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jim on 12/16/2004 in
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Here’s a nice year-end wrap up of must-hear albums from the NYC music store, Other Music. Of those artists I recognize, I agree with most of their comments. I think the Shins’ first album is a little better than Chutes Too Narrow, but other than that, the list is a good checklist for the next time you’re surfing I tunes.
And as an aside, Kent mentioned a Glaswegian band in his comment here. I laughed when I read Franz Ferdinand’s album described as Glaswegian quartet’s potent mix of jagged post-punk guitars.
It hit today. Sweet. Definitely a historic moment–not only for the world of open source software–but for marketing/advertising as well. (Kent: if you can save it so I can see it in hardcopy, I’d appreciate it.)
Published by
nav on 12/15/2004 in Uncategorized
When something very intense is happening, do you sometimes hear the voice in your head say, “This is real. This is so real.”? Later, thinking back, do you sometimes wonder if it ever really happened at all? Everybody, even if they never heard the word Descartes, knows that Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” Only philosophy buffs and college students in certain classes know if he ever said anything else at all. I think, therefore I am…. What every once in a while I find myself wondering is, I think, therefore I imagine I am, but am I? And if I was only slightly more mentally askew, I might wait for a tremendously hot building fire and strip myself naked inside… searching for answers. But even then, could I be sure if I was thinking I am and only thinking, or if I really was? (And if I was then in this case was is all I’d ever be again.) During fantesticle sex when my mind sings out in mental soprano, “This is real! This is so real!” am I at risk later when I’m all alone of being assured by my mind that I made it all up? That’s up to my mind, and how cruel it would be if I was only slightly more mentally askew.
i’ve got a question up on slashdot this morning. As much as slashdot has more noise than signal lately, the ask slashdot site has been of help to me several times. The comments (read at +4) are sometimes helpful, but what’s particularly good about ask /. are the emails you get from people offering their advice. This morning’s particular ask slashdot resulted in a contact from the Director of Science from Chicago’s Public School system.
If you’ve got any ideas re: things the IT shop at the statehouse can do w/r/t sponsoring, volunteering, organizing, etc. tech-minded high-school students, drop a comment below.
David Brooks has a good piece in today’s NYTimes. Brooks should stay off of TV and stick to writing. The author of Bobos in Paradise (which Bob Wagmiller turned me on to a while back), Brooks is best when he’s poking fun at the punditry that takes itself so seriously. Seeing him on News Hour makes his observations just a little bit too self-referential and I started to get a bit burned out on him. His piece today gets closer to why I liked him to begin with.
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