truculent : ready to fight or quarrel
The Thanksgiving display at Lehrman’s mall had to be taken down early because of a truculent fifth grader that had threatened to eat Tony Turkey, a prized gobbler that had been taken hostage in an attempt to move Christmas forward another couple of weeks.
Io is set to be the third track from my upcoming TheForgotton album Sub Luna. It comes from the same session that begot the Caustic Reverie album Mute and contains instruments that use optical synthesis. Also available from Soundclick and last.fm.
Fish – “Tongues”
Ayreon – “Day Three: Pain”
Moth Vellum – “Whalehead”
Abigail’s Ghost – “Windows”
Frank Zappa – “Peaches En Regalia”
Nick D’Virgilio interview clip
Rewiring Genesis – “Fly on a Windshield/Broadway Melody 1974”
Fates Warning – “Static Acts”
Nektar – “Let it Grow”
Unitopia – “Inside the Power”
Steve Walsh – “Rise”
Rocket Scientists – “Pythagoras (Unbound)”
I’ve been having some shoulder problems the past couple of months. Last week, my doctor suggested I try switching to a trackball. I figured I would immediately be having a tendonitis flareup from the repetitive thumb movement, but so far it’s been great for my whole arm. I still keep the mouse on the desk for when I need the fine control but I’m finding myself preferring the trackball for everything but FPS gaming. Maybe I’ll get skillful enough that I won’t need the mouse ever again.
I don’t want to abandon it for good for the same reason that I wouldn’t want to switch to a DVORAK keyboard layout: the possibility of being completely useless a couple of years down the road when I need to use someone else’s computer that has a different setup. I have a hard enough time telling time with an analog clock, I’d hate to find I’ve unlearned mouse motions.
In other news, I’m putting the finishing touches on Io, another track from my upcoming TheForgotton release Sub Luna. I’m almost at the point where it’s looking more like a short album and less like the EP I had originally envisioned.
mafflard : a stammering or blundering fool
Eustace tried to stay with her notecards while answering policy questions, keeping in mind that she was campaigning in South Florida and might end up being tased if she rambled like a mafflard or took too long to respond.
