Filk on TV

For those on my friends list who want to know what I do on the weekends, and for the filkers on the list who just want to see a well-done segment on mainstream media, this article and video clip from Atlanta's public television station is worth a look. OK, maybe public television isn't exactly mainstream, but it's close. It was filmed at GAFilk this January; some people might recognize the old coot with a funny-looking guitar singing about robots.

(Seen on filk, quadrivium, and ladyat; Linux users may have to install some non-free codecs, but it does work.)

CDs!!

Even as I type, a box of 250 blank CDR disks preprinted with the label art for About Bleeding Time is languishing in Oakland waiting for a Monday rendezvous with destiny my grubby paws my house full of CD burners $employer's office in Menlo Park.

Anyone at Baycon next weekend who preorders, or has preordered, Coffee, Computers, and Song will get one of their very own to take away. Everyone else should be getting email pointing them at the downloadable version. CC&S itself should be shipping in late June.

Welcome to Trantor...

... now go $HOME. Trantor.thestarport.org, that is -- it's the nodename of my new (as of yesterday) workstation. I was getting tired of Star Wars theme, I already had a thin client called Terminus, so...

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It's not a maxed-out monster machine, but I don't need one. It's more than fast enough for audio editing and the occasional video, has well-supported 3-d graphics, gigabit ethernet, a delightfully quiet case -- and cost roughly the same as the cheapest available CD duplicator. It'll do just fine, and Dantooine, the overworked little 800MHz Via EPIA system it replaces will go back to being a thin client, print server, field recording box, or whatever.