Changing things up?

Bear with me as I change the layout of the webpage. I may return to the original from time to time. But, I am trying to optimize the sidebar without losing anything. Update: There seem to be several posts that do not fit well with other themes available for WordPress....

Kurt Vonnegut in Second Life

Well I think this counts as the second time I’ve seen or heard Vonnegut give a talk. The first was at the Harold Washington Library and now in Second Life. If this, the Suzanne Vega performance, and the impending Duran Duran show doesn’t signal the...

The Instrument Setup

I’ve never really owned a fish tank. Yet, I find analogies to them all the time. The buffers they set up seem so ripe for metaphor. Here I use a fishtank analogy for a new piece of music equipment: I just got this foot pedal MIDI controller. As soon as I...

Suzanne Vega in Second Life

New World Notes: SUZANNE VEGA AND THE SECOND LIFE OF LIVE MUSIC Wow. Suzanne Vega performed in Second Life last night! She apparently did her original a cappella version of Tom’s Diner. It was also the first broadcast of a major radio provider into a virtual...

The Importance of Fun

“I think there’s a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like...

Hmmm…

– – – – —“I believe that this site has become far too serious as of late…” – S. – – –
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