On Thursday Dar played at Paradise Rock Club, amazingly enough, for the first time. Jesse Harris (ex of Once Blue, one of my favorite bands that no one knows) opened and then later played in Dar's band.

The lighting guy at the Paradise was very good, so I was really happy with the shots, other than the overall quantity of light. In the past I've ( Read more... )

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This weekend was the 2nd of 2 COM time trials in a week at NHMS. At the beginning of October, I finally broke into the 1:26 range, but hadn't been able to get below 1:26, so I made that my goal this weekend. Early on Saturday I managed to do that with a 1:25.9 or so, and throughout the weekend I was dipping down to 1:25.3 ( Read more... )

Today at NHMS the Miata (aka the meottr) turned 100,000 miles. I think i bought it with 89,000 miles on it about 3 years ago.

This weekend I was teaching at a BMW school, and my first 2 days (Fri-Sat) had me instructing with their Instructor Training School. It's an intensive 2-day school that tries to cram a year's worth of mentoring into 2 days. ( Read more... )

I'd been hearing from a couple of sources that the Dresden Dolls as a band were more or less done, but I was hoping it wasn't true. Sadly, tonight this came to my inbox ( Read more... )

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I'm in a bit of a bind and need to port my cellphone # out of Verizon by Saturday. I've got a temporary AT&T phone on order (which will be replaced by an iPhone), but it looks like the temp phone may not be here by Friday.

Anyone have a AT&T compatible GSM phone I could borrow for a few days?

-j

I'm in the midst of updating my new treo, and the title bar of the update app made me look twice:


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While sitting on the front porch, working, a firetruck, then ambulance and then a police car pulled up at my neighbor's house. 2 minutes later everyone left. False Alarm. The best kind!

A friend of a friend needs a kidney transplant, and so they're raising funds to help cover some of the costs. The live donor (a friend of the person in need) can't get paid time off work for the operation and will need time to recover.

They are doing a cabaret performance in Harvard Square on Friday & Saturday as a fundraiser. I'm planning on going ( Read more... )