"I can't believe you're still using that screen saver," she said.

Whatever. I came upon these cool screen savers that plasq makes. (via Create Digital Motion)

There is (apparently, don't laugh - altho I get quite lonely, I can't know everything) a technology that ships with OS X Tiger called Quartz Composer, upon which these screen savers are based. Here is some more information on Quartz Composer (QC), via Apple, via Wikipedia, and via QuartzComps.

Plasq also makes this thing called Wormhole that looks toooooo cool.

And from the "You're not old skool" file comes this. That's right, wood and some other components.

Yes, I like John Frusciante. Check out this interview with him on effects, etc. Complete with close-up pictures of his live pedalboard!

The most excellent Gutterbreakz blog is offline for a redesign, but they've left us PLENTY to read and listen to. That Blogroll list down the left alone is awesome! Thanks!

26 years ago today, one of my heroes, John Bonham of Led Zeppelin died of an alcohol overdose. Go watch some videos of Bonham and some Bonham enthusiasts.

Speaking of music and heroes, there is a community developing around The Mahavishnu Orchestra. A new book about the band, some collectible artwork, musical analyses, etc. are all surfacing. Go here for more. Some looks quite wack, but some looks quite interesting for the nerdily inclined.

Why radio sucks (+ other stuff to distract you from that idea)

Here is a unique real-time Flash app that shows what songs are beginning to play in various U.S. markets east of the Mississippi River. Note that it looks like the playlist from every frat party or college bar you've ever attended. (Everyone has, at least once.)

More writing with water. (via Spherical Robots)

The Greylodge Podcasting Company carries great media links, including Podcasts and films downloadable via Bit Torrent.

Quite a good reading list! (via Speak Up) Speak Up also does an interesting thing called, Word It. I am a fan of the doom one, myself.

STEAL THIS FILM! (I'm still downloading, but I like the concept.)

Free audio books from ThoughtAudio.

May 16th of this year marked the 40th Anniversary of the release of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album. A guy named Clayton Counts did a mashup album with pairwise track-by-track mixes of Pet Sounds and The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. The mashups are pretty dope, especially if you are a fan of both albums and understand that Sgt. Pepper's woudn't exist if it weren't for Pet Sounds. The lush stuff with the strings is quite good in mashup form. You have to use Soulseek or something to get the whole album, because of an EMI Cease & Desist order around making this available on websites and blogs. I found it quickly on Soulseek.

Great quote (well, modified)

Original:

Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... To the future. To the horizon. Never his mind on where. He. Was. Hmm? What. He. Was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Feh. Excitement. Feh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!

Modified:

Ready to get shit done, are you? What know you of getting shit done? For eight hundred years have I trained people who get shit done. My own counsel will I keep on who gets shit done. A person who gets shit done must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... To the future. To the horizon. Never his mind on where. He. Was. Hmm? What. He. Was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Feh. Excitement. Feh. A person who gets shit done craves not these things. You are reckless!

Made me think, anyway. Know anyone like this? I know you do.

And, from the "everything is as it should be" file,

Tonight's late-night snack partner

Here she is. Lucky me! Cat bro!

I had my lawn mowed today, and tonight, she appeared. I know she's been around because I've seen her scurrying away when I pull up to my place. When I went out for coffee at like 10:30 tonight, she was there, and I coaxed her into playing with me. I played with her until she (playfully) bit me. But she was giving me super hard headbutt action! I went in and got a bowl of my cat's dry food and left it for her. The first pic there is of her trying to figure out what to do with the big white bowl.

When I came back from coffee like 45 mins later, she was still there, lying on my cool garden wall. (!!!) I hit the supermarket on the way back and I got 3 cans of soft/wet food that were on sale. I opened one of those babies, and she went to town! Very happy. Very very very happy cat. More hard headbutting!

She is a female, and as you can see, she has a calico sort of pattern. She appears to be feral, yet also appears to be declawed. Interesting. She is pretty skinny and was obviously very hungry. I'll try to go out and meet her again tomorrow night with more food.

My new neighborhood cat bro!

Peep it. Consumption reduction plan, pt. 1

Thanks to Niki at Mobius Cycles in Seattle for her help. The thing rides real nice now.

My goal: bring down my gas consumption by 1/3. And soon. Certainly by year's end.

Next thing is to figure out how to carry a drum kit on the back of this thing. In the rain.

Currently listening to, Exhumed, "Platters of Splatter"