For whatever reason, I've been back listening to techno this week. I'm still listening to a lot of other stuff, mostly on the heavy side, but techno seems to have found it's way back into my rotation. Mostly just deeper/minimal stuff, but it's the first time I've listened to anything techno-related with any regularity in … [Read more…]
Lost among all the iPhone & Apple TV hype was the release of Apple's new Airport Extreme wireless router. Not only does it support the uber-fast draft 802.11n spec (which, it turns out, all of Apple's recent Core 2-based laptops had 802.11n cards pretending to be 802.11g cards, requiring only a firmware update to enable) … [Read more…]
So, where have I been? I woke up New Years Day and felt like my every single aspect of my life was a complete and total failure. I'd never, in all my years, has such an overwhelming sense of absolute dissatisfaction over everything I was doing, top to bottom. My career was in the toilet. … [Read more…]
For the third or fourth time in the last year, I started having strange problems with my vision tonight. In one of my eyes I would get this curving and zig-zagging shimmering line. It would start out as a small spot and eventually, over the course of about an hour or so, take over most … [Read more…]
Currently, my music folder is a mess. It's filled with close to 200 songs in various states of completion. Some of them are done, most of them are works-in-progress. So I'm begun the process of working my way back through it all to finally clean it all up and get it organized. Right now it's … [Read more…]
It's been so long since I just sat and listened to the rain, that I'd forgotten how wonderfully peaceful it can be. It makes me believe I'm taking he right path by pulling back and going off-line for a while. I would certainly have missed out on this experience had I been at a bar … [Read more…]
I Spent some time over the weekend, and again today, researching places to go to get trained at mountaineering. I’ve found a few interesting places that over training and guided expeditions, some quite affordable. I plan to start small, and work my way up. My goal is to make my first trip out before winter … [Read more…]
Let's see… My iPod went wonky and had to be restored. I find this out shortly before I'm walking out the door, so there wasn't enough time to re-sync everything before I left. Strangely, it did copy over what I wanted to hear anyway. My wireless router is emitting this really annoying high-pitched whine. Probably … [Read more…]
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.” -May Sarton That pretty much sums up the mindset behind this track. My struggle with crossing too far over that line from solitude to loneliness, something I’ve grappled with far too much with lately. This is about finding where that line even is, … [Read more…]
I was just looking back through all my old music, and noticing how many songs I’d done each year over the last few years. Just 1 in 2002, But it jumped up to 7 in 2003, and 5 each in 2004 and 2005. But this year, only 2. And one of those was a collaboration, … [Read more…]
I mentioned in my previous post that there's still a couple of things I'm not sure about how to deal with in transitioning from my desktop G5 to my MacBook Pro laptop. This means it's time to ramble on about Macs again! Sitting down and typing all this stuff out usually helps me organize my … [Read more…]
Speaking of $3,000 manifestations of unhappiness… *laugh* I'm really impressed with my new MacBook Pro so far. It's not without it's flaws, but it's overall the nicest computer I've ever owned. Certainly the first (and perhaps only?) time I've ever bought the current top-of-the-line (read: most expensive) Mac one could buy. It's fast. Damn fast. … [Read more…]
Lately, it seems like I never have enough time to do everything I need/want to do. My energy to do the things I have time to do seems much less as well. I'm waking up late, I'm dragging fairly regularly, and I always feel like I'm one step behind. Am I trying to do more … [Read more…]
I finally did it yesterday. I bought the 17″ MacBook Pro I've been gearlusting after all these weeks. (Which hopefully means I'll stop cluttering up this blog with all these MacBook postings. *laugh*) I'm already feeling a bit of that buyer's remorse after making such a mojor purchase. Thinking about all the other things I … [Read more…]
It would seem NASA weren't exaggerating when they said they were going to announce a “significant find” on Mars today. They've photographed strong evidence of liquid water on Mars! It appears to be coming from an underground source of some kind, and flowing out onto the surface. Due to the thin atmosphere and cold temperatures … [Read more…]