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We’re back in Eugene at home, with our mellow kitties. Good times in Bend. It was smooth sailing back over the pass heading
eastwest.I’m embarking on more space money painting at the moment (holdings are low here at the mint after weekend payouts to both Random mothers [lol], but there’s a lot in the pipeline, soon to become actual space monies). Otherwise the afternoon and evening will probably punctuated with tumbling and putting things away and random puttering.
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we are over santiam pass, almost to sisters. packed snow up on top, needed our chains. dry road now. i like texting 2 my tumblr! over&out
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So lelu came over and we went over to Westside Stamp & Printing, but there was a CLOSED sign in the window. Friday they close at 4pm. I would too! So next time, we know. But we were armed with a cdr holding two versions of our stamp design. One with a circle around it and one without. Because we designed it with the circle right at the two-inch diameter size, and in case that’s just too tight, we supplied a sans-circle version. So we’ll be ready next time. I’m starting to think I like the sans-circle one better anyway.
And since we don’t have a gig on May 30 now, we ditched the poster designing of course, and instead listened more of our March 16 swarm recording, lelu making notes as we listened for song dividing lines. Ultimate goal of these listening sessions: make a new LaunchPad album! Ongoing goal: make fresh MySpace songs on a more frequent basis.
After our work session, Mrs. Random and I found ourselves swept up in a going-out-to-dinner swirl. Long story short: we had a fine and lovely dinner with lelu, Jonathan and Orbital Disco Dave at Ratatouille. And guess who our waiter was? A complete pleasant surprise: Hector!! It’s a nice restaurant with nice restaurant prices, but all fabulous vegetarian menu items. Wow. I had Shepherd’s Pie. I hope Mrs. R describes the meal in her blog, because she’s so much better at the restaurant reviews. Would definitely go back.
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"The digital era is the future and we are already on the path NOW. There is no turning back from the technological advancements we have made as a culture. Peer to peer file sharing happens and it is not going to go away. The media conglomerates are freaking out but the overall worry is really is no different than when the printing press liberated the written word or when VCR came along or cassette tapes or when more people began to read their newspapers online. What is the worry? These multi-billion dollar industries are going to lose money. They are so committed to their old business model and see the Internet’s users as a threat. If they were smart, they would dry their tears and think of a new way to work with the techno-advancements. However, to do this, they would have to abandon their “old way” of thinking and progress with society. This is unknown to them and they are scared. This is why it is so important for younger generations to embrace the digital era and use it to it’s full potential. By doing this we are not only gaining a wealth of information while supporting and learning about independent media endeavors, we are also rebels against the capitalistic system that limits us to dependent consumers."
KEEP IT ON THE BROWNLOWE: Welcome to the Digital Era « gaycondo
Quoting from another awesome post on digital culture/issues by Em. It’s so cool that gaycondo is covering this area. What a houseful of great writers.
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Seems like things are going toward open-source mobile w/lots of net-based apps. Like $300 wireless subnotebook running Linux and using Google Apps online plus Google Gears for offline. Away from hard-drive and desktop based apps.
In a way, things are headed back towards the mainframe+terminal model, except wireless. Where the internet is the “mainframe computer” and your mobile internet device (laptop, media player, etc) is the “terminal”…a very smart terminal, but basically a terminal.
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