For all you who know the guitarist from the GSO here’s a little about their performance at Club Congress for the Club Fall Crawl event.

First of all let me start of by saying that I first saw GSO at their debut show with Brandon Stone their second guitarist who ended up leaving for Florida. He is now replaced by Johan Von on the guitar. He also sings some vocals. I have to say that his personality seems to mesh quite well with the bands style.

I’ve never heard the bands that reviewers have made comparisons too so I wasn’t really familiar with their style. Initially I was a little sceptical of the idea they had because it sounded just a little to fun. After seeing last weeks show I was pleasantly surprised. They have matured so much. The sound that was odd the first time around seems to fit quite well together now. I love their new songs. They still have the same style as their first go at things but it seems seems a little more rounded out and deliberate. We still hear strange synthesizer, measured simple guitar filling out sections, and bouncing drums. One of my pet peeves about local bands is that the rhythm sections are not always the most adept at being as tightly put together as they should be so it’s always nice to hear a very punchy and even sounding bass.

The larger dance floor that Club Congress has wasn’t full when they started playing but very quickly brought people close to the stage. It’s not bad when you have hot chicks and older people dancing at the same time enthusiastically to your music.

Anyway to wrap this up: I’m very happy that things seem to be working out for the GSO and I wish Nathan all the best. Damn, I should’ve bought a CD at the show!

This page is about the worlds smallest motor. The idea is awesome itself but there are some cool pictures of some nano-machinery and then some links to other really small items.

Anyone who does not know about Oregon Trail is a not a geek. This is an awesome shirt. Now if only they had it in black.

http://www.bustedtees.com/shirts/dysentery

I came back from a four day trip to Mexico. The beach was awesome. Our condo was awesome and the pictures I posted are the view we had from it. I didn’t drink a single Corona there since the clubs I went to did not sell it. I opted for Dos Equis instead which I also enjoy.

I had a blast with the five people I went up with and I didn’t really want to come home. The food we had down there was obviously delicious.

By the way, if your ever in Tropics, (right next to Manny’s Beach Club), do not use the restroom there.

I took a little vacation for five days to San Francisco to visit a friend. It was awesome. The weather was great, the view from her house was beautiful and it was so green in comparison to Tucson. Here are a few pictures taken from her house and one from Chinatown in SF. Unfortunately I did not take many pictures. (Yeah, I know they are slightly tilted)

So the more I use Flash the more I love and hate it. There are so many little things about it that are annoying. You just have to work around them and that makes it even more annoying. So far I haven’t found a way to import vector graphics without having a million problems. I hate having to re-create stuff in Flash. Especially drop shadows for example. There are some hacks to do them. One of them I’ve seen is here. The way I’ve been handling them lately since that method would probably be pretty slow when you’ve got a lot of buttons on interface is to create a drop shadow in Photoshop with a transparent background. Then I import them as PNG’s to retain their transparency. It works out all right most of the time. There is also no way to do per-pixel effects so you can’t do blend modes.

But you can also create some pretty spiffy looking things with it and I plan to post some of the cooler things I’ve been working on lately and according to this article at least just those two problems will be taken care of.

I went to a concert today. Her name is Ambrosia Parsley and her band is Shivaree. She has a song on the Kill Bill soundtrack called Goodnight Moon (track two on Kill Bill: Volume 2 sound track.)

It was awesome. She’s got a baby doll voice, acts very demure on stage and then calls for and gets a whisky. I love her phrasing. She’s got a really beautiful unique voice. Her music is mostly soft and Ambrosia melody oriented but the faster songs are exciting and sweet.

Anyway, if you haven’t heard of her take a listen. (Not you Kevin)

Go see it. Nuff said.

Apparently this Java conference now has a t-shirt cannon contest to see who can come up with the best one. This one has to be coolest I’ve ever seen. It is nitrogen powered. Need I say anymore?

Its definitely better than a hairspray powered potato launcher my cousin and I made years ago.

So I finally fixed this bug that I’ve lived with for a while in FireFox. For some reason the bookmarks toolbar did not display any bookmarks in it at all. It was completely empty no matter how many times I added a bookmark to the correct folder. It happened after I installed an update to Firefox a long time ago and was never fixed after subsequent updates. I searched Google, and the Mozilla forums, I looked up some of the bookmark bugs all with no luck.

Finally I went to Firefox help and one of the things they suggested doing before submitting a bug was to create a new profile with -profilemanager. After creating a new profile my bookmarks toolbar now works!

This is just something that has been aggravating me for a very long time.

Have any of you been getting pop-ups under Firefox? I’ve had three come up in the last week.

Some people apparently have figured out how to get around it.

If you haven’t seen Ray you should. It’s a great movie. I never really liked Jaime Foxx but I can’t imagine anyone else playing Ray as he did. He did a good job. It is pretty long but I don’t mind great movies being that lengthy.

I didn’t know much about Ray so seeing this as kind of entertaining broad overview of his life was pretty cool. I definitely didn’t know he had that kind of drug problem through his career.

Must all great musicians have some crazy vice?

I just put up www.blurri.com. So everythings new. No more lame blog on there. Yeah what smart ass comment do you have about this one now Smurf?!

Ok, so here is the first attempt at a WordPress blog. I like it so far but I’ve probably got a million bugs so if you find any, let me know. I am still working on it.

I spent way to much time on this.

I’d like to find out if there are any plugins to cross-post to other blogs. If not I’ll have to add that ability.

Btw, CSS is really a pain.