typewritingMost recent articles on typewriting.orgGood Free MP3s on Amazon- April 15, 2008 This morning The Consumerist kindly pointed us to a search on Amazon that returns quite a few free MP3s. The Consumerist says No guarantee that they'll be any good, but hey, they're free! I&8217;ll go one further here and reduce the free MP3 list to songs I guarantee are good. The Club by Nick Lowe Dead Sound by The Raveonettes Energy by The Apples In Stereo Jenny Place Your Bets by Dolorean Led Zeppelin Sings Dr. Seuss by Mike Rayburn Two Times by The Blakes Who Taught You To Live Like That...http://typewriting.org/2008/04/14/Good_Free_MP3s_on_Amazon/#content Live Through This- April 12, 2008 Back in university I had a lot of artsy friends. One of these friends, Sabrina Chapadjiev, got a bunch of artsy people together in a group to make some art. I played music and had long hair, but I&8217;ve never really considered myself very artsy. When my theatre friends needed help with a play, I ran the audio equipment. But when Sabrina wrote a play, I somehow ended up in it. It wasn&8217;t a major part, but I was on stage, which was uncomfortable. The play, called Perhaps Merely Quiet,...http://typewriting.org/2008/04/12/Live_Through_This/#content My Vegetarianism- April 11, 2008 Ezra Kilty wrote a pretty good summary of why I&8217;m vegetarian, which has little to do with the stereotypical &8220;animals are people too&8221; philosophy most people assign to me when they hear I don&8217;t eat meat. I often half-jokingly say that I don&8217;t like animals and I&8217;m vegetarian because I want to eat their food source and starve them to death. This is only half-joking because starvation would be a natural, reasonable way for animals to die. Industrial meat farming, on the.http://typewriting.org/2008/04/11/My_Vegetarianism/#content Bought a House- April 11, 2008 We bought a house today, off Craigslist, without a realtor. Yeah, I know, that sounds really stupid. And maybe it was, but it still feels like a good deal. In a previous post, you&8217;ll recall I said We&8217;ll know soon if we&8217;re buying that or continuing to look. We found out soon after that the house was being sold to someone else. And I was all ready to give up on buying a house and start looking at rental options when Jackie (my sister-in-law) found this house on Craigslist. That was.http://typewriting.org/2008/04/10/Bought_a_House/#content Brains and Caffeine- April 4, 2008 In &8220;Daily caffeine 'protects brain',&8221; the BBC offers another explanation for my abnormal brain. It&8217;s too bad I&8217;m so queasy around blood and organs; on a purely abstract level I find this kind of biology really interesting. You&8217;ll recall I had previously suggested my brain started acting a little more like the brain of someone with Alzheimer's, a damaged hippocampus, roughly ten years ago. The BBC says: "Caffeine appears to block several of the disruptive effects of...http://typewriting.org/2008/04/04/Brains_and_Caffeine/#content |