Author: theazureshadow

If anyone doubted the fact that the RIAA is merely a floudnering industry trying to keep itself afloat by whatever dastardly means are available to it, think on this. The RIAA has acquired legal authority to receive royalties for any music streamed online, no matter who controls the copyright. Perhaps I shouldn't bother bringing stuff…

Sarah was working on writing accounts of 9 different species of birds for her ornithology class, so I decided to sketch each of the birds as she got to them. I used references from Google, of course. It was very fun. [Birds for Sarah]

The very young: 3ish-year old landlady The very old: The Zimmers

I was talking to Aaron last night, and I wanted to use the term \”ur-poem\”, in a rather limited sense. But I wasn't quite sure if that would be precisely what I wanted to say, so I did a quick google search to see if it was common. For \”ur-poem\”, I recieved rather disgusting results.…

I paint in Photoshop. I compose poetry in my favorite code editor. Mmmmm.

I just realized that I have been keeping up my book list for a year. Here are some statistics: time period: April 13, 2006 to April 12, 2007 books read: 102 books per month: 8.5 best month: August 2006 – 22 books worst month: September 2006 and February 2007 – 3 books best author: Roger…

Sarah can attest that I do something similar to this. Except instead of factoring, I convert them into their lowest possible base. So, a time like 10:01 would be in base 2 (decimal: 9), a time like 1:22 would be in base 3 (decimal: 17), etc. It gets harder and harder to do, so base…

Joyous news today: iTunes will carry label EMI's entire catalog in higher-quality, DRM-free form some important bits: they will be priced at 1.29 instead of 0.99; old, DRMed tracks can be upgraded by paying the difference; albums will be upgraded with no price difference; Beatles music will still not be among the offerings This is…

Sarah sent me this, and it is utterly amazing. O God, and the wedding! All her family and her friends and only a handful of mine all scroungy and bearded just waiting to get at the drinks and food– And the priest! He looking at me if I masturbated asking me Do you take this…

“Once upon a time,” Finnan had told her, “the gods got fed up with this not existing malarkey that they'd had to put up with for the last forever, because if you don't exist, well, there's no pressing need to get out of bed of a morning; it's not like ye've got any work to…