January 2010
9 posts
iPad Big Picture
They’re not getting into the CPU business for kicks, they’re getting into it to kick ass. http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/ipad_big_picture Posted via email from Truetone | Comment »
Vegas 2010 Set II
Trip Highlights: Indoor Sky Diving Sensi (Restaurant in The Bellagio) Hoover Dam Lotus of Siam (Thai restaurant in a nondescript strip mall.) Fremont Street Amazing design & architecture along The Strip Peppermill Fireside Lounge Nuclear Testing Museum James Bean (The only entertaining part of the X-Burlesque show)Trip Lowlights: Getting caught in traffic on The Strip Sunday night. X-Burlesque...
Vegas 2010 Set I
Sometime bizarre, sometimes beautiful, always to excess. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Truetone | Comment »
On the Old Strip (Fremont St.)
Vegas is so bizarrely over the top.— Sent from my Palm Pre Posted via email from Truetone | Comment »
The View Outside Our Room
Vegas is a bit like a giant strip mall comprised of a bunch of Malls of America. At worst, a pale shadow of real American culture. At best, a city of high end dining, gambling & expensive entertainment.— Sent from my Palm Pre Posted via email from Truetone | Comment »
Amazing OK Go Video
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo. Posted via email from Truetone | Comment »
2010 Resolution #1: More Rock, Less Rock Band
The number of rock shows I played in 2009 vs. the number of times I played Rock Band. This is a ratio I need to reverse in 2010. Posted via web from Truetone | Comment »
My Musical Life in Review
In a little more than a month, I will turn 40. I was excited to turn 20, which was quickly trumped by 21, not so excited about 30 and I’m ambivalent about 40. Forty seems like a pretty good time to do some soul-searching and look back at life. It also feels like a time to stop wallowing and move forward. So let’s have some fun. Thus begins the event horizon of my 40th birthday....
The Wordy Shipmates
[Reverend John] Cotton’s sermon is titled “God’s Promise to His Plantation.” He begins with one of the loveliest passages from the book of Second Samuel, an otherwise R-rated chronicle of King David’s serial killer years. Chapter 7, verse 10: “I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and...