The best album I heard in 2011 was High Violet by The National. The first song I heard of theirs was Fake Empire of a previous album, while I like that album okay when I heard this one it was like they had struck a chord I hadn’t heard before. The combination of the lead [...]
Today I finished building two custom raised planter boxes. They turned out really cool so I figured I’d post an article detailing how I made them in case anyone else is searching for how to build these things. I consider myself moderately handy and have a few tools laying around, but nothing particularly fancy. This [...]
The best new album I heard this year is Black Sands by Bonobo. I first came across this album and artist from a music blog I follow called ScissorKick around memorial day and it’s been in my rotation ever since. Black Sands is a sexy downtempo / chillout music that has a mix of electronic [...]
Ray, also known as Raydog, Buddy, Dude and lately Old Man, is no longer with us. He was the best dog, a loyal friend, gentle, loving and smart. We had a lot of fun together over the last 14 years. I miss him badly, but I will always cherish my memories of our time together.
Janko over at P2P Blog just pointed out some interesting facts from the new Study Commissioned by the European Union. The part that got my attention was the fact that of the people who currently pirate content only 20% of them would be likely to pay, they’d rather go without than pay for content. In [...]