Never been one to let the carrier drop

Feeling seriously unwell today. Not sure why.

Must find my SQL server disks.

S.

Any of you all who are feeling *really* nice might post a link to www.mischiefcommittee.org in your journals, so that we’ll get pagerank points. If you like, I’ll set up a Fans page which links back to you in turn 😉

I’d like to get onto page 2. That’s my goal. 😉

Just in order to give it some PageRank points, Eben’s radio station is at www.radioalchymy.com. She does conspiricy-theory stuff in the Art Bell stripe..

And some of it might even be true. 😉

made us a kickass logo for the web site. Check it out:

Mischief Committee

Coming soon: Studio tracks!

So I had completely forgotten about MC’s recording session tonight.. but no big deal. We got a lot done on ‘Depleted Uranium’ – this track is going to be _insane_ – I’m thinking of having Patti #2 [Henceforth referred to as Rickshaw Patti to avoid confusion.. I think that’s her name.. I’m so bad with names] do the vocals. Yes, it’s going to have vocals! Tory is letting me write the words, and of course, with a title like depleted uranium you know they’re going to be .. hm.. interesting. I’ll post the first draft sometime..

But, in the meantime, we got a lot done, and we had a short jam session afterwords in which we made some serious progress towards adding ‘Don’t fear the reaper’ to our covers repitoire.. which I think would be FUNNY as anything. Especially since Alex is going to get a actual, real cowbell to play on stage, and we’re going to try and find a copy of the SNL cowbell skit, and grab some samples…

In the meantime, I talked to a person who is going to do our costumes, maybe. Our costumes, for those of you not in the know:

me: white gandalf robe lined with blue glow wire, blue felt pointy hat with fiber-optic designs that flash to the MIDI beat.
Tory: Mad scientists coat, ‘Doc Brown’ style glasses lined with glow wire.
Alex: Day-glo double-breasted suit lined with white glow wire, sceptre (think Ruby Rohd) that pulses to the MIDI beat

It’s gonna be great. Doubt if we’ll have them done by the CD release party, but I expect we’ll have them before our show on the 30th..

I’ve never been in a band with costumes, and a logo before. (much less a CD! ;-))

Also, Tory is going to do Karioke with me sometime, and do ‘don’t fear the reaper’. (if it’s not available in kareoke-disk form, we’ll just record the backing tracks to our version.. I mean, hey, why not? ;-))

Other plans: Making ‘wheels-of-autumn’ style lighter-stickers with our web site and our logo on them.

Mischief Managed.

S.

According to http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133214,00.html , vote results for the 30 states that are using the new Diebold touch screens will be tabulated using a VBA app written inside MS Access.

Let’s review. Your future is dependant on MS Access. The audit logs are *easy* to delete. The database is so secure that I could hack it in a few minutes, typing with my nose!

MS ACCESS??

The future of our country is going to be decided by Access database?

Please, tell me I’m having a bad dream here..

Well, hopefully I can get some good work done today.. woke, read my mail, discovered that nothing disasterous had happened. It’s strange, the emails I’m most worried about sending usually end up being the ones that get me in the *least* trouble. Probably because I put a lot of time into making sure they say exactly what I mean. It’s the quickly dashed-off ones that end up either annoying people or hurting feelings..

I’m hoping that my friends are coming to a understanding that I neither mean to hurt them or make them unhappy – in general, I’m the kind of person who enjoys seeing people made happy, and dislikes seeing them made unhappy.

By the way, I (heart) my new computer speakers. I just need to get a EQ up here so I can pump up the bass as appropriate.. the one in winamp seems to roll off awfully early, plus I keep running out of headroom on the sound card. (maybe I should put a 24bit card in this PC?)

Right now I’m listening to Annie Lennox.. ‘Little Bird’. A song that brings back memories, of a friend from long ago and far away, who took a road trip with me to see a U2 concert.. wonder where she is, and what happened to her. Hopefully, good things!

Some day I’m going to set up a telnet BBS (i might buy Cal’s license for ER) just to have a reunion spot for all of my lost net.friends – there’ve gotta be a few hundred of them by now.

I need to find a geek circle of friends to go with my raver circle of friends.. but even that is happening.. new links, new chains..

Everything’s going to be all right.

I talked to the landlord a couple of days ago about selling the house to me.. since all of my problems with this house have to do with the fact that I can’t modify it and can’t have pets in it – both of which would be solved if I bought it.

Of course, then I’d have to be a real adult and keep a consistant amount of work queued and whatnot.. I’m not sure if I want to grow up that much. But I really should.

Keep those ones and zeros coming!

i sit two stories above the street
it’s awful quiet here since love fell asleep
there’s life down below me though
the kids are walking home from school

some long ago when we were taught
that for whatever kind of puzzle you got
you just stick the right formula in
a solution for every fool

i remember the time when i came so close to you
sent me skipping my class and running from school
and i bought you that ring cause i never was cool
what makes me think i could start clean slated
the hardest to learn was the least complicated

so i just sit up in the house and resist
and not be seen until i cease to exist
a kind of conscientious objection
a kind of dodging the draft

the boy and girl are holding hands on the street
and i don’t want to but i think you just wait
it’s more than just eye to eye
learn the things i could never apply

i remember the time when i came so close with you
i let everything go it seemed the only truth
and i bought you that ring, it seemed the thing to do

what makes me think i could start clean slated
the hardest to learn was the least complicated
so what makes me think i could start clean slated
the hardest to learn was the least complicated

i’m just a mirror of a mirror myself
all the things that i do
and the next time i fall i’m gonna have to recall
it’s isn’t love it’s only something new

i sit two stories above the street
it’s awful quiet here since love fell asleep
there’s life down below me though
the kids are walking home from school

i’m remember the time when i came so close with you
sent me skipping my class and running from school
and i bought you that ring cause i never was cool

what makes me think i could start clean slated
the hardest to learn was the least complicated
so what makes me think i could start clean slated
the hardest to learn was the least complicated
the least complicated
the least complicated

One of the oddest things is to click ‘send’ on a email that you know has the potential of turning into a disaster.

The problem is, mails, once sent, are gone.. they’re at the other end.. there’s nothing you can do. And yet, there’s this urge, get the mail sent while you still have your nerve, that kind of thing.

I’m back in Seattle. I appear to have made it intact. Sunday night I went to Deep with Brenda [It’s always striking me as funny.. Deep plays very christian-oriented house, but somehow I can easily ignore this fact and just ride the vibe – but when I go into a christian church, I can’t help but feel anger about every fifth word. And I don’t want to, particularly.. I don’t want to hate christianity, or christians.. I’m delighted if it helps you get closer to PLUR – it’s just not my cup of chai. I think I have Issues.]

Anyway, sunday night was fun.. spent way too long talkin’ politics and conspiricies with Brenda and James afterwords, but hey, what’s a mini-vaca for?

Monday, woke up around 3 (!) and cruised back down to Brendas for some hackifying on her web site – finally got the streams and playlist management up! Yay, only a year and a half after we start, we actually finish! 😉 Anyway, she seemed happy.

Hung with James and went to King Taco, which was mucho tasty.. (anyone know any good Mexican places in Seattle? because so far, I’ve come up pretty short.. )

Went to catch my flight home, and when I was checking in, tried pushing the ‘Upgrade to 1st class’ button. And, darned if it didn’t print me out a first class ticket, free… I could learn to like this whole frequent flyer thing. Which means I had enough room to actually mousify, so I wrote a track in Reason. If there’s any interest, I might post it.. it’s most definately housy trance, or trance-y house or something.

Spent four hours fighting with the parking meters. They won.

Need to clean my living room something feirce. I’m having trouble finding places to put boxes, even.

Tomorrow I might be hangin’ out with Patti! Maybe we’ll get to record either some spoken word stuff or Hazy Shade of Winter. Links will of course be forthcoming if anything cool does get committed to tape.

I’ve also met another person who I might be able to lure into recording – we’ll see. So far no answer to emails suggesting same, but we’ll see. I guess I should also email squirrel-girl and see if she’s up for some recording..

Practice makes perfect in all things, including munging audio. Or so I keep telling myself.

In other thoughts…

Recently, posted a journal entry which sounded awfully familiar, and it got me to thinking about hawks and doves, PLUR and WHDD, and other similar opposites.

Why do some people enjoy seeing other people made unhappy? I flash back to my high school years, and the number of people who took pleasure in making me miserable.. discussions with and his significant-other-kinda tell me I was not alone in this at all.

If anyone might know the answer that I know / am friends with, it might be Alex. He’s got some tendancies to enjoy seeing other people made unhappy. Must remember to ask him the next time we talk..

I’m afraid though that it will be one of those conversations that is like ‘Why?’ ‘Because..’ ‘Why?’ ‘It just is..’

I have many more thoughts on this matter, but I just interrupted this post with a WSHR broadcast and now I’m rather tired (since it’s 6 am ;-)) and am going to go to bed.