OK, I may despise Dave Matthews to a certain extent but why do I like John Mayer so much, even though everyone says he's just a DM wannabe? Go figure!

Interesting article on Slate about declining album sales. I'm very happy to see that it's obvious to most intelligent people that peer to peer file sharing cannot be blamed single handedly for lower sales year to year ( Read more... )

We've been visiting Cape Ann for the last couple of days since my brother-in-law has arrived in town. Today we went out from Gloucester on a whale watch ship and spent about 5 hours out in the ocean. It was a beautiful day and we saw a humpback mom-and-calf playful duo surface dozens of times as well as a a random bunch of other whales. Well worth ( Read more... )

On mornings like these when I slip into the office unseen and unheard, a lyrical feeling washes over me. Unless I'm in the mood to accomplish great things for the day, I will spend the whole morning looking for thoughtful bites on the news pages. I review my friends on LJ to lurk in the shadow of their weekend's accomplishments ( Read more... )

There is a good book on metaphysics that I once read and it explained well various doctrines which I never really studied in philo course material ( Read more... )

A very cool gothic sort of who are you thanks to mudchild



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Lately things have been getting hectic and each day "the job" is converging closer to a nightmare. Today's progression in four acts is a stereotype not just for the parody of customer service, but for any kind of dispute management you might conjure ( Read more... )

Report: CIA Knew Two Sept. 11 Hijackers Were in U.S ( Read more... )

so I can turn it into a fishtank/bong/whatever check this out:

Agapornis" and "Prozac," a pair of 29-year-old computer nerds from Austin, Texas, traded chips for hits when they transformed an old all-in-one Mac into a device for smoking marijuana.

Now that's HIGH TECH!!!

We just poison our own ( Read more... )