I've watched a few videos of Nancy Pelosi trying to defend her lack of oversight regarding the torture memos. I think most people would agree that she's nervous doing it. I can't help but wonder if it's because she's lying about something. Imagine an important person, in her position, with committees and interest groups and commissions not to ( Read more... )

I've taken to the guitar nicely; I'll zone out and play for two hours without really realizing. I didn't really expect to drive into it this mercilessly and I'm glad I did, I just never thought I was the sort of person to get so into music. The piano is inaccessible and doesn't travel well and it's so stuck in its delicious rigmarole that new ( Read more... )

I went to see the Sacramento Philharmonic Symphony last night. After scrambling through five-story parking lots and stepping on toes after directed (by incompetent ushers, even!) to the wrong seats, twice, I made it to my seat and, in spite of several children, some teenagers, and a sleeping man to my immediate right, managed to enjoy myself. ( Read more... )

Check this out Mike, Joel and Kousaku-- and anyone else who plays or likes strange new technology.

http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2008-10/test-shred-moog-guitar

Click on the top video, Moog Guitar.

It'd be great if, at the end of real-time strategy games, they showed you from beginning to end what occurred in a cinematic form with events in the cinematic changing based on what the player did. I don't like this "replay" business.

When would be an appropriate time to panic? I may have already started, but I feel like maybe I should schedule a time to lock myself in the walk-in closet well-stocked with supplies of food & water, a radio, my cat and a Gideon bible and prepare for the day when men in radiation suits knock the door in and I have to defend my last can of chicken ( Read more... )

I have guitar questions ( Read more... )

I think it's about time that the name of this journal had a more respectable name than something I came up with twelve years ago. Does anyone know how/if it's possible to do so?

http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/09/02/stab-at-relevance/

A while ago I heard about Hugo Chavez seizing some of the oil companies in Venezuela in the name of the government of Venezuela. Now the U.S. is seizing Fannie and Freddie. I don't really know what to think about it, since I'm not exactly up on economic policy, etc. Something tells me that I shouldn't feel good about it. The CEOs are being replaced ( Read more... )