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Rough Days for a Gentil Knight
The Radio weblog of Oblivious Allan Baruz.
“He was a verray parfit gentil knight.” —Chaucer
        

Sunday 10 November 2002
categories: Hostage to Crap

Picked up the latest Tori Amos album, Scarlet’s Walk. I went the special edition route.

While on the subject of Tori Amos, one thing about my (second) cousin Nina whose wedding I attended a few weeks ago. Her first dance with her husband was to a Tori Amos piano piece, a cover of Led Zeppelin. How cool is that?
10:31:09 PM    comment []

categories: Hostage to Crap

The Apple Store at Menlo Park opened yesterday. I looked through it today, having been zonked yesterday. It has a smaller selection of software than both Tice’s Corner and Short Hills, but it has the same amount of hardware on display, or so I note. As with other Apple Stores, it seems to be disproportionately populated by salespeople, which means to me high margins and low pay, but what do I know?

Of course within five minutes of walking in I spot three things I. Want. Now. Yet resisted the temptation, but how long can I hold out?
4:45:06 PM    comment []


Whoa! Sometime in the last several days, Radio Userland re-published the whole site! Each and every post, which means the nice template I was using in the springtime and early summer are gone (radio.weblogs.com is a static site, so previously those posts had been rendered permanently in the template that I had at the time, I nice blue one, even as I changed my links and RUL dropped my template), and I lost some sense of the history of how my sidebar links have grown. So I will have to do it by memory. Happy Tutor of Wealth Bon-da-ge first pointed me out when I commented on anonymity, and gave me a full sidebar link; I linked back to him once I figured out how to do the sidebar thing, but as WB, which got me some strange hits. Happy T has a great deal of hits on his site, but those who arrive usually don’t care to follow the sidebar links, sigh. Graham Leuschke pointed to me as well on seeing WB’s post, but only in a daily post, no sidebar. Jim of Objectionable Content pointed out my blog after Blogapalooza, and often comments. Paul Frankenstein and Ravenwolf may have done the same, or right after Paul’s own turn to host the NY Blogger party, BABB3. Aaron Haspel, Sasha La Blogatrice Castel, Zeebahtronic’s Liz, Ken Goldstein, and Hands Free pointed to me after BABB3, definitely. Liz permalinked me, and Ken had a semi-permanent special sidebar edition in which I was one of the BABB3rs featured. Goliard Dream’s pinax started commenting in my blog, then permalinked me.

Those who cared to comment started with Charles Hornbell, who sympathized with my tire troubles going to Philadelphia. Mobius One of the44 commented after I linked to his coverage of the Dodge Poetry Festival. Pinax also commented, but was later promoted, as I said earlier. Bill Hayduk commented recently but I missed it until recently, whereupon I had an editorial crisis as to linking all commenters and yet not linking to where I work while explicitly disclaiming any relation of this blog to work or clients. But he commented, and I resolved it as you see to the side.

Doc Weevil linked to me in a set of photographs not well publicized from Blogapalooza, but doesn’t read me very often, as far as I can tell, though I try to keep up. Megan McArdle doesn’t link me, but as her travails not four blocks from where I beach when not on site was an inspiration, Live from WTC stays there. Always been a fan of Neil Gaiman since my RA introduced me to Sandman when I was at University of Southern California. RXC is a column I regularly read. I would put Instapundit there, but then I’d never get anything done. As you can see, Smart people is where I eventually put people who would never link to me normally.

Roland Tanglao and Jenny the Shifted Librarian have their news aggregators attuned to many hundreds of RSS sources, so they have their fingers to the pulses of geeky technology and information storage/copyright issues, respectively—that is, when Jenny’s Radio installation is working. She actually posted me, once, concerning my contention that loose copyright enforcement led to the freedom of the slaves in America. Everyone knows BoingBoing, and many of y’all know A & L Daily.

Too tired. Links later.
4:39:13 PM    comment []

categories: Hostage to Crap

I heard Joseph Frame at Borders. He played that Castillan tune, Romanza, as arranged by Edgar Cruz with some personal touches of his own. My own rendition suffers horribly by comparison. I was impressed how he worked in some of the ornamentation. The question is, how much more serious with the guitar can I get without more formal instruction and theory? For that matter, how much further can I get without at least some modicum of dedication to it?
4:07:04 PM    comment []
categories: Hostage to Crap

Shoot. I forgot that today was the last day of the run of Burn This, my favorite contemporary play. Er, yesterday. Sigh. I suck.
2:59:57 AM    comment []
categories: Hostage to Crap

Friday, I had managed to change Netscape stations in the lab to Jazz Singers from Classic Rock that the Vietnam vets listen to. Seventies rock is not my strong suit, though I enjoy most of it. I can name many fewer jazz singers, especially male ones, than I can name seventies rockers, but I find the music to be less intrusive material in a work environment. Strangely, I remember hearing a lot of Fitzgerald, but no Holliday.
12:32:30 AM    comment []

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