A "premier" all women's bike gang from Milwaukee...awesome!

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Wow, Dell has expanded the laptops that they're offering with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled. I could now buy essentially the same laptop I have from them for about $400 less than I paid, and I get 8 colors to choose form including "espresso brown" and "spring green." Makes me wish I'd held out for more. :-)

Ok, here are the finalist titles for my blog. Turns out that machinesoul.com, technotown.com, technocity.com, futuresound.com, cyborgsong.com and so on are already owned domain names. So...I'm thinking one of the following five names ( Read more... )

After my last post about Warp Records, Ballard suggested that I start an mp3 blog about electronic music. I'm really taken with this idea, especially if I can make money from it as Ballard has suggested. There are a lot of albums that I've imagined reviews for in my head but never gotten around to writing them down so I figure I will start by ( Read more... )

It's always sad to see a giant and age-old favorite like Warp Records die, but with IDM now long gone, and with the record label run more and more from their hipster, New York offices, it seems like Warp Records has had a bit of an identity crisis as of late. Last year, the label put out a string of releases by sort of idm-r'n'b-funk crossover ( Read more... )

It's been two weeks since I left for Costa Rica, although so much has happened in that amount of time that it feels like months have passed. For starters, getting to Costa Rica was a story in itself. I had figured out that it would be cheaper to fly to Costa Rica from Houston than from DC, and I wanted to fly back into Houston on the way home to ( Read more... )

Fortunately for me, DC passed a law earlier this year that bans all smoking in workplaces (with proper exceptions for establishments like hooka bars and cigar shops.) Before that, going out to a bar always meant coming home smelling like the most rancid cigarette smoke imaginable. I was reminded of this fact earlier this week when I bought a pair ( Read more... )

This whole episode over Paul Wolfowitz has really made it clear to me who runs the World Bank and whose purposes it serves. On Friday, the Bush Administration said that it would move quickly to find someone to replace Paul Wolfowitz. "We want to make sure that we are selecting the best individual for the job," said White House spokesman, Tony ( Read more... )

Watch Gonzales throw the Deputy Attorney General under the bus.


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Lu is gone to Houston, and I spent the day, cleaning up my room and putting away my things into boxes. In the evening, I made dinner, and then sat around drinking a beer, and listening to the neighbor's Latin Ballads blaring through the windows. It rained all evening, and I stepped out on the porch for a bit to check the weather. The rain was ( Read more... )