Hell, we moved out here from Florida, after the 2004 hurricane season. Damn glad to live where we only have to worry about bears or mountain lions coming down from the Sandias and maybe the earth opening up and swallowing Albuquerque.
As for taxes, so far, it seems pretty much a local thing; just state and county. If the voters don't want it, they can vote against it and vote the governor out of office. Or they can move. Vote with your feet.
How about a "Chicks will rip out your heart, throw it into the furnace (with your action figure collection) and act like they don't know you two days later on WoW, but since they have breasts, it's all cool." warning?
I haven't done any mixing, but I have helped some local bands and musicians (For Money or Nothing, Robin Zander) set up their recording equipment (sometimes for free, sometimes hired), helped with purchase decisions and even donated older stuff to them. I've also run lights for them at a show, if they're in town.
Other friends of mine do that private open concert thing. They started out having bands at their house and now, three times a year, a bunch of us will chip in to rent a VA hall and have a cool night of music and hanging out. Most of the groups aren't rock but we've had a recording ensemble, a medieval horn and pipe group (crum horn?), some Japanese drummers (had sushi chef there with $15 all you can eat) and a jazz duet couple. While none of these groups have sold a lot of CD's to us (around 10 or so a night), the word's put out on the net that they're up for house parties and such and so it goes.
I guess people have to learn to be a little more proactive about the music they like, and make it more of a dialog with musicians, instead of feeding at a trough. Lots of stuff in the trough but you only get what they give you.
iPod just popped up Wish I Could Fly (like Superman) this morning, on drive in. The live concert album of theirs, from the early 80's, is still damn good listening. What's funny though, is that while I love the Kinks' songs, whenever a late era Beatles' song comes on, I'm still finding new stuff there. Same thing with the Stones and, to a lesser extent, the Doors. Here's music I've been listening to for almost 40 years (still have original albums from back then) and the music's still interesting.
Towards the end of the article, it mentions possible gateway support. That would rock at my work, where we've ditched the Mac MS Messenger clients in favor of the web based one. And a lot of the Mac users are whining for iChat use. If we can run a gateway to our Messenger server, sweet!
they should release some client software/drivers for Windows that make it just as easy to connect that to their servers and services as Macs.
They already have Windows services in OS X Server 10.4. You can set it up to look like a Windows server, with AD and such. The rest of the services (POP email, web, LDAP, etc.) are pretty agnostic. I'm not sure about the iChat IM server. Is there a Windows client that can speak to it?
When I was in Desert Storm, on the ground about 30 miles south of Kuwait border, watching the bombing campaign, it was so sublime, the only thing I could compare it to was Tolkien's description of the attack of the Vanyar on Morgoth and Kurt Vonnegut's description of the firebombing of Dresden.
Off at the horizon, a small dot of light would drop down out of the burning oil clouds and then fly back up into the clouds. A moment later there would be a dull flash of yellow and red. A minute later, you could feel the explosion through the ground. The scale of this was just so far beyond human experience, it was unreal. Add to it, the strange perspective of being on a featureless plain of dirt, with a low cloud cover overhead and things didn't look right to the eyes.
Wasn't until years after that I found out about Tolkien being in the trenches of WWI and being shelled.
I hear ya.' I read through a couple of the House books but kept coming across so many plot errors and outright contradictions from the real Dune books, that I had to give the rest a pass.
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I was wondering what this exploit had to do with the Pirates of Penzance crew singing that Baby Got Back song.
Hot and scratchy; Check!
The one with the nice ass.
Hell, we moved out here from Florida, after the 2004 hurricane season. Damn glad to live where we only have to worry about bears or mountain lions coming down from the Sandias and maybe the earth opening up and swallowing Albuquerque.
As for taxes, so far, it seems pretty much a local thing; just state and county. If the voters don't want it, they can vote against it and vote the governor out of office. Or they can move. Vote with your feet.
Peace? You couldn't walk the streets at night!
One turned down being crowned king and didn't run for a second term. The other pushed spinning wheels?
I'll never know how the hell I ever got hooked up with this godforsaken species.
You did something really, really wrong in a past life and are now sentenced to spend several life times on Planet Stoopid?
How about a "Chicks will rip out your heart, throw it into the furnace (with your action figure collection) and act like they don't know you two days later on WoW, but since they have breasts, it's all cool." warning?
I only make margaritas, you insensitive clod. But just for you, I'll make some this evening and look into the blender.
Just some corporate branding by Firaxis.
The Trans-Siberian College of Cosmology and Dental hygiene?
Because if I wear it any place else, it chafes.
Why do you think they're selling all their oil to the west? Gotta warm things up up there and this way, they get paid for it.
I haven't done any mixing, but I have helped some local bands and musicians (For Money or Nothing, Robin Zander) set up their recording equipment (sometimes for free, sometimes hired), helped with purchase decisions and even donated older stuff to them. I've also run lights for them at a show, if they're in town.
Other friends of mine do that private open concert thing. They started out having bands at their house and now, three times a year, a bunch of us will chip in to rent a VA hall and have a cool night of music and hanging out. Most of the groups aren't rock but we've had a recording ensemble, a medieval horn and pipe group (crum horn?), some Japanese drummers (had sushi chef there with $15 all you can eat) and a jazz duet couple. While none of these groups have sold a lot of CD's to us (around 10 or so a night), the word's put out on the net that they're up for house parties and such and so it goes.
I guess people have to learn to be a little more proactive about the music they like, and make it more of a dialog with musicians, instead of feeding at a trough. Lots of stuff in the trough but you only get what they give you.
A local blues band (Backtrack Blues Band) is a bar band in Florida but gets really big gigs in Europe. Go figure.
iPod just popped up Wish I Could Fly (like Superman) this morning, on drive in. The live concert album of theirs, from the early 80's, is still damn good listening. What's funny though, is that while I love the Kinks' songs, whenever a late era Beatles' song comes on, I'm still finding new stuff there. Same thing with the Stones and, to a lesser extent, the Doors. Here's music I've been listening to for almost 40 years (still have original albums from back then) and the music's still interesting.
Dark Side of the Moon, Aqualung, Hotel California, and The Soft Parade are all swell albums with no weak tracks in them.
Towards the end of the article, it mentions possible gateway support. That would rock at my work, where we've ditched the Mac MS Messenger clients in favor of the web based one. And a lot of the Mac users are whining for iChat use. If we can run a gateway to our Messenger server, sweet!
they should release some client software/drivers for Windows that make it just as easy to connect that to their servers and services as Macs.
They already have Windows services in OS X Server 10.4. You can set it up to look like a Windows server, with AD and such. The rest of the services (POP email, web, LDAP, etc.) are pretty agnostic. I'm not sure about the iChat IM server. Is there a Windows client that can speak to it?
When I was in Desert Storm, on the ground about 30 miles south of Kuwait border, watching the bombing campaign, it was so sublime, the only thing I could compare it to was Tolkien's description of the attack of the Vanyar on Morgoth and Kurt Vonnegut's description of the firebombing of Dresden.
Off at the horizon, a small dot of light would drop down out of the burning oil clouds and then fly back up into the clouds. A moment later there would be a dull flash of yellow and red. A minute later, you could feel the explosion through the ground. The scale of this was just so far beyond human experience, it was unreal. Add to it, the strange perspective of being on a featureless plain of dirt, with a low cloud cover overhead and things didn't look right to the eyes.
Wasn't until years after that I found out about Tolkien being in the trenches of WWI and being shelled.
I hear ya.' I read through a couple of the House books but kept coming across so many plot errors and outright contradictions from the real Dune books, that I had to give the rest a pass.
Of course they had wings. Hildebrandt bros. anyone?
Am fearing how Pullman's His Dark Materials come out. But any story that has kids killing god can't be all bad.
Hell, I would be happy with just the story of Beren and Luthien.
Beware Melkor! HE WILL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!
He works over in cube H9: Claims adjustment.
I thought elegance died on the Titanic?