Spasmodic Dysphonia. That’s the speech impediment Dilbert creator Scott Adams suffered from for several years. An interview in Wired magazine describes Adams’ trials and tribulations. This is how the article describes spasmodic dysphonia as it occured in Adams: [He'd] open his mouth to talk, only to find the words tumbling out in a raspy, imperceptible [...]
So here we go: my first podcast. As I’m a huge classical music nerd, my podcasts will cover music I like; each podcast will be centered around a vague theme or idea. In the first podcast we have: Charles Koechlin: Sonatine No. 2, Op. 87: III, Menuet Einojuhani Rautavaara: A Tale of Fate, “Book of [...]
I’ve been meaning to upgrade my computer for a while now. Although I’m very happy with what I have now–a nice AMD 64-FX processor, 2 gigs of RAM, 2 hard drives adding up to 570 gigs–my hard drives are filling up with music and movies and I don’t want to get rid of anything. The [...]
Not much in the way of carefully reasoned opinion in this post except the following: If those wealthy republican assholes in congress screw us out of affordable health care again, I will be very angry.
Our move to California is coming closer and closer: Jenny and I will be leaving for the Bay Area (Emeryville, to be more exact) three weeks from today. We’ve been trying to pack for a few days now, but it seems that all we’ve done so far is turn our place into a labyrinthine trash [...]
First things first: I uploaded 56 pictures of our Eurotrip to Flickr. You can check them out here. In other news: after 60 years, Jimmy Carter has left the Southern Baptist Church over its “subjugation of women”. Quoth Carter: At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men [...]
I uploaded some pictures to my Flickr account of my trips to California and Arizona in June. Check ‘em out!
After we got back from Norway, Jenny and I spent a day in London. Since we were running out of money, we decided to only go to free attractions. While a few of London’s more famous tourist traps–the Eye, Buckingham Palace, and Madame Tussauds, to name a few–are fairly pricey, the city has an amazing [...]
Urm… the US. We’re back in the US. The trip back was very smooth, no problems at all. I’ll post some pictures of England tomorrow, but for now it’s bed time!
Norway was… spectacular. Before I throw you a gigantic slab of text, here are some pictures. The first one is from my grandparents’ shinding on Sunday, thrown in for good measure. The trip there was kind of harrowing: there were four different modes of transportation, the first three of which–subway, train, airplane–had some mild snafu [...]
