Amazon.com: Dancing with Cats: From the Creators of the International Best Seller Why Cats Paint: Burton Silver, Heather Busch: Books.

Greatest book ever.  This one is for Jason Heath.  He probably doesn’t understand why this is funny.

Unless otherwise noted
The Ben Markley Quartet
Every Sunday from 9-1
El Chapultepec
Denver, CO

Jazz Jam Session
Every Wednesday from 8-11
The Laughing Goat
Boulder, CO

Josh Quinlain and Kells Nollenberger
Friday March 27 7-10
Amante Coffee
Boulder, CO

This is a track from a couple weeks back with my friend Crissy Saalborn.  It is an old Antonin Dvorak song.  I didn’t even know he wrote folk songs.  You know the New World Symphony guy.  I thought this turned out really nice.

 

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I’m playing tomorrow night (Thuesday) with the Andrew Trim Quartet at Dazzle in Denver. 9:30pm-1:00am.

Andrew Trim – Guitar
Gabe Irvine – Trumpet
Mark Emmons – Drums
Me – Bass

I’m sorry but I just couldn’t resist.

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This is one of the best ideas I have read in a long time and it really addresses the important issues for true reform in our government. I believe he was also responsible in part for creative commons. Larry Lessig just might be my new hero.

Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig Bets ‘Wikipedia’ Approach Will Transform Congress | Threat Level from Wired.com

Trent Reznor has been a fan of the BitTorrent for quite some time and made a big splash today by actually uploading his music himself to the major BitTorrent sites. He also put it under Creative Commons which is really cool. I use this as a chance to do a little promotion for the Creative Commons. Every musician should at least understand the options out there for their music when it comes to copyright. People love forward thinking artists!

Practice What You Preach: Nine Inch Nails Gives Away New Album

Warrantless wiretapping explained by Snuggle the Security Bear – Boing Boing

This wiretapping thing has gone crazy.  I can’t believe that our government let the telecoms get away with this.  It is really pathetic.  If you don’t know what I am talking about then just listen to snuggle the security bear.

The Ultimate PO Box, Post Office Box and Mail Forwarding Service | Earth Class Mail

I really want a paperless life.  I have been struggling for along time to try and convert everything I do into my computer.  It is just the way I work.  It is so much easier to stay organized in my computer and when I move around I can bring everything with me.  It is then backed up on TImeMachine and Mozy (everyone should have offsite backup).  No fear of ever losing my stuff.

I really wish I could afford this service.  I find it so exciting as to things that will be coming in the future.  Which reminds me that I just did my taxes today on TurboTax which as a company is a little deceiving about pricing (they introduce the state tax price halfway through and its more expensive.)  Overall though it is really slick especially if you use it for years in a row because the import all of you previous tax info.  This year they were even able to import my W-2s of of some server.  It should get easier and easier for Americans to do their own taxes as these tools keep getting better.  Sorry for the “rat hole”.