Music

2009.06.16

2009-06-23

music Saw these two at Rohs Street Cafe and was very impressed: http://www.myspace.com/hickoryrobot www.myspace.com/thehappymaladies

2008.09.26 - 2008.11.09, really overdue stuff

2008-11-09

Linux http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/powersaving.html - “Saving Energy in Linux” from Spencer Stirling PowerTOP - tool to assist with such energy-saving (on Intel boxes at least) by telling how well hardware power-saving is utilized and which software is causing problems Improving Boot Time on a General Linux Distro from Frederic Crozat Handy One-Liners for sed from Eric Pement… I used the venerable sed extensively at work to un-screw-up CSV files…more

2008.08.04 - 2008.08.21, more technical blah

2008-08-04

**Ideas ranging between “unconventional” and “BS” ** Uberman’s Sleep Schedule if you are insane enough and need the extra time Live Longer: The One Anti-Aging Trick that Works (no, “live longer” is not the trick, it’s caloric restriction) How Your Inner Athlete Makes You Smarter Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind Collected Writing of Don DeGracia - pertains to lucid dreams & astral projection.…more

2008.07.26 - 2008.08.03 stuff

2008-07-26

Music Kaskade - House/electronica artist I came across many times on imeem… was good for calming me down while doing homework “5th & Avenida” by Afterlife - an ambient track I liked… it’s on “Café del Mar, Volumen Cuatro” (Amazon) “100 Billion Stars” by Lux - another ambient track I liked, from “Cafe del Mar, Volume 8” (Amazon) “Alive” by Mads Arp with Julie Harrington - yet another, from “Cafe del Mar Dreams, Vol.…more

2008.07.10 - 2008.07.26 debris

2008-07-10

**Food-related ** Chai recipe I tried Using fresh and ground ginger - which I looked up because I had a lot of ginger root left over than just the 1/4" that I used for the chai Wikibooks cookbook - I don’t know much of what else is on it, but my recipe for hardtack came from here. Stuff to do with cloves which doesn’t really belong here because these are mostly medicinal uses…more

More scrap notes, starting 2008-04-18

2008-04-18

2008.04.something “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society” - Farhad Manjoo (Amazon) - in a way, a more factual approach to people judging by “truthiness” rather than truth “Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think” - George Lakoff (Amazon) - who knows, might be interesting 2008.04.18 People that some guy labeled as “hard left”: Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klei…more

Alexander Blu

2008-04-04

Alexander Blu I had a song by this artist from 2005.08.13 (from Interconnected MusicMedia, now known as SoundLift) which I never really listened to… but finally got around to listening to, and I found the artist is still around and writing songs. His personal site is here. His albums are available online under the Creative Commons. He also has a decent collection of digital pictures, some videos, and slide shows.…more