Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
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I have been superbusy lately between catching up with work and a bunch of out-of-town gigs. Last night (Saturday) we did a set at the Dewey Beach (DE) MusicFest, which I thought was very cool and tight. We had to go on without Tom because he was previously committed — …

I just got back this morning about 4:00 a.m. with the family, from my dad’s wedding in Boothbay, Maine. We had a fantastic time and as best man, I even managed to pull off a fairly decent toast to the happy couple. We just love my dad’s new wife, and …

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 …