Month: December 2003

“One chord is fine. Two chords is pushing it. Three chords, and you’re into jazz.” – Lou Reed

Since I’ve been using my Midiman Radium-61 MIDI controller keyboard exclusively these days, I’ve found a lot of things I with they’d designed better. A week or two ago, I was inches away from just giving up on the thing and buying a different keyboard. So I spent a lot of time reading reviews and… Continue reading Untitled

I just finished watched the 2nd of the two-part “miniseries” of Battlestar Galactica. This is a brand new one, featuring Edward James Olmos as Commander Adama. It was produced for the SciFi Channel, where it was first presented last week. I really enjoyed both two hour episodes, even though they didn’t really wrap anything up.… Continue reading Untitled

Well, it’s done! Last night my band 404 Not Found played our first gig since August. That was a 5 month hiatus from live performance. The event was our CD release party for “Paper Cuts” and it was at the Somewhere Else Bar & Grill in Denver. I liked the venue, although the sound system… Continue reading Untitled

Yahoo! News – U.S. Says Saddam Held Under Geneva Convention Rules: “‘He is being treated in accordance with the Geneva conventions and provided protections of a prisoner of war,’ McClellan told reporters.” This contrasts to the situation with the Afghan prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, who are not being held in accordance with the Geneva conventions.… Continue reading Untitled

Yahoo! News – Saddam Hussein Captured Alive Near Tikrit – Woo hoo! Finally, some good news regarding the Iraq occupation. Hopefully this will signal the beginning of the end of the resistance movement, and the Iraqis can now put together some sort of new government. Now if they could just find Osama, who had 100… Continue reading Untitled

Yahoo! News – Pentagon Audit Finds Halliburton Overcharged – What a surprise! A large corporation with tight connections to the Commander-in-Chief wins a huge no-bid contract with the DoD and then fraudulently overcharges? There surely must be some sort of misunderstanding here. That sort of behavior would be flat out un-American!

Yahoo! News – Report: Qaeda Shifting to Iraq from Afghanistan – I thought we destroyed both these organizations – al Qaeda and the Taliban. And yet Osama bin Laden is still funding the Afghan resistance to the tune of $3,000,000 per month?

Holiday Snowglobe – I think you’ll like this. Grab and shake. Or just watch the little people. In other news, I got rejected by the 2nd blood bank in a week. They both said they could accept my blood donation since my doctor said it was OK, and then when I went in to donate,… Continue reading Untitled