\nA couple of days ago on the radio I heard a mysterious cover of Linkin Park’s
\n“One Step Closer”. Instead of an angry young man screaming at the top of his
\nlungs, this version involved a pleasant sounding woman with an acoustic guitar.
\nDisorienting, to say the least.\n<\/p>\n
\nSo I strained to hear who the artist was, but all I heard the DJ say was, \nSpeaking of mp3s, I’ve been having a lot of fun ripping all my CDs onto my computer. This \nIt’s like when that kid called from Harvey Mudd<\/a>, \nHmmmm, I thought. Maybe things have changed a bit since the Dark Ages when I \n“No,” he said patiently. “I go to the website<\/a> \nAm I turning into Abe Simpson?\n<\/p>\n \nI used to be with it, but then they changed what “it” was. Now, what I’m with isn’t \nI can at least console myself with the fact that I never was<\/em> with it. So I don’t \nFinally, today happens to be the tenth anniversary of the “No,” he said patiently. “I go to the website and listen to the archived shows whenever I want.” Like, duh, Grandpa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“Dean and Naroyan”. Ok, type that into Google… nope. Hmmmm, maybe he
\nsaid “Deena Naroyan”? No dice there either… but Google asks, “Did you mean
\n‘Deena Noroian<\/em>‘”? Why, yes, as it turns out, I did.
\nAnd there she was<\/a>! And if you
\nsend her an email, she’ll even send you a free mp3 of her cover of “One Step Closer”.
\nNow, I’m not quite<\/em> sure who her target audience is — besides possibly me
\n— since how many Linkin Park fans are also into Lilith Fair guitar music?
\nAnd vice versa? But maybe her new album will sell like hotcakes. What do I know?\n<\/p>\n
\nwas all accidental. I was just playing around, trying to get my sound card
\nto work properly. The install CD included a supremely crappy media player.
\nI got distracted with it… ripped a couple of CDs… and realized, “Hey,
\nthis is pretty neat. I can store all my music in one place… organize my
\ncollection… make my own playlists…” Welcome to 1999.\n<\/p>\n
\ntrolling for alumni donations. Well, after I coughed up the money we started
\nchatting, about NPR of all things. I mentioned
\nThis American Life<\/em>, and he said,
\n“Oh, I love that show. I listen to it all the time when I do my homework.”\n<\/p>\n
\nwent to school, but I don’t recall noon on Saturdays being prime time for
\ndoing E&M problem sets.\n<\/p>\n
\nand listen to the archived shows whenever I want.” Like, duh, Grandpa.\n<\/p>\n\n
\n“it,” and what’s “it” seems weird and scary to me.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nfeel like I’ve lost any ground.\n<\/p>\n
\nfirst
\nweb page in the United States<\/a>, at SLAC. I think there were a couple of
\nwebsites up before then, but they were
\nSwiss<\/a> or
\nsomething, so who cares?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"