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Musical Baton

Erik Sagen, the mastermind behind Kartooner has passed me the musical baton, so…
Total volume of music files on my computer
My main machine at home has about 26GB, and thanks to Ian and his wonderful library, I have another 12GB on an external drive I used to carry back and forth to work. I [...]

Tales of a small town gangsta

Although the town I grew up in had an actual name, I spent the first few years after high school telling people I grew up in the “Austin area” and avoiding further questions. It just wasn’t worth explaining where I was from, or how big the town was, or what my favorite sausage place [...]

The New old design

If you visit the ol’ Second Negative on a regular basis, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been experimenting with the design a little bit. The “new” design is really just a few small changes to the old design. But you knew that. Thanks to Wordpress 1.5, I can create alternative themes and easily [...]

The Way You Talk

I’m considering asking my local congressman to sponsor a bill that makes losing your accent on purpose a crime against nature. Although it’ll mean several “country” singers that expanded into adult contemporary will have to be put away, it’s for the best. If everybody sounded like a reporter on the nightly news, what [...]