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sábado, enero 13, 2001
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linkydink Currently writing from a cozy internet terminal in the local library of Brattleboro, VT. I have just been to a fantastic record store and bought Cinematic Orchestra (w/ a Henfer remix), DJ Food (early stuff), Ganga Krew, Grover Washington Jr., and an LP from The Heath Brothers that I've been looking for forever. Don't I feel special! I've found other gems in the past few days during my sojourns throughout southern New England, but I won't list them all here. Jimmytones.com is up and running again! Keep yer eyes open for updates. Now I return to Greenwich...
viernes, enero 12, 2001
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linkydink It looks to me like the archive has gone on vacation, too, but I can still see that Jimmy asked about jumping-off points web-wise. Excluding Google (which is my default page), in my non-professional capacity, I start with: memepool, MetaFilter, Obscure Store and Robot Wisdom. In my professional capacity, however, I start with Hacker News Network and SecurityFocus.
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linkydink w0rd up, y'4ll. Just got back from Houston last night, where I spent a few days learning in greater detail how the software we sell actually works. Houston itself, though, was weird: freakishly clean, like it was a mall that had yet to see customers, and alarmingly flat such that it appears they've created artificial hills by raising the highway in parts for local traffic to pass under. I was also told that Houston is the breast augmentation capitol of the world, but there was no field research done to verify the claim. For interested parties, I began reading Infinite Jest this past Monday. I haven't found anyting in it for myself yet, but it has come highly reccomended, so I plough on. What are you all reading for pleasure these days?
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linkydink I hereby declare that Jimmy Tones shall henceforth be called by the name of Captain Blog until such time as another Team Member Blogs more frequently than he does. This shall be a challenge to all of you.
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linkydink If you're looking for something heartfelt and trippy, check out Captain Redbeard's Gronican Press; home to the fantastical, the banal, and this cool play I was in.
martes, enero 09, 2001
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linkydink I noticed that posts tend to get scrolled off of this page very quickly, so, as an experiment, I've changed the settings so that the most recent 15 posts are shown, instead of the most recent 2 days. What do you think? I like it.
lunes, enero 08, 2001
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linkydink It will be interesting to see if the TWA student packs Caroline mentioned will stick around for long now that TWA has been acquired by American Airlines. Lots of capitalist drama in the airline world lately. Weren't there all kinds of pilots and flight-attendents protests and union rumblings a few months back?
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linkydink Thanks for the tip about priceline. However, I'm still a little uneasy with that whole take what we give you method of getting cheap plane tickets. I'm willing to spend an extra $50 to buy from Lowest Fare or something like that for peace of mind. Traveling hell is, well, hell afterall. I think I had too much coffee...
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linkydink Timmy, how the hell did you get that picture up there so quickly? Huh, I must say I did a pretty decent shaving job. Anyone else want me to give a go at their head?
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linkydink I considered transferring to Smith when I decided that I had to leave Trinity College . One of my best friends from Trinity had gone there a semester before I transferred abway from Trinity as an exchange student and then decided to stay. Because she was such a close friend and because I was using my life as a folk radio dj extroadinare as an excuse to leave Hartford and go to Northampton I spent a lot of time there. At one point I was sleeping there 3 or 4 nights a week, and once my friend and her roomate both left for the weekend and left me their room and my friends from home came to visit me at Smith! But I found the all female environment to be too intense for me, partially because I am attracted to women, and partially just because of the way women tend to bond and interact. I also was not of the opinion that the all female environment is particularly empowering because it's not realistic and that empowerment does not necessarily carry over into the inherently co-ed real world. We can't all go live in lesbian communes, and personally I wouldn't want to. However, I still find Smith a wonderful place to visit (though I wouldn't want to live there) and I do so often, in fact I'm planning on heading up there to see my friend as soon as the semester begins because she was in Montana last semester and I have been missing her since she left in September.
domingo, enero 07, 2001
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linkydink amy: when are you planning to travel? priceline might be helpful. also, if you think you'll make another trip sometime in the next year or so, TWA sells "student packs" of four one-way tickets for $600. all my friends swear by them.
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linkydink A post at Metafilter about the Internet Ray-Tracing Competition got me interested in Gilles Tran. I discovered the incredible Book of Beginnings. Yet another fascinating place to waste time.
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linkydink here's a question i get asked a lot. i'd like to think people are smart enough to figure out the answer for themselves, but i guess not. here's one answer i liked. and here's another. and here's one from a friend of mine.
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linkydink to anyone who hasn't seen Finding Forrester, i highly recommend that you do. i'm not a film critic, so i won't attempt to be, but i will say that i thoroughly enjoyed it. Rob Brown, though a newbie, is amazing.
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linkydink Just saw Rahzel at Arch Street in Greenwich. To start things off, I was completely surprised and delighted by the opening act: The rhythmless overcomplex scatological hip-hop stylings of MC Paul Barman! ("I like to suck toes! / Yours secrete fructose!" Listen for yourself.) I think I was the only one there that liked or had ever heard of him, but white jews with 'fros have never been popular with the hip-hop crowd. After that, the show was hype. Rahzel wrecked it. It was, as they say, off the hook. It boggled my mind: The Godfather of Noyze, beatboxing hiphop classics and getting a sold-out house to shout "There ain't nuthin like hip-hop music!!" over and over and over again on the same stage I performed Shakespeare on four years in a row. Hip-hop has finally come to Greenwich, three years after I left the damn place. Guess I'm just ahead of my time.
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I am bald again.
