January 2008
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Meh = Misc
change to commenting on fnordinc
01.28.08 | Permalink | 3 Commentssome of you may have noticed that you have received emails over the last couple days telling you about a comment reply. please let me know if you have any difficulties with this as i am still testing it out.
one of the drawbacks that i have always seen to this site was the inability to tell if someone had commented towards something you wrote. you leave a message in the comments section and are unaware if i have responded back with out checking manually. others leaving comments in reference to something else someone stated have been in the same boat..
then there is the whole issue with rereading comments in an attempt to figure out who someone was referencing.
well.. now that is fixed. comments now have links beneath them for replying to a specific comment. the only person that should be emailed is the person who wrote the… Read the rest
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Books / Articles
neither of these pictures have anything to do with this post
01.25.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments
learning to read spanish
i dont know if this will work, but i decided that i needed to learn spanish. i dont have the time or patience to sit down with any kind of tool or learning system and complete the process. realizing this, i started thinking about “full immersion” systems where you are put into an environment where you do not have a choice, it is sink or swim.
i recently had a spanish to english dictionary mailed to me. i tried to get a book that has not been translated into english to read, but alas, not knowing spanish made locating a book of this sort very hard to find online.
the goal is going to be reading a book from beginning to end and attempting to learn the language in a written fashion before attempting speech (i suck with verbal work).… Read the rest
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Music
cold weather / thinking of warmer times
01.18.08 | Permalink | 7 Commentsit is so cold right now.. i am tired of having numb fingers when i am out walking around.
reading a book at the bus stop is tough too because of the finger numbness issue.as the days are finally getting longer again and the cold can only last so long, i write now in celebration of the upcoming summer time. dont worry though, when summer gets here i will remember what i hate about it and i will gladly bitch about summer as well.
i bring to you a piece of LAST summer. This is an mp3 of someone many of you may know. if you dont, you are missing out.
Olaf, playing his steel guitar outside the Chance of Rain Cafe, July 29th 2007. This guitar has snce been sold as it was too flashy for him
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Kick Ass, Music
Pirating CD’s and tapes? How common..
01.13.08 | Permalink | 7 CommentsFalling directly in the wake of “how vinyl records are made” i ran across this information.
http://www.zeit.de
First published in 1946, Die Zeit is a German weekly publication devoted to politics, business, trade, literature, and culture. Following the link above, you will find (in Deutsch) an article from their March 2006 online catalog. Normally for something like this, i would just link to it and let people read it themselves, but being that the whole site is in German, i figured a translated version would be useful for ease of viewing. obvious wording changes will take place in order to make it near grammatically correct after translation via Altavista’s Babelfish system. also included is a conversion of measurments and money.
I am also adding in additional information for anyone who wants to know more about stuff, no offense to the original writer, i… Read the rest -
Books / Articles, Music
Dreaming of Gwen Stefani – Evan Mandery
whew.. where to start.
Evan Mandery.. what an interesting fellow. If you go to college at NYC’s John Jay College, you can find him in the school’s rolodex as a Professor of ethics and death penalty law. He has apparently written a couple of non-fiction books: The Campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messinger, Al Sharpton, and the Race to Be Mayor of New York City in 1999 and Eyes on City Hall: A Young Man’s Education in New York Political Warfare in 2001.
The guy knows how to do research (wow, i mean, wow), more on that topic here in a few moments.
Dreaming of Gwen Stefani is all about Mortimer Taylor Coleridge. Here is the back of the book normally, i dont do this, but it doesnt tell you anything that the first ten pages wouldnt cover expansively:Mortimer Taylor Coleridge is a unique man. With a mind of rare
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Kick Ass
Alex goes to the dentist.
01.10.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsMy buddy Alex went to the dentist today.
how he returned cracks me up.
i am glad for him being a good sport… otherwise i would not have been able to record this
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Books / Articles
the alchemist -paulo coehlo
01.06.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments
the cover of this book states that it has changed the lives of millions. i cant say that it changed me, it was a good read and i enjoyed it. on some levels i read it and thought of it as “hemmingway-lite”. the characters are well built and interesting. it is humorous at points and very poetic in its descriptions.the story follows a spanish shepherd who leaves the andalusian plains to search for a treasure. he is prompted to do so after having a dream of seeing the egyptian pyramids and learning of a treasure that he would find there. as his journey progresses he learns of alchemy, but not in the lead to gold sense that all of our modern stories talk of, he learns it as life itself being lead, and all things being transmutable into something higher. the story was warm and worth reading, but i… Read the rest
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