Country singing legend Johnny Cash dies of complications from diabetes. Not terribly surprising, but still sad. Thanks to Jeff for pointing out the appropriate picture.- Last Monday, I saw Magas and Luke Eargoggle at the rock rock rock with Susan. Most of the music didn’t really wind me up. It’s the same old stuff that those kids have been raving to since forever, and I heard enough of that in the 80s (there were a couple points when I looked over to her and said
like Kraftwerk, but without the German lyrics
). But I didn’t hate it either, and Fuckstorm opened, so that was a good thing. I dunno. I had more fun watching the crowd, and talking to Susan than I did listening to the music, but what the heck. The only real drag was the parking ticket on her car when we left. Guess we got into the one-hour parking 8am-10pm zone before 9pm, so she got the ticket. It was only $33, and we decided to split it so it didn’t break the bank, but it made the evening a bit more expensive than anticipated.
They had Orange Crush in bottles in the cooler at the bar. And remembering high school, I got a crush with a shot of rum. Tasty drink, but too sweet to have all night long. It brought back memories of days when I didn’t have the wisdom to switch to something else. - Raindrops finally falling on our heads, and it’s sure nice to have the dust and allergens settled a bit by the rain. It was a rough week work-wise, and I’m hoping the change in the weather will help me be a bit more productive today and next week. If nothing else, it’s cooled off enough that I can work without the constant drone of the air-conditioner for a day or two.
- Michael Mace asks Who Killed Apple Computer? I think he gets a couple things wrong, mostly thinking that Apple is (or was) dead, but he also makes some good points. But I think one of the biggest changes (that he seems to miss) is that Apple never could figure out how to make money from software. Until very recently, almost all of Apple’s income came from hardware. That’s starting to change with QuickTime Pro sales, the iTunes music store, and .mac subscriptions, but it took a while to figure out, and Apple still makes most of its money from hardware. [scripting]
- Via Turly (who got it from Fintan), I got the following bit of cool:
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- Mill City Museum opens Saturday. That’s tomorrow. Sounds like a cool new museum just across the river from me.