Category: Musicology

  • Charlie Parker jams

    Driving back to my office on 101 North from Santa Clara I hit the button for KCSM and caught most of “Jam Blues” by Charlie Parker and an all-star crew. I’m going to have to get me that record. It was a perfect California moment, sailing up the freeway with Bird blowing in my ear.…

  • Escalation

    If only my minor email lossage of the last week had been the end of the story, but through superior advanced dimwittedness, I managed to lost my entire personal computer archive (email, desktop wiki notes, and all documents) since roughly December of last year. It feels a bit like having a house burn down. You…

  • Minor email setback

    I managed to wipe out all the mail in my inbox since August 9. (Don’t ask.) If you’ve emailed me in the last 12 days and you don’t hear back from me about whatever you emailed me about, that’s probably why. Feel free to contact me again. Thanks.

  • Another productivity sink

    Check out this very very very very very very very cool Flickr Related Tag Browser.

  • Thirty-six years ago today

    One small step for a man, one giant leap for moonkind. Be sure to zoom all the way in.

  • As PNH calls it: The book meme that ate blogdom's brain

    OK, OK, I’ll play (I guess you can call this entry the final straw, although I wasn’t “tagged” by it, so this is kind of a bastard-child in terms of meme lineage): Total number of books owned: No idea. At least 2000. Possibly double that, counting boxes of books in the basement. Would be a…