Archive for February, 2008

A very compelling argument for Intellectual Property Tax.

February 27th, 2008

Well, Lessig isn’t running, which is probably a good thing for his sanity.
Copyright This by a man who knows more about aquaculture than you or I, argues for an Intellectual Property Tax to hold responsible those who hold copyrights to pay a tax on their copyrighted holdings. This does conflict with the [...]


Lessig 2008?

February 20th, 2008

Perhaps more important than Obama for President?
Stanford U Law professor Lawrence Lessig, of the creative commons movement. Is thinking about running for Congress under an interesting plan to remove monetary influence from congressional politics, watch his ten minute video here.
I was just in Houston, TX yesterday. I have a feeling Obama will do OK [...]


Make politics cool, important and relevant again

February 17th, 2008

“Last 10 minutes of Barack Obama’s speech in Milwaukee on 2/16 where he responds to Hillary Clinton’s recent criticism he is all talk - and good speeches don’t necessarily produce results.”
[update]
It’s interesting to note that some of Clinton’s campaign staffers zeroed in on the “” just words? “” just words? for plenty of reasons. [...]


On the suspension of medication

February 15th, 2008

I’ve been taking Depakote ER in some dosage or another for… 7 years now. The longest I’ve ever gone without it was about a week. Now, with the recent shooting at NIU, covered in excruciating detail by most media, we have the info that the shooter had recently suspended some (as of now) [...]


My HDR/Jessie Deluxe review in the LA RECORD

February 15th, 2008

The LA Record has been around for… 3 years now and they are sort of retooling… I did some reviews and previews for them before, like here… My latest review of HDR and Jessie Deluxe at Charlie O’s is here.
Is it a conflict of interest for me to be in a couple bands and simultaneously [...]


Tesla guitar amp (aka why I was surfing the net today)

February 14th, 2008

I knew I would find something, something, if I just kept looking…

More here at scopeboy.com.


Call me dumb

February 14th, 2008

Yeah, so in high school, I loaned my bike to a friend of mine and it got stolen from his front yard. Fast forward 12 or so years and my (Fuji Sagres 2001?) bike got stolen from my front yard. Just goes to show that the West University Park neighborhood of LA is [...]


The Experience of FAIL

February 8th, 2008

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article, from its conservative perspective, on how Hillary’s current universal healthcare mandate is as utterly failed as ever. Not failed in the sense that it wouldn’t cover all Americans if it passed, but failed in the sense that the same sort of idea failed in 1993 or [...]


Gene Fields, Steel guitar player, Fender guitar designer

February 7th, 2008

My Dad was telling me the other night to go look up the articles page on Gene Fields’ GFI website. So I did, here is a link to it. Interesting articles on him working for Fender R&D. Little known fact, he designed the awesome and rare Fender Starcaster guitar… seen here:

courtesy of DK.


ZVEX Box of Metal

February 7th, 2008

The world should always pay attention to a new pedal from Z. Vex. This is his take on a high compression distortion here. That’s just a bunch of video demos of the pedal which has yet to be released.
Speaking of unreleased pedals, this Ping Pong Delay should be coming out from Build Your [...]