In celebration of my wife’s impending graduation from pharmacy school (that’s right, she’ll be “Dr. Gina” very soon) and in celebration of our recent 12th wedding anniversary, the wife and I are headed on a short vacation to London and Paris. We leave this weekend. This is the first real vacation we’ve been on in [...]

Found a report over at the LA Times about an interesting study comparing responses to hypothetical ethical situations in two groups: one control group of twelve normal folks and one experimental group of six people with a specific sort of frontal-lobe brain damage (and another control group of twelve with a different sort of brain [...]

The music industry finds new ways to kill its own potential revenue streams every day. Its near-Luddite fear of the internet would be hysterically funny if it didn’t end up killing things I love. Create Digital Music has an interview with the founder of Pandora about a recent court ruling that might be the death [...]

I couldn’t find a decent Ableton Live wallpaper for my laptop, so I made one. It’s designed for 1024×768 monitor resolutions (a click takes you to Flickr, where you can download a copy): The idea here is to remind myself, every time that I sit down at my computer, that I should be recording/creating some [...]

I’ve been working my way through all three seasons of Arrested Development for a short while now. If you’ve ever seen one of these and liked it, you’ll like it that much more to see them all in sequence so you can pick up on every in-joke and self-reference. All of the episodes are good [...]