Click that fucker to zoom out. Waaaaaaay out. This photo was snapped from 432 miles above Washington DC at 11:19 am on 1/20/09. I think you can figure the rest out on your own. Normally, satellite photos do a good job of making me feel small. This one makes me feel big, for some reason.

Anyway, happy new year, everyone.

I'm trying out SoundCloud. It is, if you're not familiar, essentially to music what Vimeo is to video and Flickr to pictures. This player has four micronaut out-takes that I uploaded to test the service. These were all written somewhere between the beginning of working on Callisto and (in the case of Stratus) a couple months ago. You can download the full WAV files via the download buttons in the player, and if you click the little arrows next to each song, it'll take you to a page on SoundCloud for the track in question where I put a little blurb about each track. On those pages, you can get the full size cover art as well. There's enough to make your own EP if you'd like.

Anyhow, enjoy.

Our yearly Major Wind Storm just tore through town last night. Trees down everywhere. The town next to ours really got nailed, too. Quite a few houses got squished, but as far as I'm aware, nobody was hurt. The electricity was off for hours, but it has been more on than off the last hour or so. Much better than the first time this happened, when we were powerless (in the literal, rather than figurative, sense) for almost a week.

Anyhow, it isn't steady enough that I can work, but it is steady enough to interface with humanity via the Interwebs, so I'll just do that for the now.