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1. Ipod

   After years of resistance to getting an Ipod, I finally picked up the 60GB Ipod Photo. Burning CD’s every morning has been getting old for months, I never label them, often remix them / reburn them, and my head-unit pauses 3 seconds between mp3 tracks (Abbey Road; tarnished!).

   Boring bio part: I didn’t get a car for my 16th birthday. I wasn’t even allowed to get my license until I was 17 & a half. I did on the other hand get a job at 15 and 3/4 or whatever the legal minimum was. Most of that income went to CD’s, and I’ve been carying hundreds around in bags for the past 8 years, from house to car to work and back: a bag with every Zeppelin , Floyd, Hendrix, and Beatles album, a bag with every Fugazi, Pearl Jam, Wilco, and Radiohead record plus assorted similar stuff, a bag with every Nine Inch Nails, Chemical Brothers, and Ninjatune release plus assorted electronica. And so on…

   Getting a 10GB or 20GB ipod seemed kinda silly. I’d still be carrying four bags around, plus the ipod. A 60GB should do me for a while. Paired with the 250GB firewire drive I picked up a few months ago I now have a pretty silly portable data capacity.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon April 13, 2005 - 2:48 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-04-13-ipod/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-04-13-ipod/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

2. Cherry Blossoms

   Yesterday was a perfect spring day for pizza and a beer, a walk to enjoy the cherry blossoms on the mall, and milk shakes for the walk back to Dupont.

   Higher-res available upon request.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon April 10, 2005 - 7:21 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-04-10-cherry-blossoms/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-04-10-cherry-blossoms/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

3. Reeves Gabrels & effects

   Custom Fernandez Sustainer guitar into , well, a lot of shit…

   

   Second video highlight:

   Reeves is playing a Fernandez with a pink vibrator through an envelope filter into a robo-talk, then a Sequa over to harmonizer, with regeneration turned up into a delay, and the delays are going through the a rotating speaker, the guitar with the robotalk is going through the marshal, the sequa is going through the Leslie, so he has two loops of four.

   🪕

   Then I think it goes up a satellite, off of Comsat 6, and down into Mr. Big’s limo.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon April 09, 2005 - 4:17 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-04-09-reeves-gabrels-effects/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-04-09-reeves-gabrels-effects/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

4. Forer effect

   What’s your sign?

   You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You also pride yourself as an independent thinker; and do not accept others’ statements without satisfactory proof. But you have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, and reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon April 05, 2005 - 3:57 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-04-04-forer-effect/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-04-04-forer-effect/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

5. Design process

   The wordpress template I use has become the default wordpress theme. I’m seeing it everywhere, understandably as it is very nicely done.

   Digging this font, I finally started work on a new masthead / design.

   

   The feel is very late-90’s Zeldman to me, not that that’s a bad thing.

   I am also considering ditching the name in favor of writequit.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon April 02, 2005 - 6:24 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-04-02-design-process/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-04-02-design-process/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

6. Bikers

   This is why there are so many Share the Trail signs:

   Open Letter to the Trail Raging Psychotic Biker on the WOD Trail

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   Reply to: anon-66237226@craigslist.org
   Date: 2005-03-30, 11:02PM EST

   Hi- We have never been formally introduced, but we have exchanged words on the WOD trail in Falls Church several times in the last few months.

   You - stressed out, middle aged, Armstrong wanna be in ridiculous tight bike clothes, going about 50 MPH on the busy trail. Me- the woman walking on the trail with a stroller or a kid or two on scooters.

   Each time you blast by us, you have used profanity at me and my kids, screamed it’s a “GOD D BIKE TRAIL, LADY!” , “GET THE F OFF THE BIKE TRAIL AHOLES!”, “F’ING IDIOTS!”, “GET THE F OUT OF THE WAY!”.

   I got news for you buddy, the WOD is not a ‘BIKE TRAIL’. It’s a trail for everyone, walkers, riders, skaters, even horseback riders. Like the signs say “SHARE THE TRAIL”.

   I imagine that you are an angry little man who probably has had his drivers license suspended for some incredibility stupid and dangerous driving. Now you are raging against women and children on the trail.

   I have started to carry a big fat walking stick, and next time you scream at me or my kids I am going to take your spokes out with it….you can walk home if you’re able.

   this is in or around Falls Church

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon March 31, 2005 - 3:52 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-03-31-bikers/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-03-31-bikers/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

7. Wordpress spam

   This one will be everywhere this week…

   The creator of Wordpress, the CMS underpinning this site and thousands of others was approached about hosting hidden articles in order to game Google PageRank system for a significant amount of money. He took it and set up the spam without disclosing it to all of the saps running Wordpress linking back to his site.

   I consider this more astroturfing than spam, given the lack of a direct human audience and complicit host. You are kidding yourself if you don’t think every major media producer and services provider doesn’t do the same thing every day. They hire professional advertising firms who then create a campaign visible in print, film and television media as well as the web. Where there is an advantage to be had in maybe hiring a few people mildly familiar with online communities to infiltrate and hype, it will be taken. They hide behind proxies. They feed fans pre-release information that ‘leaked’. They justify it in thinking that they are providing a service. Thoughts?

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon March 31, 2005 - 3:41 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-03-31-wordpress-spam/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-03-31-wordpress-spam/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

8. The Parker

   

   An acoustic dreadnaught 6-string is next.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon March 27, 2005 - 7:50 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-03-27-the-parker/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-03-27-the-parker/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

9. Paul Westerberg

   9:30
   Paul Westerberg
   Late Show! 10pm Doors
   FRI. APR. 29
   $25.00

   I’m going.

   Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon March 24, 2005 - 6:45 PM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-03-24-paul-westerberg/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-03-24-paul-westerberg/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.

10. DC "With Teeth" listening party

    Google -> a blog post on sg:

    Thursday March 31 @ 7:00 PM*

    VENUE:

    NATION
    1015 Half Street
    Washington DC 20001
    USA

    DETAILS:

    NIN - “With Teeth” Listening Party!
    Everyone who attends this party will receive a limited edition poster, and if you pre-order With Teeth at the listening party, you get an exclusive promo 7" vinyl with “The Hand That Feeds” and “Home” (a non-album track).

    • Time is unsure.
    Posted on Blog over 21 years agoon March 24, 2005 - 1:35 AM and archived here at /blog/2005/2005-03-23-dc-with-teeth-listening-party/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/blog/2005/2005-03-23-dc-with-teeth-listening-party/ in the Blog collection in both HTML and markdown.