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Morris’ first Café Scientifique had a great turnout
As almost immediately reported in Pharyngula, the Café Scientifique concept had it’s Morris debut last night at Common Cup Coffee Shop. It was an excellent evening, and big congrats to all those that helped pull it together! The turnout was indeed wonderfully strong. It was even a bit overwhelming for that space, but far better [...]
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Happy Birthday to WeatherGirl!
WeatherGirl‘s once again caught up with me and for another nine months we’ll be the same age (in years) :-). I made her a “Make tea not war” shirt for her birthday that’s looking pretty cool, but more on that later. Best birthday wishes for a wonderful woman! No tag for this post. Related posts [...]
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Autechre’s remix of Tortoise’s “Adverse Camber” is cool
Just caught Autechre‘s remix “Adverse Camber” on the 24 July 2005 Brainwashed podcast (yeah, I’m a lot of behind) and it’s really cool. This is based on Tortoise‘s song “Ten-Day Interval” from their album TNT. It’s long and atmospheric, but rhythmically really interesting and not dull or repetitious. It would be interesting to hear the [...]
Shultze rocked (but very quietly)
A few weeks ago I babbled incoherently about the film Shultze gets the blues and, as promised, we invited my FYS students over to the house to eatch the film with us. So last Sunday five students came to the house to watch the film. The short version? WeatherGirl and I quite liked the film, [...]
Wikis four years on: Some thoughts
In a comment on a previous post, DesertDonkey asked my opinion on the feasibility of a wiki for the development of an internal knowledge base. I started my reply as a comment, but it grew beyond all sensible proportions and I decided that it really needed to be a post of it’s own. It’s pretty [...]
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We had lunch with Loudon Wainwright
Well, sort of… :-) The day started with WeatherGirl and I having a very productive strategy meeting with Arne and Athena to work on the design of a MARQS pamphlet in support of November’s school levy vote. While we were deep in planning, who should come into Common Cup but Loudon Wainwright! He apparently came [...]
The U of M discovers Jabber
Mike A. just brought to my attention the fact that the U of M has set up an all-U IM server using the Jabber protocol. Their reason for this move? Jabber is an open, XML-based instant messaging (IM) technology. By hosting our own Jabber servers, the University can provide safer and more flexible instant messaging [...]
Like goin’ out of the world
I’ve been re-reading Robert Palmer’s excellent Deep blues as one of the texts for my FYS course on American roots music and just came across (again) one of my favorite lines from the book: I thought, oh, man, this cat is just jivin’, he ain’t goin’ to Chicago. I thought goin’ to Chicago was like [...]
Must learn more about Al Duvall
Just heard Al Duvall’s “In the Shack” on Brainwashed Radio, and that was a crazy fun bit of banjo weirdness. Must learn more… No tag for this post. Related posts No related posts.
Banned Book reading: Another fine event last night