Last night, with about five minutes to go in rehearsal, Charlie exclaimed, “Let’s write a new song!” This would probably seem to be more possible for one of those new wannabe-punk bands, but seemed to me, at least, to be impossible. Improbably, we got it done. Now, to be fair, a lot of this song [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2005 by Chris
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I realized tonight that open source software makes nice people do nice things. I attended the April meeting of the Long Island PHP Users Group tonight, which Frank Imburgio graciously hosts in his office at Desktop Solutions in Hauppauge. Someone thanked him tonight for this, and he said that he and his company had gotten [...]
Posted on April 25th, 2005 by Chris
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…upgrading from 256 MB of RAM to 1 GB, and installing a new DVD+RW drive. My sloth of a machine is cooking now. Oh, yeah, happiness is also having off on a Monday. :)
Posted on April 25th, 2005 by Chris
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We had a very interesting discussion today in one of my math classes. I mentioned to my students that nobody tries to change the system any more. Everybody has the same tattoos, the same brand names on their T-shirts, and the same music in their iPods. The problem is either that nobody is capable of [...]
Posted on April 20th, 2005 by Chris
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An interesting turn of events today. We went to the Stamford Town Center, a mall in Stamford, CT today, with Spiraling’s “Transmitter” in the CD player. To enter the parking structure, you drive up a helix-shaped ramp to about the 9th floor. It could make you pretty sick if you’re so inclined (and I am), [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2005 by Chris
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Yesterday, I saw a student on campus, probably about 19 or 20 years old, wearing a T-shirt depicting the cover of Rush’s 2112. I guess kids are learning a thing or two these days.
Posted on April 6th, 2005 by Chris
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It was shocking enough to learn of the death of two such notable public figures at about the same time. To learn about them so close to April Fools’ day make the entire thing even more surreal. Somehow, I know we all hoped that this was some sick joke. Unfortunately, though, it’s all true. But [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2005 by Chris
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A couple of years ago, I spent a few months changing my bass strings every couple of weeks, in order to find the perfect set for me. And I succeeded, falling in love with DR’s Hi-Beams, .45 to .125. So off I went to visit Charlie and Erik at their salt mine, and to buy [...]
Posted on April 1st, 2005 by Chris
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