02006-11-16 | Computer, Food, Music, Radio, Santa Fe, Travel
Went to the Santa Fe Baking Company early today, to get a Breakfast Burrito and to listen to Roshi Joan Halifax get interviewed for the Santa Fe Radio Cafe hour on the local Public Radio station KSFR. Couldn’t hear the interview because the radio host and Roshi were speaking softly and the place was packed with breakfasters, but the Burrito was very tasty. Judging from Roshi’s expression, she enjoyed the conversation.
Dropped off my PowerBook yesterday afternoon to get a larger HDD installed. The laptop is 29 months old and I have outgrown the 80GB internal HDD – more than 11,000 photos take up 40GB plus SSRI audio files etc… Well, something happened to the computer. My guess is that somebody, after opening the PowerBook to swap out HDDs, might have touched the motherboard without ridding him/herself of static electricity first… and now, instead of starting up, the laptop just beeps three times and that’s bad news. It means the computer has to be sent off for repair and who knows when it will be back in my hands. I was going to wait and see whether Apple would announce a MacBook Pro upgrade in January, but decided that the best solution for my current predicament would be to order a MacBook Pro model right away. It should arrive here on Monday and that will give me a week to get my slideshow sorted out before the solo tour starts on November 28th.
Luz Says:
Just curious what you ended up doing with the guitar? You mentioned you might give it away if it survived the long trek.
I was going to put four candles on it or actually set the guitar itself on fire, float it on a sacred lake as an offering and take pictures of it early in the morning around sunrise when the lake looks still and like glass – photos of that beautiful lake will be uploaded to Flickr on December 1st – but the evening before my ritual one of our Tibetan guides asked whether he could have the guitar and so I gave it to him and showed him how to tune it.
02006-11-15 | Music, News
Elderly harmonica player arrested for performing copyrighted songs at bar – MSN-Mainichi Daily News
A 73-year-old bar manager who illegally performed copyrighted tunes by the Beatles and other artists on the harmonica was arrested Thursday on suspicion of violating the Copyright Law, police said.
That’s just silly.
(Via Vedana.net, I think)
02006-11-14 | Photos, Reading, Travel
Ken’s new book Integral Spirituality arrived while I was in Kham. I read it during the plane rides to Palm Springs and Sacramento last week. Highly recommended.
Played guitar last night while glancing at my laptop, which showed a random selection of photos. I chose about 600 photos from my library of over 11,000 pics. The shuffle command on iPhoto is just as entertaining as the shuffle command on iTunes – my favorite way to listen to music. So many selections made sense, or rather, my brain created entertaining/useful/interesting connections between photos. Quite enjoyable.
So nice to play my DeVoe Negra, after playing a $200 Chinese guitar for five weeks in Kham. By the way, that Chinese guitar had no label inside. I was told it was made for export to Spain, where a Spanish guitar manufacturer would add their own label!! And sell it for $500, no doubt…
02006-11-14 | Environment
Boulder rocks
Have you been on the edge of your seat wondering whether Boulder, Colo.’s carbon tax passed? It did, with about 58 percent of the vote, making the city the first in the nation to pass a municipal tax charging residents and businesses for the energy they use.
(Via Gristmill)
I didn’t know Boulder was even considering a carbon tax. Excellent!
02006-11-14 | Environment, Technology
New House Leadership, Same Mileage Standards
John Dingell, a Representative from Michigan, will, come January, be the Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. His district is home to all three of America’s top car manufacturers, and, for some reason, he’s not in favor of increasing mileage standards. Some members of Congress have been walking the Treehugger line, saying that efficiency of American vehicles could easily double in every class. The benefits for the environment would be incalculable, they say, and the burden on industry would be negligible. But with Detroit’s Representative charing the House Energy Committee, those changes are extremely unlikely.
(Via Treehugger)
