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Tweekend Vegas Audio and iTMS

Oct 18, 2003 tunes
AAl loaned me a copy of The Crystal Method’s albums Tweekend and Vegas, and I’ve been listening to ’em an awful lot over the past few days. It’s good music to listen to while you’re working, not unlike the Blue Man Group album Audio.

Now that Apple has released iTunes for Windows, as well as the iTunes Music Store (or iTMS), I thought I’d try using their new iTMS Link Maker to share these musical choices:

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Sadly the enhanced image links are now long broken
— Ed. 2026-07-14
- The Crystal Method > Tweekend
- The Crystal Method > Vegas
- Blue Man Group > Audio
  …is, alas, not available on the iTMS, but is available from their website blueman.com, as is their new album, The Complex.
Don’t have iTunes? Now you can pick it up for Mac or Windows:
Blowers mar the joy of leaves

Oct 17, 2003 ramblings

I find that I often agree with Roger Ebert’s reviews of movies, and again, I agree with him here, in a small essay against the most evil of powered lawn implements: the leaf blower.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-edt-ebert14.html

As a side note, I have often said that if, at some point, I am to be responsible for a large amount of land, like a homestead or that artists’ village I keep dreaming about, I will require all of the groundskeepers to use hand-powered tool at all times, excepting if they need to prune a very large dying tree or something. Rakes and old-style push mowers are nearly as efficient, and much easier to abide when you’re trying to concentrate.
Humble pie.

Oct 16, 2003 ramblings

I had a humbling conversation this morning with an editor friend, about how when you’re around people more creative than you, you feel energized, like you’re going to suck some of it up just by being around them; whereas when you spend a great deal of time around people duller than you, you’re made to […]
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Oct 8, 2003 ramblings

I have never seen so many bad Terminator, Total Recall and bodybuilding puns in all my life, and it’s all because of this:

Schwarzenegger Wins

Davis Is Ousted as California Governor in Recall Election
Microwave Grape Plasma

Oct 7, 2003 ramblings

Don’t try this at home, kids.

http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/lpl/grapeplasma/
Testing?

Oct 1, 2003 geek

Just making sure the new server works. Don’t mind me.
Classic Mac Games

Sep 20, 2003 geek
I’ve got my old Color Classic up and running, soon to be controlling my home automation, but in the meantime, I’m looking for copies of some old games that I used to play on the SE and Mac Classic back in high school, namely:
- Shufflepuck
- Stunt Copter
- Tetris
- Lunar Lander
- Glider
- Missile Command
- Crystal Caverns (?)
- Civilization (the original)
…and others from that time period, being mainly pre-1995. If you have a lead on where I might be able to find these great old games, please drop me a line. Thanks!

Mark Boszko

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