2004

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[edit] 21 December 2004

[edit] 19 November 2004

This portrait of Heather and me has quite a story behind it...

[edit] 7 November 2004

I got nuthin'.

[edit] 10 September 2004

This year's burn is over, and I've posted the photography to accompany the night sky diagrams. I took this shot from the Temple of Stars, facing towards the city in the distance:

Eventually I'll finish adding the words but if you need your burn photo fix, it's here.

[edit] 19 August 2004

Only a little time left till the burn. Enjoy the visual story of the night sky.

[edit] 16 August 2004

Couple minor changes: Added my gecko to the art portfolio, and the mental area is much improved and updated.

[edit] 3 August 2004

[edit] 2 August 2004

[edit] 25 July 2004

[edit] 24 July 2004

Say hello to Frankie the Fibroid!

[edit] 21 July 2004

[edit] 6 July 2004

Just got back from the LA Burn...

[edit] 14 June 2004

[edit] 7 June 2004

Wow, I am lucky to have such good friends. A bunch of them came over to help Heather and me move to my new pad, and a couple of them took a few pictures. How cool is that?

Thanks to Smokeblower, Indy, Pandora, Kingsley, Lucky and Saratonin for all the help. I really appreciate it!

[edit] 21 May 2004

[edit] 14 May 2004

[edit] 1 April 2004

Introducing two very old short stories of mine to the Writing section: A Week for Wallace and Broadcast Interference.

[edit] 24 March 2004

[edit] 24 March 2004

Just got back from my trip to the Bay Area. And there is new photography...

While there, Heather's dance troupe performed at Rakkasah just three days ago. They were a big hit.

Sandstorm at the Rakkasah Festival.

I've also made major updates to the The Long Now Photography Project. More detail, more photography, and broken into three separate (shorter) pages.

[edit] 14 March 2004

[edit] 3 March 2004

[edit] 17 February 2004

Last night while drumming I learned how to do a kind of improvisational music performance technique known as "call and response." That inspired me to enhance the dumbek pages. I've added several new variations for chifti and ayyoub, then added bolero, one of my favorite rhythms.

[edit] 14 February 2004

[edit] 21 January 2004

[edit] 9 January 2004

Discovered something interesting this morning. Try searching on Google using an arbitrary two-keyword search (say blue armadillo). Then try searching for the same keywords but in reverse order (armadillo blue). The terms don't produce the same results! That's strange, since Google doesn't seem to care particularly which order the terms appear in the results returned by either query. In fact it doesn't even require that the two keywords be next to each other at all.

Odd. But it's just another instance of the poor semantics of Google. A better example: try searching for Netherlands and Holland. These synonyms produce very different results.

[edit] 8 January 2004

One prize from 2003: 100% uptime and beyond. Not too bad for a plucky little Linux box plugged into the wall. Nice way to start the new year.

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