and I should be entirely back in bidness again. I’m not 100% sure [...]
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Lost and Found
I realized last night that the blosxom version of this weblog is missing almost two months of posts. A few months back when I had one of the hard drive crashes, my weblog directory on the home linux box was one of the affected areas. I didn’t worry too much about it, since I already [...]
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