Avalon - Zoltan

But who would want that>

2009-07-13T03:24:07Z

So, obviously it's in no ones best interest for the kids to be sick. That said, today was totally fantastic. Spent most of the day reading to Anika. Miklos demanded kisses and good-night's before bedding back down each time he woke --about every 90 minutes, whoa is me. Meridel, who didn't nap until noonish, spend all day rocking around the bed or the pack-n-play out in the yard and finally fell asleep wearing a wicked grin.

PS: FB shot the sheriff, right? Just checking 'cause I need to be clear that NO bagels were involved...

birthday gig

2008-08-02T16:32:51Z

The open house for Miklos is next Saturday August 9th from 5-7, and resumes after our show around 10 until the fire fades. Join us for any portion of the evening, again the show is to be part of a collection of live recordings incorporated in a CD for this Renaissance Festival season-come and make some noise with us.

D

Works

2008-07-20T05:01:39Z

The new boss appears finally to have pried the lid off of hiring.

We need Data people; programmers, specifically. Data warehousing, ETL, sort of thing. Need to be able to pass a pretty bad-ass Oracle interview. Not quiting when you discover how little help your robust oracle is for our project is a plus.

Sound interesting? Say so.

Oh yeah, and Miklos seems to believe that he can walk.

Miklos Iver Brust

2007-08-10T21:58:16Z

We're all at home and doing well.

Paid training

2007-02-05T14:11:26Z

I'm in Atlanta for a week of traning, waiting for the first class to begin. Being here is, at very least, a positive sign that Wells Fargo still plans to hire me before my contact expires.

I'll be here for the week heading home Friday evening. It is currently a balmy 30 degrees Fahrenheit.

Dear Prudence

2006-12-06T05:36:20Z

previous post

As promised, please apply the following to the previous post, to create "Wedding Invitation 1.1". Bug reports, etc. to wedding@mpls.cx.

--- For tonight we'll merry, merry be  Tue Nov 28 02:00:00 2006
+++ Dear Prudence                      Tue Dec  5 22:10:00 2006 
@@ -1,10 +1, 13 @@

+Setting up shop will take a couple of hours. Thank you to those hearty souls who join us.

+Gather we will at four o'clock with blessings and ceremony at five bells. The reception and merry making will follow directly. We have registered at Linens n' Things and Target. We are planning to honor our elders with a scholarship fund in their names. Christmas ornaments, large rocks, quarter inch patch cables, just you, yourself, and your bliss at our wedding is most important to us.

+Now, won't you come out to play?

For tonight we'll merry, merry be

2006-11-28T07:00:50Z

On December 23rd at the Heart of the Beast Celebration Hall [map] from 1pm to 3am, Dee and I will be hosting our very own wedding.

Come! Sing! Speak! Swagger! Spread the good word near and far!

After setting up at one (help!) we’ll launch directly into cabaret, interspersing music and speaking (help!). Buffet style sustenance and spirits will be available for your contemplation.

Please bring well-marked equipment, especially if you plan on using it. We’ll bring a 10 channel PA, some microphones, cables and stands.

The ceremony proper will be embedded within the general festivity that is you playing music while we drink and make merry. Time-certainty for the ceremony has been added to the future features list but has not yet been scheduled for implementation.

This posting consititues our offical inviation. Please make plans to attend the wedding of Dee Duckwall and Corwin Brust on Saturday the 23rd of December, 2006. You may RSVP by posting here (comments are not screened), or by sending email to wedding@mpls.cx.

Music next weekend (Nov. 25th 2006)

2006-11-19T01:18:17Z

Dee and I are booked at Old Man River next Saturday. It's within the realm of possibility that Nicole will be able to join us, less likely that Erik can. We'll have records, T-shirts and ruckus good times.

Here are the details such as I'll be pasting into the Jack Tar Records site, shortly:

Dee Duckwall and Corwin Brust
Old Man River Cafe
879 Smith Av. S., West St. Paul
7-10 PM on Saturday November 25th, 2006

MPLS.cx services off-line

2006-09-19T02:43:45Z

If I'm hosting something for you, or providing you with email, etc.. it's broken. I should be back online tomorrow evening and I'm planning on adding a second machine sometime in the next week or so, so things should speed-up soon after.

If I'm doing domain hosting (DNS) for you, you will need to update records with your registrar. You will need to provide information which I don't have, yet, so I'll post that here --as a separate message-- once I've done the install and know what it is.

~

Work is fine; we sold many CDs this past weekend; Anika and Dee are well; more eventually.

First day at the bank

2006-09-06T03:54:13Z

As of today I'm a senior software engineer at Wells Fargo. A good first day. Good thing, too. Tommorow afternoon the person who started the technical requirements for the project leaves for three weeks in Europe and I'll be responsible for taking over that task and beginning implementation.

Steve: Hi Jim, this is Corwin. He's going to be me for the next three weeks.
Jim: Heh, poor guy.

The Renaissance Festival is going well. sharlabacchus visited and sat in for two sets and Erik and Nicole (WANOLJ) joined for the middle day. I think the pair of them will be comming next Sunday also, for those wanting to see the Brother Seamus cover band known as Chirp.

Photos courtesy Mary Budde

Weblog, for the day.

2006-08-24T18:15:01Z

I'm usually more given to a journal but seem to good day to point out finds.

I know that starcat_jewel --and quite possibly several others-- have mentioned this. The N.Y. Times reports if your in the United States Plan B [gotoplanb.com], the "morning after pill" will soon be coming over counters near you.

Reading the Drageara Fan List I found tenser, said the tensor who -in addition to having nice things to say about sbzbrust- wrote a great article on what a what a planet is considered to be, why, and by whom.

Finally, Bruce Schneier's latest blog entry is entitled "What the Terrorists Want". After reading this entry I wonder if the Terror Alert Level needs a companion.

Perhaps a "Public Terror Index".

This could help members of the public (who may not be able to watch TV or read much) figure out the level of fear appropriate to various activities. It would measure such things as how often news programs cite the Terror Alert Level and the amount of air-time and column space dedicated to terrorism related events compared with how recently those events occurred, providing indices for common activities such as flying or walking or napping outside in the afternoon given various wind conditions and cloud cover situations.

celebrety collage, thanks dj_lefreak.

2006-08-24T15:00:17Z

Rhymes with Famous, CHIRP

2006-08-19T08:14:20Z

I'm tired. Thanks to the chicken paprikash (alierajean: we have to have you over more often) I'm satiated. Also, I'm packed up and ready to head to Shakopee in a few hours.

This year Dee and I will be "CHIRP". Along with Nicole and Erik and perhaps Anika, we'll be playing music. Look for us on the daily program (which we call the Broadsheet) or ask after us at an information booth. When possible, and assuming I have it, I'll provide notice here as to when Erik and Nicole will be comming.

We plan on selling Rhymes with Famous along with Dee's record (same link) and CHRIP's record, when that's ready. The important news in all this is that if you are interested in one of the fifty signed and numbered copies of the intial run of "Rhymes with Famous" you should let me know of your interest soon, as there at least some possibility that we could sell all of them during the Renaissance Festival, this year. For now, the best way of letting me know is to comment here.

Music made, fish ate.

2006-08-07T13:06:04Z

A nice weekend, following a very full week. Monday Dee and I met with Renaissance Festival managment, successfully working out most of our contract for the season. Not exactly peace in our time...

Tuesday, the band (minus Erik "The Working Man" Emery) played for National Night Out. This was smashing. We now have an official Heckler. My favorite? Addressed to me: "What are you? Half Japanese, Half Jewish?." So that's how I get introduced on stage, from now on. "Our Drummer, Corwin Brust: Half Japanese, Half Jewish. All Hungarian."

Wednesday we attempted to make it out to the Renaissance festival site, but didn't make it further then alierajean's place. Mmmm Dr. Who. Thursday we actualy did make it out to the site, but managed to miss the Illustrious Campground Director, thereby accomplishing little. Friday I got serious about my "new job" feelers, but mostly we did nothing. Ah, sweet nothing.

Saturday was Anika's last day with Dee before going off to Violin Camp, and so featured me keeping out of under foot, for the most part. Did get to take-in a Twins game with Dee's folks -who are good company for baseball- and explain some of the rules to Anika- who isn't.

Sunday we recorded insolation tracks (Bass and Vocals) and rawed fish. And drank. Oh, how we drank. Anyway, long story short: I think we're in serious danger of having a record. Soon even.

MPLS.cx services restored

2006-08-01T21:56:14Z

Email at mpls.cx and sub-domains is now working. This was the last known-broken service. Please let me know as soon as possable if somthing I'm providing for you -or somthing of mine that your using- doesn't work the way you expect.

Partial Recovery Leads to Scratch Track Availability!

2006-07-30T05:06:12Z

ST. PAUL -- Corwin's World Wide Web (internet) domain, recently down, is once again serving documents and now offers a Brother Seamus scratch-track in MP3 format.

Most services for MPLS.cx and hosted domains and sub-domains has been restored. Comming amid rumors of broken servers and inaccessable services, news that documents are once again flowing cannot have come too soon. Confirmed report of broken or inaccessable services had included Domain Name Hosting and Electronic Mail as well as the distribution of various documents --hyper-text, and otherwise-- via the Hyper-text Transfer Protocol.

Still broken is incomming email, and with no time-table for restoration of this important service given critics have been quick to suggest that the MPLS.cx administrative team (known for an affection for Perl) have taken an overdose of that language's first virtue.

In addition to mpls.cx several other domains had been affected. In the words of one systems' admistrator "If I was hosting somthing for you it's probably broken." This person went on to call upon users to come forward with work requests while "I'm still [working] with things."

Aparently related is the news that a first issuance from Brother Seamus has been made available. While long awaited, sources inside MP3 file's comments field are quick to describe this as "a roughly mixed scratch track".

Then again, the wall may just break...

2006-07-09T08:48:55Z

As of a couple of hours ago the mixer is working again. Tonight wasn't only multi-hour treatment invested to remediate it from paperweight status; it's rather the first for which I have anything to show. Somthing in the "disable the onboard sound; upgrade the motherboard's firmware; upgrade the mixer's firmware; upgrade ProTools versions" process has made it possable once more to "bounce" recordings made last Feburary down to CD quality WAV.

Still have no idea how we managed to break it. Link-to-Sample coming soon, to a Friend's List near you.

Thanks to pegkerr for turning me on to this and, since I liked my result, here it is:

Your results:
You are The Flash

The Flash		85%
Superman		85%
Wonder Woman		80%
Iron Man		80%
Green Lantern		75%
Robin		70%
Spider-Man		70%
Supergirl		65%
Catwoman		60%
Hulk		50%
Batman		50%

Fast, athletic and flirtatious.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

EAH: Who said this better?

2006-05-22T18:56:14Z

Wisdom is the theoritical construct by which we express perfection.

thunder_monkey and I...

2006-04-27T05:14:35Z

Are fully WYSIWigged out. :P

Thanks, D&D

2006-04-26T18:56:26Z

Played with D&D again last night. Cool to see folks and always a thrill to get to sit in. Time to get some work done, I fear.

For those taking notes, the project is currenly at 1.5.5 and fairly stable. Anyone know what we're supposed to do with these extra pieces?

13:59, do you know where you boss is?

2006-04-23T19:02:30Z

Ok, personal time is up. It was really nice to talk the few minutes I've just had to catch up on live-journal, a bit. Two O'clock, however, is the late end of the time I told thunder_monkey I'd be at work at I guess that means it's time for me to look busy.

Elizabeth(WINOLJ): I learned circular beathing eating this pizza!

2006-04-17T08:40:12Z

I'm calling it. It's official, I have selected a new "Mantra for an Hour." This grand and glorious new slogan du jour follows. Here it is. It's next. Mantra (for( at least ) an hour) is: Priviliges are priviliges.

Clean up and sleep soon <cue Simon and Garfunkel, fade...>

msgillian: Marty is the "five dollar" fairy!

2006-04-16T00:37:22Z

Thanks to those who agreed to reimburse me for materials, and to morgantisofkent who actually procured same, there will be new livejournal badges this year. Assuming I can find photoshoppe and the LJ Badge template we used last time.

I'm up to installing photoshoppe, probably even using the template to produce new badges, but thunder_monkey designed our previous photo-shope badge template (which I like better then the gif I'd probably use from the lj_promote page.)

Any volunteers to do a new one if thunder_monkey can't find last year's?

[ETC]incorrectly placed closing quotation in the subject[ETC]

I'm trying very hard to patronize you

2006-04-15T21:40:46Z

Anyone willing to brave (or interested by) the cigarette smoke is welcome to come by room 1202 and try to score compter time or smoking companionship. (No Non-smoking Area,BYOB,Parents)

Thoughts from Minicon XLi, robot

2006-04-15T02:45:52Z

Sometimes people have baggage they're unable to discuss.

Discuss.