Not anymore, you're not!

Thanks to Danny's help, I grabbed a plugin for iPhoto that exports resized pictures. I think that's what happened, anyway. All I know is that there are now ten pictures in the San Francisco album.

We're supposed to be going on some tours tomorrow, so I should have a few more to post for you then.

Until recently it has bee commonly thought (again, even among scholars) that oral cultures could be counted on to preserve their traditions reliably, that people in such societies were diligent in remembering what they heard and could reproduce it accurately when asked about it. This, however, is another myth that has been exploded by recent studies of literacy. We have now come to see that people in oral cultures typically do not share the modern concern for preserving traditions intact, and do not repeat them exactly the same way every time. On the contrary, the concern for verbal accuracy has been instilled in us by the phenomenon of mass literacy itself; since anyone now can check to see if a fact has been remembered correctly (by looking it up), we have developed a sense that traditions ought to remain invariable and unchanged. In most oral societies, however, traditions are understood to be malleable; that is, they are supposed to be changed and made relevant to the new situations in which they are cited.

(The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 45)

Am I the only one who finds it strange that TWIT rails against DRM in many of their episodes (as they should), but then they do ads for Audible, which has a terrible DRM? My parents tried using Audible to get audiobooks for their commutes, but the restrictions caused a lot of problems. I wouldn't want to pay for a book that I couldn't easily take with me when I get a new computer. Cory Doctorow's speech is still one of the best explanations for why DRM is bad. If you haven't yet, read it!

Dom is in the top 3!! Please vote again, as often as you'd like to push him to #1. It's apparently a big deal, so do it now!

Please vote for him (multiple times) here.
His entry is "Gunplay" with Jorge Vega! (You can see Dom's credit on the artwork.)

Some folks have been asking this question, I swear. Basically, work. I get home from work and don't want to do a whole lot. Then on the weekend I do fun things. Last weekend a bunch of us went down to San Diego. It was a blast. I also got to hang out with my friend Christy, who is a furniture designer. Check out her site. Sorry I haven't been updating the blog as much. Eric has some really cool stuff up at his place.

Man, it's sad to see wrestlers dropping like flies. Brian Adams, also known as Crush, is dead. He was popular in the '90s, first as a member of Demolition and then solo as Kona Crush. I remember in the late '90s he took on a biker persona. There is no cause of death yet, so I won't jump to any conclusions, but this an ongoing trend and hopefully something can be done about it.