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That acid-trip, post day of surf lethargy of the bottom half of the disc was anesthetizing me.

On to one of my favorite guitar instrumental records: Satriani’s Surfing with the Alien

This is one of the most perfect records ever made. It opens with the best song to snowboard to (oddly), “Surfing with the Alien”. Oftintimes when cutting a nice arc across a powder face i sing the closing uhh… pattern? Tune?

Armed with only a drum machine and those gorgeous Ibanez guitars this album shows a clear and metallic beauty. A must for anyone who does any solo athletic activities.

What a lot of whammy!

Interestingly enough two of the most amazing guitar gurus of the age were Italian (vai and satriani). Is it in the blood? I think of genetic guitar guru-itude as a Spanish thing.

So here’s to you people of the boot!

I really like the track “Hill of the Skull” — it’s a very nice funeral procession sound. The harmonizer on the track makes in very evocative of the last few minutes of Christ. It is smooth and regal, but very sad and cruel. Then the guitar runs into chaos and then just fades out - it’s like the trick at the end of The Last Temptation of Christ where after Jesus says “It is finished” you see the film trailer run through the light of the projector — cool trick Marty.

I’m working on my yearly performance review. Damn. I didn’t get the inspiration to write well about myself until after I had a really good conversation with my boss.

It would figure, this would happen on the day it’s due.

I’m browsing through my iTunes library and I came across a classic, Jane’s Addiction’s Nothing’s Shocking. It’s a great album with amazing and beautiful and psychedelic guitar work by Mr. Electra himself, Dave Navarro.

First time I heard the guitar riff to “Stop” i fell off my bed (it was played by a kid i knew in High school named Andy).

I didn’t buy this CD until the summer after my freshman year. I was taking summer school at Tomball Community College, working at Kumon, chasing after Miss Betsy O. (now married), and slumming with wonderfriend Mike S.

Good times, I’d blare the Jane’s as I headed off to Tomball down 249.

Horrible name for a town…

I’m working on some work stuff but I’m feeling very gifted with words at the moment (that’s lucky, i’m working on a review).

Yes that is work stuff on Friday night. Shuddup.

Their music is operatic and new-wave at the same time. It’s haunting.

I was really into this album “Turn on the Bright Lights” when I was living in San Francisco and working out late at night on the 2nd floor of the 24 Hour fitness on 16th street.

I remember sitting on the press machine and hearing the echo guitar dialog of the song “Obstacle 1” as I stared through the murky blue dark towards the occulting clouds swirling about twin peaks and it’s devil’s prong pitchfork radio tower.

but its different now that im poor and im aging ill never see this place again youll go stabing yourself in the neck

I got this album and Ladytron’s “Lights and Magic” the same day up at Amoeba in the Haight.

They are a very dark beauty, perfect for SF in the winter.

she puts the weight into my little heart

You know you want it - another control key where the caps lock button is.

Barry Lustig’s haxie take care of that problem.

Here is the OSX site with the info:

Here

Laura just posted some pics from the new city library in Seattle. I think it looks great.

See her June 10th entry at her site.

Beautiful Condo for sale in The Plaza at Turtle Creek (managed by the Mansion on Turtle Creek)

Owned by TV personality Tommy Habeeb (currently on the show “Eye for an Eye” and former host of popular TV show “Cheaters” as Tommy Grand)

(italics mine)

Wow, talk about using the Q list to sell property.

Cheaters is the most stupid reality sting show. Tommy in his monochrome black outfit would help the person-done-wrong confront the wrong-doing-person and their wrong-doing-assistant and ask sanctimonious questions like “How could you do that to her, do you know she’s married?”.

I’d be afraid living in that villa would invite the spectre of instant karma.

An entire room covered in vaseline…? Holy gee….

http://www.wftv.com/news/3314503/detail.html

Dodongo dislikes smoke

If you happen to be cursed into having to use windows but want a ‘l33t h4x0r keyboard (dvorak keyboard, with caps lock turned into control) like I use the following documents are excellent.

1. Add the dvorak keyboard layout via the control panel, hit the ‘make default’ button.

OK, so now you’re dvorak-ized. Awesome.

Not awesome, windows uses QWERTY as default for the login. This sux0rz.

Do the following (taken from This Tech-Ed document. By the way, you should probably back up your registry. I didn’t but I don’t want to be responsible if you do something stupid doing this ( I didn’t backup, but I’m foolish like that).

1. Log on to Windows NT using the Dvorak keyboard layout.

2. Using Registry Editor, change the “Preload” value to 00010409 in the following registry key:

   HKey_Users.Default\KeyboardLayout\

MORE INFORMATION The Preload value for the Dvorak U.S. English keyboard layout is 00010409. The Preload value for the standard U.S. English keyboard layout is 00000409.

Got it - that’s go in and change the Preload value.

Reboot and that should stick. Now you’re dvorak thru and thru (and see someone try to log in as you - suckers).

Allright, but you still have that worthless caps lock there — OR you’re stretching like finger yoga when you use an emacs session. Not good. Let’s turn Caps to control.

Oddly I found this one on a slashdot Read More… who knew!

Here’s how I made capslock an extra control in Windows 2000/XP.

Go to this path in the registry editor: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Keyboard Layout

In that registry path, add a new binary value, like so: Name: Scancode Map Type: REG_BINARY Data: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 1D 00 3A 00 00 00 00 00

This required a reboot to take effect (for me, anyway).

(Thanks Falzer! - I sent him a nice email).

Reboot once more (hey it’s Windows, you’re used to rebooting, no?).

So now you’ve got the dopest keyboard layout known about town, clown.

w00t.

See more of my keyboard insanity at:

http://www.stevengharms.com/progs/dvorak.html

( These are search terms to help Googlers find this post: dvorak, emacs, swap caps, caps, control, windows 2000).