A great list of resources to find new and free music. Sure there’s going to be a lot of unknown artists in the mix, but there are a lot of amazing musicians you’ve never heard of. Definitely worth a look and a bookmark. In the interest of helping our readers stay out of jail and [...]
Archives for August 2008
Where’s the Mad Cow Disease Beef?
So, say you raise beef and you want to assure your customers that your product is safe and mad cow disease free. And let’s just say you want to spend your own money to test all of your cattle. You can’t. Beef exporters are banned from testing their cattle for mad cow disease without approval [...]
White Sands National Monument
I spent the afternoon & evening at White Stands National Monument and took a bunch (over 300) pictures. Most were rubbish but a few came out ok. I’ve posted those and some of my other New Mexico photos over in a Mobile Me gallery, but here are a few of the ones I like most: [...]
The Gambler’s Credo
You’ve got to know When to hold ‘em, Know when to fold ‘em Know when to walk away, Know when to run. You never count your money When you’re sittin’ at the table. There’ll be time enough for countin’ When the dealin’s done. I have spent the last two days with a stomach ache as [...]
Writing When Stuck
As part of my 500 words for 50 days, I need to make sure I meet my goal even when I’m stuck on whatever the main project is at the moment. Currently I’m rewriting a horror story about NYC subways and just couldn’t get my mind and fingers around what needed to happen next. Rather [...]
No Excuses for this kind of Politics
*Sigh* A few months later, Biden signed a letter that urged the Justice Department “to prosecute individuals who intentionally allow mass copying from their computer over peer-to-peer networks.” Critics of this approach said that the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America, and not taxpayers, should pay for their own [...]
On the Trail to Dripping Springs
If you take E. University Avenue east, it turns into Dripping Springs Road. If you follow that, eventually it turns to a dirt road, then, after a while, a paved one once more and you enter into the Dripping Springs Natural area. There are a number of hiking trails from the visitor center and these [...]
Land of the Free?
This is beyond ridiculous-ville and heading into scary totalitarian-land: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed its ruling on USA v Arnold this past Friday that Customs and Border Protection agents are free to seize your laptop at the border without probable cause. On July 10 the 9th Circuit denied the petition for en banc [...]
500 Words for 50 Days
When I was in MD a couple of weeks ago, I spent some time with Jo Cose and at one point I was urging him to just sit down and write the book he’s been wanting to write for a number of years. I said, “500 words, just make time for 500 words a day. [...]
SitRep on New Mexico
I’ve been on the quiet side lately as I try to get settled here in Las Cruces and figure out how to make this whole crazy thing work. I will write something a bit more detailed and emotionally richer in the next day or so, but wanted to just let folks know that I’m fine. [...]
