Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Author: <span>Paul Frields</span>

The house concert last night hosted by The Deej was a truly beautiful experience. Dan and Maria were gracious hosts, and the performance space was cozy and intimate. House concerts are one of the most direct and beneficial ways to support local music, so if you haven’t attended one, you …

Tonight we’re off to Borders Books in Tyson’s Corner. The show starts around 6:30pm, and is of course free. If you don’t have a copy yet, pick up the album Zero Dollars Spent while you’re there. If you do, get one for a friend! I am currently working on a …

Is it any surprise that Hollywood doesn’t want you to know there are two sides to every story?

Rehearsals have been underway for our house concert on the 24th. We have a “warmup” gig scheduled at Borders Books in Tyson’s Corner (VA) the evening before. We also did some demo recording of new material at Rich’s basement studio this past weekend, which went well after we straightened out …

I have a “updfstab Tutorial” available for use with Fedora Core. You can read the HTML version or get the XML source for use with the Fedora Documentation Project CVS tree.

Yikes, I’ve let time slip away between postings. Got some great DVD’s lately, thanks to my sister and her family’s Christmas gift: Sergio Leone’s masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West; Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Trois Couleurs trilogy; and (on the more pedestrian side) Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. The …

I’ve been working on a Stick version of Mark Knopfler’s song The Ragpicker’s Dream. Also, Eleya got me the very excellent Sticktionary by Chris Crain. It’s an excellent chordal reference for all flavors of Sticks.

YES! It’s about time we made some headway on Mars. This will be the next step into exploring our solar system. Mars holds the promise of revealing a lot of scientific evidence about the universe, simply because it is a planet on which we’ve never set foot. Hopefully that will …

The band has a couple good gigs coming up. On Friday, January 23rd, we’ll be appearing at Borders Books in Tyson’s Corner. Then on Saturday, January 24th, we’ll be at a special house concert in D.C. sponsored by The Deej. (That link usually works but appears to be slow this …

Good golly, I can’t believe I missed posting on Christmas. For anyone reading, I hope you had a great one. We enjoyed setting out treats on Christmas Eve for Santa and his reindeer with Evie, and she was tickled pink on Christmas morning when they were all gone! I got …