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Libraries and Ebooks

Fleeceman — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:24:56 +0000

Jesus and baby feeling the love on the new iPad Universal wi-fi.

Prior to Barnes and Noble and Borders, people got their books from the library—buying books was for students and lonely housewives (pre Fabio). Then along came Starbucks and iTunes, and sitting at a crusty counter drinking mere coffee in an oft-used cup was no . . . → Read More: Libraries and Ebooks

Bananas

Fleeceman — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:14:53 +0000

The book that says it all, or at least what has been said before.

I must warn you to beware when a guitar-playing Jesus shows up at your “office” and asks if things are great. (And yes, he says it like that.)

He then sets a book down on your desk. It is self-published and entitled “Pay . . . → Read More: Bananas

Dangerous Music

Fleeceman — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:37:45 +0000

Itunes recently promoted some Library of Congress podcasts, one of which was about composing with the Devil.

Apparently, a musical interval called the tritone consists of starting on C then jumping up to F sharp, which is somehow tied to physics (and our brain). If you have a string for each note, the ratio of those strings . . . → Read More: Dangerous Music

The iPhone

Fleeceman — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:06:55 +0000

This finely feathered dude was captured using the camera on my iPhone. Fairly amazing.

I needed an iPhone about as much as I needed an elephant in my back yard, but since Amazon was fresh out of elephants, I opted for the simpler purchase of the phone.

Suffice to say, it’s pimp. As one fellow user . . . → Read More: The iPhone

The Dark Half

Fleeceman — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:40:48 +0000

From the murky depths of the midnight hour, a bleary-eyed voice rang me up, fingered my brain, and told me I needed to eradicate my existence on the web.

It seems that in person I come across as very sociable, likable, and altogether shiny. But my blog had become increasingly dark, and the thoughts on Random Press were . . . → Read More: The Dark Half