Entries from March 2007

Librivox

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 16, 2007 at 8:47pm   User  by Psybertron

Audio book exchange concept. [also via Rivets]

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Phylotaxis

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 16, 2007 at 8:44pm   User  by Psybertron

Not much content here yet, but an interesting metaphor between regular scientific order and circular cultural disorder. [via Rivets]

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Musical Update

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 16, 2007 at 5:11pm   User  by Psybertron

Tommy Womack – we’ve seen Tommy several times in Huntsville, AL. Usually solo, but Thursday before last he was there with his band, and the release of a new professionally produced CD “There, I said it”. Tommy’s a poet; he plays ‘em country-blues-rock style, but every song an autobiographical social-comment story, linked by more stories between [...]

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shit happens

Comments   2   Date Arrow  March 10, 2007 at 7:03pm   User  by Psybertron

I mentioned before that I’d had some dreadful air-travel experiences since moving to the US. Well I’m having one now sitting at Chicago Logan [doh! Boston I mean] posting from my Blackjack for the first time. Left Huntsville mid-afternoon Friday bound for Gatwick via Atlanta on Delta58. All like clockwork until an hour or so into the [...]

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A Gurreat Day Out

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 4, 2007 at 5:50pm   User  by Psybertron

Had the pleasure of spending yesterday with Henry Gurr and his son David (and Cinnamon, the dog) in and around Aiken, New Ellenton and Savannah River, South Carolina. (Thanks again Henry for the Carolina BBQ hospitality and local historical sightseeing.) Most of us will know Henry through his passion (some might say obsession) for documenting and photographing [...]

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Bluffing after Gutting

Comments   0   Date Arrow  March 2, 2007 at 12:24am   User  by Psybertron

Been mentioning the “too much to read, too little time” guilt trip occasionally, most recently here when I mentioned David Lavery’s “How to Gut a Book” In the same vein, going even further, don’t even bother with the book, just read a few reviews and notes by others and bluff it.

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