Atlanta High Museum

Last Saturday, Christi, my wife, and I went to the High Museum of Art in Midtown Atlanta. Well unlike most men I actually like museums. On top of that, Christi decided to start a blog, Lost in Atlanta (I am jealous that she got the domain lostinatlanta.com) and wrote a very concise review of her experience.

So, in order to join her in solidarity, kind of like a marriage, we put together a short video about the trip.

Jonathan Coulton - March 22, 2008

Let me say that culturally, since I moved to Atlanta two months ago, I have had some of the best food, met some good people and seen some very good shows.

I thought seeing Bob Mould on March 18th at the Variety Playhouse would be interesting, since I was a fan of him, Husker Du, and Sugar in my youth. He was not interesting; he was fantastic. Even his opening act, Halou, was so good, my wife, Mrs. Christi, bought their EP. The whole evening was a "wow" event for me.

But, the following Saturday, in the same venue, we went to see Jonathan Coulton (and Paul and Storm.) This was not a "wow" event. Not even close. This was a "my cheeks were hurting from laughing so much" event. This, friends, is rare. Paul and Storm hearken back to a quick witted vaudevillian act, with jokes that include words like "hexadecimal" and "semaphore." Coulton, on the other hand, still dizzy from jet lag, let, as I expected, his songs work their magic, bringing out the smiles and the occasional "Arrrrrr!" from a very tuned-in audience.

I loved it. If you have a chance to see them, do.

I also had the opportunity to meet Chad Mcfarlin, better known as birdpony on flickr who besides making interesting pre-show conversation, takes great photos and gave me permission to post his shots of JoCo and Co.






Paul & Storm - If you do not find them hilarious, your inner child eats boogers.



Mr. Coulton - effortlessly doing what he does.






And - unlike most shows, they all got together and "exchanged synergies" - in a PG-13 way.

Good stuff. Highly recommended if you get a chance.

Side note: I truly appreciate the way Mr. Coulton promotes himself, as he explains on this episode of TWIT; the R.I.A.A. is probably still scratching their heads.

Grandstream 286 and Gizmo - again...

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Hi John –

Thanks for your blog entry. It saved me a ton of time and aggravation. Now, we’ve got an available, affordable (goodbye Vonage!), and cool way to get phone service to our weekend house. I could never justify paying $50/month, or even Vonage’s $24/month for a phone that we use maybe once or twice a month. Purpose of a getaway house is to get-away.

Thanks again. Great article.

-Mike

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Mike,

I am glad you enjoyed the post. I am still using the 286 with Grand
Central and next month my wife and I will drop our AT&T cell plan for
a pay as you go plan that should end up being about $140 per year
($280 for both of us). That will be my total phone expenditure for the
year - as apposed to $840 per year currently.

There was some more information on that post in the comments, so I
tacked it to the bottom...

http://www.aprigliano.org/2007/10/grandstream-handytone-286-and.html

Anyway, if the device is working perfectly for you, leave well enough alone.

Thanks again,
John
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What John is doing on facebook

As you can tell by my following posts on Facebook- I take my virtual Internet web social network friending very seriously.



John loves to mix in circles, cliques and social coteries. That's me. Hand me my nosering.

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John is an American musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for influential rock bands Hüsker Dü and Sugar.

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John is out there tring to make that dollar.

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John just is.

What I do here

I just had one of those moments when one realizes that finally, life is coming to some sort of normalcy...

1. Move - Check.
2. Apartment - Check.
3. Job - Check.

Now, I think, "I can get back to posting to aprigliano.org more regularly."

Who am I kidding. I have never posted consistently.

But, in the last couple of months, I have come to realize what this stained, underutilized corner of the Internet is - a place where I fill in some of the cracks of the web.

When I spend literally hours or days researching one thing or another, there is an obvious need for others to find the very thing I trying to wrap my head around, since I, with my mad, crazy Google skills, had such a hard time putting together the information.

So, "here" is not about consistency. "Here" is about getting it out "there."

...and awesome YouTube videos.

I'm employed again.

'Nuff said.