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Two Tares vids

Mon, 12 May 2008 11:44:03 -0700

A little ego-surfing this past weekend turned up two videos by The Tares (some mp3s here), a band I played in back in 1999. These are both with the original bassist and drummer (i.e. before I joined the band). But they're still fun. The first track is called "Corvairs." The second is "Waiver."

Today is Gina's first Mother's Day

Sun, 11 May 2008 19:36:42 -0700

This pic is from back in March (we didn't take any today). But I wanted to post something to commemorate the day:

"There’s a pattern emerging here"

Fri, 09 May 2008 07:34:00 -0700

Hard-working Americans come in lots of educational backgrounds and colors (in case you didn't know). Hillary Clinton's current attempt at overtly dividing us into such neat, classist and racist categories is just one more reason she's unfit to lead the country. That and the constant lying, of course.

HC has done a good job, so far, of framing the debate in terms of Obama's weaknesses. But the framing is starting, I think, to break lose. Just yesterday--and for the first time--I heard a reporter on NPR question a Clinton handler about her lack of support from urban black voters and educated voters in general. What, after all, is the deal with that?

Of course, she'll just claim that she "misspoke." But it's a bit like the sort of misstatement a lawyer makes before the jury and then, when the objection comes, respectfully withdraws the question, knowing full well that the message was sent. We're seeing HC call out to her base here. And it's just as disturbing as it is when republicans do it. Obama has bases too, of course. But I'll take his rhetoric of unity over her rhetoric of division any day.

Netflix promo (again)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:07:21 -0700

From an email today:

Dear James,

We're offering you a special opportunity to give your friends and family one month of Netflix service for FREE - that's twice the length of our regular free trial!

When they redeem their free trial, you'll get a bonus rental (up to 5 bonus vouchers per member)* at no additional charge. This limited time offer expires 06/15/2008 so forward this email today.

-Your friends at Netflix

I get these from time to time and always just give them away here. So, if any of you are not on the Netflix tip by now and want to check it out email/IM/FB/MySpace/Twitter/call/comment or otherwise contact me and I'll send you an invite.

TRS-80, Model III

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:22:26 -0700

I hadn't done an old-school computers wallpaper in a while, so I threw together this one honoring the computer I learned to program on in high school, the TRS-80 Model III:

Some details from old-computers.com and Wikipedia. If you want to get a hands-on appreciation for this one (or most of the others in the TRS-80 line), there's an emulator. The "Trash 80" was a computer only a mother could love, but I did learn some useful things on it.

I made a photoset on Flickr for this and the previous ones.

Happy Birthday, White Bob

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:42:48 -0700

White Bob is 17 today:

New Haden pix

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:42:20 -0700

Haden is three months old, so we had some new pix taken and uploaded some others that had been sitting around. They've all been added to his photoset on Flickr.

Friday Flash Fun (on Thursday, no less): Audiotool

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:16:43 -0700

Really, words can't describe how cool Audiotool is. Kiss your week goodbye and get back with your old-school electronica self. At your disposal are emulations of a TR-909, two TB-303s, five stop-box effects, and a 12-channel mixer. Patching and routing is entirely up to you. There are buttons to push, knobs to tweak, and plenty of fun Roland-inspired fun to be had. This is a preview demo-type thing. So there's no way to save your composition (that I know of). But, man, it is fun.

It's from the evil genius who brought you the FL-909.

Google App Engine lands

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:53:15 -0700

Google App Engine lands. It lets you develop and share web apps and is the same engine that runs Google's own. It runs on Python (and Django templates). Curious? Watch Google's developer Bret Slatkin code up a guestbook demo at the speed of thought.

Tracks project releases version 1.5

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:16:31 -0700

Tracks is a great web-based (Ruby on Rails powered) application for managing Getting Things Done. I've using Tracks for about a year now. I'm currently running one of the development snapshots, so I'll probably set up the new version and see what made the final cut.