Eclipse simulation video posted
I made an eclipse simulation video of the upcoming solar eclipse as it will be seen from the SoulClipse Festival in Turkey next week. It’s in H.264 format and shows the eclipse as it will be seen from the ground and from orbit over Turkey. It was made with Starry Read More …
New computer in the house
After 5 years of being a Macintosh user and owner, I purchesed the parts to make my own x86 system. I did it to play the odd Windows-only game (CoD2 and the upcoming Spore) as well as for working on OpenSolaris. It’s a Athlon64 3200 CPU, 1GB of Corsair RAM, and Read More …
Upgrade to mobile phone joy
A few weeks ago, I finally got fed up enough with my slow and buggy Nokia 6600 phone and took advantage of T-Mobile’s 2-year plan renewal discount on the Motorola RAZR V3 phone. If you know me, you know that I despised flip phones for their tendancy to break faster, Read More …
This is nuts
So a few nights ago I tended to my long-ignored resume on monster.com. It has been inactive for at least a year so I updated it with a few things and made it active (searchable by employers) again. Since then, I’ve clocked no fewer than 3 phone calls and/or emails Read More …
Update on the sitar lessons
It has been a good two months since I first started taking lessons from Alif, and I’ve been progressing well, learning basic scales and rhythms. Alif is leaving on the 29th for a month to play at concerts in Bengaladesh and India, so to make sure I stay on point Read More …
Sitar lessons have begun
Today I met with my new sitar teacher, Alif Laila, for the first time. We spent the evening getting aquainted and going over tuning (Ravi Shankar style) and replacing a string on my sitar. It turns out that she’s a tea freak as well so we talked about our favorite Read More …
Two planets in the sky
There are two prominent planets in the night sky this fall season, both of them very easy to spot with the naked eye. As the sun sets in the south west, you’ll notice a very bright “star” hovering about 2 fist-widths above the horizon. This is Venus. Venus is so Read More …
9:30 Club ups price of suds, more venues to follow?
Beer Taps Going The Way of the Gas Pump That post on the DCist was brought to my attention today. The markup on booze is the heroin of night club owners. I know that’s where their major operating capital comes from, but $6 for a domestic is just plain out Read More …
In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day…
My pirate name is: Captain Davy Vane Even though there’s no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you’re the one in charge. You tend to blend into the background occaisionally, but that’s okay, because it’s much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way. Arr! Read More …
Ireland pictures from 1999 trip
As I mentioned in my previous post, I have completed scanning all the negatives I could find from mine and Jacki’s trip to Ireland in August of 1999. I know that I took way more pictures than what I could find negatives for… in fact, the negatives I found convered Read More …