5. Traipsing around New England with a camera - a visit to the Mystic Seaport.

    27 May 2007

    Jean, Lyssa, and I got up early on Saturday morning to hit the highways and travel farther northward, to the Mystic Seaport on the coast of Connecticut for a day-long jaunt. We got dressed and set forth in Jean's car around 0930 EST5EDT on Saturday morning, in the hope of dodging a lot of weekend tourist traffic. We almost pulled it off, too; traffic didn't start getting bad until we were within spitting distance of the Seaport, when traffic started backing up and parking when we got there became a worry. Thankfully, between a local radio station playing a full …

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  6. So this is what a real vacation feels like. Once you get there, anyway.

    27 May 2007

    On Friday afternoon, Lyssa and I spent a goodly part of the day laying around Jean's apartment to recover while she was at work. Long road trips wear me out, especially when I'm driving, so I wasn't in any mood to complain overmuch because we weren't doing anything. In fact, we were doing a large amount of blessedly nothing at all. When Jean got home we set forth once more to find dinner and visit Modern Myths, the gaming and comic book store run by old friends of Jean and Lyssa. We wound up at a mall not too distant …

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  7. For you old-school BBS users out there, Jason Scott is putting something familiar online for you.

    27 May 2007

    Over at textfiles.com, Jason Scott is adding to his already voluminous archive by acquiring and putting online the contents of archive CDs, such as the shareware, text file, and artpack CDs that we used to burn our connection minutes on downloading files. Herr Scott says that, because he's downloaded these collections of files from the Net there's no way of knowing if they're complete, but you're likely to find something that you remember from back in the day.

    As always, he's accepting donations of files to add to his collection.

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  8. InSoc EP Oscillator will, in fact, be sold in physical form.

    25 May 2007

    Todd over at A Different Drum has announced that he's taking pre-orders for the new Information Society Single, Oscillator (the announcement was made on the band's website today). Paul Robb of InSoc has stated that only 500 copies of their new CD-5 will be made - half will be sold through ADD, the other half will be sold at live shows. It's already hit #7 on ADD's sales charts, and the announcement only went out yesterday at 1200 EST5EDT. The official release date of the disk has not yet been announced, though when it is I'll post ASAP.

    It should also …

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  9. We made it to Connecticut in one piece.

    25 May 2007

    Yesterday afternoon Lyssa and I struck out northward for New England to visit Jean, an old friend just over the Connecticut border. We loaded up the newly repaired TARDIS and headed for the Beltway around 1500 EST5EDT yesterday afternoon.

    Now, seeing as how it was the day before Memorial Day weekend began, we should have realised how bad the traffic on the Beltway was going to be, but we'd figured that if we left early we'd beat the rush and not experience any undue delays.

    This was not the case. The Beltway was a parking lot of people leaving work …

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  10. So, seeing as how it's 5/23, and I've been kind of grey-faced lately, how about a little fun?

    23 May 2007

    Hillary Clinton is apparently considering running for the presidency of the United States in 2008, and she's trying to draw attention to herself by letting the Net pick her campaign's theme song. Moreover, she's declared that she'll sing the theme song that her would-be constituents select on national television.

    The Ferrett was struck with a bolt of inspiration earlier today: Go to the page where you can vote for her theme song. Right above the "Submit your vote" button, there's a text box where you can suggest and vote for another song.

    Type in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air …

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