Renaissance Nerd

May 20, 2009

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 which is the weakest link.
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Huh, I do have a feed after all

May 13, 2009

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 will be fixed later.

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test post 2

May 12, 2009

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!)

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Vinyl Binge

May 12, 2009

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 shiny things in there, including lots of [...]

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CDs that have crossed my path

May 1, 2009
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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 seductive lure of a stack [...]

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Test Post

May 1, 2009

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 composition that it makes me [...]

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