Guest DJ at Ceremony last night. Took her quite a long time to realize that Boston/Ceremony goth(ish) people want a melody, not just a monodic bass track, to dance to. She's the keyboardist for a band playing tonight. I won't be attending ( Read more... )

Does anyone know of a lawyer and/or accountant who has dealt with selling a domain name? The tax and legal status is very murky. I don't want to go any further in negotiations without professional advice.

Free to take away:

3 airconditioners 12000 Btuh energy star maybe 6 years old, working well

For the technomancers:

5 KVA 110/220/440 transformer
4000 V energy storage capacitors (2 @ 200+ uF each) 2000J POW!

BZZZZZZZT!

All must be picked up by strong people. I can barely lift the airconditioners. I can't lift any of the eletrical/electronic

Gabriel Fauré - Pelléas et Mélisande: 3 Sicilienne ( Read more... )

You are equipped for optimal body performance. You are equipped for best medical care ( Read more... )

I totaled my car today. There's a 4-lane divided highway, 45 MPH speed limit, between an apartment complex and Merrimac College. No pedestrian crossing for 1/2 mile or so each way. So... a stream of young people risking life and limb (and everyone else's, too) darting across ( Read more... )

Accepted an offer for The Abode - more than I feared, less than I hoped. Also less than three separate brokers thought they could get, or what they said... It doesn't pay to forget that they are salespeople first ( Read more... )

My street doesn't have sidewalks. It's been here for more than 300 years. It's narrow, windy, hilly, and it's the only connection between two sections of town for about a mile in each direction. And the banks are infested with verdant poison ivy. So tractor-trailers use it, SUVs of all makes, motorcycles, and oh yes, cyclists and pedestrians. I've ( Read more... )

I've been playing through my CD collection in the order they were backed up to hard disk. One particular melody caught my ear: "My Lady Carey's Dompe". It's from about 1520 or so. One reason it's been performed recently at all is that it's one of the very earliest (European) keyboard pieces found in anything approximating modern notation ( Read more... )

Tonight Jordi Savall played fiddle for me. I danced, all by myself, with about 100 mixed musicians & other good people around us. It was the "Whew, it's over" dinner after the Boston Early Music Festival closed. The dinner is traditionally at Jacob Wirth's. We take over the restaurant for the evening. After most people have finished eating, a group ( Read more... )