rockstar rick

I’ve been following the progress of the One Laptop per Child (w) program for a while now, and I just heard that for the next 13 days, people can participate in the give one get one program by paying the price of two laptops, a measley $400. I remember getting really excited about it when I heard Nicholas Negroponte’s keynote address at the 30th Internationalization and Unicode Conference last November.

So if you’ve got $400 to spend, do it. They’re pretty cool laptops–even at 400 bucks. And you’re helping the education of third world children! What’s not awesome about that!

I’ve been watching NBC’s new show “Chuck,” and I’ll admit that my disbelief suspender™ was working overtime at first. Once you get past that, the show is just plain fun to watch.

And if you like pretty blondes, that can’t hurt either. And the good people at strahotski.com think so as well. First–the name of the web site? Brilliant. Come for the catchy name, stay for the high-res screen captures and intelligent commentary on the show’s story (with an obvious bias towards Yvonne Strahovski, naturally).

Too much fun.

Is anyone else completely addicted to Scrabulous? Very soon I will be using words like “ghat” in everyday conversation. That is until I stop having everyday conversations at all, and I’ll only be able to speak in square tiles.

Here’s a game I recently won:

And here’s one I recently lost:

So much for using my time wisely.

So I decided that my life does not currently have enough going on, and that I need to add some other commitment, like, I don’t know…recording an entire album in the month of November. I must’ve enjoyed it so much last year, that I decided to put myself through it again. I’m talking about National Solo Album Month (NaSoAlMo), and it was actually quite a fulfilling project. And some listenable music came out of it–at least for me. And just for the hell of it, I put it up on last.fm. Like anyone else will want to listen to it.

So I cleaned up the studio a little, and started messing around with some beats in Reason. The password is: Experimentation.