Office Space Party, Thursday November 13th!

When: Thursday, November 13, 8:30PM
Phone: 512-789-8768
Where: Casa Blue, 2501 Berwyn Circle
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In the nine layoffs I've survived as a corporate hamster, I had two talismans. One was a fortune cookie on the nametag of my cubicle saying "A cheerful message is on it's way to you." The other?

The other was Office Space.

When I heard about how good and apt it was, I vowed never to watch it until I quit my job, or my job quit me. On 2:30 PM last Thursday, my hamsterhood was terminated.

Please join me this Thursday at 8:30 PM to watch the movie about what our lives have become, on a projection screen with full surround sound. And bring some alcohol. You might need it.

Pizza and snacks will be served, along with my now infamous Green Tea ice cream.

The Legendery Pink Dots -- A Comedy of Errors in Metric Time

6:30 PM) Look for Legendary Pink Dots ticket. Can't find it.
6:32 PM) Check e-mail. Delivery : "USPS"
6:45 PM) Call Ticketmaster "Too late to help. Show in two hours."
7:00 PM) Search random Piles of Mail for ticket. No ticket. No Dots!
7:27 PM) Search through *all* of the last two weeks of circulars in recycle bin.
8:04 PM) Find ticket! Yay! I Recycle = No Rotten Bacon on Ticket.

8:30 PM) Imbibe fungus. Feel ill. Cough.
8:34 PM) Check Bus Schedule
8:37 PM) Discover Bus Strike = No Service to/from downtown
8:38 PM) Swear a lot
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More Crazy Musical Cybernetics

So I have Ableton Live, a fairly insane musical package designed for live performance. My eventual goal is to be able to control an entire show, made up of anything from live, real-time performance to pre-recorded anything, and all combinations in between, while singing and doing firedancing, all by myself.

Preferably wirelessly.

Using MIDI, a networking standard for electronic instruments, it's possible to control each end every thing that Live can do. For instance, you can have it trigger a pre-recorded sound effect, start or stop any part of a song, jump to another place inside the same song, change the volume of track 3, or whatever. You can even record parts of your current performance live for looping, distorting, harmonizing, etc, like Kid Beyond does.

It's nuts.

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Good quote from "Who Stole Feminism?"

"The evidence that women have been excluded, and their abilities as thinkers and writers demeaned, is everywhere. But once a woman appreciates the extent to which culture and civilization have been male-dominated, two roads like before her. She can learn what she can be learned about womens' past achievements, and learn as well the reasons that their contributions to the larger enterprise were not greater; and she can then avail herself of the freedom she now has to accept the challenge to join with men on equal terms in the making of a new and richer culture. Or she can react to the cultural and scientific heritage as "androcentric" and move consciously to reconstruct the "knowledge base." It is at this juncture that equity and gender feminist academics begin to go their separate ways. The former stay within the bounds of traditional scholarship and join in its enterprise. The later seek to transform scholarship to make it "women-centered."

Who Stole Feminism by Christina Hoff Sommers, p. 55

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