Tag Archives: personal
Suspension of hostilities
Blogging will be sparse to non-existent for the next seven days. Compliments of the season to you and yrz, and see you on the other side…
Old geezer auditions contemporary dance mix, and is lost to reminiscences…
I’m approximately 73 percent of the way through the Optimo Essential Mix MP3, currently available for download from Pitchfork. It’s two hours long, and the main point of curiosity for me was: how does Ricardo Villalobos’ sprawling and peculiar minimal … more…
Self-portrait as South Park character
Create yourself a South Park character. You know you want to. I alternate between these two: Should you wish, you might equip your character from an exciting range of weapons, props and what-not… (via LifeHacker)
Under
I just had a rather unpleasant surprise: iTunes played me Thomas Newman’s theme music to Six Feet Under, and the effect was very similar to the onset of a panic attack — a feeling with which I am only too … more…
Year-end music audit
The last radical discontinuity in my iTunes data occured on August 8th last year, when I last transferred to a new hardware platform. So, now I have one year’s worth of music-listening data to examine. 14,952 tracks. 12,990 of them … more…
spacewalking
this is a message from the void. I’ve been deprived of net access at home since last tuesday – thanks a bunch, BT customer services – and I’m likely to remain so until somewhere in the region of next weekend. … more…
two days running
That makes two consecutive daily posts. And this makes three. I don’t want to even think about how long it’s been since that happened. Next thing you know, I’ll be actually linking to something…
a whole lot better
Insofar as you can have a good funeral, my mum had an excellent funeral. The turnout was gobsmacking: there must have been nearly two hundred people, many I had not seen in at least twenty five years. I think I’ll … more…
Eileen Agnes Robinson
7th March 1937 – 22nd February 2004 My mum passed away early on Sunday morning, after suffering a heart attack, out of the blue, on Friday morning. The ambulance team got her into resuscitation within 30mins of the attack, and … more…
see the join?
They say that everything is accelerating, but the more new years that go by, the harder it is to tell the difference. Nevertheless, Happy new year to you and yrz. I hope 2004 turns out better than it threatens to … more…