Archive for the ‘personal life’ Category

I Have Been Here A Long Time

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I had another dream about my lost cassettes from 20 years ago (remember? I dreamed about this previously). This time, I was not in a pawn shop. This time, beleaguered campus radio station CiTR (which in this world has had to resort to fundraising in the face of UBC budget ...

Interesting Textures

Monday, February 4th, 2008

I bring this in from my LJ - which is sadly even more out-of-use than this blog. Dupobs got sampled for a PSA for a local noise show that apparently never plays our music. Cool! Listen to it here. It's clearly "Introducing Le Barf Ball", from our Shindig show last Autumn. The ...

Tapes and Tapes

Friday, December 14th, 2007

The image above depicts the "A List": tapes that are clearly labelled and known to have original music on them. There are 100 more on the "B List", which are mislabelled but suspected to contain original works (e.g., they were recorded atop prior recordings on the blank tapes, but never ...

Mobile Media Use & Disuse - Research findings, plus musical odds and sods

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Hey. I'm digging my head out from under a tense, transitional semester of research, teaching and baby-raising. I'm working directly in mobile media now, in a new job at Mobile Muse 3 (so expect more posts in this sorter space as we go). On that note, you can see a ...

Ex-Perry Mental Geekery

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Nice to be back in the swim of things. I just put a final report out the door on a research project that I'd been working on for 14 months. It was a difficult project - one that didn't always go as planned, that got intermittently sidelined by other events ...

Quel bruit!

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Just a heads up in case you were expecting an entry here. Things are a little more noise than click of late, but blissfully so. We brought our daughter Isabel into this world just over a week ago. Here's proof: I'll return to regular blogging shortly, when the little boss permits ...