[...] Strings absolutely do affect tone. Jangliness, sustain, intonation… I use .013's on my acoustic. That's a Medium, not a Heavy. I think I have .011's on the electric and on the Baby Taylor.Supposedly SRV used heavy strings on his electric.Posted a new tune yesterday, btw. http://www.raphkoster.com/2007/10/28/the-sunday-song-up-near-witch-creek/ [...]

I just turned in my assignments for the chuck children’s play, Jack and the Beanstalk. Not nearly as timely as what you are riffing. Good luck out there. Rita said you were in the midst of it.

http://home.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/mp3/FeeFiFoFum.mp3
http://home.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/mp3/jack.mp3
http://home.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/mp3/MooBooBouree.mp3

[...] Raph Koster of Metaplace was not able to fly out of Southern California because of the wild fires so I couldn’t follow up on what had been an interesting debate on 2D versus 3D social networked spaces at the San Jose Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo. If Raph had been there I would have loved to ask him some questions about interoperability and Metaplace also. Ian Hughes of IBM talked with me about how Metaplace’s use of RESTful APIs will create many interesting possibilities. And I had a long conversation with Bruce Joy CEO of the newly launched Vast Park which potentially will be interoperable with Metaplace. [...]

“When the fires took off they raced long and hard
Chewing up the sagebrush, the scrub and chaparral
You know it’s been real dry here, beetles killed the pines
And now we’re paying tolls due earlier up the line”

I’m trying to visualize what “chaparral” is and looking at Google images.

I’m glad you’re all ok.

Fire to right of them, fire to left of them, fire in front of them…