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Thought I'd quiz people about what music to look at next...
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Next weekend I'll be visiting my good friend Sarah in Jersey, and making a key stop on the way back: the Princeton Record Exchange. There, I'll be unloading most of my existing collection of vinyl. Most of it is actually my wife's -- between us we have mostly Eighties heavy metal, punk, underground / noise / alternative / college tunes, and some ( Read more... )

Most anyone who knows me knows that I have a terrible habit of beating to death most any keyboard I've ever owned. The one I got with this machine worked okay for a while, until its right Alt key died -- and then the Esc key, and a slew of others went with it. The most recent one (a $20 piece of junk) died when the d key's sensor went offline. I ( Read more... )

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Not long ago when my previous Samsung phone died (I think I dropped it on its face one too many times), I upgraded to a Nokia 6133 with Bluetooth, MP3/WMA playback, and tons of other trimmings. I'd actually planned to use it as a replacement for my now-dead music player, but I've run into so many stupid little limitations that I have to wonder if I ( Read more... )

A quick skip-and-jump through some recent items of interest...

• Bertrand Russell's An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (probably public domain). Even if you're no fan of Russell's stances on religion, his reasoning for each of his points is defended with spirit and wit. "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good ( Read more... )

Time for some personal stuff (gasp):
1) My 13th wedding anniversary was this past Tuesday.  Huzzah!  There are people who don't make it a quarter of that length, from everything I've seen -- there was a friend of the family who got married the other year and didn't even make it to 11 months, which made me wince.
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