Best of the Week, Edition 3

31 March, 2007 at 12:49 pm | In Best of the Week, Notable Links | 4 Comments

Starting off this post is FREE MUSIC! That’s right, 100% free music. I’ve been jamming out to this new contemporary artist, Paolo Nutini (you may have heard his song “New Shoes” play on your local hit FM radio station). He’s this awesome artist from the UK whose music is selling fast on both iTunes and at Hear Music stands at Starbucks. While most people have heard his upbeat song about his new shoes and new life attitude, I’ve been digging what could very well be his new single (ironically, I heard it on the Hear Music channel on XM Radio), called Last Request.

If you want to download Last Request as part of my artist-album promotion here on the blog, head on over to the Download Center. It’ll be there for the next week or two, so snag it while you can and tell me what you think of it! If you don’t feel like downloading it, the song plays in-rotation on Stream 24 as well.

Best of the Week #3: The Solar Anglometer
Written by Ninja Jim
Yes, Ninja Jim blogs! It’s something I haven’t really bothered to pitch, but it’s true. Jim’s been talking about this little invention of his for the past few weeks—most of you will only get to see the Photoshop graphic he made for the “solar anglometer”, but I’ve seen the actual blueprints (or greyprints, since there’s nothing blue about them) of this thingy. I don’t understand what it’s for, how it works or anything like that—to me, it looks like a sundial—but he’s pretty excited about it. And I love seeing ingenuity at its best. Continue reading Best of the Week, Edition 3…

Random Stuff

29 March, 2007 at 2:51 pm | In Life | Leave a Comment

Nobody has been reading my blog lately (and if they are, I can’t tell because nobody ever leaves comments), so I figure this is the perfect opportunity to be completely random. So here, in no apparent order, are some random things.

1.  I can’t stand that Blondie song The Tide Is High. The melody and lyrics feel like it should be sung alongside Hokey Pokey and other children’s music songs.

2.  I finally got around to upgrading my Macintosh to Mac OS 10.4.9. I don’t understand what’s so different about this upgrade, but the computer’s been pushing it for the past week or so.

3.  My station, Stream 24, is now ranked 20th among 100 other stations in its genre, and 3,020th out of over 10,000 stations overall.

4.  I found out one of my friends is a communist. Well, anyone who censors free-speech and bitches about what others has to say might as well be a communist…

    Today is an uneventful day of burning data to DVDs in an effort to free up hard drive space. I’m hoping that this, in turn, will make the computer run faster (fat chance, I know). According to Spotlight, I have over 25GB of music files on a hard drive with a capacity of 75GB. Which means 50GB is being allocated to something else (movies and GarageBand files, no doubt, or the fact that I have four different web browsers installed on this machine).

    Ninja Jim and I are heading to Downtown Sacramento tonight.

    Benicia And Beyond

    27 March, 2007 at 3:07 am | In Uncategorized | 1 Comment

    Well, my mini-vacation with Ninja Jim ended Sunday afternoon. It was nice to get away and forget your problems for two days, though the problems are right back on your doorstep when you come back.

    About a week ago, I had agonizing dental work in which they drilled down one of my molars and replaced it with a temporary crown (the permanent crown is coming in about two weeks).  I have no doubt that this dental work brought on my fever two days later.  In addition to that, the crown brings me around-the-clock pain and has slightly chipped in two places.  It got so bad that while Jim and I were in Dublin, we had to venture to a drugstore and buy some Orajel (that stuff hurt like hell and didn’t really do well—if it hadn’t been for my exhaustion, I probably wouldn’t have been able to fall asleep in the hotel room).

    Right now, I really want a job.  I wish I had signed up for more classes.  I really want to be productive, and I just feel incredibly bored.  I’m sure there’s things to do and people to see, I just don’t know what there is to do or where to look.  I’ll call Tyler in the morning and follow up on the Wine Menu project.   Jim wants me to visit him at the studio, so I might do that too.

    Not A Hate Crime

    26 March, 2007 at 3:44 pm | In Friends on the Web, Life | 1 Comment

    Some friends of John have been e-mailing me since the intial post, and it’s now my understanding that the police don’t believe John’s death was a hate crime, nor do they believe he was murdered.  The intial post that broke the news of John’s death suggested that John was tied up and that homicide was likely, but it now looks like that might not be the case.

    Two of John’s friends, both of which I’m communicating with right now, were interviewed by the police and it looks like John’s death may have come from other circumstances.

    Nevertheless, I don’t want to undermine the sadness and grief that a lot of us are feeling.  Regardless of how he died, we’ve lost an intellectual who could have very one day changed the world, and with the thought of him in mind, a handful of us continue carrying the torch of change that he once carried.

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