Kenyan hotel where giraffes lean in through upper windows for food: “Cory Doctorow: A hotel in Kenya is situated in the middle of a giraffe preserve, and the tame giraffes lean their heads in through the windows of the second-storey breakfast room and get fed by the guests: The Giraffe Manor, built in 1932 by [...]
Archive for February, 2006
Neat
Posted in General on February 28, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Crumpet is in the other room playing Guitar Hero. I never thought I’d see her playing White Zombie.
Woot!
Posted in General on February 25, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Hurray, the party for Crumpet went smashingly! She’s a happy, happy young vegemite. Thanks to all who showed up, and special thanks to those who brought her presents without being asked.
Flood~
Posted in General on February 25, 2006 | 4 Comments »
It’s like somebody knew that there was a BBQ happening for Crumpet’s 27th tonight… Hope to still see you here tonight… indoors.
Reading Giz’s post about TED got me following some links, and lo and behold, here’s the speech Al Gore made about global warming (in both MP3 and AAC formats). Who would have thought the US government would have been covering up something of this magnitude? /sarcasm
The torrent file for the bands featured at this year’s South by Southwest festival has been released. It’s 2.5Gb of music in pretty much every genre. I love these things – they’re the only way I seem to find new bands to obsess over.
I come to America to verk
Posted in General on February 24, 2006 | 2 Comments »
So I guess I have some kind of work lined up through a friend, doing the mobile repair tech thing… part time for the moment but building up to fulltime. There’s also a Mac tech position that may or may not eventuate. More as it comes. It’s hot today, isn’t it?
Ho Ho
Posted in General on February 23, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Crumpet’s birthday present arrived today, and she doesn’t know what it is, mwahahahaaaaa! It looks like we’re going to get some people actually showing up this year, which is lovely.
Korangar
Posted in Music on February 23, 2006 | 2 Comments »
So, this is my humble studio. Not much to look at, I guess, but it’s what I named this site after. Korangar = Ragnarok backwards. From Encyclopedia Mythica: Ragnarok (“Doom of the Gods”), also called Gotterdammerung, means the end of the cosmos in Norse mythology. It will be preceded by Fimbulvetr, the winter of winters. [...]
Taking Note
Posted in Music on February 21, 2006 | Comments Off
This is a song I wrote about 2 years ago when I first got my PowerBook and wanted to try out GarageBand. There are two versions, the original and the version I worked on today, with a better bassline recorded on the StingRay (you may notice in the parts just after the chorus that I’m [...]
