Category: Musicology

  • Too risky!

    Looks like Jay Smooth has decoded the McCain ad strategy: (via Vivirlatino via Jenternational)

  • Get Your War On says time for us to come together

    to kill all the bankers and steal their money:

  • …and we're back

    Holy Christ that was a giant pain in the ass. On the bright side I may have gotten a whole chapter for my book on presence, all about what it’s like to have a longstanding web presence offline for six weeks or more. As far as the Internet is concerned you might as well be…

  • System going down in 10 minutes. Please finish up….

    This blog, this domain, and all of my other Mediajunkie domains are going offline for about a week. We are retooling our server, migrating from RHL to Ubuntu, and generally tightening up security. If I have a burning need to blog while this site is down, I’ll do it over at Vox. See you in…

  • Etymology of monk dimin'?

    First of all, let me just say that I completely love Achewood. The comic is funny, clever, well written, hip, profane, and sometimes astonishing. In a recent strip, Beef commiserates with Ray because Ray is going bald (or is it mange?), and he uses an expression to describe going bald: monk dimin’. I did a…

  • Question about OpenID data policies

    Just when I was really starting to enjoy not blogging, I find myself compelled to ramp up the post-o-matic for the new year. I was just writing a comment on a recent blog entry from Chris Messina and decided to use my OpenID identity attached to this blog (although actually brokered by MyOpenID.com, which presented…

  • The twelve-month review

    Levi Asher tagged me with a meme, according to which I am to list the first sentence of the first post of each month for the past year. I’m game: * January: “The talented Lisa Williams has launched Placeblogger” (Local blogging gets a site) * February: “Grab your preferred username at Useless Account before someone…

  • Calendar made of people

    The big version of the human calendar is amazing! The portable version is kind of cool too. From Craig Griffen, who also brought you the human clock.

  • I am not Spock

    I trust these people but why lodge that information with Spock.com?

  • Voice over iPod?

    Remember when I said that an iPod touch with wifi and Skype (or similar) would obviate the need for an iPhone? Well, according to the unofficial Apple weblog, that day may be closer than ever: > [iPod] touch hacker eok has ported Samuel’s SvSIP to the iPod. SvSIP uses the SIP protocol to connect to…

  • A message to you, Rudy

    Since Rudy Giuliani is running for president of 9/11, WFMU is running a remix contest encouraging people to put together tracks using his incessant invocation of that day (when his command center proved to be so ill-placed): > Here’s over two minutes of wall to wall September Eleventh’s, courtesy of America’s mayor. Your mission: turn…

  • Discovering Louise Nevelson

    So yesterday B and I went into SF in the afternoon to visit our friends D and P and get some cultcha. We went to the deYoung museum in Golden Gate Park and took in the Louise Nevelson exhibit. For some reason I did not know who Nevelson was. I read her bio on the…

  • My slides from Unbroken Chain

    Here are my slides from our panel at UMass (called “They Made a Fine Connection”): | View | Upload your own Without my comments, the slides are kind of telegraphic. If I get a sound recording of our panel, I’d link them together into a slidecast. I’ll also put my thoughts down about the symposium…

  • Slow blogging ahead, or behind?

    Yeah, what she said: FringeHog: In Praise of Slow Blogging. Or is it a he? There’s no byline and several authors for the site. Whatever. Also, should I get an OLPC (one laptop per child) XO laptop in the buy one / donate one program? They look like they might be a great conference tool.…

  • My photos from Oaxaca

    Well it took nearly forever, but I’ve finally got all my photos from my trip to Oaxaca posted to Flickr. I organized them into umpteen sets by event and then collected those all together into one master collection, linked from earlier in this sentence. The badge in this entry points to the same photos except…

  • Stumbling out of the gate

    I’m feeling a bit under the weather, fighting off some kind of bug. That’s my first excuse. I woke up on time today after going to be really early last night. I was exhausted. I got up, put the coffee on, and sat down to fold some laundry. The cat was still asleep, which is…

  • It's nearly that novel-writin' time of year again

  • With one lobe tied behind my back

    In New York my work laptop starting shutting itself off without warning. With the help of savvy Mac users at Yahoo I determined that it was a known bug with aging G4 Powerbooks wherein the trackpad falsely reports a severe temperature spike (“overtemp” according the log) and the system initiates a shutdown to protect itself…

  • Can I blog from my iPhone?

    Since I started at Yahoo my workaday routine involves riding a shuttle from Oakland to Sunnyvale with a big laptop computer crammed on my lap so I can work, browse the net, or as I’ve been doing lately, blog.

  • Invasion of the *funny* snatchers, you mean

    Our survey of the zany madcap futuristic scenarios of the 21st century takes us now to the year 2055, where we will learn from “a post-apocalyptic workplace situation comedy” called Mankind’s Last Hope who conquered the human race, why, and what they’re keeping the remnants of our ragtag band of homo sapiens alive for (hint,…

  • In the year 2000

    Friends and cow-orkers alike have heard me make the now clichéd quip about being disappointed not to have a jetpack yet, living as we do in the year 2000. Jetpack has in fact become a sort of shorthand for some awesome feature that probably won’t get included in a final design. I still remember some…