Ingram Hill - Live at the Haney House

I recorded Ingram Hill at a house concert at my friends' place.  Here's one song from that concert!

Fun With My New Canon 60D

I bought a new digital SLR camera with my tax refund this year: the Canon 60D.  It's a really big improvement from the original Digital Rebel I bought years before.  I took this image just outside my house, looking into the sunset.  Should be a fun camera to experiment with!

GoDaddy CEO Brags About Killing Elephant, Loses Customers

The CEO of GoDaddy, a web hosting company, recently released a video of him killing an elephant in Zimbabwe.  After the elephant was dead, the camera shows villagers in GoDaddy hats slaughtering the animal while to a sounttrack of AC/DC's "Hells Bells".

In a related story, GoDaddy lost a bunch of customers in the last few weeks, including me.

Bobby McFerrin Hacks The Audience's Brains

Incredible!

Absent Memories

Absent Memories

Just finished reading the book Absent Memories: Moving forward when you can't look back. A fascinating first hand account of a 47 year-old women who lost all of her memories, and the 9 years since. A college graduate, a black belt, and former member of the National Guard, Beki Propst struggles to re-learn the most basic rules of social interaction, much less the skills to keep a steady job. Her view of life through new eyes sheds light on the things we take for granted.

The author loses all of her "declarative memory".  After her loss, she still remembers how to do many of the ingrained daily rituals, like driving a car, but she couldn't describe the rules of the road.  As she describes it in the book, "A computer geek might have said that I'd lost lost some data from my hard drive, but my operating system was apparently unaffected."

Checking in at 117 pages, this book is a quick read, but well worth it.  You find it at Amazon.com here (or I'm sure anywhere else books are sold or borrowed).