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Glen Raphael Music
My web-stuff is mostly about the music now that I'm playing places like The Bitter End. I post gig info, videos and such to my reverbnation page, which currently has me listed as #112 in "New York Folk". :-)
I also have a personal site, http://www.glenraphael.com.
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blogjack
I don't know if anybody still looks here for anything, but I do my blogging now elsewhere. I've started a blog focused on blackjack (with a side dish of economics) here:
http://blogjack.net
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blinded me with science
I found employment at Beatnik in San Mateo. The company was founded by musician Thomas Dolby and currently does polyphonic sound synthesis for cellphones. Thus, I'm surrounded by programmers who are also musicians, some of them pretty hard-core. The fact that I wrote a music program for the Newton and can do QA "with a musician's ear" is what got ( Read more... ) -
Salaam Pax is BACK!
I was getting worried about the poor Iraqi blogger, but he seems to be fine and has posted a flood of back entries to describe what the war was like for locals on the ground. -
The job-hunting thing
For my next act, I'm looking primarily at jobs related to handheld devices such as the Palm Pilot and the Apple iPod. I put the word out on the street and various prospects are filtering back. The resume has gone through a lot of changes. Here's the latest pretty PDF version; here's a more straightforward text versionIn the meantime, I've resumed ( Read more... ) -
3rd level
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Third Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Very LowLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)Very LowLevel 2 (Lustful)HighLevel 3 (Gluttonous)Very HighLevel 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)Very HighLevel 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)ModerateLevel ( Read more... ) -
Why Japanese cartoons are better
The best episodic series (Bebop, Neon Genesis) have an overall story arc - a beginning, a middle, and an end. People learn. They change. Some new characters appear. Others leave. Sometimes good people fail, and they might even die ( Read more... ) -
My name is Glen, and I'm a netflix-aholic
I've upped my dose to the "8 movies out" plan and my backlog is up to 200. Did some anime recently - Cowboy Bebop and Neon Genesis Evangelion were surprisingly good. Now that I've got a treadmill I can work out while watching a movie. This makes movie-watching feel more virtuous, less slug-like. More in keeping with the "get back in shape" motif ( Read more... ) -
So long Dvorak, hello QWERTY!
I used Dvorak for several months and it was tolerable but never particularly comfortable. I don't think my typing speed ever exceeded my QWERTY speed, but what brought me back was the "vi" editor (actually vim). I've been doing perl programming lately and trying to use vim under DVORAK is a nightmare. So back we go... -
so light and fluffy!
I decided to learn to cook and signed up for the "essentials" 12-class set at HomeChef. The current series is almost over so my first class was souffles - sweet and/or savory. It turns out cooking souffles is surprisingly easy. So far I've made a spinach & cheese one and a couple chocolate ones. I'll probably try rasberry next ( Read more... )