07 28 07 12:00 |No comments yet OK busto

Amazing long weekend with Ben ‘red slippers’ Teague and Bradley ‘numbers’ Rhodes. Running around, recording new songs, eating cheese steaks (it’s Pat’s btw). Whew. Photos and demo songs to follow.
We also picked up a stray cat. Lenny is his name and biting toes is his game. Awesome animal. Big music fan. His photo is available via the photos link over there.
Now, back to sprouting.

07 18 07 4:14 |No comments yet The Thiefs they call them

So. Wow. Must see things, go to Zonbu.com, and check out the Nokia N800 Internet tablet. The Nokia now supports Google docs and apps so its pretty much a $369 3" x 5" computer replacement. Boooyakasha. Amazing. I've got news for some folks: the application is dead. Any non-workstation class computing can be done entirely from an internet portal. Heck yeah. Photo editing, document creation, storage and editing, skype IP calling, email, etc etc. Open source software! Practically free all around. As soon as someone does some cool marketing on these kinds of devices and services, it's over. The game is gone.

G. Bradley Rhodes and Benjamin Teague are coming into town this weekend to record some new tunes. Looking forward to seeing those guys. Rehearsals with the group formerly known as the North American Martyrs are going great. A new name for the project is in the works. Stayed up late last night moving my Scope DSP system from a clunky rack PC chassis to a classy Carillon Audio PC Chassis. It occurred to me how elegant it is to be able to swap parts out and do little upgrades so cheaply and easily. Points for the PC camp.

07 02 07 10:04 |No comments yet A Chamelion, they call them

Amazing. I've been thinking a lot about how moblie we need to be. Turns out we don't need to be that mobile. But we're being sold on the convincing that we do. Nonetheless I'm enjoying the lightshow on my new Nokia 3220. Solid little phone. Shipped 6 episodes of the Let's Go Show. Did the sound design for a new portion of the Philadelphia Please Touch Museum's web site. Wrote a bit. Received Ben's mandolin and have learned a few chords. Highly recommended : John from Cincinatti. Site59.com. Silverton Yachts. The University of the Arts. Never Compromise Putters. Quicksilver for Mac OS X and the Laab Tuna at Cafe de Laos. New music to upload soon. Happy 4th of July.

Clarity: I got to thinking about the whole mobility issue after migrating over to GMail from Apple's Mail program. GMail now lets you pool email from other pop3 accounts and send from those accounts. It has a great calendar, great contact management, etc etc. The online apps are great. It's like having OpenOffice online. So, I got to thinking that maybe a smartphone is overkill, maybe all I need is a 3G phone that can login to GMail/iGoogle via a browser or their little JAVA app. I've got the GMail app on my little 3220 and it works like a charm. Dead easy to check and send mail from all my accounts. I also go thinking about this amid all the iPhone chatter. GPS, how many of us frequently go to places we have not been before? IM, no thanks. Wireless web, how often are we away from a desktop/laptop with wi-fi? And so on.

My day goes from my Wi-Fi enabled, laptops ahoy house, to the bus for 30 mins, to the studio for 10 hours (Mac Pros and dueling displays everywhere), back on the bus, back home, out to a rehearsal or freelance job. How much more connected do I really need to be. It reminds me of the chapter in "Infinite Jest" in which he talks about the failure of video telephony. At first everyone loved it, than the super-awareness of having to look your best on the phone set in and the technology tanked.

So I'm still waiting for T-Mobile to go 3G. I'll get a small S60 3rd edition Nokia handset. I'll get the GMail happening and ocassionally check my calendar on it. Stereo bluetooth would be nice. And that's that.