So it turns out that La Tulipe has my two favorite things in a rock club these days: seats and air conditioning. By rock audience standards, this means unequivocally that I’m old and lame, but then rock always was an ageist undertaking and it’s just something we’ve got to live with. As we were going …
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Actually,
Another Miriam writes in to correct me but actually. . . . my Hebrew name is יוספ (pronounced “Yoseyph”). It’s different from my English name because the family was serious enough about being Jewish to consider such things, I was accidentally named for the wrong great uncle. I don’t know who the right uncle is, …
Today’s Font Discovery
Hebrew, QWERTY-style: ×× ×™ יוספ Only because I was looking at resurrecting an old essay which includes some Hebraic philology. Just a little, though. The Hebrew’s a little clunky but the Mac OS automatically makes it move from right to left. That’s pretty cool. A few years ago, it was absolutely impossible to do that with …
Latest CD Acquisitions
Study of Speech and Hearing at Bell Telephone Laboratories: The Fletcher Years Technical Memoranda Issued by Acoustics Research Laboratory, Harvard University 1947-1971 Let me tell you, there are some smoking tracks on these releases. — Tomorrow, I may actually break the country barrier and purchase a Neko Case CD. Technically, it’s already broken since we …
Meanwhile, elsewhere on Sterneworks. . . .
I haven’t been blogging much the past couple days as I’ve been using my blog time to update other parts of the site. As job season will soon be beginning, I thought it was time for my annual update of the “Professionalization” section of my website. There’s a bunch of new stuff up there — …
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In other news
The new Tool album comes with a stereoscope. The pictures are kind of gnarly but I like the idea.
More Anti-Immigrant Stuff
In the past few months, I’ve been personally present for several nasty anti-immigrant comments, which I guess I never blogged about. I won’t right now, except to say that there’s a real nativist streak that runs across the whole political spectrum in Canada. Despite the talk about multiculturalism and being a nation of immigrants, there …