Saturday, April 24, 2004
New subtitle, APC, TX, and GMail
As you may or may not have noticed, my blog now has a new subtitle. I chose to replace the old one because it really didn't describe what I've been doing here too well. In case you forgot, the old subtitle was "the random musings of a college student". First of all, I don't really consider myself a college student right now since I'm on co-op, and secondly I realized that my posts were deliberate and thought out more than random. Hence, the new subtitle, "some guy trying to come to grips with who he is and what his place is in the world". I think that this describes the general theme of my posts thus far, and really what I consider myself to be "doing" at this point in my life. Hope you enjoy. I'd love to hear your comments.
Last night I went and saw A Perfect Circle at Tower City Amphitheater. It was a great show. They played a good mix of songs off of the new and the old albums, and they ended with The Noose followed by Judith. The sound was balanced well and the band didn't do an encore, which I think is a great move. Encores always sort of annoy me. I figure that they finished strongly anyway, so why make the people wait for more? Also, one of the things that I thought was really cool was that the band really promoted free speech. When they said that their video got banned from MTV everyone (including myself) cheered. What MTV does to music sucks by the way. There's a good quote from School of Rock; "Rock and roll used to be about sticking it to the Man, but then the Man got ahold of it too, and that Man is called MTV" Anyway, at one point they were like "We're going to do an experiment, on the count of three everyone say "shitfuck" and then look at the reactions of your neighbors." So that's what everyone did, and then they said, "See, nothing happened. Nobody's freaking out or worshipping the devil or anything." I totally agree. Censorship is stupid and words and images aren't really going to hurt anybody. I didn't really know beforehand that the band was politically motivated or anything, but it just makes me respect them more. Anyway, it was a really enjoyable concert.
As you know, this past week I went to Houston, TX for NASA training. It was a lot of fun. I really liked Houston. There were a lot more trees than I expected, and the city (at least the parts I visited) was very clean and open. It seemed like a place I could see myself living. The training itself was fun too. We got to go in a pressure chamber and use these big aviator's oxygen masks and stuff. As my former boss put it, "pretend to be an astronaut". It was nice to get away from work for a couple days and do something different. I had a really good time.
By the way, I'm now on the beta test of GMail from Google. A.I.M. me @ rkikdnec to get the new email address. I would post it here, but that's just an invitation for spam. You may have heard about GMail (1 gigabyte of storage etc...)
and be interested to see how it actually works out. I'll be sure to keep you posted.
Last night I went and saw A Perfect Circle at Tower City Amphitheater. It was a great show. They played a good mix of songs off of the new and the old albums, and they ended with The Noose followed by Judith. The sound was balanced well and the band didn't do an encore, which I think is a great move. Encores always sort of annoy me. I figure that they finished strongly anyway, so why make the people wait for more? Also, one of the things that I thought was really cool was that the band really promoted free speech. When they said that their video got banned from MTV everyone (including myself) cheered. What MTV does to music sucks by the way. There's a good quote from School of Rock; "Rock and roll used to be about sticking it to the Man, but then the Man got ahold of it too, and that Man is called MTV" Anyway, at one point they were like "We're going to do an experiment, on the count of three everyone say "shitfuck" and then look at the reactions of your neighbors." So that's what everyone did, and then they said, "See, nothing happened. Nobody's freaking out or worshipping the devil or anything." I totally agree. Censorship is stupid and words and images aren't really going to hurt anybody. I didn't really know beforehand that the band was politically motivated or anything, but it just makes me respect them more. Anyway, it was a really enjoyable concert.
As you know, this past week I went to Houston, TX for NASA training. It was a lot of fun. I really liked Houston. There were a lot more trees than I expected, and the city (at least the parts I visited) was very clean and open. It seemed like a place I could see myself living. The training itself was fun too. We got to go in a pressure chamber and use these big aviator's oxygen masks and stuff. As my former boss put it, "pretend to be an astronaut". It was nice to get away from work for a couple days and do something different. I had a really good time.
By the way, I'm now on the beta test of GMail from Google. A.I.M. me @ rkikdnec to get the new email address. I would post it here, but that's just an invitation for spam. You may have heard about GMail (1 gigabyte of storage etc...)
and be interested to see how it actually works out. I'll be sure to keep you posted.
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