A 40 year old’s flashback to his late-teens, early-twenties but performed as a film or television program where the actors are 5-10 years older than the ages they portray. I play myself but as a 17? 18? year old with a 25 year old’s body. The layout is essentially my parents’ Tulip Drive house from […]
Forget thieves and blackhats out there pilfering your SSNs, credit card numbers, and all that. Put your fear in the very same institutions that legitimately ask for, need, and SSL your info. A couple years ago I’d had a problem with a particular bank. We’d signed up through MS Money to auto-sync the account details. […]
A & I are living in a somewhat-larger-than-we-need house but are renting out half of it to a couple of other folks. We would probably not have engaged in this arrangement if not for the dire necessity of it but it seems to be working out OK because they’re hardly ever around. A is hardly […]
Something of a trance homecoming for me. I threw this together more/less off-the-cuff tonight since I sat down to write and just spaced. Maybe it’s because I’ve been a little sick again? Who cares. Presenting… Viral Tonsilitis a Texture mix: The Crystal Method “Cherry Twist” Paul Grogan “Haleakala Sunrise” Tekara “Breathe In You” (Lost Tribe […]
Via Boing Boing: the tale of Howard Dully, a California man who makes his living as a bus driver who had a transorbital lobotomy at age 12 in 1966. He describes how he’s always felt like he’s been missing something. And maybe he has. Kind of a gut-wrenching tale. And makes you think about what […]
Via Slashdot: a quickie round-up on Microsoft’s beta release of Office 12, including screenshots, a link to the PC Magazine review and more. …Office 12 introduces a new interface based on tabs that organize sets of functions under headings such as ‘Write,’ ‘Page Layout,’ and ‘Review,’ plus a combination toolbar-and-menu called the ribbon, which displays […]
A nice round-up of the WSIS news/happenings over at Sampo.
Classical/flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert is down with the Creative Commons. He uses the Creative Commons Sampling Plus license to make large amounts of his music available to the public for remixing. A and I have a couple of his CDs. He’s a great guitarist and worth a listen. And worth the remix apparently, too.
Today’s indietits.com puts us right back on schedule re: being shocked by the simplest things. And in the spirit of the month, no less. (For John. Definitely for John.) And no, I’m not participating. But that’s because I’m still neck-deep in my “serious” project that I unfortunately started before 01-Nov. currently playing: Lush “De-Luxe”
Via RunningWheel: Yoda gets down… currently playing: Underworld “Cups”