Grace Braun and DQE

This band would have been a BOTD years ago except for the lack of a website and downloadable audio. Well, all that is fixed now. There is now a website and it even includes downloadable MP3s. I’m not going to say that much more, because I’ve raved about both Grace and DQE multiple times in [...]

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Hang up and Drive

Colleen Lindsay has an absolutely awesome photo of a traffic sign that I wish was real. In my dreams, I would see this on the side of the road.

Update: It appears that Colleen’s permalinking/archiving stuff isn’t working quite right at the moment. For a while, using this link, which is just a link to her [...]

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Computer Crash Takes on a New Meaning

Here’s one of those “it should be funny but isn’t” type stories. The new Saabs have onboard computers that are actually running Windows. Here’s a photo of the dashboard of said car, with the onboard OS doing what Windows does best, puking up like a frat boy with a bottle of tequila. Yikes. No word [...]

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Shrook and Crashing

I emailed Graham Parks about my problem with Shrook crashing on me dozens of times a day. He said that he is aware of the problem and it appears to be all or nothing - either people have zero crashes or they have a metric buttload of them. According to the email, he was rewriting [...]

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Blogosphere

I saw from the referer list on the right side that I was getting some hits from Jim McGee’s blog for which I am flattered. I always feel good when Jim cites me, and in fact I find it cool that he reads this blog at all. This did make me realize that I’ve not [...]

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The Secret Machines

Last night watching Sound Opinions, they talked about a band called The Secret Machines. Their description was of psychedelic Pink Floyd or early Flaming Lips. Well, I checked out their website and that is what they sound like. They have a cool deal where you can buy the album as a download for $8.91 and [...]

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Week 3

My weight on Sunday was 240, down about 6 pounds from baseline. I also got out while the weather was nice and rode my bike to the Central Avenue Metra station. This was groundwork to figure out how long I’ll need if I ride to the train. It was a little embarrassing how winded biking [...]

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Magnatune API and XML

I just read in John Buckman’s Magnatune blog his post about the API they are exposing via XML. Magnatune isn’t telling people what to do per se but exposing their information via XML and letting people’s imagination run free. You could use this to make an ongoing Magnatune jukebox that allows you to randomly play [...]

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Festival International de Louisiane on KRVS

I just got my mailing list email the other day informing me that KRVS will be once again broadcasting live from the Festival International de Louisiane from April 21 to 25. This was an event I loved to go to when I lived in Lafayette. Musicians from around the world play over the course of [...]

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What Darin Learned at Work

Here’s what my friend and sometimes programming partner Darin has learned about work from a bad job we have both suffered through together. There is a lot of bitter wisdom in this very short post, all of it learned the hard way.
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BookCrossing.com Labels

I’ve been doing some releasing of books that I had registered via BookCrossing. I had printed out some color copies of their “6-up bookmark” style labels, and was pasting them in books with a Uhu gluestick. All in all, with the cutting and the gluing and stuff it was kind of a drag. Today while [...]

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The Electric Company

For those of you who still think of “Easy Reader” every time you see Morgan Freeman, there is the Electric Company Archive. It’s got videos as well as MP3s. This is right up there with Sesame Street and ZOOM! in my childhood recollections.
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One Bag

Via Larry Hammer on DM.net comes this link to One Bag, a website that includes a HUGE amount of information on how to pack light (and why you should.)
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Off Week

Last week was a particularly busy and stressful one, so not a lot of serious blogging happened. I tried to at least make one post every day about something though. Having done this nearly daily for approaching two years, I feel like a slacking layabout if I don’t. I’ve gained an unexpected few hours this [...]

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Spanish Class, Term 2

I registered for the adult ed Beginning Spanish Part 2 yesterday. After one week off, I’ll resume spending my Saturday mornings sweating out Spanish syntax. I’m told there will be no English in this one, which is fine with me. I’m prefectly prepared to take my halting speech and shaky grasp of the language into [...]

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Choose Your Poison

My brother disagrees with my post about the Catholic Church. I think taking action on opinions while hand waving away actions is ludicrous, but each to their own. It has little impact on my life. Communion means nothing to me. I take it in the circumstances where it would cause a big scene if I [...]

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Cognitive Dissidents

I listened to some of the president’s speech the other day, and some of the questions and answers afterwards. Since I didn’t hear the whole thing, I don’t know if any reporters followed up on a piece of his speech that made absolutely no sense. He continued forward with the same talk he had a [...]

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XCode

OK, no one piped up from my lazy web request. As it turns out, I did some digging on the Apple Developer website. It looks like all the basic tools to develop OS X applications are free. The XCode looks particularly cool. I’ve been thinking that it was a language, not a development environment/IDE.I had [...]

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Cocoa

Here’s a topic I’m completely ignorant of - Mac OS X programming. I used to have Code Warrior for my OS 7/8.5 machine which I used for both Java and Mac C++ with the PowerPlant framework. Is there a free Cocoa based development environment for OS X? I’ve installed the Mac development tools, and have [...]

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Roman Catholic Hypocrisy

Last night on the news I heard about this manufactured controversy between the Catholic Church and John Kerry. Kerry believes in abortion rights and in same sex civil unions, opinions which are contrary to official Catholic doctrine. On TV, a bishop was quoted as saying that “knowing what he does about Kerry’s beliefs, he would [...]

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