Right Here, Right Now 3.0

The perfect soundtrack for a Sunday morning. I highly recommend KCRW's Rare On Air series. The famous, not so famous and soon to be famous play live in the studio. Go ahead and click the link, see for yourself. The music is mostly acoustic and there are some great performances (notably, for me, Jackson Browne's Late For The Sky - a top XX song.) But more interesting are the ones from people I'd never heard of. Joe Bob sez check it out.

This post comes from a OS X Tiger Widget.

Richard Kadrey says: Confiscating sombreros will be bad news for internationally-known performance artist and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, Guillermo Gomez Pena. Ever since 9/11 he's been stopped repeatedly at airports for being suspiciously brown-skinned. His solution is to wear a sombrero to chill out jittery jet crews and nervous passengers alike.

When a party of one isn't alone - megnut.com:
"'You are alone?' He asked me.

'Yes,' I said. And then the maître d' jumped in.

'No! You are not alone! Now you are here, dining with us!' he said, smiling, and with a gesture of his hand indicated the restaurant."

May 1, 1983 was a Sunday also - oh the coincidence. The Hinde family tradition for birthdays and anniversarys is to give the celebrant(s) a check for their age or duration. Today's check, had we made it, would be for $22.00. Mom, winning the droll award, proposed giving us each a check for $11.

This week has been particularly sad. Today is the worst. Poor me.

Before we become too maudlin, I would like to point out that May Day has changed for others as well.

Bill Gates wants to make it easier to hire foreign nationals in the U.S. That's fine, some of my best friends are foreign nationals working in the U.S. What's upset a few people is Bill's statement implying that if you're any good in tech, you've got a job.

This morning, on NPR, Bill lamented the lack of science education in America, offering this as an explanation as to why we lack tech workers. Let's, for sake of this argument, take that at face value. We don't do adequate science education in the U.S.

My reaction, since I'm a knee-jerk liberal, is how could we do decent science education when we don't take science seriously?

NPR : Kitchen Equipment Secrets Just a post to remind me to read this later.

It's a bit hard to read, but my trip odometer is telling me that it's 37.5 miles from Coscto in Folsom. (i.e., my commute is about 36 miles one-way) and that for the past 37.5 miles I've averaged 51.8 miles per gallon.