Posted in Art, Education, tagged edin, john dowland, music, sting on May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I know this is going to be old news to some people. I first heard of this through PBS in 2006. I just got inspired to write about it now.
Sting, with Edin Karamazov, created a wonderful collaboration, bringing back to life the 400 year-old music of John Dowland. Sting and Edin, both playing lutes, and Sting [...]
Posted in History, Technology and Software, tagged 16bit, Amiga, Atari, Commodore, History, ST on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
A while back I wrote my “Reminiscing” series of posts talking about the history of the machines I used growing up, as I remembered it. I came upon a few materials on reddit over a period of about a month that gave more authoritative histories of the Atari ST and Amiga. They’re really neat to look [...]
Posted in Technology and Software, tagged computers, PC, retail, software on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m now back home after a long trip (though my busy-ness has not ended), and I noticed that my local CompUSA store, as far as I can tell, is still here.
This is old news, but I happened to look for information on the fate of CompUSA, and I found an article saying that the store chain was bought [...]
Posted in Just For Fun on May 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been extremely busy lately and so haven’t had time to post as much as I’d like. I saw this video a little while back, and I thought, “Okay, cute.” Over time it’s grown on me, so I thought I’d share it with you all.
“An Engineer’s Guide to Cats”
There’s something about this video that when I watch it [...]
