The Grand Fallacy

Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
The Grand Fallacy

Nice weekend now over. ? Had a cookout/dinner party on Saturday night, where except for my slight overseasoning of the steaks, everything turned out nicely. Sunday was a wonderful, rainy, lazy day, and my wife and I baked some cookies and watched Bridget Jones’s Diary, which was quite good. By …

Originally I set out to make this blog simply reflect my practice schedule and progression using The Stick, but I’ve digressed quite a bit. That probably won’t stop, but I should have noted earlier this week that I played a solo Stick arrangement of the Sting tune “Fields of Gold” …

People who are arrogant really piss me off. Far better to underplay your talents and please people, than to puff yourself up and utterly fail to deliver. We have an office fathead who actually talks down to people with twice his knowledge and experience, and he can’t figure out why …

The incredibly talented Aimee Mann has a new album coming out tomorrow, entitled Lost in Space. Her last album, Bachelor No. 2, was critically acclaimed as one of the best albums of 2000, despite being a completely independent release, distributed by Mann’s own label, SuperEgo Records. The official site has …

So I go to Best Buy, where I got an excellent deal on the new Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown collector’s edition DVD’s. $15.99 each, with a free copy of the (non-special edition) From Dusk Till Dawn DVD, which will be on eBay shortly (link to follow). So, the deal …

I just bought a couple tins of Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty and words fail me in describing how truly awesome ’tis. The very fundament of free enterprises quivers at the mention of Crazy Aaron’s name! Tarry not, mortal — order many pounds today! (I chose the Lustrous Bronze and the …

Somewhere out there is a guy who was a student in one of my lectures at the recent GMU RCFG symposium. You were looking for a tarball of my gdd source code. Drop me a line if you read this, I would love you to take a look at it …

Sonic Foundry now has ACID Pro 4.0 out. Includes VSTi support and some other real goodies. I love SF software for Windows platforms. You’re best off using Windows XP, but 2000 will do also. (Anything less is trash… I call them “Wintendo.”)

So it’s been quite a while since I posted, but I’ve been very busy lately. I just finished teaching at George Mason University at a symposium this week and I’m pretty beat, so I’m just doing a little web surfing and decided to post a quick update here. The classes …

Visit SET Enterprises and check out their really cool games. I just bought SET, Xactika, and Five Crowns. Eleya and I played all of them this weekend and had a lot of fun.