Archive for April, 2005

Domestic terrorism

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

This has been going all around the blogs for the past few days, and even to some degree through the mainstream media, but Sen. John Cornyn (“defending the constitution,” hah!), Republican from Texas said some truly disgusting things on the floor of the Senate the other day: “I don’t know if there is a cause-and-effect [...]

Nor’easter

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

I’m a New Yorker by birth and habit (if you can call being neurotic to near-OCD status a “habit”), so living in Philly for the last 6 years has had its drawbacks. Don’t get me wrong – I love Philly; it’s affordable, I can bike everywhere, and the chances of running into my mother on [...]

SDR strikes again

Monday, April 4th, 2005

Many thanks to SlashdotReview for using our song, Let Me Ride again this week. Now we just gotta record another album so they don’t have to keep reusing the same tune. Don’t forget, Lunatic Groove will be at the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, PA this Sunday at 3 pm. This is an annual benefit for [...]

Monday morning links

Monday, April 4th, 2005

Cities are wonderful and awful places. They teem with life and activity and are our centers of culture and art. But they are also inhabited by poverty and crime. A walk through a great city can be can be an uplifting experience full of the remarkable bustling energy of modern Americanism or it can be [...]

A simple database

Friday, April 1st, 2005

I really like Gmail. One year ago today, in what many thought at the time was an April Fools joke, Google announced an email service with a gigabyte of storage and the search capabilities of Google built right in. They chose to grow the service gradually by making it invite only. I was lucky enough [...]

Spring Has Sprung in the 215

Friday, April 1st, 2005

And how do I know? The fountain is on at Love Park. This picture was taken with my Treo 650. Best…gadget…ever.