Announcements: albums and concerts and parties, oh my!

[mdlbear]

My upcoming CD, Coffee, Computers, and Song!, is still available for preorder by snail-mail or PayPal. We are now looking at having it ready sometime in April. I made pretty good progress over the weekend, with more than a third of the tracks finished and only a handful needing additional fixup recording. Now that I'm over my seasonal cold, I should be able to take care of that over the weekend.

I now have both my concert at Consonance, and most of the preceeding concert by cflute and tibicina, up on the web. I missed a few songs in Callie and Rebecca's due to fumbling with the Mac's choice of defalt input devices; if anyone else has a copy I'd be grateful, especially if it includes "Lullaby" and "Nuts from the Hazel Tree".

Grand Central Starport is holding its annual "It's Green!" potluck party this coming Saturday, March 17th. This year, in addition to St. Patrick's Day and a slew of birthdays, we're celebrating the chaoswolf's engagement to selkit. No need to RSVP; just show up.

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[johno.livejournal.com]

We plan on coming down to the party in the evening, as we may brave San Francisco during the day to see Avalon Rising.

My recording of cflute and tibicina's starts in the middle, so I may or may not have the songs you want.

[mdlbear]

I caught the first two; it's the third and fourth songs in the set that I'm missing.

[madtom-o-bedlam.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to say happy birthday. Not certain if my schedule will allow me to show up Sat March 17th but I am planning to try.

as a side note, is there someplace that I can go that'll give me the relative pluses and minuses of all the flavors of Unix/Linux/etc... out there? I'm thinking of getting rid of the Microsoft once and for all and it's been a long time since I was a real gear head. Thanks, and happy birthday again.

[mdlbear]

Thanks!

You could go to http://distrowatch.com/ or the Linux Weekly News distributions list, but that's probably more information than you need. Start with the Ubuntu and Kubuntu live CDs, boot them, play with them on your machine, and see which desktop environment you prefer. (They're really the same except for the set of packages installed by default; you can have both if you want. Or neither.) Try Puppy or DSL (Damn Small Linux: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/index.html ) to see if you prefer a more lightweight environment. Then install whichever one you like best. I'm a happy Debian user -- it's the origin of the packaging system behind Ubuntu and DSL, has more packages than anyone else, is pretty conservative about upgrading, and as a result is rock-solid. There are LJ communities for Linux, Debian, and Ubuntu, and probably others.

[roaringmouse.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday.

Mouse

[mdlbear]

Thanks! See you Friday!