i am, truly, not excited about getting a monster tv next week. it’s just work-related, and the concern is more to do with the space and the purchase of accessories and gadgets. i might try to use the set and a game console as an exercise source, though i have no feeling that it would replace a thorough training program. it can’t hurt, though.
my sister got a bigass tv a few years ago, and then a Wii, which came with some kind of sword or light saber gaming accessory. i had heard that these things were, nationwide, being hurled accidentally into television sets, smashing the screens and ruining the TVs. i thought that was an exaggerated urban legend, but it happened to my sister. she invited the neighbors over to try the games and stuff, and they did it, they let the light saber or sword or whatever it was slip from their hand and it destroyed the television. the neighbors came back a day or 2 later to pay for a replacement TV, which was decent and munificent of them, but still, wtf, i hope i don’t crash through my television. the TV is 3D, though, so on that count i hope that no one comes crashing through it.
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i got a copy of an old magazine that i have craved for years. i don’t know if it is particularly rare, but i’ve never seen it until recently, and i was ready to pay way more for it than i usually pay for these things. it is the Liszt edition of The Etude, from 1902. i have a cover of that issue, but until now i had none of the content pages. Liszt was the most influential pianist of the 19th and early 20th centuries, his influence felt well into the present day, which becomes especially impressive when no one alive has ever heard him play, not even on record. for better or worse Liszt’s was the tree from which all pianism grew, to paraphrase Busoni.
the old issue of The Etude probably has little about Liszt that i do not already know, but as a fanboy of the great Hungarian i like to have a rare item like this… now for the scanning.
i got my old software set up again, for scanning and converting hte old magazines. that project crashed and burned with the Windows Vista blowout, but i finally found the CDs and re-installed on the Qosmio. i don’t yet know how to monetize this project, but i’ll get to that some day. for now it is a time vacuum, but it’s fun enough.
i was unable to move the project from Movable Type to WordPress, on account of PHP’s 1901 bug. WordPress uses PHPs date system, which does not recognize any date prior to 1902. there is a crazy hack to fix this, but the hack is kinda fussy and would have to be re-hacked every single time i upgrade WordPress, so funk dat. guess i’ll stick with MT and its slowness. it is nice to use a content management system that shares my initials.
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