Part of the fun of the Blogenning is that once a week someone chooses a topic for you. Some weeks it’s incredibly easy and some weeks you have nothing to say about that subject and just have to roll with it. This week Ian has decided we’re talking about National Novel Writing Month. I’ll let... Continue Reading →
Blogenning Theme Of the Week: Costumes
Part of the fun of the Blogenning is that once a week someone chooses a topic for you. Some weeks it’s incredibly easy and some weeks you have nothing to say about that subject and just have to roll with it. This week Tom has decided we’re talking about Halloween costumes. I’ll let you decide where this... Continue Reading →
Playing Music is About Having Fearless Style
There are two things holding back most musicians: lack of practice and fear. Most good musicians are acutely aware of their weaknesses when it comes to their particular instrument (your voice counts as an instrument). It could be a lack of dexterity or strength, weak lung capacity, weak knowledge of musical theory and how it... Continue Reading →
Blogenning Theme of the Week: Things I Dislike
Part of the fun of the Blogenning is that once a week someone chooses a topic for you. Some weeks it’s incredibly easy, some weeks you have nothing to say about that subject and just have to roll with it. This week Andrea has decide we're talking about things we dislike. I’ll let you decide... Continue Reading →
Blogenning Theme of the Week: Writer’s Block
Part of the fun of the Blogenning is that once a week someone chooses a topic for you. Some weeks it’s incredibly easy, some weeks you have nothing to say about that subject and just have to roll with it. This week we’re talking about writer's block. I’ll let you decide where this one falls.... Continue Reading →
Albums You Should Listen To This Week
There's some great new stuff that's come out lately. Here's a taste of some songs from those albums: "Solved" by MC Frontalot off of his album "Solved" "Brendan's Death Song" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers off the album "I'm With You" "Yellow Belly" by Thrice off of the album "Major/Minor" "Dimitri Mendeleev" by Astronautalis... Continue Reading →
In Which I Fail To Understand My Relationship With NYC
I went down to NYC this week to to visit Rachel and celebrate her birthday with her. A tremendous time was had in the process. I took an early morning Amtrak train down on Saturday morning, arriving around 1pm. I had about 5 hours to kill until I needed to be at a restaurant in Brooklyn, so I decided... Continue Reading →
Things I Learned Today
At work: The mail server we use as part of our server environment is, in fact, scriptable, but only exposes a COM interface. I now get to figure out how to hook in to it from C#, and pray that I can write managed code to talk to it in a sane way. Energy Option Swaps are... Continue Reading →
Blogenning Theme of the Week: Language
Part of the fun of the Blogenning is having another person choose a topic for one of your three mandatory weekly posts. Some weeks it's incredibly easy, some weeks you have nothing to say about that subject and just have to roll with it. This week we're talking about language. I'll let you decide where... Continue Reading →
Songs Are Tricky Little Things
Writing a song can be a real pain in the ass. It gets even worse when you feel like you need to come up with a wealth of new material all at once. With the hiatus of Far From There and looking for a new direction, it's sort of fallen on me to crank out... Continue Reading →