I miss Frank Zappa.

Posted by craig Published in Music

Someone posted this on IRC, and I thought I’d share:
YouTube – Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen Show – Part One
YouTube – Frank Zappa on the Steve Allen Show – Part Two
YouTube – Frank Zappa on Mike Douglas (w/ Black Napkins) 1of2
YouTube – Frank Zappa on Mike Douglas 2of2
And just because it was in the [...]

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Apr

Roadrunner Records: Please renounce the RIAA

Posted by craig Published in Music

Dear Roadrunner Records,
You may not know me, but I’ve been a huge fan of your artists, like Fear Factory, Type O Negative, Sepultura, and many more. The reason I’m writing this letter is to let you know that there’s several releases in your pipeline that are of interest to me. I’m really looking forward to [...]

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Apr

The week that was… haiku

Posted by craig Published in A day in the life

fighting the process
meetings continue yet still
customer is king
gather up papers
fill out excel forms in full
glad I got degree
quiet lays the net
machines brought back from slumber
productive at last
hurry bits through wire
strange behaviour from within
hard drive sounds the bell
information stops
trapped on fucked up disk platters
drown myself in beer

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Apr

Goodbye, Lawson Deming

Posted by craig Published in A day in the life

Goodbye, Lawson Deming. Few people may remember your most famous work unless they were growing up in Metro Detroit in the mid-70s, but there are some who will never forget the man who gave us “Sir Graves Ghastly“. I remember touring the set for the show back on a cub-scout field trip and thinking “That’s [...]

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Apr

Headphones

Posted by craig Published in Computers, Music, Neat stuff

I just updated my copy of Rhythmbox on Lister (my home machine) to 0.10.0. Since Lister is a Fedora Core 5 machine, that wasn’t a small feat, but I managed (and will post RPMs and instructions if anyone wants them). One of the cool new features of the newer Rhythmbox builds is the integration with [...]

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Apr

Pyweek #4: The results are in

Posted by craig Published in Computers, Games

The results from the voting for Pyweek #4 are in, and I’m happy to report I placed 11th out of a bunch of individual entries. I’m pretty excited about this. One poor soul played the game until level 122, which is amazing to me since the game stops getting harder after level 20.
The server appears [...]

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Apr

Apologies for the rain

Posted by craig Published in A day in the life

I’d like to apologize to anyone out there who was hoping the rain would be held off for another day. You see, I loaned my umbrella to JoDee when we were under the threat of some rather severe thunderstorms. Fortunately, I didn’t need the umbrella while she had it, because even though it looked like [...]

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Apr

From Rush to R30 – A listening retrospective: Caress of Steel

Posted by craig Published in Rush Retrospective

Caress of Steel: You’ll be hard pressed to find a Rush fan that lists this album in their top three favorite albums, but more likely you’ll find this album near the bottom of the favorites list. But, even being at the near bottom of my favorites list, it’s still a damn fine album. “The Necromancer”, [...]

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Apr

BabyGrandMaster

Posted by craig Published in Neat stuff, Silly Stuff

Create Digital Music Â» BabyGrandMaster: DJ/VJ Studio Packed into a Piano
“Sure, honey, we can have a grand piano in the living room. :)”
This is either one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while, or… nah, it’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while.

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Apr