The Yam

Because Yam's are funny.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Recent songs are now listenable. Hm.

Now just have to go through all the old windows stuff.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

A beginning?

Here I go.

Compiling a 'potentials' album based on over five years of writing songs. Getting it all into itunes, making a couple cds of the useable stuff, and picking whatever I can salvage. This should be interesting. I *think* i've got something to offer the world, so we'll see what comes out of this project.

I've officially given up movies for the month to have more time to focus on this stuff (yes, I watch too many movies). Should be interesting.

Monday, August 13, 2007

The things you don't know

Amazing things that happened so long ago and I've never heard of. I always find it fascinating when I realize how much I really don't know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Very Cool

Scene completion of images that are missing information based on a database of several million other images. It finds suitable replacement material.

http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/scene-completion/scene-completion.pdf

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"The ideal of society where no visible public signs of religion would be seen -- no crosses around necks, no sidelocks, turbans or veils -- is a politically dangerous one. It assumes that what comes first in society is the central political 'licensing authority,' which has all the resource it needs to create a workable public morality."
- Archbishop of Canterbury

"Popular fundamentalist theology has often emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it. The saved man's relation to Christ has been made contractual instead of personal. The 'work' of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ. Substitution has been allowed to supersede identification. What He did for me seems to be more important than what He is to me. Redemption is seen as an across-the-counter transaction which we 'accept' and the whole thing lacks emotional content."
-A.W. Tozer, Born After Midnight

"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."
-Nietzche

"My assumption is that our poets tell us the truth, our painters paint what they see is true, our singers tell it to us "like it is". Yet our relationship with the arts is mediated by an insidious commerce. What would be the effect on our culture if we knew that Shakespeare lied to us for money? Lennon? Hendrix? Springsteen? Cobain?"
- Unknown

"America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve."
- Tom Morello

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