I’m back after a week in The Bahamas. Here’s the review I wrote for TripAdvisor about the place where we stayed. I’d recommend it, with a few minor reservations.
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Archive for May, 2009
Newbuntu Ubuntu
There’s a new version of Ubuntu Linux out, and it’s the OS that — well, it won’t make you leave Microsoft Windows, but it might tempt you to cheat a little on the side. I wrote a post about it for NPR’s All Tech Considered blog.
New posts Randy 06 May 2009 No Comments
Why I play music
I was surly when I came home Monday night. I snapped at my wife for no real reason, the dog gave me a wide berth and I didn’t get a chance to eat before I went to my regular Monday night gig at the Evening Star Cafe.
And a party broke out. We played for three hours at what is supposed to be a two-hour show, the unusually rowdy crowd danced and sang, and all hints of surliness evaporated.
I don’t exercise much any more, I don’t watch what I eat the way that I should and I have a high-stress job. This Monday night gig is the healthiest thing I do.
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By the way, you can find live recordings of couple of Evening Star sets from earlier this year here.
New posts Randy 05 May 2009 No Comments
A Blackberry Jam
(Kudos to my friend Bill, who introduced me to the above phrase last night):
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At 7:25 p.m., the Blackberry vibrates. It’s a text message from my brother-in-law.
“Are you at the NATS game?” he asks. The Nationals are playing the Cardinals. He lives in St. Louis.
I respond in the affirmative and send him a picture:
“Do they suck as much as the STL commentators say?” he responds.
“2 wild pitches. 2 walks. Pujols HR in the 1ST INNING. THEY SUCK,” I retort.
Thus continues a text message exchange that goes casually back and forth over the next several hours, as the Nats tie the game, go ahead, blow the lead and eventually get crushed by playing some of the most sublimely awful baseball you can imagine (errors, walks, wild pitches, outfielders with little range, even a run-scoring balk comes into play).
In the middle of all of this comes e-mail that NPR is about to report that Justice David Souter will retire. This leads to a frantic blizzard of back-and-forth e-mails…and more text messaging from my brother-in-law…and more e-mails and texting.
Meanwhile, there was a baseball game going on. I hardly noticed. I was wearing business attire and sitting in the club seats and hammering away at my Blackberry and ignoring the baseball game. When did I become that person?
New posts Randy 01 May 2009 No Comments