Pink Martini was excellent! Definitely one of the best shows I’ve been to. Aside from the show, there was an interesting moment during intermission when all of the older symphony going folk were looking out of the big Blumenthal window out onto the Speed Street crowd. I couldn’t help feeling like we were looking out on to a wildlife enclosure at a zoo or game reserve. There was a big difference in the two cultures.

Sony Japan has some NICE car stereo systems. Like this one.

New KHeavy soon. Industry v2. Old v1 site here.

Pink Martini is coming to Charlotte! Finally a good lounge band comes to Charlotte.

There was something else I wanted to blog, but I just can’t remember it now.

Mark Fiore has some great political flash cartoons.

Insurance only went up $30/mo. with the new car! Yippie!

The damned Neon finally drove me to a new car. 2003 Hyundai Tiburon GT V6. It’s puuuuurrdy!

Thanks for the mention Robbie, but I’m not sure how I’m going to pay for it yet … guess I’ll figure it out when I get the bill.

Apple did a speed bump on their iBook line. It’s not enough, IMHO. They should keep it in line with the iMac, but then it would top their PowerBooks. Any speed G3 is too little to run OSX. Instead of making the OS faster, they are just hitting it with GPU acceleration, RAM, and processor cycles. Sigh. Try again.

This is a very smooth web site. The pop up windows are nice also.

The future of propulsion LIFTERS! More here. Antigravity rules.

Amway == Quixtar

I met a guy while in line at Mel’s Subs the other day at lunch. We started chatting and that I mentioned what I do for a living, i.e. it’s not what I went to school for. Not that it makes my job a bad one. Suday evening, I get a call from the guy (he looked me up! creepy). Said he had an ecommerce thing going and was looking for some help with it and would I meet him for lunch? Ok, I met with him. He wants me to go to a seminar next week and hear all about this wonderful unique business opportunity. A Google search turns up a lot of information on this cult/business. Seems that Amway isn’t very proud of it’s own name. Funny.
I don’t respect ‘em enough to link ‘em.

Wired has a few articles on Quixtar.

Watched the bootleg copy of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones on Saturday night and I learned something. When you watch a “summer special effects blockbuster” in really grainy blurry quality, it completely wipes out all of the CG and lets you concentrate on the story … or complete lack of it. This movie sucks. But Yoda kicks serious ass. I guess I’ll still see it in a theater to watch the effects.

I havn’t looked at Chapter3 in a long time. Niiiiice.

That’s Our Busch

A few years ago I head a singer with a voice that could purify Satan. Tara Busch was doing karaoke at a Bucket Party in Charlotte … her voice was haunting. After I picked myself up off of the floor, I went to a show (sponsored by the local teen radio station, 106.5, bleh!) to hear her band (Sheva) play. Well, it was just her singing and another girl on a synth. Only lasted about 20 minutes, but it was heaven. I have been unsuccessfully looking to see them play for a while now, then I open Creative Loafing to a story about her. She’s now in Whales as the singer of a down-tempo lounge band (my favorite genre along with trip-hop): Dynamo Dresden. A Google search turned up this page at the BBC. I couldn’t get most of it to play (Real sucks!), but the one song (Playtime) wasn’t that bad. I’m starting to sound obsessed.

From this story on CNN: “An Irish priest who has repeatedly stated he does not believe Jesus Christ was the son of God has resigned.”

Damn! It’s about time something like this happened. Xtianity needs to rexamine its core foundations. Read this little article on his web site, it’s good. And if you’re in a thoughtful mode, browse Acharya S’s web site also. Her mailing list is really interesting also.

Things to do.

I’ve been drinking less coffee and eating salads. I feel better.

Thought: maybe I’ll try and get another iBook when Apple releases a G4 one with OsX.2? They are pretty little MP3 players.

I need freelance work!

Well, nothing new today obviously. I’ve gotten a few ideas, but havn’t decided on a direction.

I’ve been checking the coverage of WWDC on this Slashdot story. OsX 10.2 looks like the winner that 10.0 and 10.1 should have been all along. It will feature an graphics card enhanced (GPU) Quartz Express ui, but you need a brand new Mac with 32mb of video ram to use it . So all of the

Megatight it is.

Turn your Windows desktop into a 3d space adveture. This looks kinda cool.

Another redesign coming by Monday.

My love is Flawed.

I live in the 9th worst smog filled city in the US. I must visit Ashville more, so much cleaner up there!
There is an interesting discussion on Race vs. “Urban Youth Culture” vs. everyone else here on the Ars Openforum. Page 2 is more insightful than page 1.
I left Progress Quest (see below) running all night and I’m up to level 23! Rock!

My cat is pretty sick. Vet says it’s an upper respiratory infection, but she sounds like a duck. It’s really sad.