Do not ever wander into music stores not expecting to find anything interesting. I made the mistake of doing that last weekend, and seeing something interesting.

A Chapman Stick.

I really never had any urge to buy one before. But then, I had never seen one in a store before.

So I thought about it for a week.

I bought a Chapman Stick

It's cool. Everyone should have one. Follow the link if you do not know what a Chapman Stick is.

Or take a look at the pictures of mine.

Of course, I can't play the thing quite yet. Sill kind of in the stages of figuring out how I want to tune it. It's a very old (July 76') 10 string. This should be interesting.

The fact is..
no matter how closely I study it,
no matter how I take it apart,
no matter how I break it down,
It remains consistant.
I wish you were here to see it.

I like it.

--Indiscipline, King Crimson

In the software world, just more of the same old rpm/python/up2date hacking.