I’m playing around with SharpReader tonight. I’ve never been able to get myself really excitied about RSS, but I’m giving it a try. My Atom Feed looks OK in it.
Author: Andrew Huey
Gmail
I’ve got a few Gmail invites, if anyone wants an account.
The Move
I just got The Best of the Move from Amazon. I’d never heard of these guys until a couple of weeks ago. They’re great. Their earlier stuff (late 60’s) is very psychedelic. Their later stuff (70’s) is kind of crunchy and messy. It’s all a lot of fun to listen to.
Phish
I just took a look at StubHub.com to see if they had tickets for the Phish show at the Tweeter Center that’s coming up in August. They’ve got tickets from $99 all the way up to $1095. I like Phish, but not *that* much.
The new CD is good. I just got it today and listened to about half of it right after I got home from work. It definitely helped melt some of the stress away.
His Dark Materials
I just finished reading the last book in Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy. Just for yuks, I did a Google search on “cheerful instead of surly”, part of a key line at the end of the book. I found a few interesting pages, including this one, along with some odder stuff.
The line, in part, is: “…showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and patient instead of hasty, and cheerful instead of surly, and above all how to keep their minds open and free and curious.” I particularly like the cheerful/surly part, partially because it’s just a nice turn of phrase, and in part because it’s something I seem to be having trouble with lately.
Phish-related
I stumbled across a good blog today, looking for something Phish-related: Wax Banks: Music
Gmail
Perhaps I should swap my Gmail account for a picture of Gary Coleman’s head or this guy’s vote in the next election or lunch at the Carnegie deli. Or not. Geez, it’s just an e-mail account.
new Gmail account
I just got myself a Gmail account! I spent the last hour or so changing my e-mail address at various web sites so that all the newsletters that used to go to my yahoo account will now go to Gmail. I really like the interface, and the absence of obnoxious, blinking Flash ads. The gigabyte of space is nice too. It’ll be interesting to see how the spam filtering works out. I’m getting about 50 spams a day to my Yahoo account. It files most of the them correctly, but I have to fish 2 or 3 good e-mails a week out of the spam folder, and I usually get 3 or 4 spam e-mails a day that wind up in my inbox instead of the spam folder.
BAAF
Darn those republicans! No BAAF this year!
Richard Biggs
Somehow, I had completely missed the news that Richard Biggs passed away a couple of weeks ago. He played Dr. Franklin on Babylon 5, if you don’t recognize the name. He was a good actor, and it sounds like he was a nice guy.