Archive of September 2003
No Reason
Now that I think of it, there’s no reason I can’t manage to update this blog more often. I don’t know what’s stopping me. It’s not laziness, exactly, becasuse I’m plenty industrious in other areas. On the other hand, I can’t really say I’m too busy with other things to have time for this. I’m sort of not sure lately what to write about, I suppose, but that never stopped me before.
I hereby vow to apply myself to this blog more diligently. Wish me luck.
16:08 | 0 CommentsFreakishly kindhearted newsgroup
Among the many reasons I’m falling in love with Ruby is that it’s hard to find a more thoughful and considerate usenet newsgroup than comp.lang.ruby. I can’t think of anywhere else I could ask a question like the one I did at the top of this thread and instead of getting flamed or (more likely) utterly ignored, I get 7 replies (well, okay, two of them were me responding again) that not only take my question seriously, but actually offer some valueable insights into the workings of Ruby’s object model. That’s just so cool.
16:08 | 0 CommentsAll right, then
For the umpty-thousandth time, I’m telling myself it’s time to get my ass in gear an update the feckin weblog once in awhile. In fact, ideally I’d like to update it more often than that. I have delusions of daily- (or even many-times-daily-)update grandeur.
For now I’ll just mention that seeing Wilco and R.E.M. at Bumbershoot, although it was an okay show, was not quite the revelatory experience I’d hoped for. I mean, it’s R.E.M. and Wilco, it should’ve been ecstatic, but it was just above average.
Wilco did a good enough set, but it felt like the sort of thing you’d rather see in a smaller venue than a football stadium. R.E.M. made sort of a big deal of playing older songs that they hadn’t played in a while. In some ways this was nice: I figured at least in part it must mean they were over the trauma of Bill Berry leaving, and didn’t feel quite so much like they had to reinvent themselves–;that they could be R.E.M. again. That’s probably a good thing. And hearing “Begin the Begin” and “Finest Worksong” right at the beginning of the set was just plain awesome. By the time they got around to “Exhuming McCarthy” and “The One I Love” however, it was just starting to feel like a nostalgia act.
The overall daytime Bumbershoot vibe was sort of fun, but it was hard to work out the schedule and we wound up seeing three songs by some people called “Ms. Led” (Sort of girl band/Screeching Weasel crossover wannabe, or something) and watching the crowd and eating fried food.
All in all, sort of a big cross between a county fair, a ren faire, and a dead show. Not sorry we went, but would want better planning if we ever try to go again.
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