Author: splicer

I went in to Sum­mer­stage feel­ing pret­ty bad. For what­ev­er rea­son, my stom­ach has been upset since I land­ed on Thurs­day, and Fri­day night was about the worst of it. I felt like some­one had kicked me in the gut. It was get­ting so bad that the thought had crossed my mind that I should seek med­ical attention.

After watch­ing the first band, whose name I for­get and whose best fea­ture was the bass play­er’s rack, I sat down in … Read the rest

I know that wil­hem­i­na will rub my nose in this one, but I have to admit that NYC is one cool town.

Not quite will­ing to trade SF in, mind you, but I’ve had two real­ly great days among you N’yawkahs. Even though it poured down rain on me, I dug hang­ing out in Chelsea and the Vil­lage, and Cen­tral Park was great for running.

So, yeah. NYC thumbs up.… Read the rest

The boys looked old, but they played hard and rocked my world. Here’s what you missed:

• good thing
• girl U want
• whip it
• sat­is­fac­tion (gui­tar sound­ing eeri­ly like Snakefin­ger’s licks on the Res­i­dents’ ren­di­tion of same. Extra points for “how white my shit could be.”)
• uncon­trol­lable urge
• mon­goloid
• block­head
• jocko homo (includ­ing the “I’ve got a rhyme that comes in a rid­dle” inter­lude found on the ver­sion of the song on B Stiff)
• spud patrol/mister dna
• gut feeling/slap yo mammy
• gates of steel (Mark’s voice

I’m about to see DEVO live for the first time.

I fin­ished the 10K in under 60 minutes.

There are FIREFLIES here. I for­got how cool fire­flies are.… Read the rest

Fly­ing Jet­Blue to my Run­Hit­Won­der 10K I get to watch TV, and the flight just hap­pened to coin­cide with the cov­er­age of the Tour de France Stage 17. I won’t spoil the results or details for those of you who are wait­ing to see it on Tivo, but Lance kicked some seri­ous ass, both with some of the moves he made and the moves he did­n’t. It was a great stage.

Of course, this evening I’m not going to … Read the rest

If you can read this, I’ve land­ed safely.… Read the rest

I woke this morn­ing at 4:30 with the feel­ing that I was already behind. I was right. With a 7:00am flight I should be at the air­port by 5:00am in order to get through secu­ri­ty. Of course at that point I had­n’t seen my itin­er­ary in quite some time and I did­n’t real­ly know how late I was.

I packed my bags last night, so all I need­ed do was get dressed, feed … Read the rest

Today (oops, I mean last night) I moved the last truck­load of belong­ings from my old apart­ment to my new one. I no longer need run across town drag­ging box­es and equip­ment and whatnot.

And not a moment too soon, since in about 30 hours I’ll be board­ing a plane for NYC to see xris3 and van­dana­zoe and, I hope, meet jen­ny­bloog (psst! Are we still on for Run Hit Wonder?)

I’ve been wag­ing a war here against my … Read the rest

So I have DSL, I have my block of sta­t­ic IP address­es, and I have the serv­er set up. Now if I could just find the pow­er sup­ply for the net­work hub, I’d have email again.

I do have a ser­i­al con­nec­tion to the serv­er, so I’ve been able to read some of the emails folks sent to me before the whole damn thing col­lapsed. I will reply, real­ly. Give me a lit­tle time to get all this set back up. … Read the rest

Stu­pid thing num­ber one: my broad­band provider could­n’t even put in an order with­out an installed phone line. I had my new num­ber and the phone set up over a month in advance but until the line is actu­al­ly active there’s noth­ing any­one can do, apparently.

Stu­pid thing num­ber two: The line does­n’t need to just be in and work­ing. SBC takes their own sweet time after the line is installed mak­ing the news of the exis­tence of the line … Read the rest