Month: February 2013
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First first bass
I keep mentioning that my first bass was one of the Cort headless basses with the Steinberger licensed tuners. I’ve got a duplicate one sitting at the house now, and my old roommate has the original one. But that actually wasn’t my first bass. I have to start the story with how I first decided…
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Dropping computers
My Mac is back in the shop. It has TS4088. When it switches GPUs to save power, if the computer is hot enough, it crashes. It’s common on this specific make and vintage, and it’s the problem with buying a computer on the first day of a major revision. I complained to the right person,…
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Automated board loading machinery
I spent a good chunk of the summer of 1993 trying to find a job. I returned back to Elkhart for the summer, because even though that summer of 1992 in Bloomington was life-changing and ended up becoming my first book, I made absolutely no money selling glowsticks and telemarketing. I needed real work, factory…
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Notes from a trip journal, London
[I wrote this on 5.17.2012 and it doesn’t really have an ending.] I’m in Nuremberg today, sitting in my hotel with a glass bottle of Coke and listening to Jimi. I’ll get to the first leg of my German trip (and the horrible travel day I had getting here), probably about the time I’m leaving…
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First Falafel
About ten years ago, I lived in New York: rented a shithole apartment in Astoria, took the N train in to Times Square every day, and worked three floors down from Puff Daddy at a soon-to-be-irrelevant dotcom. My life consisted of TPS reports, delays on the N train, and arguing with old ladies in three…
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New Watch
I had to order a new watch this week. It was one of those annoyances in my schedule that was burning up my free cycles, that I just needed to get over with. Another one of those is buying a new laptop – I think my current one’s days are numbered, but I don’t know…