Serenity NOW!!!

No not Seinfeld. A couple of my co-workers are going slightly nuts over the Serenity movie coming out on Friday. Man that's a good way to get disappointed. I had that happen with the Matrix series. Saw the first one and went gaga for the others. When Reloaded came out...major disappointment. In all fairness, Firefly, the series was VERY good and I do believe it deserves another round on a caring and nurturing station. But for the love of god....you would think this was the fifteenth coming of Star Trek. Actually though, I would have assumed Firefly would have picked up Trekkies as natural audience, but I don't really think this is happening. It seems to have drawn more Buffy fans than Trekkies. Anybody think differently? Hopefully they stick true to the plot; though isn't creating a movie one of the possibilities for jumping the shark ? Anyways I'm sure I'll end up picking up the DVD of the movie when it comes out.

Class in Session

Hobby number 1 for those keeping score at home is fairly recent. Currently I'm taking lessons to learn how to play guitar. I've been taking lessons for ohhh 10 weeks and trying to play for 6 months. Nothing spectacular just the basics. I've got a real good guitar, a G&L ASAT Special , much like a Fender Telecaster. The L in G&L stands for Leo Fender who created the company after he left Fender and worked there until he passed away. His wife still continues to hold some sort of position there and still signs the COA's that come with the guitars. The guitar itself is absolutely incredible. Haven't learned how to describe guitar tones, probably because I haven't been exposed to too many guitars yet, but I know what I like. This I like. The amp is a Hughes and Kettner Edition Blue solid state amp. I like the fact I can get plenty of distortion without annoying the neighbors. Plus it's got a nifty blue glow to the top cover plate....for the nerd in me. Overall it's a good setup that runs about $1500. So any way today is lesson day...I've been working HARD to try learn the assignment...god it feels like school all over again. If anybody's got some advice on good equipment to check out I'm all ears. Alot of the fun is trying to discover the different sounds you can get from different equipment and setups.

Online

Well it's been a loooong time since I've had a presence online so lets start with a little social experiment. I'll keep everybody up to date on who finds my blog that knows me outside of cyberspace and when and of course how. In the meantime I'll post on any variety of topics that crosses my mind. Like today's: Is maintaining an anonymous blog even possible?

My guess is no. Somebody will find it and make the connection sooner or later. I am curious however by who and how it gets found. Random blog search (likely)? Word of mouth (not so likely)? Mistyped URL (REALLY not likely)? or a search of other pages in google or yahoo turning up mine (most likely)? What kind of information would lead to a discovery...geographical location(s) probably would be a big one. Proper names of people and companies are another good one to search on. Hobbies are probably pretty safe unless they're unique.

Ohh yeah here's why I've decided to try this out, direct from Wired . There's a guide for cyber-dissidents in other countries to help them maintain anonymous blogs from their oppressive governments. Don't know about you but that sounds like a good way to be on the wrong side of a set of bars, though I imagine things are probably worse without the guide. Anyone wanna bet how long before this is banned in China? Might grab some hints for posting about work though. Anyways enough rambling, back to the salt mine :). I promise to start posting some odds and ends such as hobbies and interests and the world's impact on such things. Also this place needs some pictures :).