photo: Madawaska, Maine
About: I'm Jen. I live a few miles outside of Boston. I do web work for a non-profit during the day.
This web page has been in all sorts of forms since 1994 when I first wrote HTML in emacs on a Unix terminal at BU. Now I prefer BBEdit on my Mac. I'm never quite sure why I'm doing this
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January 30, 2006
January 24, 2006
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Just another reason to love Maine.
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From one of my most favorite places to work (1998-2000), a new information organizer. I just downloaded the demo and it looks very useful.
January 23, 2006
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Arthur show us a "works burger" in Sydney with cheese, ham, beetroot, pineapple and a fried egg. Good lord.
January 22, 2006
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Wow. Only 7 states give gay couples inhertiance rights and health benefits and their ranch was in OK, which isn't one.
January 21, 2006
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I wonder if the woman in the article minds that the writer says she "speaks in the slightly mischievous patter of an overcaffeinated wood sprite."
January 16, 2006
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Jody Adams (Rialto) never used highchairs with her kids. How did that work?
January 12, 2006
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I heartily agree with Mr. Coates. This seems very un-Apple and I don't like it.
January 10, 2006
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This is excellent. Bill Gates describing Windows Vista over a video of OS X.
January 8, 2006
January 6, 2006
January 4, 2006
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Coming up:(2/11) Death Cab for Cutie w/ My Morning Jacket, (3/11) Wilco w/ Bright Eyes, (4/1) Flaming Lips w/ the Shins, (4/22) Alison Krauss w/ Kathleen Edwards, (4/29) Etta James, (5/27) Franz Ferdinand. The only bad news is Trey Anastasio is on in April. Phish hurts my ears.
January 1, 2006
Best of
I always try to figure out what I think the best records of 2005 were for a mailing list I'm on. I clearly didn't buy enough released in '05 to make it to a top 10. So here's my top 7 (in no real order):
1. Richmond Fontaine - Fitzgerald
Lovely and bleak. Most of the songs were written in a $28/night hotel room in Reno. Willy Vlautin's written a novel, Motel Life. The press release reads, "Alongside such seminal works as Annie Proulx's Postcards, Raymond Carver's What we talk about when we talk about love and Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son, it should come to be seen as a classic of downbeat American prose."
Raymond Carver, of course.
2. Mountain Goats - Sunset Tree
Really, nothing better. I am going to make it through this year if it kills me. Painfully honest, the whole thing.
3. Josh Rouse - Nashville
I feel about Josh Rouse as I once did about Ducky Dale. It's hard to explain.
4. Pernice Brothers - Discover A Lovelier You
It didn't get the best reviews, but I like it.
5. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
I'm still exploring this one.
6. Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
He's only 23, he's excellent.
7. Damien Jurado - On My Way to Absence
I love everything he ever does.