Boris Yeltsin is dead.

Out of curiosity...

Poll Boris

My new watch is awesome.

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That is all.

I just finished Season 1 of Battlestar Galactica via Netflix.

( Assorted thoughts. Obviously, spoilers through S1; please don't spoil me for anything beyond! )

I'm in an Ed Wood kinda mood tonight.

1. I made this Plan 9-themed icon: "We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives." -Criswell
2. I came up with this cocktail recipe a couple of months ago, and I haven't posted it yet:
   Pink Angora
   In a tall glass, pour over ice:3 oz. gin ( Read more... )

I'm in Boston, attending An Event Apart. I'm completely wired, and only mostly because I had way too much coffee (Eric Meyer just showed us how to use CSS to make bar graphs out of semantic, accessible tables). It's definitely a web developers' conference: the background music playlist during breaks includes the Velvet Underground and DEVO, and my ( Read more... )

Insane pianoman Mark Mallman, indietronic genius Dan Geller (of I Am the World Trade Center), and prog-punk drummer Aaron Lemay join forces. And (among other things) cover Sonic Youth's "Teenage Riot ( Read more... )

Well, damn, April looks like a good month at First Ave.

Saturday, April 7: Neko Case
Saturday, April 14: Low (CD release show)
Wednesday, April 25: Ted Leo & the Pharmacists

So, who's with me? (While I'm at in, I'm also planning on going to the April 27 Ring of Honor show in St. Paul, but I'm going to assume more indie music fans than indie pro ( Read more... )

Before hearing this album, I saw a comment somewhere from some guy who thought it sounded a lot like Queensrÿche.

After hearing this album, I tend to agree, except on one point: he seemed to think that was a bad thing.

Half-awake, I hope to catch a glance ( Read more... )

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