Flyover Country

I hit Joey’s on South Lake Union with my friend Rob last night. I’d heard about it from a Seattle bar-hopping mailing list I subscribe to, and finally had a chance to make it in. We were only around long enough to have one drink, unfortunately, but it’s definitely worth a second, third, or fourth [...]

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More and more, music is becoming a central part of my life. I scoured a number of used CD stores in lower Queen Anne on Sunday for new stuff. I believe I purchased a total of 11 CDs in all: everything from Oasis, The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie (P.S. I’m going to miss them [...]

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More stuff here.

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Two cool things:
1. Orbjust released a fairly basic API set for their software, which allows you to stream media off your home PC to any connected device anywhere in the world. ooh ooh ooh. I like being able to extend existing services
2. Looks like they have a Mac version coming [...]

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Recent purchases:
- Postal Service
- The Arcade Fire
- The Shins
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Coldplay
- Secret Machines
- Ico (for PS2)
- The Strokes
- The Killers
- Snow Patrol
- White Stripes
- Franz Ferdinand
- [...]

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I ran across an interesting little article on “ancestral magnitudes” over on DailyKos today.
Your great^10 million grandpa would have been barely recognizable as a primate, looking almost as much like a squirrel.

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