Get Cynical

The Electras, who first formed a band in 1961 as high school students, have recently been thrust back in the spotlight thanks to their bass player being none other than Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry. This CD is response to the demand for a re-issue of the group’s only recording, featuring such hits as Yellow Jacket, Torquay, and Shangaied. There are rumors of a reunion performance between now and November 2004.

This is my iMac server. I built it into a wooden box. It is run as a pure server, completely headless. This servers hosts this page, so if you are reading this then you are connected to my ‘box’. This box is colocated in the Digital Forest within a few feet of MacSlash and Applefritter.

The basic story is that I took an iMac I got for $25 and put it in a box I bought at Fred Meyer’s for $18. Then I added a mini ATX power supply, an LED fan, and a dual cold cathode light kit. The total cost to complete the project was less than $200.

In the midst of unprecedented political troubles we have cause of great gratitude to God for unusual good health and most abundant harvests.

You will not be surprised to learn that in the peculiar exigencies of the times our intercourse with foreign nations has been attended with profound solicitude, chiefly turning upon our own domestic affairs.

A disloyal portion of the American people have during the whole year been engaged in an attempt to divide and destroy the Union. A nation which endures factious domestic division is exposed to disrespect abroad, and one party, if not both, is sure sooner or later to invoke foreign intervention.

Welcome to a world of rough roads, rum, world history, ecology, geography and human nature. Welcome to Notes from the Road.

Notes from the Road is a project in experimental travel writing – it is about subjective travel; the kind of real world of random things and real people.