We had a great show on Saturday night at Andy’s in Maryland, despite our beloved drummer Rich being stricken with back problems that left him in agony and unable to travel with us. It was very interesting when a couple of patrons, annoyed by the loud conversation at an adjacent …
I don’t carry a digital camera with me, unfortunately, and don’t have one in my phone because they’re not permitted at my office. So I couldn’t record in any way the tornado I saw today just north of my house. As you crest a hill on the main road leading …
Excellent! I’m heading to the 2004 Mid-Atlantic Stick Seminar in October. My teacher and friend Greg Howard will be delivering top-notch instruction, along with several other incredibly talented Stick players. I’m hoping my friend Chris is coming as well, since I haven’t seen him in a while and want to …
This week on fedora-devel-list there was an incredibly interesting project announced by ace Red Hat developer Havoc Pennington, called Stateless Linux. It sounds fascinating! Unfortunately, the PDF that Havoc floated around is practically useless on a lot of platforms (apparently including Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.x on Microsoft Windows and Fedora …
Today I’m out on the road with Leah and the band. We’re playing at the Grape Street Pub tonight in Philly.
This week I’ve been in RHS 333, and met the new instructor here at Tysons Corner. She’s from Norway (by way of the UK) and is a very knowledgeable and interesting person. I suppose I’ll be seeing a lot of this classroom over the next few months as I pursue …
I blew off some other projects today to mess around with my home studio. Most of my recording is done to a DAW (digital audio workstation) — in my case, a fancy way of saying I have special software with which to do recording, mixing, editing and so forth. Unfortunately, …
I’m extremely proud to be an official editor on the Fedora Documentation Project. We produce documentation for Fedora Core, the completely free Linux operating system which takes its heritage from Red Hat Linux. If you are interested in writing or otherwise contributing, you should definitely join the fedora-docs-list, the mailing …
Apropos of the last post, everyone on Earth should run out and buy The Honeydogs’ latest record, 10,000 Years. A beautiful and blistering anti-war rock opera, with songs you’ll be humming for days after the first listen. The album was almost entirely written in 1999, so it’s actually not a …
It’s sometimes difficult to be an art and music lover who is also a conservative, albeit leaning toward libertarian. Every band I love seems hopelessly and self-destructively devoted to the political left. Even when the music is free of an inherent political message, it’s discouraging to see the artists devoting …