Milhouse: I concede!

McBain: Not so fast.

You probably noticed things have been slow here for the last few days.  My productivity goes down the intertubes every two years during the final week of election season.  I blame democracy.

Democrats will take control of the house, and most likely the senate. President Bush seems humbled, yet ready to face the new challenges ahead of him.  Nancy Pelosi is exptected to become the first woman Speaker of the House. Both sides of the aisles are talking bipartisanship (hope it will last.) And Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is being replaced by Bob Gates.

As a registered independent, I am more than pleased with this outcome.  I believe the checks and balances our founding fathers built into our system of government are vital to our democracy.  For too long, one party has had a monopoly of the three branches, neutralizing these checks and balances.  The pendulum has swung back towards the center.  I’m hoping this will usher in, even if only temporary, a new era of cooperative politics.

I went to the polls myself on Tuesday, though not in a hotly contested battle state.  So I am technically not part of the reform movement that swept this nation.  However, I did vote to reelect The McBaininator (R) for governor.  I couldn’t bring myself to vote for that little weenier, Milhouse Vangelides(D).  :)

Now that is all said and done, I’m ready to get back to my normal posting scedule of at least one post a day.

Flickr Photo by jimheid.

matrixsynth centerfold

The place is filled with photos and videos of synthesizers in action. I visit this site at least a few times a week, as there is almost always something new to look at or read. I’m sure it won’t be long before I start stealing links from Matrixsynth.

“Matrixsynth, simply put is a blog on everything synth. I started the site on July 20th of 2005 as a means of keeping track of all the interesting tidbits I came across in the synthesizer community. I’m a synth hobbyist. I track intersting news, samples, images, trivia and more, including all the manufacturers such as Moog, Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Alesis, Clavia, and Access along with the boutique modular synth shops like MOTM, MacBeth Studios, Cwejman, Doepfer, Analog Soultions, etc.”

- Matrix

I also recommend you visit Matrixsynth’s sister blog Synthwire.

Flickr Photo by Me.

While looking for groups to join at flickr, I was surprised to learn one did not already exist for the Berklee College of Music. So I created one. It will hopefully become a great place for us alumni to share our pictures of life at Berklee.

Pikachu + Theremin = Pikaremin

I learned about the Pikaremin while reading Kotaku yesterday. The artist, Kaseo Shacho, has a flickr gallery of himself performing with 12 circuit-bent Pikachus. Too bad there isn’t some video of that.

Part of Get Bent.

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