an promo mix dated 2002-07ish via segnbora Cyndi LauperMoney Changes Everything EurythmicsLove Is A Stranger Violent FemmesGone Daddy Gone DevoThat's Good Duran DuranUnion of the Snake Joan Jett & the BlackheartsDo You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah!) Dead MilkmenBitchin' Camaro CameoShe's Strange Art of NoiseClose (To The Edit) Artists United Against ApartheidSun City REMDriver 8 QueenOne Vision AerosmithF.I.N.E. They Might Be Giants(She Was A) Hotel Detective PrinceHot Thing Jeff Healey Band... (...more)

an promo mix dated 2002-05 via 'maus 45 GraveInsurance From God Screamin' Jay HawkinsI Put A Spell On You John Wesley Harding and The Good LiarsIf You Have Ghosts Ken Nordine, Bill Frisell and Wayne HorovitzHi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actor's Life For Me) Lou ReedPerfect Day YesCinema Jeff BuckleyEternal Life Alan Parsons ProjectTime Laurie AndersonWalking & Falling Roy Orbison with k.d. langCrying Tony BennettI Left My Heart In San Francisco Marcy PlaygroundSaint Joseph On The School Bus Johnny... (...more)

Indigestion woke me in the wee hours - I'm blaming that on Pubilx deli's deep-fried catfish. This was actually quite a bit better than it sounds; if I had a sub roll and some tartar sauce it would have been one hell of a po'boy. Sleep disturbances have been a thing all week - something to do with not hitting the gym since Saturday, no doubt, Sunday's easy walk notwithstanding. So I got on the 'mill this evening and hit that bitch hard for 5 miles solid in 57m41s. Add in the 1-lap cooldown: 5.25mi = 3.5mi x... (...more)

Visual Studio .NET 2002 cannot be installed on 64-bit Windows. The canonical work-around for Win7 Pro or better is to install a WinXP SP3 VM, which MS provides free under the code-name "XP Mode". Then you can install VB.NET on the VM. Classic theme, disable fade and slide UI effects configure Start menu and taskbar (double height, Quick Launch bar) Make Google my homepage, update IE to v8 and reboot the VM switch to a no-sound sound theme and turn off Language Bar Advanced Text Services install an... (...more)

Funny how it does nothing for me when I hear the tenants in the next apartment having sex. Monday night I made the bag of Celantano tortellini, had half with jarred pesto and stored half. Last night I finished stage 2 of chili-making with the first batch of frozen pre-cooked turkey/allium mix and a couple cups of 5-bean stew. I let it cook for... hours... enough to cook down probably 1.5-2 cups of liquid. Then I spooned some of that over the leftover tortellini. High calorie but at least there was a signif... (...more)