… after (almost) ten years of blogging, I’d know when not to blog. Ten year celebration here at Fiatech I managed to get out onto 6th street and spend three hours between “Friends” and “Chuggin Monkey” … no idea which bands I actually saw but the musicians flitted between the two, and … I don’t [...]
Entries from March 2010
You’d think
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March 30, 2010 at 2:03am
by Psybertron
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Austin Update
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March 28, 2010 at 12:51pm
by Psybertron
After a week over in North Carolina and Maryland, I’m back in Austin for a second visit. Had the experience again of driving up from Houston on 290 – all the meadow grass and spring flowers on the median as well as either side. Beautiful. In Antones, saw Gary Clark Jr again, with Eric Zapata [...]
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Apologies Dear Reader
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March 21, 2010 at 8:14pm
by Psybertron
As well as rather large gaps in the flow of blogging, due to current overly busy lifestyle phase, I see the BBC news plug-in has failed at last - I need a news feed widget (anyone ?) – and I see also that my page format is now browser / version dependent – fine in Chrome, [...]
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World Water Day
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March 21, 2010 at 7:51pm
by Psybertron
And I can confirm on World Water Day, that it has rained steadily in Charlotte NC. And perversely, recall I said too much communication was not necessarily a good thing … well, the internet is the biggest threat to ecology. It’s the remote anonymity that undermines local personal value.
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Ahab’s Wife
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March 21, 2010 at 5:59pm
by Psybertron
I first blogged about Ahab’s Wife (by Sena Jeter Naslund) back in 2002 just after I’d finished Moby Dick, and I was researching something on Spenser’s Faerie Queen … Una is the queen in Spenser and Spenser is Una’s maiden name …. in Ahab’s Wife. I’ve actually read the book, only in the last few [...]
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Beggin’ for Messi
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March 18, 2010 at 6:06pm
by Psybertron
Despite being a big fan (of Reading FC), usually when I blog a mention of football it’s for some exemplary moral decision-making reason, but I had to post this link to Robbo’s blog. Normally I avoid top-flight UK & European and national / international football because it is so rarely about the beautiful game. I [...]
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Periodic Table of Ideas
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March 18, 2010 at 9:12am
by Psybertron
An interesting new resource from ”The Wisdom Pages” of Tom Daffern (already linked in the side-bar).
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Admire the Marketing
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March 16, 2010 at 7:24am
by Psybertron
I never got a staisfactory answer to how it is possible to brew beer stronger than barley wine, the last time they came out with Tactical Nuclear Penguin to top Tokyo. Sink the Bismark (41%) is a great name too, to top their German rivals (40%)
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Perfect Paper
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March 15, 2010 at 3:06am
by Psybertron
Went to another gig on Saturday, chosen purely on spec. Sista Sekunden at Garage – Swedish hardcore – all crashing and bouncing around – in Swedish – OK act, but support act Paper (also Swedish) were perfect from the first chord of Ears Keep Ringing. Perfection. Three piece Guitar (a Burns), Keyboard (Korg)/Synth (Roland)/Vocals & [...]
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1975, I’m Alive
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March 11, 2010 at 9:01pm
by Psybertron
Reminded me of “Outa my brain on the 9:15″ as great rock choruses go. Â Howl were just what I needed, after a great day at work, a surprisingly good gig at Oslo Garage, chosen by the sticking a pin in the gig list method. Conventional 6-piece probably 2 more than really necessary I guess, with [...]
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A Word From Atilla
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March 10, 2010 at 2:07am
by Psybertron
Atilla the Stockbroker is announcer at The Withdean, and even he can’t wait to get out of the place – I remember the feeling. Are Brighton really still stuck at that place. Interesting rant on how business is ruining and continuing to ruin football (soccer). It rang an immediate bell with me. Reading Dennis Dutton’s “The Art Instinct” [...]
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Dear Diary
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March 9, 2010 at 4:35pm
by Psybertron
Not quite my longest blogging hiatus there. Never stopped since the Moscow trip in mid-February and the first Houston trip of March. Exciting times. More on why later, maybe. For now:Â Houston was three different events all requiring work preparation, but thankfully got a free day and half at the weekend. Made a sunset drive to [...]
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Too Much Freedom of Expression
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March 9, 2010 at 3:27pm
by Psybertron
Remembered reading this from Stanislaw Lem a few years ago, but no idea if I blogged it at the time. I keep making the unfashionable comment that too much freedom to communicate is not necessarily a good thing. “Literature, from the very beginning, has had a single enemy, and that is the restriction of the [...]
