Monthly Archives March 2003

Casting off baggage

So I’ve started playing the bass again. This might not sound like
a big deal, but it’s been four or five years since I put it down for a
bit, and I’m pretty happy to have finally gotten past whatever was in
my way.

What happened? The jazz performance program at McGill does not adapt
well to jazz players who [...]

The marketing of compact discs

I purchased two CDs today, and both have left me scratching my head.

The first is Daft Punk’s Discovery. I opened it up to find
a hinged middle bit as if it held two CDs, but it only contained one.
I didn’t expect it to be a two-CD set, but if they were going to give
me a hingy [...]

Beautiful bodypainting

The following links contain artistic
nudity.
Rudi Everts is a bodypainter
and photographer in Australia who has done an absolutely stunning
series of photographs
of bodies painted with the signs of the Zodiac.
These twenty-four photos — twelve signs on men and twelve on women –
is easily the best bodypainting I have ever seen, and the quality of
the photography matches the [...]

Puzzling

There were three things that I was puzzling over the other day.
I have forgotten two, but if I think of them, I’ll post them here
too. But I remember the third, and I’m hoping someone can explain.

It’s my understanding that Judaism has some strict requirement on how
long can pass between death and burial, and that the [...]

Genres suck.

Having obtained a suitably large hard drive, I am currently in the
process of ripping MP3s from all of my CDs. One part of this exercise
is tagging them with id3 tags, and in the back of my mind I know that
I have to have everything tagged just right if I am to be happy with
the results [...]

cis2k

According to CompuServe, we’re
right on schedule.