November, 22, 2003 archives

as suspected, some misguided folks oppose mandatory voting receipts as wisely required by california secretary of state kevin shelley. people like mischelle townsend, voter registrar of riverside county, should be bounced from office for not recognizing the very real problem demonstrated by the likes of the diebold voting machine shenanigans.

another book on my recently-read pile is a collection of the big sleep, farewell, my lovely, and the high window by raymond chandler. these are the first three of his novels, all featuring philip marlowe, and they are all fantastic.

one of the handouts at apachecon was a mouse from the java community process people. it’s a pretty cool mouse, with a good weight to it because it has an embedded floating duke. unfortunately, it’s not an optical mouse. so i’m going to stick with my old microsoft optical mouse (with the microsoft logo scratched off).

there’s probably a certain lopsidedness in thinking that today would be an excellent day to go to amoeba records because riding the red line would be free. save $2 to go spend what would most likely be way more than that.

better yet, béla fleck and the flecktones will be playing a free acoustic set there tomorrow.

the song in the ipod ad that duncan likes so much appears to be from the blue crush soundtrack. (it’s also available as a single.)

you can download a club mix and a radio mix of elvis presley’s rubberneckin by jason levins, who did the remix of n.e.r.d.’s rock star (the song from the ipod ad). they’re both excellent, but the radio edit is tighter. paul oakenfeld also did a remix of the elvis song, which originally appeared in a change of habit.

i’m still working on digging through boxes from my move, and in some cases re-packing boxes of stuff to give away. when going through my accumulated computer junk (486 motherboards, video cards, and 5¼" disk drives, oh my!) i found my registration info for {commo}, a very nice terminal application for dos. digging around a bit, i found the latest release (7.5: my registration was for 4.5), and news that the creator has passed on.

sunday is a good day for relaxing.

the performance by béla fleck and the flecktones was fantastic. i didn’t pick up their new album (i’ll wait until it hits the used racks), but i did lots of other damage:

• morricone rmx, various artists
• fragments of freedom, morcheeba
• blue crush soundtrack
• foundations granite, bedrock records
• how to operate with a blown mind, lo fidelity allstars
• alcatraz, the mr. t experience
• revenge is sweet, and so are you, the mr. t experience
• milk, milk, lemonade, the mr. t experience
• shoot the boss, monkey mafia
• houses of the holy, led zeppelin
• shootenanny!, eels
• 100th window, massive attack
• come with us, the chemical brothers
• animal rights, moby
• we be who we be, len

the len album (we be who we be) is actually a used advance copy. apparently the album didn’t get released, and it is probably caught in some sort of post-dreamworks records limbo.

once again, there was no sign of the beach boys’ pet sounds in the used section. there was also a dearth of used led zeppelin albums.