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Saturday, August 14, 2004

Books

You have to give props to the people you know. A women I work with just got a book published, Speak Now. I love listening to Margaret talk about all the things she needs to do for the book. There is this whole world around publishing that most people never get to see. I hope this is a screaming success for Margart.

- Rich, 2:13 PM |

Friday, August 13, 2004

iPod vs. The Cassette

I am not sure that I am ready to give up my iPod just yet to go back to using cassettes again. I have a hard time calling the cassette the winner in iPod vs. The Cassette. I was a big cassette fan when I was in high school. I had enough cassettes that I stacked them one on top of each other and they reached all the way to the celling.

A year later I sold all my cassettes for a dollar each. I had enough money for a road trip from Lancaster to Pittsburgh. When the trip was over I still had $30 left over.

- Rich, 12:30 PM |

Thursday, August 12, 2004

Sing Your Life

Here are the cover songs I would sing if I was the front man for a band.

Close to You - The Carpenters
Crazy - Patey Cline
Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Your Cheatin' Heart - Hank Williams
Like a Prayer - Madonna
There's A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
Cool from West Side Story

Helter Skelter - I want to be able to say in concert "Here is a song that Bono, stole from Charles Manson, who stole it from the Beatles. Now I am playing it without paying royalties. Play the blues Edge!"

Tell me what you would sing.

- Rich, 5:52 PM |

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Take a Jibjag at this

Fling93 writes a very nice entry about what is happening around the fight between Jibjab and the rights olders of This Land Is Your Land. He does a very good job of looking at the whole conflict

I found this quote that I want to add to the whole debate.

"The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but [t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." "To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

I feel that there is no way jibjab has done anything wrong. This is the way folk songs work. You take one folk song and replace the lyrics with words that more directly connect with the current moment. I think the current copyright system broken and it needs to be fixed.

- Rich, 11:35 PM |

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Rolling over and over

The Merc has an interesting story about rollover risks for cars. This has always been one of my problems with SUVs. I hope that Jenna reads this when she comes home from vacation.

"This is a problem that continues to produce about a third of our occupant fatalities every year, even though they are less than 3 percent of our crashes,"Jeffrey W. Runge, the administrator of the traffic safety agency, said of rollovers.

- Rich, 12:22 PM |

Monday, August 09, 2004

Personal v. Public

One of my South Bay Blogger Crew, Fling93 asks if people want to read more about his personal life. He point to a blog about a miscarriage. The woman writes with engrosing detail and depth. I could not help buy cry when I read it.

My goal on Sad Salvation is to give the reader a view of me they can know. I try to mix personal, poltical, news, and what I think of the world. People who just read Sad Salvation might not really know me, but I want the readers to feel they might. I do not want to read about every detail about people's lives.

My goal was to write something like Me(ish). I find the best blogs are when I get a sense of the world the person lives in and what they think of the world as a whole. You might not be able to get to really know me through Sad Salvation, but you will get to know one version of me.

I am not sure I could post something like chezmiscarriage about myself. Many times I pull way short of this when I write. I know that my friends and family read Sad Salvation. I know that there are dark thoughts about the world. I do not want to worry the people who know me by letting all of those dark things out.

What do you come to read at Sad Salvation?

- Rich, 3:06 PM |

Sunday, August 08, 2004

They Yoga of Writing

I have both a laptop and an desktop computer. In my new apartment I have set up an office since I have an extra room. I like not having my computer in my living room. I feel that my whole life is not in a single room. There is something really nice about that.

My only problem is that I have the worst time trying to write on my desktop computer. My monitor on my desktop is on eye level and my keyboard is wide. The whole set up is very open. I feel that I am always a good distance away from the words I am writing.

I have a much easier time writing on my laptop. I know I am less ergonomically correct when I use my laptop. I am facing down and my hand are much closer together. My shoulders are hunched at I use it. I know that my hands are in a worse position. It is still easier for me to write on it.

I feel it is about how my energy is focused. Using my laptop I feel like I am drawing myself inwards. I am shutting out the things around me. I feel like I can push myself into the laptop. I know very little about yoga, but it feels like I am controlling energy by the way I am sitting.

In the end it is a bad thing that I can only write on my laptop. I have an expensive desktop and an office to use. I have to be able to put them to good use. I need to figure out how to have the same feeling using my desktop that I have using my laptop. I am not sure how I will make this happen.

- Rich, 3:07 PM |

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