This was too cool to ignore:

A dragonfly that flies across oceans.

Well, fancy that. According to this
AP News story, Norwegian hospitals are far less prone to contagious
infections than those in the US, because they’ve cut way back on medical
drugs, especially antibiotics.

Is more evidence needed that we’ve need to give up on a health-care
utopia based on so-called “wonder-drugs?”

Why should we be afraid to go to the hospital, risking our health? This
isn’t the Middle Ages, after all.

The Nokia N900:

• It runs Linux (Maemo)
• It’s not locked down by any carriers.
• It runs emacs(!!!!)

N900: Because every cell phone should be capable of running X Windows, Apache, and MySql.

…Does the latest Death Cab for Cutie song Meet Me On the Equinox sound like it could have come off Rush’s Counterparts (1993) album?

• Something about the quality of Benjamin Gibbard’s voice reminds me of Geddy Lee
• The odd-time drum part and bass line sound like Peart and Lee
• The barely-gritty, arpeggiated guitar and the saturated, vibrato’d pseudo-lead are both very Lifeson-esque
• the title phrase sounds like something Peart would write

Songs I’m thinking of are “Alien Shore,” “Speed of Love,” and “Between Sun & Moon.”

Call me crazy.

Tonight, I’m playing with my new friend David Nodiff at the first Annual Westchester Stache-Off!

I’m on guitar, David’s on cello, and we’re playing Radiohead!

This is an event by John Chattman, author of the recently-published Sweet ‘Stache.

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Took some photos in the Old Dutch Cemetery this morning; light was coming in at the perfect angle to illuminate the brightly-hued leaves.

More Halloween-ness!

Just posted a new instrumental called Hungry Ghosts, just in time for Halloween.

Recorded with one guitar (Glass, my homebrew Strat) and one amp (modified Epiphone Valve Jr through load box).

As for the name, take a look at Wikipedia.

Why? Why does Disney feel the need to recreate a classic?

Disney remaking Yellow Submarine in 3D

It just isn’t necessary, and it won’t be improved.

This makes me so angry, I could just blast Metallica! Take that! (Horrible thought: Do you think one day Disney could acquire the rights to Metallica’s music? Then we’d be subjected to Fantasia: The Metal Edition or some such nonesense. Shudder to think.)

I hate to admit it, but I think I love Microsoft’s Consolas font. I have not seen such a beautiful mono-spaced font since Courier. It’s easy to read, yet stylish, in a way that doesn’t distract nor interfere with legibility. It reminds a little of one of my other favorite fonts, Gill Sans.