Where I’m @

20010828

Thanks to Ishbadiddle for the heads-up about a groovy free font shop, Apostrophic Lab. Though I have not yet browsed the entire collection, I'm feeling Endor, Healthy Alternative, and the Ovulution sets.

20010826

Wierd — I had a bunch of things to blog about, then it takes our friend 56K forever to pull up Blogger, and all the ideas vanish.

20010823

Shortly after that last post, we had a wangdangdoodle of a thunderstorm and yours truly had the bright idea to leave the telephone cable plugged into the laptop modem, despite the SO’s PowerBook modem getting fried that way. You’re a smart cookie, so I know you can figure out what happened to my laptop modem. Being lazy (not in the good, programmer sense — most of the time, at least) and cheap, I haven’t gotten a new modem until now. In fact, I still haven’t replaced the laptop modem but rather have gotten a cheapie modem for the desktop computer. Now I don’t have to hog the PowerBook.
Further bulletins as events warrant.

20010803

Well, I’ve finally got the office desktop computer home, up, and running. The downsides: no modem on the desktop, no DSL at home; 32 cubic feet less space in our apartment; no connection between the desktop and the laptop. The upsides: nearly free, pretty decent desktop computer; desk space for all my peripherals; potential makings of a home network, including NT services for Macintosh so files and printers can be shared with the SO’s PowerBook.

More importantly, since I’ve been working at home this week (the word working being used in a fairly broad sense), I’ve been listening to the second week of WKCR’s gigantic Louis Armstrong centennial broadcast. For those of you not in the know, there’s a jazz DJ on WKCR, Columbia University’s radio station, who idolizes Satchmo. To be fair, he idolizes him in a musical way, making the (supportable) claim that he was the most important jazz figure ever, that jazz wouldn't exist without him. So since KCR does special broadcasts for jazz greats’ birthdays, and since this DJ, Phil Schaap (you may have seen him on Ken Burns’s Jazz doc), is also a program director at KCR, they're playing nothing but Armstrong for two weeks to celebrate the second centennial anniversary of his birth. I’m not quite the Louis fan that Schaap is, but he did put out some pretty amazing records. At least before the 50s he did. IMHO, after that he was rather on the decline, with the highly notable exception of his later recordings with Ella Fitzgerald. There’s still time to catch almost 48 hours of the broadcast!