The personal/public ranting of one eDWeiRD J. aCKSouGH...
eDWeiRD Says...
7/10/08
Things have been strange for me over the last few months. The creative process was wounded due to the ever moving target that are goals and too-much-time-on-my-hands syndrome. You'd think I'd be outputting a great deal of work, but I grew content in my relaxation. No more. I'm going to start planning out my days and checking things of my to-do list.
1/27/10
The people's historian has died this day. 87 is a long time to live, but it doesn't lessen our need for men like him. And so it goes.
Apple released the iPad today. For my needs it's virtually useless. I would rather it have the full version of OS X than the iPhone version of the OS. It would be way more versatile then. I can see it's usefulness in education, though. One to one laptop program? Screw that! Buy this. It's a closed environment meant to fail very infrequently. The ability to use it for text books and the web is nice. It has iWork for $10 an app. The only issues I see are a) how would you deploy them with all of the curriculum needed, b) since you can't just drag and drop documents to it, how exactly does one work with iWork, c) how would one print from this thing (srsly this is an issue in education even though printing paper should be irrelevant by now), and d) in order for the program to work these things need to go home with the kids. Is it durable enough to do that? I don't know, but we have two months for Apple to solve those issues or explain how they "just work." Regardless I think it has potential. Having seen quite a few kids with backpacks so heavy you wonder why their backs aren't broken yet, the idea of having all those books in a slim 1 pound computing device is very intriguing.
*Update* Arstechnica has a post-op that disaperates some of my fears.
Today I have owned my house for 4 years. PMI it was nice knowing you.
1/13/10
Someone can't seem to keep their hand out of the crazy box.
My favorite part of the whole article, “It’s pretty made up,” Palin said of the book (“Game Change” written by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann), which she said she has not read. Palin said she did not watch interviews with the two reporters or Schmidt on CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday because she was warned it was “bull.”
The real problem is that she's too pretty to just go away. If you believe this to be untrue take a close look at Paris Hilton's "career." This is the flip side of the power of pussy people. The seedy underbelly rife with white privilege, patriarchy, and the sweet sweet smell of greed.
On a musical note (um...sorry about that) I found new toys to lust after. You can look at them here. If someone wanted to be really nice and buy one of any of the three for me that would be really nice.
1/6/10
I'm a little freaked out. I have (hopefully) one more semester left to finish my bachelors degree in History. Then what? Fuck I don't know how to answer that. SRSLY. I'll likely try to get a job of some sort to bring in some money while I figure out grad school or some sort of certification on top of what I have. I definitely don't want to teach at the K-12 stage and I'd rather not teach at all. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
For now, I have the most awesomest girlfriend in the world, tons of friends, great pets, and my health.
I've started my next solo effort and it's going really well so far. The next As Yet To Be Named record is in it's beginning stages. Drumbeats are going down and more to come today. I'll post more here as things develop. School will need to come first but I'm hoping to clear out some projects as I go through the semester. Chris is working on some video stuff to go up on here (Porkfist, Rustbelt Unsemble) and I'm going to start storyboarding an improvisational film I've been thinking about for awhile now.
Anyway, I should go pay some bills.
PS. This is out of context because of some minor technical glitches we're working out.
1/7/10
"If there's a lesson to be learned from the last two hundred years, it's that while communication devices will invariably magnify us to the latest degree, they won't fix us. We've got to fix ourselves. We're the ultimate glitch. And if there's no code or universal workaround for us so far, there's always hope."
It's pretty much true as far as I'm concerned. I've never really seen technology as the solution for every problem. Is it a great communication tool? Of course it is. Can it it put food on the table? Not entirely and certainly not for everyone.
Today is my first day of school. I have three classes to get through. Fortunately Lauren's in one of them. The sad thing is she's leaving right now to go to her first class. It's 9am.
Worked with Randy in the studio last night. Awesome ensued!
11/24/09
Yeah, it's been awhile. New sites up now. Go peruse.
Now on to the fun. I'm in Pennsylvania for the holidays. I'm surrounded by children glued to a Looney Tunes cartoon. We're all laughing at the same time, but at totally different stuff. Here's what I'm laughing at. That's what they get for not studying!
9/20/09
I think I spend too much time on Facebook. There are cobwebs and crickets going on in here.
So I'm in school now and I'm already behind. I spent Friday getting domestic stuff dealt with instead of studying and I'm really all the better for it. I have my mortgage payment lowered now. This is a good thing short term, but I'll need to refinance again once I'm working full-time. It went down so low that, if I'm careful, I'll even be able to fix a few things around the house.
I love tai-chi! I have class every Saturday, but I've already worked the moves into my regular workout routine. I use it as the cool down part of my three day a week workout. Then I do just the tai-chi on Tuesday and Thursday. Cutting alcohol out of my diet back to one day a week has helped enormously too. The litle bit of gut I picked up is slowly leaving.
Musically things are a little on hold, but I'm working out getting my newest solo effort posted to Tunenami. I'll be hitting up FB and the mailing list after everything is working.
Anyhow, I should go study.
8/5/09
Maynard gets feedback on a thread on prostitution in Ypsi from a former hooker. A stellar read.
7/26/09
It's nice when people you know and like get the recognition they deserve.
Scott Beal's blog went live today on the same site.
7/4/09
Ok America, on the day of your birth, do we really need anymore reason to send this one packing than the following excerpt from the New York Times?
"But at another point she invoked a military quotation, misattributing it to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in what seemed to be an effort to wave aside any suggestion that she was abandoning the fight. “He said, ‘We’re not retreating; we are advancing in another direction,’ ” she said. (The remark was actually said by Maj. Gen. Oliver Prince Smith.)"
I mean seriously folks, is the woman that lazy or is she just too stupid to look up a simple quote? This is one of the things she has a staff for; to make sure she doesn't look dumb in public. I tried watching the speech, people. I couldn't do it. It was that pathetic. I'll also go on record here and say that she's not going any further in politics. She's going to use her degree in Journalism and become the peachy keen version of Anne Coulter. You watch. It'll happen right after she finishes her book. Unless she and her husband end up in jail first.
Also in the news was an Australian website trying to say Facebook is racist. White flight my ass. Myspace is ugly. Read the comments in Digg to understand why Myspace is failing. Nice try Rupert. Nice try.
BTW Leighton Mann has joined our ranks and is now 40.
6/23/09
So I've been pretty good about sticking to my schedule. School's on track. My recording projects are going well. I even found time to clean the house and do some reading. Funny what you can accomplish when you don't have a job standing in your way. Now if I can make it without turning on the air conditioner...
6/12/09
It's been a while. Sorry. I'm officially done at Saline next Thursday. I'm exhausted from doing next to nothing today. Next week I clean out my office. I can't wait for it all to be done, honestly. As someone said to me yesterday, "Things have gotten really toxic." Amen. I'm burnt out and my art has suffered for it all year.
I have a slew of projects on my plate and I plan to finish all of them as soon as i don't have to go to work anymore. Anthea and I have not worked on our record since I spoke of it last. I have tracks that I freeformed months ago that need to be played with and mixed. Goossen and I did a record together that I need to mix. I dug up some older material we did around 2000-01 that I need to mix too. Even some stuff with Toth that was stellar. Plus I'm remixing the Ladder Jak record Goossen and I recorded for those guys back in the mid 90's. I have a lot to do.
All that plus teach myself Unix and basic electronics, get my fall school schedule done and paid for, get on unemployment, and then get my mortgage taken care of. Ugh. It's a big hassle, but I'm really happy to be going through it. It's just scary.
BTW I'm looking for a roommate too.
4/05/09
"Your ability to blog whatever you want is no good if some stranger keeps breaking into your house and stealing stuff."
3/13/09
"Why don't you get back to doing your job, so I don't have to do it for you." paraphrasing Jon Stewart.
4/05/09
"Your ability to blog whatever you want is no good if some stranger keeps breaking into your house and stealing stuff." Like the Phoenix police dept?
3/13/09
"Why don't you get back to doing your job, so I don't have to do it for you." paraphrasing Jon Stewart.
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