Category: long story short

  • Seaside Jazz Fest 2007

    Seaside Jazz Fest 2007 Originally uploaded by andytnisbet. B’s brother Andy took this really nice picture of my sweetie and me. We spent Sunday down in Seaside (right next door to Monterey). Good food, great people, fantastic music (with a rotating cast of players), not too many speeches, birthday wishes to B’s sister Peg, anniversary…

  • links for 2007-05-26

    Peter Viney on “The Weight” exegesis of the lyrics of the weight, or at least one man’s take on them, synthesizing much rumor and innuendo (tags: music reference lyrics rock theband history) bent spoon — cultural opinion e-zine and blog showing art and literature creative blogsite by friend (tags: art blog culture literature) Information Architecture…

  • My vocal debut

    Been meaning to do some recording at Vortex Studios and last weekend I finally got the chance. Cecil played me his song, “Styrofoam,” and then recorded me singing it with his backing tracks in my ears to guide me. So far, so good. then Cecil added harmony vocals, additional guitars and keyboards and drums ‘n’…

  • links for 2007-02-08

    teaching the machine – Nate Koechley’s Blog jim goldstein sent me this link too but nate connects it to the concept of the attention economy (tags: attention privacy learning web2.0) You are what you search (or so it appears) – fortunate discoveries by accident via george kelly (tags: attention privacy presence digitalid identity)

  • New York is very very cold

    Surprised my dad this weekend by showing up on Friday, courtesy of JetBlue, to help celebrate his 70th birthday. It’s hard to believe he’s really 70 because aside from the white hair he seems just about the same as always. As much as he may complain about age or infirmity or his physical condition he…

  • Million-dollar product ideas

    Here’s three ideas for products that will make you millions if you can figure out how to manufacture and sell them: Self-disentangling (or non-tangling) iPod earbud cords Ear grease cleaner for mobile phones A remote that mutes the TV as it turns on its power. Send me a thank you note when you make your…