Month: October 2009
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Cart racing
My work had a team-building event today where they brought us to an indoor go-cart track and set us loose for a while on a twisty course with gas-powered carts. I raced 40 minutes of an hour-long race on a three-person team, and had a car change about halfway through because my throttle broke. Then…
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Album reviews are here
So, ProgSlob.com, my attempt at a music site, has pretty much died on the vine. I stopped blogging there after my car accident in April, and never got back on the horse. I’m in the process of moving all of the worthwhile writing here; since both are WordPress installs, this is easy-peasy. Now you can…
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End of another season
God. Damn. It. I am pissed about the way the Rockies lost tonight. They were winning 4-2 at the top of the 9th, and then a blown save later, the season was over. I spent most of the game pissed, thinking for sure they blew it, and then in the end of the 8th, a…
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A roundabout appearance in the Times
My writing pal Michael Stutz out in Ohio had a brief appearance in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago. What makes it interesting is he’s describing some of our late night phone calls back when I lived in the warzone of Astoria. Check it out: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/nyregion/14diary.html?_r=1
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Automatic writing
I haven’t been writing in a while. I still feel like my last great writing project was Rumored to Exist, which shipped in 2002. Everything since then has been a greatest hits or a remix or a collection or something that I started and then watched die on the vine. I’ve managed to get a…
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More kicking of tires
I’m still trying to get used to this new infrastructure, and my actual writing is sapping away any momentum I might have to do this, but I keep thinking of neato ideas I might eventually do on here. Case in point: I am attempting to write this entire post on the iPhone. WordPress has an…
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Shell scripting will eventually kill me
I spent two hours the other night trying to hack out a shell script to import the archives into this thing. WordPress doesn’t have a simple way to just suck in a bunch of text files; you need to assemble them into something that resembles an RSS feed, and then import that. This brought up…