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An Incomplete Guide To Kayaking: Introduction

It’s time for another look down the progressive rock history lane, since the Mike Oldfield post was such a smash. Even though I’m really not much of a prog rock fan, when you get right down to it.
Around the beginning of this year, I got a hankering to re-listen to all my CDs by [...]

Hollow Fans

I finally got a chance to listen to the new R.E.M. album Accelerate in its entirety. I’ve only listened to the whole thing once so far, but I have to say it’s their best since… oh… Out of Time. (I’m not a fan of Automatic for the People – it puts me to [...]

Do the Real Math

This news saddens me: Amazon DRM-Free Music Has Little Impact On Apple iTunes. I guess people just don’t care about DRM-Free music.
“DRM stands for ‘doesn’t really matter,’ ” Crupnick said. “The vast majority of people don’t experience DRM [problems]. The iPod and iTunes work great together, so none of that really bothers consumers that [...]

Tell Me What’s A Happening

Pet Peeve Of The Day: One of the problems with my new iPhone is that it has one of the worst cases of “TDMA Buzz” I’ve encountered. For those not afflicted or who don’t know what I’m talking about, see this article, which explains: “A disadvantage of TDMA systems is that they create interference [...]

A Piece Of The Omega Force Patterns With Bread

So it looks like they’re going to be making this movie called Bobism: “Story’s centered on a shy collegian who discovers that life in 1,000 years will be based on his blog”. Interesting. Wasn’t that the plot of an old Star Trek episode? Anyway, I can’t help thinking about what if a future [...]

Spring Break In Uganda

Last night I finally got to see The Last King Of Scotland, which I’d been wanting to do for some time now. Like the HBO John Adams series and Showtime’s The Tudors, it’s “historical fiction”. (I put that one in there for those of you who say those two shows are not entirely [...]

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