Bobby had only one dream in life.
He wanted to be a “Blues Reviewer” — and he’d sell his soul to the Devil if he could only write about musical things he loved online.
Continue reading → Bobby the Wannabe Blues Reviewer: Ten Sentence Story #155
Goodbye Dropbox! I’ve hated you ever since I ceased my yearly paid subscription and you kept putting “canceled account” everywhere. I didn’t like that threat then, and I don’t like it now. I’m not “canceled” until my actual subscription expires. I don’t like giving my money over to a threat, and so I’ve been anticipating the advent of Google Drive for a long while now. Yesterday, Google Drive arrived, and I have been in Cloud Storage Glory ever since!
Continue reading → Dropping Dropbox: Hello Google Drive and SkyDrive!
Jack White’s first solo album, Blunderbuss, dropped today — and thanks to iTunes streaming the album for free the past week — I’ve been able to immerse myself in the music from start to finish many times a day. The album is a fascination. It’s ’70s Rock? Alternative Pop? Blues? Ragtime? Yes, Blunderbuss is all that and more.
My name is Gordon Davidescu, and I am a slowly recovering hypochondriac parent. It has taken me nearly sixteen months to get to this point but I realized that I was making good progress this last weekend when I was in Starbucks. Chaim Yosef was having a grand old time, flirting with the baristas as he tends to do when we go there and just walking around.
I read something interesting online a while ago, but I can’t remember the source material. The gist of the story was that the pre-recorded automated announcements you hear in train stations — and other public transit hubs and modes — are purposefully driven by subconscious sexual stereotypes. The female voices you hear provide “information” about the current stop and next stop, while the pre-recorded male voices give you warnings and orders like, “Get out of the way!”
Continue reading → Subliminal Sexual Discrimination via Voices on a Train
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