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Painted space money this morning, early. Dubbed LaunchPad 9/27 Swarm to DVDRs. Yesterday dubbed from cassette to wav file & then emailed mp3 of last Some New Thing jam. I really think there is a new song there. Listened to a bunch of Human League last night at home, and Mrs. R liked them. I [...]
Walking to work, 9/15/09
The past few days have been eventful, with ups and downs. My heart goes out to the ones who lost their old cat friends. My mom lost her kitty Lady on Saturday. Old and very sick. And my friend Stardust lost her Oscar yesterday. Our cats are like a combination of friends and children because [...]
Some New Thing skipped practice tonight because Stardust needed the evening to prepare for Pony Prance’s gig in Medford Friday night. So I practiced my bass and painted space money and read more of the Lovink book (ref’d in earlier blogging) and took a nap. We’re planning a Sunday afternoon practice instead.
Mrs. Random is nearly [...]
Friends just bought a house and are going to paint over the current colors. Here’s a sample. It’s being called the M&M theme:
I decided I wanted to blog more, nihilistic though it may be (see Geert Lovink book summary in previous blog entry). Mrs. Random blogs almost daily. I used to, long ago. Now I tweet and facebook almost daily. So do a lot of you, I suspect! Right at the moment I’m on the netbook at [...]
I am sitting at the dining room table, oatmeal cooking on the stove over in the kitchen. Mrs. R has a later work schedule this week, covering for her assistant who’s on vacation, so I’ll likely be leaving for work before she gets up. The cats are up, though. I’ve got the gas stove in [...]
Pony Prance plays at Sam Bond’s on Saturday (8/22), opening for Yeltsin and Wow & Flutter. Very much looking forward to that show. On Friday my duo band with tHE bOY plans to get together and make sonic mayhem. First time Frantic has done anything since April. On Sunday our normal Apollo space capsule of [...]
A flow of sounds is happening this week at my podcast page: http://radionot.wordpress.com.
The weekend was good. Friday lelu came over for G.U.L.P. and we picked out postable pix of LaunchPad from my Flickr sets. Saturday night Mrs. R and I went to a birthday party and then I went to band practice. Some New Thing [...]
I’ll try to blog even though I’ve a kitten on my lap–Fleur is washing up after breakfast.
Random…
–I am loving my acoustic bass guitar. Makes it so easy to do spur of the moment practicing. Was playing along to the stereo last night, Ceremony and Reptilia, two songs Some New Thing are learning to cover. No [...]
The older I get the less I know for sure, but the more I feel that it’s better to take responsibility than to accept victim status. Whatever the “reality” is about what’s happening to one, the responsible stance is a much better pose than the victim stance. There are more and better possible actions from [...]
I told someone I would blog about the Whiteaker Block Party. It was awesome. Mrs. Random and I took a bunch of pictures and I’ve posted them on my Flickr. The Rocker Central stage was a great place for LaunchPad to play. Thanks J*Star! You rock! So great to look out and see a [...]
Griffin (L) and Fleur (R), the Tiny kittens, 4.5 months old.
I got up at 4 this morning. It’s nearing 5 at the moment. We have doors and windows open, fans going. Inside temp is about 80 degrees F, but hopefully that will come down closer to 75 before we close the house to protect our “cool” air. I like hot weather, but when it gets [...]
LaunchPad meets today at Chez Random. First plugged-in Swarm in 6 weeks. We were acoustic last time and of course at the OCF. LP has two gigs coming up: Friday 7/31 at the new Cornucopia on Pearl near 5th, across from Steelhead, 10pm, free, 21+; and the next day, Saturday, 8/1, at the Whiteaker Block [...]
My Tumblr Feed:- Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
- Cody Brown - A Public Can Talk To Itself: Why The Future of News is Actually Pretty Clear
- "Building microscopic critters via genetic tinkering was confined to the world’s most..."
- America’s (newest) largest solar plant set to go live in...
- Happy Wonder Woman Day! - Wonder Woman - io9
- A coming new obsession: how to handle a smaller print-book business – The Shatzkin Files
- Crazy Or Brilliant? Plan To Build Giant Floating Airport Off...
- "Business representatives from a South Korean company were in town Friday negotiating to buy the..."
- Memory and forgetting in the digital age - opinion - 24 October 2009 - New Scientist
- Scan of Internet Uncovers Thousands of Vulnerable Embedded Devices - Self Generated Content
- The Futurist: The Dawn of the Postliterate Age: Information...
- mr_random on Twitter:
- .@b4ur If you're shopping for a netbook, I recommend @sascha_p & @netbooknerd. Also @NetbooksReviews looks useful.
- Nice article. Yoko's awesome. RT @Chikuwa464 Yoko Ono, forever a force for peace | The Japan Times Online: http://bit.ly/3YpSLu via @addthis
- via @MyEugene "lesson for the Obama Admin: it shows what can happen when U.S. fails to abide by the values it espouses." http://bit.ly/fe2F
- I say let's just advance via sublimation to gaseous post-futurity ;)
- re prev tweet (re @hrheingold).. actually he's quoting Wiki article on Zygmunt Bauman
- Reading @hrheingold's last few tweets just now quoting Zygmunt Bauman on "liquid modernity"--uncomfortable but insightful.
- OH on FB "The solution 2 continuing Moore's law,apparently, is to replace electricity w/tiny,black, arrowheaded sperm." http://bit.ly/2MOt3u
- RT @lewisshepherd NanoMEMS! RT @scienceRSS New Digital Electronics Concept Could Continue Moore's Law: http://bit.ly/2MOt3u
- RT @bruces *Why do you ask, White House? RT @whitehouseostp #TOTD (POLL) Is Earth ready to meet an alien civilization? http://tiny.cc/Eexvh
- RT @CapellaMarket Here's a photo of that Fat Tire Bike we're currently raffling for $1.00/ticket: http://bit.ly/1Ew6kb
- Lawrence Lessig calls for copyright rebellion: http://bit.ly/2az1HM (via http://teleread.org)
- RT @Bill_Romanos RT @d114: RT @pkedrosky Wow! RT @jamesoreilly: Have a look at this truly amazing Live Ships Map http://tinyurl.com/2uyct5
- Thanks for the #ff mention and compliment, @integralmath!
- @ashalynd @troyrhoades Advantage of netbook/laptop=>can read scanned (non-OCR'd) PDFs; not sure if they work so well on current e-ink units.
- @ashalynd @troyrhoades I use a Palm m515 too, but that's even smaller. Fits nicely in pocket, tho. Waiting for next years crop o' readers!
- My Most Recently Created Pandora Stations:
- The Jesus Lizard Radio September 25, 2009
- N.W.A. Radio August 4, 2009
- Cursive Radio July 14, 2009
- Black Grape Radio July 6, 2009
- Siouxsie And The Banshees Radio May 6, 2009
- The Durutti Column Radio April 6, 2009
- The Transmitters Radio April 3, 2009
- Mary's Danish Radio April 3, 2009
- Dash Rip Rock Radio April 3, 2009
- The Funeral Party Radio April 3, 2009
- Metric Radio March 16, 2009
- Sound Tribe Sector 9 Radio February 25, 2009
- Meat Puppets Radio January 20, 2009
- Isis Radio January 7, 2009
- Stiffed Radio December 18, 2008
- Salt-N-Pepa Radio November 28, 2008
- Yob Radio October 29, 2008
- A New Kind Of Army Radio October 29, 2008
- Melt-Banana Radio August 27, 2008
- Don't Say(I Told You So) Radio August 1, 2008
