10 Feb 2003
Mon, 10 Feb 2003
Dude, I'm Gettin' Arrested
Maybe the dell dude should get together with Ellen Feiss. They couldn't agree on computers, but they've got something else in common.
Posted at: 22:45 | permalink
Slip Sliding Away
I found myself thinking that while I've enjoyed the winter weather this year, we hadn't quite seen a mind blowing monster of a blizzard like I used to see in Boston. That was a mistake. I left work this afternoon and things seemed a bit icy in the parking lot but just your garden variety dusting and some icy buildup, nothing particularly alarming.
By the time I got halfway home, the squalls were so severe that it was a white-out and I couldn't see virtually anything and was slowed all the way to 5-10 mph - and this from the guy who brags about driving 2x the posted speed limit all the way to work. I turned the fog lights and the 4-ways on and passed only a single truck in the 3-5 mile stretch of country road that looked like something out of an attempt on K2.
I made it home in one piece but it sure is nasty out there. Funny thing is, the intensity of the squalls here are not really reflected in any of the local forecasts that I've seen. There was a winter weather advisory for certain areas, but mine wasn't one of them. Go figure.
Posted at: 20:26 | permalink
Mellon Jazz Festival Mercy Killing
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette laments the sudden death last week of the Mellon Jazz Festival. It was really a sad state of affairs for several years. I can't remember exactly the last year that I had attended though it was somewhere around 1995 or 96. In those years, it was big enough to draw serious fusion players such as Pat Metheny and the Yellowjackets, amongst a broader list of more traditional stuff; I recall seeing Miles Davis there somewhere in the early 90's. But as long as the people doing the planning think that jazz started in 1930 and ended in 1950, there won't be much of an audience. Sigh.
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