I had no idea who was singing this catchy song, “American Romeo,” on WCOM tonight as I was driving home. I missed whatever the DJ said except that they were from here in Chapel Hill. Luckily Google came through for me and I discovered Django Haskins and The Old Ceremony. Pop Noir indeed. Good music even on their rough cuts.
This is one reason we need community radio. This guy is good and he’s been playing around town and I’d never heard of him — of course I’m too old and tired to be a scenester.
Archive for February 18th, 2005
Feb
18
2005
Make the Mook/Bagazine ArrivesPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, GeneralDale Dougherty’s Make just arrived in the mail. It was a big hit at dinner with my 12 year old son and his 13 year old friend. It’s a good thing that I got the intro to the book/magazine out at FOO Camp because I’ve not had a chance to keep it in my hands for very long before it’s been taken from me. Went to a great talk over in Computer Science (Thanks Diane Pozefsky for inviting us) by Kathryn Britton (IBM) and Wayne Clarke (Cisco) on autonomic computing. Autonomic computing is like the autonomic nervous system. That is it is a system that operates without thinking like say your circulatory system, digestive system, etc. Autonomic computing is the evolving effort to achieve the right balance between what a person does and what technology does. IBM has a very good descriptive site dedicated to explaining autonomic computing. As well as a place to download and try out some free software for autonomic computing. The Alphaworks site also has some good introductions to autonomic computing including the very useful ABCs of Autonomic Computing by Lori Small. Abstract for the talk:
Feb
18
2005
ibiblio in 40 – 50 wordsPosted by Paul in General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesSo, I have to describe ibiblio.org’s past 12 years and its future communicating clearly what the project is designed to do and how it changes and improves people’s lives while “situating the benefit within a specific business or institutional context” in less than 50 words!
That’s 48 words.
Feb
18
2005
Jones-mania (literary version)Posted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, General, literatureJust got email from Jan Hensley who is doing a photo display of writers from North Carolina saying that he, his camera and my old buddy poet Ann Deagon would be coming here next week so’s he can add my photo to his show. He’ll be putting together a show of photos and first books for the North Carolina Writers Conference in July. My only book, What the Welsh and Chinese Have in Common, has some age on it, but it’s also been sold out since it was published in 1990. You can read it online where it’s been since 1992. |










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