Thursday, August 23

Letterpress

Letterpress. A short YouTube movie. Worth the six beautiful minutes it takes to see.

Tuesday, August 21

The next project

It turns out I'm working on another novel. Don't ask me why, I just am. I can't produce clean copies of any of the others. But I start another.

That's just the way it is, I guess. Accept it.

[That last sentence is mostly directed at me, I suppose.]

Monday, August 20

Breaking code

An Adobe office building in downtown San Jose has been broadcasting a coded message in rotating disks of light as public art for more than a year, and two programmers have used brute force to finally break it. My favorite part? The message of "San Jose Semaphore" (created by New York artist Ben Rubin) is the entire text of the Thomas Pynchon book, "The Crying of Lot 49." Here's a Mercury News story, Rubin's solution and the story of how the code breakers did it.

Sunday, August 12

What ho!

What ho, readers! We're back down off the mountain from our week of music at Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp, and gearing up for end of summer life. The best thing I did during our week in the mountains was take a songwriting class, something I've been toying with/meaning to/thinking of/trying to do for the last couple of years.

Success has been lacking because I'm not a musican or even musically-inclined. But last week I learned some of the fundamental "rules" of songwriting to match up with my lyric writing and my ever-growing stable of a dozen guitar chords. Combine this with the fact I've been listening to pop music for nearly 40 years now, I'm going to write a couple of songs and see what happens. I'll keep you posted.

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