This weekend is the Salem CultureFest, basically a small arts festival with some typical carnival attractions. Pretty much everything was of a multicultural bent: African instruments for sale, Japanese calligraphy demos, reggae band, drum circles, etc.

In the middle of yesterday’s program was a demonstration by the K-9 unit of the Salem Police. ( Read more... )

i am playing sept 5th at the gulu gulu cafe in SALEM! I happens to have an excellent BEER LIST. more info to come ( Read more... )

1.) If you want something done right, do it yourself, or at least get the source code.
2.) Have a backup plan
3.) Schedule QA in time that you actually have time to fix problems

Ugh, because Marcus had us doing all manner of crazy arm exercises in capoeira class last week, I put off week 3 of the Hundred Pushups plan until today. It shows; I had a ( Read more... )