Archive for January, 2007

the view ahead

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

the return home

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

With Sirius being the last community on the tour, I’ve started my journey home. There are plenty of friends lining my path. This is the part of the movie where the bad guys have been vanquised, so all the helpers come out of nowhere and they all have a big party while cheesy 80’s music […]

Sirius Community - journal entries

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

11/26 - Sunday night
Found Sirius ok. It’s about 10 miles from Amherst, MA. The place is pretty big - several buildings. Brice met me, showed me to my room and gave me a quick orientation. Then he invited me to have dinner with his family. He and his wife Deborah have three kids at the […]

NY journals & pics

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

After leaving DC, I headed up to New York for a few days to see friends and visit Ganas on Staten Island.
11/15 - Wednesday
Arrived in NY okay. It must have cost me $20 in tolls to get up here. $5 for a bridge, $3 for a turnpike. Ridiculous. Hung out with Tavit. He’s into video […]

NomadicScribe and nambers: universal shift or serendipity?

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Nambers is a way to map an internet address into a series of four (unchosen words. It’s based on the website’s IP address, which is a series of four numbers between 0 - 255. The nambers website assigns a single word to each number (0-255), for example 64 is ‘drive,’ 233 is ‘tool,’ etc. […]

One Year on the Road

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

I’ve put together a soundtrack for my travels this year. You can see the full playlist and the picture I chose as “cover art” at Art of the Mix.
New Artists I discovered this year:

Michael Franti and Spearhead - groovy, dance-able hip-hop beats combined with conscious lyrics
Human and the Other Humans - funky/folky sound with lyrics […]