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About me: Musician. One who writes the occasional poem, though not a poet. Reading: Just Finished:
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4/30/2001Thanks to my old high school buddy Morgan Holland for sending me this Application to Date my Daughter. That will come in handy in a few years for me, I am sure.
Posting from home, on lunch. Police on the Thorens. "I Can't Stand Losing You," which contains the great line: "I see you sent my letters back / and my LP records and they are scratched." What kind of mean woman would scratch a guy's LPs? Just awful.
4/28/2001Jim and I had a delightful time last night. I guess I remebered the level of musicianship being higher when I was there. Maybe I just remember wrong. It wasn't bad, but I would have preferred staying home. We went to the Olive Garden and I had sausage, peppers, and penne. I thought I would have killer heartburn, but I didn't. Yea! Just what you wanted to hear, I know.
4/27/2001So, what's up? Well, I spent too much time over the last couple of days trying to get that 1 gig hard drive formated for the Mac. It still isn't done. I guess I need to get some pro help on this one. On my Windows machine, I've been trying different browser alternatives. I seem to like Internet Surfer. It runs on the I.E. kernel, or whatever, and is wicked fast. Right wicked.
4/25/2001This is how my day starts: I'm in the bathroom, doing my little morning routine, shall we say, when I noticed what looked like scar tissue on my forearm. Like somebody made a scar out of Silly Putty on my arm. In pulling on it a little bit, I realized it was gum. Oh yeah, gum. Sue and Julia were eating gum in bed last night, and somebody lost theirs. And guess what? I also found some in my chest hair, and in my underarm hair. Great.
4/24/2001Shawn Colvin has a new album?! Was somebody going to tell me? Guess it's time for me to fire up Napster! (Just kidding. I buy stuff I like.)
I posted about Das Boot, but Blogger ate it. So much for the "we've fixed the eating" statement from Blogger. Anyway, too sum up--it's the best sub movie I've ever seen.
Did you see the new and improved front page? I made it a little smaller so it would fit on a 640X480 screen, and so you lame-o's without broadband wouldn't have to wait forever to load.
4/23/2001Oh, and Harvey. I got that thing you wanted. I should get that snare for free.
No updates this weekend? What a lazy bum I am. What did I do? Swept my front lawn. (For those of you not from Maine, or not on a main street, we have to sweep the sand from the front lawn. When the sidewalk plows go by and pile all that snow out front, they leave sand from when the snow melts.) I also volunteered some time for a yet-to-be-built local 100 watt radio station, WRFR. To put it in perspective, the power amp on my home system (which is playing Shawn Colvin very nicely right now, thank you) is 115 watts. A side. Sue and I saw the Portland Symphony at Rockland High. Quite nice. The guest soloist was a very talented 14 year old violinist. As she was jamming away on a Mozart piece, I decided the following:
4/20/2001Yeah, so it's not working as well as I thought. I've had the durn thing freeze on me thrice today. Had to do a restart. Old mouse stops moving, old keyboard stops keying. I wonder if it's beacuse we're using a Macally keyboard and mouse, instead of a Mac product.
4/19/2001O.K., the funk files didn't make it up yet. We had a little something happen at work: a G3 arrived. So, I installed OS X and had instant problems. Things wouldn't run correctly between the classic OS 9.1 and the new X. So I booted off the disc, and did a fresh install of 9.1, and went back and reinstalled X. Then, after downloading Netscape and some spam killing program, I did a restart, and nothing. Hard nothing. Like a little icon of a floppy with a question mark in it. Bad. So now I've got Jim helping me with Disk Dr, or whatever. In it, I see a disk manager thinggy. (I know, highly technical Mac talk.) So I partition the hard drive: 9.1 on one, X on the other. Then, when I download all the apps I needed, I put them on the 9.1 partition. That seems to be working.
For all my hommies--here's the entire Average White Band's AWB album. Plus, a bonus track: "Cut the Cake." We can't go see em in concert, so download these babbies (ONLY if you own the album; if you don't own the album, don't take these. That's not legal.) and enjoy some fine Scottish funk.
4/18/2001A bit of an update. Adam got his button up, and I had some code that didn't look good in I.E. I think I got it now.
4/17/2001So I've been doing a little work on the Rockland Kiwanis web site. I spent 1:15 working on it tonight. I think it looks not ugly. The reason I got to work on it was because my wife was watching a screaming child. I can't stand it. She, in turn, can't stand me not standing the kid. So, I came to the office.
So here's a site I like: Textism.com. Its all about the art of using type. He does some really beautiful work. It's woth checking out just for the design. I wish I had the thought processes needed to create something so good looking. I've been cursed: I have an appreciation for the wonderful, but not the method to create it. I have enough knowledge to recognize great music, but not the ability to play it. One bad thing about this guy, though--he dosn't like the em dash! He perfers the en dash - as if that were acceptable? (I, as you may know, am an em dash enthusiast. I think I learned it from Dickenson.)
4/16/2001About 10 years ago, my sister bought my bother an African Clawed frog. He's still alive, and about the size of a chicken breast. So my brother buys my daughter a Planet Frog, so she can grow her own. The problem? This particular grow-a-frog is of a different variety. The clawed frog eats dried fish, and spends his whole life in water. This kit is for semi-aquatic fros, that eat live crickets! In any event, we explain to Julia that we have to send away for the frog. The next day, she spies the mailman, and says, "Is he bringing my frog?" Well, they won't ship the frog until the weather is warm. This is December. It's going to be a long 4 months. So my parents, being the big soft hearted grandparents that they are, decide to get her a frog. Next problem? It's illegal to sell frogs in Maine petshops. (Heck, it's illegal to sell ants in Maine pet shops.) So, they take a trip to New Hampshire and buy her a dwarf frog. Well, we had him for a couple of months, but this morning, he woke up dead. I found him belly up on the bottom. Oh well, he was a good frog while he lasted.
4/15/2001So here's a Tama Rosewood snare for auction. And I don't have a dime. The cool part is, I don't think this guy knows what he has. I mean the title is "Tama Snare Drum," and he mentions in the description it's "wood." Yee haw! (Too bad I don't have any money. The Tama rosewood snare is on my list of snares to get.)
4/12/2001In the tub last night, Julia starts talking about her "lotion." What lotion? She had pulled some of the new caulk I just put down off. Then, the stuff in behind, because it's water soluble, got all squishsy. So, it got in the tub, on her hands, and in her hair. The joys of parenting!
4/11/2001I've got a new page up: Fun Stuff. As you can tell, there's nothing there yet. But there will be! I've got a page done on who is allowed to sing the blues, but it's not been uploaded yet. I should be able to get it up on my lunch break.
4/10/2001I have had the same thing for lunch for the last two days: Huevos Rancheros. Of course, I add bacon to mine. Yummy!
Smooth, chocolatey props to Cjones and JP. Chas. found me a nice Mac ethernet card on ebay for about $15. Then, he and JP round up an old hub to use. And, they're going to try and rustle me up a working firewallwall/router for cheap. Why? So I can put that Mac Performa 550 on high speed Wireless Internet. That's right, a computer with a 33MHz clock and 36 megs of ram, with a 1 megabit Internet connection. As Chas. says, "It'll be the only computer on the Net that runs slower than its ethernet."
Well, one person is running Netscape 4.61, and doesn't get the words "Time Reuires an Argument" or "DJ Servies" at all. Just blank space. So I downloaded Netscape 3.0, got the Flash plug-in, and it worked ok. Now I'm thinking maybe it's a Flash thing, not a browser thing. This one person is going to download the newest Flash, and we will see what hapens.
4/9/2001Dig this. 50 megs in half an hour. Not bad. All this for my buddy Harv. I hope he loves me.
Do me a favor, will you? Take a look at the opening Flash movie. Then tell me whether or not the words "Time Requires an Argument" and "DJ Services" render correctly. Also tell me what browser and version you are using. Why? When looking at my page at my folks house, there Internet Explorer version 5.0 rendered those phrases as the name of the font used, and not the text. And the links didn't work either. So let me know if it works for you or not, o.k.? Thanks.
4/7/2001Did a little update. Changed the "Listening" and "Watching." Found out that Classic Records is no longer offering Time Out. Or at least, it's not being offered in the catalogue. What they are offering is a 180 gram, 45 rpm, single side pressing of Carole King's Tapestry. I'm going to get that. I am. I will find a way.
4/6/2001Hot of the press! The newest picture of Julia. Not her best photo, but still kinda cute. I still prefer this one, from her last batch.
Adam from Independence Scorned is out today. Hope things are going ok with him. I'm working tomorow with The Wop. What's up with their strip? Nobody gets it. Nobody! How's it supposed to be funny, if it's so cloistered in the obscure that nobody knows what they're talking about?! Pu-leaze! Now, make a stip about kitty cats. Everybody loves cats--it'd be an instant success.
4/5/2001Do you like vinyl. If you're comming here, you'd better! Do you like good vinyl? If so, go here now! VinylVoice.com is going to start reproducing serious vinyl from master tapes. You go there and vote on which title should be run first. I want everyone to go there (even if you don't play licorice pizzas) and vote fo Shawn Colvin and Counting Crows. These to groups write great music, and have it recorded well, and it needs to be on 180 gram virgin. Go vote now!
4/4/2001I did some work on the front page. I ditched the background, which I didn't really like anyway. Then I figured out how to do a link with Flash. So that eliminated the need for a second page. I also started a page on my D.J. business. Not much there yet, but at least it's something...
I had a great visit today with Arthur Silvia. Arthur owns Silvia's Market in downtown Washington. Every time I go in there, the place is busy. It's like the local hangout. People go in and buy meat for supper that night. (He runs a first class meat shop. Cut it right in front of your eyes.) In any event, he tells me about this guy in Washington, who looks like Charlie Manson: really skinny (almost unhealthy), dirty, lots of tatoos, etc. It seems this guy was under the influence of some mind altering chemicals, goes to another store in Washinton (C&S One-Stop; the only other store in Washington), sits on top of their giant propane tank with a gun, and threatens to kill himself. So some locals convince him to go home and sleep it off. He walks home. Someone picks him up, and drops him off at the end of his driveway. (He lives in a shack in the woods, and the road's not plowed.) He goes to bed. Here's the kicker--this is how Arthur put it. "So the next morning, he wakes up dead." Huh? "Yeah," he says, "he wakes up dead. Or his wife wakes up and nudges him, and he doesn't move." I just loved that phrase: he woke up dead. So the coroner can't get the hearse up the drive way. So they hire a local in a 4-wheel drive to go get him. The report from the guy in the truck was that there were claw marks in the snow, almost like the guy crawled all the way home. How sad.
4/3/2001Something's wrong... Blogger isn't recognizing all of my brilliant HTML. The T-LineSpeakers.org ling is here, if it works.
Is there anything good on the Internet today? Yes! First, there's
4/2/2001Just wanted to say goodnight. I did some checking on ebay, and it looks like I can get a network card for the mac for about $15. Now, what can I do to raise fifteen extra dollars? Prostitution? Nah... I'd never get it.
The tradeshow blew! What a waste of time. I will not be conned itnto participating next year. 8 hours and about 25 visitors. I bought 6 bags of candy (If you have a tradeshow booth, you're expected to have candy.) and didn't go through the first two bags--which I opened at 8a.m.!
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