So. Yes. Here we are. Recently I’ve been reading a lot about social media. Don’t ask me why, and if you are going to rail on me for reading about it, well I don’t blame you. I would be mercilessly shaming any of my other developer friends that had decided to spend their precious free [...]
Archive for April, 2011
Oooo Weee Ooooo
By admin in The Missing PersonI’ve been so busy lately, I’ve hardly given any thought to anything outside of web development and coding. Which is too bad. One thing of note, Soundgarden is going back on tour. So that pretty much made my entire life. When I was a closed-minded, petty high school child, I pretty much focused on a [...]
Music is not a meritocracy
By admin in The Missing PersonI think it’s pretty common for people to label their favorite artists as under-appreciated. First, it’s a fine line between ‘under-appreciated’ and ‘sold-out’, and where that line falls is unfailingly subjective (is it selling more than 100,000 records? guest spots on Conan?). But second, and most import, the lack of appreciation for a band’s talent [...]
Is it true?
By admin in The Missing PersonIs there such a thing as an old-guy bias? Just two days ago, an unnamed person said that the generation following mine had ‘missed out’ because the music of their adolescence wasn’t anywhere as varied and deep as those that had their teenaged years in the 1990s. That was the era of my adolescence, so [...]