Steel White Table

decided to test out my girlfriend Jenny’s new laptop by recording a podcast (or mudcast) on it — originally posted here as a 10-minute MP3 file, but through the magic of editing, it’s now a more easily digestible 6 minutes (with me playing some classical guitar in the background). The first couple minutes [...]

My Own Private Library:
I wonder whether I am afflicted with something more than a “gentle madness,” as Nicholas A. Basbanes described it in his 1999 book on the history of book collecting. You see, I spend more on books than I do on food.
An enjoyable essay about the love of books.
I recommend A Gentle Madness: [...]

Tyson Ibele is (or was) 17 years old and a whiz at creating 3D art and animation. His gallery has some great animation (turn the sound up) and a great short movie, The Beast Within.

What I Have Read Since 1974:
My mother started keeping the list when I started the first grade. My school asked parents to keep track of what books we read as part of its reading program. She kept the list until 1977 and I’ve kept the list since I was in the fifth grade.

I’d like to [...]

Jim’s Big Ego isn’t the Jim we all know and love, although I DID have to verify that.
Jim’s Big Ego is an inventive trio from the hub of Boston based around the genius of songwriter, poet and WI-FI cafe lurker Jim Infantino. The band creates a sound that can best be described as “UnPop” - [...]

A Bibliophiles Bedroom, an art exhibition of bedroom furniture for book lovers. (Click the vertical tabs on the site for more information and photos.)
Similar posts: Book Furniture, and House Made Of Books.
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From The Museum of Musical Instruments I learned that Mark Twain played the guitar:
[Twain] was a passionate guitarist and singer during the 19th century’s Romantic era. His songs were woven with graphic stream-of-consciousness imagery, and his musical styles included gospel, slavery blues, love songs, political satire, folk, and burlesque.
He apparently played a Martin, style [...]

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20 Words That Should Exist includes:

CARPERPETUATION (kar’ pur pet u a shun) n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.
ELECELLERATION (el a [...]

How to make a toga:
Usually women want to have the costume at least be attractive, whereas guys really don’t care how dufus they look. If fact, the more dufus you look, the more your friends will make fun of you, and thus the more popular you will be at the party.
A nice companion piece to [...]

My children some day:

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I went out on my balcony last night to look at the lunar eclipse and snap a few pics. I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which, if you didn’t know, has a big harbour right in the middle of it called Halifax Harbour. It was foggy last night. All I saw was fog. While I [...]

Google’s Cheat Sheet. Some I didn’t know:

~auto loan: Search for loan info for both the word auto and its synonyms: truck, car, etc.
red * blue: the words red and blue separated by exactly one word.
[#]…[#]: Search within a range of numbers. Example: DVD player $100…150 (Search for DVD players between $100 and $150)

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Last night I recorded this mudcast of just me talking quietly for 22 minutes, with Esther Golton and Steel White Table playing lightly in the background. This is strictly a late-night show. Listening to this in the middle of the day — it wouldn’t work. But late at night while you’re lying in bed, [...]

Jenny and I recorded this 10-minute podcast before we went to bed last night, with the music of Kara Barnard in the background. Although recorded at night, this is a calm, relaxed, early morning show.
We introduce by Kara Barnard; talk about girl names and how cool podcasting is; we say hello to a list of [...]