This week's passel o' links I found entertaining or of interest: ► The oldest recorded melody? I find this one particularly fasci...

I've been too busy to write a real post, so instead, here are a bunch of links to some interesting Internet places I've run across i...

Reason #1 I haven't been blogging: I've been obsessively practicing mandolin and learning new tunes.  Tunes I've learned since t...

Some reflections, partially drawn from my recent brief blog hiatus (the virtual type-in dragged me back...;)

The suffocation/choking picture I was talking about is this  one...somehow he's become sort of our mascot.

Gotta love it when the human element manages to shine through despite technology.  My Forecastfox Weather extension in Firefox tells me toni...

Remember this?   Well...that was pretty much my weekend.  Ugh.  I finally got rid of my giant old tube TV, which made scary popping and spar...

This is very strange, but I couldn't stop watching, nonetheless. The History of the Typewriter, Recited by Michael Winslow And, for r...

Something just a little out of my usual realm today: a journey through some paperback cover art. I kinda sorta collect old mysteries, par...

Went to the Mt. St. Helens Bluegrass Festival in Toledo, WA. I learned a new tune--or at least, how to play it on guitar: Rickett's Hor...

I have a ginormous book of sudoku puzzles and a box of pencils, I have pens and ink and notebooks, guitar and mandolin and music books at ha...

Apropos of nothing except my recent obsession with pencils.... Sharpie just released an interesting chimera of a writing instrument: the Sha...

NPR ANNOUNCER: During the housing bubble, investors threw money at real estate as if it was Monopoly money. This is an apt metaphor-- ME, I...

I don't recall anyone posting this before. Has everyone seen this ? I'm not sure whether to laugh, cry, or cheer. Or all of the ab...

About halfway through my childhood, we got a TV and a VCR. We didn't pick up any broadcast channels except for PBS every once in a very...

The one musical artist I did discover this weekend was actually by means of the Alphasmart Flickr group : Gordon Bok was mentioned by one o...

These things go around Facebook and the blogosphere every so often, and usually I just ignore them. But now I see even some of my fellow ty...

At 100 years old, he's found a tiny musical destiny Sounds like quite the character. Also makes me feel quite young with with years of p...

This is mondo cool. I don't really care much for the Talking Heads. In fact, they're one of the few artists / groups my favorite ra...

Apparently there are now some pretty fanatical Russian Wodehouse fans . Natalya Trauberg sounds like an amazing woman: That there is a Wode...