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Being an extremely non-linear account of my struggle to understand just what the hell is actually going on here!
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| Apologies for the... |
| 06.18.05 (5:16 am) [edit] |
...long screen here with so many posts on it. When I started here at TBlog I imported all the entries from my old site and so a lot of them have the same date on them. I'm going to set up an archive as soon as I figure out how it's done.
I understand that there is supposed to be an automatic archive function but that it doesn't appear to be working properly.
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| Holey Music |
| 06.16.05 (2:22 pm) [edit] |
When I was in college I thought it would be good to learn to play the guitar a little bit. Each time I picked it up my friend and roommate,Tom Nash, would say the same thing. "If you keep pickin' at it, it'll never heal." He was right; music making was not my gift. It is a good thing for the world that I recognized that years ago.
With that as a backdrop let me also assure you that, in the words of the cliche, I may not know squat about music but I know what I like and I like Laurie Rose Griffith and Peter Mealy a bunch. Their new CD, "something good", came out last week and I like it so much that I am putting my first ever commercial on this little accretion of blather and bloviation. I'm not very good at commercializing either because I'm not getting a dime for this, nary a farthing in my pocket nor drachma in my Grecian urn.
Click on the display ad to the right and when you get to their site you'll see a topic for music. That's where you can listen to samples of the cuts on this recording and then buy two copies....one for yourself and one to give to someone you like. It's a nice CD, all shiny on one side and pretty much as round and flat as it ought to be. It comes complete with a hole in the middle and everything. Some insertion required. (Caution: If you live south of the equator, be sure and note that on your order so they'll send you the version that rotates in the opposite direction!) Do it tonight...right now...they'll send it to you and you'll be happy and I will have done something nice for humanity.
That's my CD flog and I'm stickin' to it....
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| That was then and this is now... |
| 06.05.05 (1:16 pm) [edit] |
One night in the late fall of 1957 when I was 12 years old I stood, probably barefoot, on the dry sharp St. Augustine grass in our back yard in Waco Texas, staring up into the central Texas sky. My friends and I would have been barefoot because the central Texas summer is late to fade. It was usually a weather front blowing in off the Texas panhandle that would drop the temperature by 20 degrees in a matter of minutes and force us back into shoes during non-school hours.
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The Russians had launched Sputnik on October 4th and we were trying to watch for it as it went overhead. I tell my self that I saw it go over but I really can’t be sure. Things I have read since then imply that it would not have been bright enough to see. I’m pretty sure I recall something, more than likely the booster rocket but we were in Texas after all and everything is bigger and brighter there, right?
No matter; the point of this is that today, less than 50 years later, I sat in a place called Camille’s Sidewalk Café and connected to the Internet through their Wi-Fi link and a laptop computer. One of the headline stories on CNN.com was about Opportunity getting out of the sand that had it bogged down for the last 6 weeks.
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You’re thinking you don’t recognize that name, “Opportunity”, right? It’s one of the two Mars rovers and it was manipulated out of the sand by remote controls operated by scientists here on earth. The article included pictures of its own wheel tracks stretching out behind it as it moved away from where it had been stuck.
In 1957 we watched black and white TV and heard them play through the static a beep, beep, beep from a silvery sphere that would have looked like a chromed basketball with whiskers and then went outside to try and see it as it orbited over the flat land of Central Texas. Today I sat in a café in a Virginia shopping center as the screen of my laptop computer displayed pictures of man made wheel marks from 65,000,000 miles away in the deep dust of the Mars.
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Now if that’s not a paradigm shift, I don’t know what is…
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