Month: January 2013
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Lack of computer
My computer is in the shop. It has some random reboot situation, which is either from a bad motherboard or bad memory, and because it’s still under warranty and it has aftermarket memory, they want to prove that it’s the memory’s fault, although I’m pretty sure it’s the motherboard. This is the first generation to…
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Contests I Have Won
I have won a number of contests in my life, both games of skill or knowledge and the plain dumb-luck sort. Here is a partial list: As a very young child, I vaguely remember winning a plastic model car from a contest at a radio station. It wasn’t at the radio station; it was on…
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Dust mite collection
I just went digging through a box of old zines and other crap, looking for blank stationery. I always steal the paper at any given hotel, and I think when I left my place in Astoria, or maybe when we moved to Denver, I threw out this huge collection of yellowing stationery, mostly from Vegas…
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Three and three quarter inch memories
So I had to go to storage the other day, to put away the box from my new bass, because if I just threw it in the recycling bin, the truss rod inside the bass neck would have exploded and I would have needed to mail the thing to Germany or Uganda or something for…
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Fluticasone is not a transmission fluid
I don’t do new year resolutions, but one of my not-a-resolutions has been to write in this thing every day, hell or high water. And of course, the big catch is what exactly to write. I would write about life, except life pretty much just involves work, trying to write, and medical appointments. When I…
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Dreams of squatting
I have these frequent recurring dreams of living temporarily, squatting in hidden areas of public places, like crashing for a month in a forgotten storage area of a Vegas hotel, or a never used classroom in an old academic building. The dreams are so vivid and frequent that I usually wake and think they’re based…
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Yards of trains
I keep looking out the window at the train yard that’s a few hundred yards away, across the highway. You can’t tell it’s a train yard, because you just see the profile of it, and the occasional diesel locomotive tooling back and forth on the horizon. I just looked at google maps, and it’s not…
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Various theories on Louie
One of the favorite parts of my recent vacation, aside from the 47 pounds of chocolate I ate, was watching Louie. I’ve already seen all of them, but my brother-in-law hadn’t, and somehow stumbled upon them on the Roku box. Part of the enjoyment of this was simply that we watched them after everyone else…
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State of the bass, January 2013 edition
I mentioned a while back that I started playing bass again. Here’s an equipment update, since it seems like all I’ve been doing is amassing new stuff. I previously wrote about my Cort bass. It’s a Steinberger-licensed headless bass from the late 80s or early 90s, and it’s still here. It looks okay in this…
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New Year’s Resolution: 1920×1080
It is the start of a new year — four days into it, really — and I haven’t done shit. I always have these wise ideas about some post-a-day project, either here, or some great new site that involves posting a story a day or a wiki page per day or whatever, culminating in a…