Believe me or not, but I find it important to know how to Do Things. Lots of things. Survival things. Building things. Project things. Because despite what you see of me in public, sometimes I look away from the screen. Because sometimes I don’t want to “google” the how-to. Because sometimes I want to know […]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Finishing
Writing music is difficult, because I don’t know if I’m drawing the right image, putting forth the right motif, or using the right instrument to induce the intended feeling in the listener. And when I press Record, I find myself out of the moment because I just pressed the damned Record button and I have […]
Drive-By
Not often I get to do this, but this morning I managed to help another website owner rid the Net of one more drive-by browser attack. A friend of mine sent to me and 6 other people an email containing only a link (…and she used my super-secret personal email address to do it, nudge-nudge). […]
Uncheap
So the new Rush album, “Clockwork Angels” was released today to the North American market. After work, I stopped by Cheapo CDs on Lamar to pick up a copy. After scanning the bins, I asked the guy if he had it in stock. “No, we don’t have it, sorry.” I laughed incredulously, “Really?” “Yeah, it’s […]
Pushing Nothing
Q: At what point does atheism become antitheism? A: When it proselytizes as fervently and annoyingly as the theists. Listen, I get it. I’ve been there. I’ve felt that call to wake people up and convince them of my truth. Call it our memetic drive. We have to cast our seed as broad as possible […]