http://blog.hca5.com Rockin' Out to Schubert Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:02:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en it' isn’t all new and undiscovered music in my little 110-square-foot hi-fi shrine.  In fact, most of the time I’m just endlessly cycling through a handful of recordings.  Especially whenever I change something about the layout of listening room (read: frequently, on account of an acute case of audiophilia nervosa), ... http://blog.hca5.com/?p=39 Tiempo Libre / Bach In Havana Last time I was at Barnes & Noble I was waylayed by a classical music sale in the music department, and as I approached the register I was constantly distracted by the piped-in music, which was obviously Bach, yet riding on top of ... http://blog.hca5.com/?p=38 I’m eating a cheeseburger, listening to Ashkenazy & the VPO storm their way through Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto #5, and reading Musashi’s Book of Five Rings.  All three are excellent and stimulating, but so far only two of the three are actually enjoyable.  I’ll leave it to you to guess ... http://blog.hca5.com/?p=37 This theme may not have a shiny orange RSS icon, but there is a feed.  Check the sidebar on the right for a link. The feed may or may not actually give full-article content, it might instead just give a lame teaser.  If that’s the case, that’s lame, but ... http://blog.hca5.com/?p=36 wp->lj test post 2 (I wouldn't mind deleting this test post, but wordpress doesn't seem to want to let me.  D'oh!) http://blog.hca5.com/?p=32 There's a hifi store practically next door to The Dreaming. I've walked past it dozens of times without noticing it was there. The owner is more than a little neurotic – sort of the audio-store-owner version of Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons -  but he has some very ... http://blog.hca5.com/?p=28 I finally set things in motion to get my Green Lake townhouse on the rental market, after it sat idle for a few more months than was really financially healthy.  Go me!  Unfortunately, the leasing agency was dangerously close to Silver Platters' Northgate location, and I failed to resist the ... http://blog.hca5.com/?p=10 Okay, so.  The first few entries were imported from a temporary hosted WordPress account that I made a few days ago.  One of the things I discovered in the process is that the default WordPress interface for authoring entries is wretched.  So little screen real estate is actually devoted to ... http://blog.hca5.com/?p=15 Was it really five years ago?  Wow. Ahem.  A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I participated in 2004's "Son of Iron Game Chef" competition on The Forge.  My game, "Snow Day! - or - Fort Joey Must Fall" won one of the runners-up awards.  After the contest, ... http://blog.hca5.com/?p=7 I'm having a devil of a time rationalizing how to integrate all the various social networking and blogging sites into some kind of coherent system.  Here's my current working model; may not be valid tomorrow. Livejournal isn't very "hip", has an uncertain future, yadda yadda.  However, its ACLing system is great, ... http://blog.hca5.com/?p=13