Category Archives: other stuff

the foundation remains

I gave a mouse a cookie this weekend. The mouse was a new Motorola KRZR K1m, the cookie was Parallels Desktop for Mac with Windows XP Pro. No one who…

nice ride, pops

Made it out to the 107th annual Mohawk Fair in Shannonville Ontario last weekend for the first time in 25 years or so. This beautiful raft on wheels was on…

Vive le TICF! Vive Zero-G!

I’m just posting a quick note for anyone visiting from the Toronto International Circus Festival and/or Zero Gravity Circus. Lynne and I had a great time at the circus this…

awesome. awesome. awesome.

Those were actually the first three words I used to describe Dave Smith’s latest creation, the Prophet-8, in a text chat with my wife. Yes, Dave Smith is in ur…

Almost everything must go – more and cheaper gear for sale

For the very few of you who come here looking for used gear before you go to Craigslist, I’m announcing a price drop on a few of the “Gear for…

I’m in your launches, photographing your authors

I’ve finally made it into Quill & Quire, without having to go through the tedious business of writing a book. I insinuated myself into the Q&Q photographer’s frame at the…

Well that wasn’t very smart

I’m kind of sorry that the SmartCard never caught on, and not just because it’s the only way to upgrade the firmware on the Motif ES (which probably won’t be…

Yamaha Motif ES 7

The latest addition to the arsenal is a cross between a piano and an airplane wing, the post-stretching Yamaha Motif ES 7 76-note sequencing-sampling workstation and part-time DeLorean spoiler. You…

It’s Kas

The adventures of your standard completely mental cat in comic book format.

We promise not to be evil.
But we can’t speak for our lawyers.

Google’s oft-quoted credo “don’t be evil” started looking rather quaint last week with the appearance of a gentle suggestion on the Google blog that we try to refrain from using…