You’re In The Airwaves Now, Karl Haas
Posted on February 25, 2005 - Filed Under culture-society-history, music | Leave a Comment
Legendary host of the classical music program Adventures In Good Music, Karl Haas, died earlier this month. This is a note I received from Eric R. regarding the loss:
I’m sorry that Thompson’s death has made you so sad; I forget that you liked him. I heard something very sad today too. I […]
Whose Intellectual Property?
Posted on February 24, 2005 - Filed Under books, computing & internet, culture-society-history, government, public domain | 1 Comment
Richard Stallman (Mr. GNU) recently wrote a piece on the term “intellectual property.” His opinion is that the term itself should be done away with as it represents only one side of the argument, which views global intellectual culture as property. He suggests no replacement term at all because “a different name could […]
Read More..>>Artillery Send-Off For HST’s Ashes
Posted on February 24, 2005 - Filed Under books, culture-society-history | Leave a Comment
Ha! Thank goodness the family and friends are cool enough not to turn his death into a major-network, tear-jerker mockery.
Gonzo’s ashes ‘to be blasted from cannon’
Be your crazy self all over the universe, Hunter. We’ll miss you.
Now
Posted on February 24, 2005 - Filed Under general | Leave a Comment
“Now is the reality in which time is contained, past and future are but dreams. Not to act and accomplish now is not to act and accomplish at all.
“The foolish man, loving the boggy side of procrastination rather than the firm highway of present effort says, “I will rise early tomorrow; I will carry […]
Ilona Sekacz
Posted on February 23, 2005 - Filed Under music | 2 Comments
Here is a list of the works of Ilona Sekacz. S/he wrote music for the cinematic version of P.D. James’s A Certain Justice … for some reason, a part of the music popped into my head again a long time after I saw that show.
Read More..>>Let’s Do The Mario Again!
Posted on February 23, 2005 - Filed Under culture-society-history, funny | Leave a Comment
Swing your arms from side to side.
Come on, it’s time to go.
Do the Mario!
Take one step, and then again.
With reruns of The Super Mario Brothers Super Show on Yahooligans!, a colleague’s mention of Tamagotchi and finding a picture of me at the age of 14, it’s the late 80s ALL OVER AGAIN! And kids […]
The Great American Reachout
Posted on February 22, 2005 - Filed Under computing & internet, government, science & technology | Leave a Comment
Howard Dean, who wasn’t even on the ballot of Louisiana’s presidential primary, is now the DNC chair and this makes me very happy. Hope remains when an ex-candidate doesn’t throw in his towel, but continues to fight for his country in another incarnation. Zephyr Teachout has some good advice for Dean with respect […]
Read More..>>White Island, New Zealand
Posted on February 22, 2005 - Filed Under geology, travel | Leave a Comment
Today’s Earth Science Picture Of The Day is beautiful! This planet will NEVER cease to amaze me.
Read More..>>Teddy Scares
Posted on February 22, 2005 - Filed Under funny, kuwait | Leave a Comment
AaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaahhhhh!!!!
Teddy Scares reminds me of my teddy bear, Brandon, whom I lost to the ransackers of my home during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. My wishful thinking is that Brandon had gone to a better place like the loving arms of some needy Arab kid.
Great, now I am going to […]
The Aftermath Turns Pro
Posted on February 22, 2005 - Filed Under books, culture-society-history | 4 Comments
Vacillating between being alright and not ok at all with HST’s passing. The feeling would be the same even had he died of natural causes. D summed it up well last night, “It feels like I’ve lost a member of MY team.”
Recitation of all the reasons for Gonzo wanting to kill himself turned […]
