Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Here’s two new trax and a remix of the Clinton piece. I changed it from a wierd electronica bit to a monster eurodance brainbuster. Bill is very insistent. Laugh is just to cheer you up. Light and Shadow is one I’m a little proud of. It builds slowly, but stick with it. I think you might like it. I hope to add a vocal track to the first three or four minutes.
I’m very impressed with this apologia by conservative American commentator Doug McIntyre, not because it agrees with my positions in general, but because it is an admission of fact by a Republican. He’s not going Democrat, but he’s no longer a Bush supporter either. It is a simple acknowledgement of reality. A reality that republicans and Democrats can agree on as foundation for political dialogue in the US.
I believe that George W. Bush has taken us down a terrible road. I don’t believe the Democrats are offering an alternative. That means we’re on our own to save this magnificent country. The United States of America is a gift to the world, but it has been badly abused and it’s rightful owners, We the People, had better step up to the plate and reclaim it before the damage becomes irreparable.
So, accept my apology for allowing partisanship to blind me to an obvious truth; our President is incapable of the tasks he is charged with. I almost feel sorry for him. He is clearly in over his head. Yet, he doesn’t generate the sympathy Warren Harding earned. Harding, a spectacular mediocrity, had the self-knowledge to tell any and all he shouldn’t be President. George W. Bush continues to act the part, but at this point whose buying the act?
The Republican movement has for too long now been on that “faith-based” train out of Washington, where the brute details of the outcomes of Bush policy are ignored in favor of the promise of a deferred but rapturous end-game. Yes, those words are carefully chosen. The fundamentalist Christian undercurrents in Republican policy are as frightening to me as any Islamofascism. Remember: there are people in the US who believe Jesus is returning, and that Armageddon will happen in our lifetimes, and they are just one layer of power away from an arsenal of thousands of nuclear weapons. Bush has privately acknowledged that to say he has “accepted Jesus Christ as his saviour” is to speak in code. Who among us can tell what level of belief and literalism those around him have?
So cheers to McIntyre for putting his feet back on the ground of the real world. Conservatives in the US do the same, perhaps there can once again be a dialogue that helps America figure out its new role in the world.
Verity turns eight months old in a couple days. How time flies. In the inset she is just a few days old.
Unlike other users who report their MacBook Pros run really hot, mine runs nice and cool. However, I took my MacBook Pro out to work in a coffee shop for a couple hours today. When I arrived at the shop I discovered my laptop had not shut down completely and was frozen in the last screen before shutdown. While in my case, it had become progressively hotter until I could almost not pick it up. This took about 20 minutes. I wonder what would have happened if it had been left longer.
Not cool.
I’m cruising around pulling materials for various blog posts and I hit the CNN website to find a transcript. Loading in all of its richness and glory is one of the “I’m a Mac” video ads. A video ad right on the home page of CNN! That has to be pricey.
Thing is, I arrived there via Firefox for Mac OS X, and a simple script could have told the CNN webserver that was the case.
Apple could save a buck or two not preaching to the converted.
