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Music Prize Package 17 Aug 2013 | 08:54 am
I just won a phase of a game being run by the Digital Future Lab at the University of Washington Bothell, and my prize was a shopping spree at Sonic Boom Records in Ballard, guided/curated by Michael ...
Fiddle Tunes 2013 – Greg Canote DDAD Tunes 11 Jul 2013 | 01:09 pm
Greg Canote led a couple of wildcard sessions at Fiddle Tunes this year, teaching tunes in DDAD tuning. He’s got a CD with 11 DDAD tunes on it called “Makes Its Own Gravy”, but I can’t find it for sal...
Festival of American Fiddle Tunes audio dump, part 2 10 Jul 2013 | 08:55 am
Here are a bunch of tunes from Dan Gellert, from his July 1 workshop and band lab: Play Pause Stop Next» «Prev HIDE PLAYLIST Go back to part 1
Festival of American Fiddle Tunes audio dump, part 1 9 Jul 2013 | 06:43 am
I recorded a bunch of sessions and tunes at Fiddle Tunes, and now I get to go through all the recordings and extract and label interesting bits. I’m going to upload them here to elsewhere.org, and pro...
Ethics 5 Apr 2013 | 02:38 am
I got to attend an hour and a half of mandatory training on the state’s ethics laws yesterday. There wasn’t much new since the last time I took this mandatory training, except that apparently they’ve ...
Captain Crepe Pan 30 Dec 2012 | 01:28 pm
(Cross-posted from House of Cranks, our house blog.) Back in September, I backed a Kickstarter project for “Captain Crepe Pan“, a guy raising money to make cast iron crepe pans on a larger scale than ...
Spam template 30 Dec 2012 | 09:13 am
I love it when spam software goes awry. The following is a spam comment which got caught by the filters, showing the template that particular bot uses. Who writes these things? {Hello|Hi} there, {simp...
Configuring Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal for an Academic Computing Lab 21 Dec 2012 | 07:47 am
These are mostly notes for myself, so I don’t lose them. But in case there are other academic computing lab administrators out there who are running into the same issues configuring Ubuntu 12.10 for u...
Violence and Mental Illness 17 Dec 2012 | 01:25 am
Thanks to Friday’s mass shooting, there’s a nebulous conversation going on about violence and mental illness again. I don’t have a lot to say about that, because I haven’t studied it enough to have a ...
Kobo Glo first impressions 11 Dec 2012 | 04:54 am
My Kindle (one of the third-generation ones with a keyboard) slid off an end table this weekend and, despite being in its protective case, managed to hit the floor exactly wrong, breaking the display....
