Sometimes it's the smallest things ...

After the disappointing (lack of) response from the "help desk" on a number of issues -- I mean, even something that presumably a business would be interested in, for example, interest in their cd pressing service -- that DMusic magic started to go away.

I tried to call up the winds of change. Didn't work. Like the 2nd punchline to the Zen hot dog vendor joke, change must come from within.

Tomorrow, Dec 19th, my subscription to DMusic expires. I'm not renewing. If they want supporters, they might consider not driving the old ones away.

That meant, of course, my file limit would go back down to 75 Mb. I posted four full albums here, and was on the verge of more. Today, however, I deleted all of them. Sometimes you have to throw it all out the window and start over.

But life is short. My music time is compressed into a few brief hours at the end of the day, a narrow passage between the whirlpool of the workday and the rocky shoreline of responsibilities. In order to survive, in order to thrive, I have to pick and choose -- where will my time be most effectively spent?

Hmm.

Now, I've met some great people here, and there are musicians I will continue to follow. Maybe I'll post some experimental work here from time to time.

But today was Zero, Z day, 0 Mb. It's all gone. What's past is prologue. Time to activate that Krell machine and go back to the dream.

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Into the twilight,
hearing the wind of distant planets,
submerged in the mad changing ocean,
the crystalline instant, the verge,
the edge, the ends of the Earth....

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Z minus 30 days.

A flare, and then silence.

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Z minus 31 days.

Somebody lost something.

http://dandelife.com/story/37114

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Z minus 33 days.

Launching the browser,
I clicked on my home link.
Thought I'd check in
and see who had wrote.

Much to my horror
my page, it was missing.
Must have been riding
the Mesektet Boat.

Where, oh where,
are you tonight?
Why did you leave me
here all alone?
I searched the 'net over
and set up my home page.
One SQL error and *PHBBBLTTHT* you were gone!

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Z minus 34 days.

How many lightyears to Z'ha'dum?
Three-score thousand and ten.
Can I get there by jumpgate flight?
Yes, there and back again.
If your ships are nimble and light,
You may get there by jumpgate flight.

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Z minus 35 days.

The old school version:

(REALLY old school ... TRS-80 BASIC)

1000 REM Random Comment Generator Subroutine
1020 REM Call with "GOSUB 1100"
1025 REM
1030 REM I can't wait until Python is invented!
1040 REM Or until I have more than 64K memory!
1045 REM
1050 DIM COMMENT$(5)
1060 FOR X=0 TO 4
1070 READ COMMENT$(X)
1080 NEXT X
1090 RETURN
1100 IF NOT INIT THEN GOSUB 1050 : INIT=1
1110 PRINT COMMENT$(RND(5))
1120 RETURN
2000 DATA "So why aren't you famous yet?"
2010 DATA "Best Song Ever since the Last Best Song Ever!"
2020 DATA "Awesome!!!!!"
2030 DATA "Sounds better than Orchestra 90!"
2040 DATA "You can log out any time you like, but you can never leave!"
3000 PRINT "Initializing Self Destruct Sequence..."
3010 POKE RND(65536), RND(256)
3020 GOTO 3010

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Z minus 36 days.

Finally, some evidence against the end.

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Z minus 37 days.

Archipelago of Broken Dreams indeed.

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Z minus 38 days.

65 pounds = 0.93 Noras = 2.95 Luckys.

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