I spent M?nnertag working on a little tune for my friends at the BRN.

Claudia and some other friends are planning a puppet making workshop for the kiddies, and then a puppet show Saturday and Sunday at 19:00 in the Talstrasse. The Talstrasse is probably the least visited street at the festival, but it is truly the soul of BRN.

Anyway the girls have been working hard at putting together a spoof soap opera puppet show, and they enlisted me to make a theme song for it. I couldn’t back down; I bragged too much about how I studied music and even took a film scoring class. So, today I threw together this jam. Complete with a short little guitar solo by yours truly.

I won’t be in the puppet show, but I will most probably be ramming notes on garbage cans again this year at the corner of Tal and Louis.

No computery news today. I went out with my best gal to celebrate our 2 aniversary. Two whole years, and it seems like just 15 minutes. Underwater. Har har har…

We saw the Matrix film, as I might have already mentioned in class. Despite the critics, who are right, it is a fun film. I was surprised that it wasn’t as bad for me as I had expected (from reading reviews) and actually kind of philosophical for an action flick. Not sublimely deep, but deeper than expected.

And Claudi grudgingly admitted it wasn’t so bad, and capitulated and conceded that we’ll probably have to see part three this fall just to see how it all turns out.

I am a happy sheep. B????h.

Oh, look at the time. I’ve just spent an hour chatting with
alan.

He can talk, too, you know.

Because of the water damage, and because I had to clear out the kitchen for the wall dryer, I’ve been eating lots of frozen food which requires very little preparation, such as this
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Today two things from snappy high-tech business mag Business 2.0:

Hack your X-box, piss off Microsoft, enhance your quality of life. Apparently some clever kids are finding all sorts of auxiliary uses for their hacked X-boxes.
Here.
The things only cost 200 bucks, and apparently are getting cheaper. I’d get one, but wait… I don’t own a TV.

And,
this little darlin’ is even cooler than a V-board.

As my students probably guessed by now, I hate shaving. And why not? Any guy who genuinely looks forward to that morning shave is probably still going through puberty.
But lately I am getting a bit tired of the stubbly pirate look (even though my girlfriend thinks it is very manly) so fortunately I have found a possible solution.

Just two silly links today.

Build your own uphill waterfall and amaze your friends!

And,

Heroic monk catches crook, saves a cop. Be sure to watch the video to catch the –yechh– surprise ending.

Have a nice weekend.

Nothing to do with computers, really, but relevant to the hacker mentality:
lifters.
Build your own levitating triangle!

As long as you are going to listen to that godaweful racket, you may as well be informed about it. Know your techno history. –uhmm

Would-be war criminal’s Total Info database likes the way you walk, mama

Most of the article linked below isn’t news; it covers the TIA database and a few little updates. I linked to it because it has the word petabyte in it. Say it real fast. Petabyte. Petabyte. Knabbergeb?ck.

“The amounts of data that will need to be stored and accessed will be unprecedented, measured in petabytes […a petabyte is a quadrillion — 1,000,000,000,000,000 — bytes].”

story here