Dave Kellam

Grampa’s first album, Pop it up Son, is now available for download in its entirety. All tracks are available in high quality variable bit rate mp3 encoding as well, as 56kb mp3 streams. If you want the tracks in some other format, contact us and we’ll see what we can do for you.

The CD is also available for purchase if you’re a fan of liner notes and such. If you want one drop us a line. If you download the tracks and think that it’s hot shit, throw a few bucks our way — we’re poor and Grampa is starving artist. There’s a PayPal button and a Dreamhost button (if you want to be sure that you’re helping pay the hosting costs) on the page.

Queen’s has approved the appointment of Dr. Karen Hitchcock as the 18th Principal of the university. They have also approved an increase of 500% in the annual budget for hair product. She appears to be the school’s first female principal at the school. Regardless, she is going to have very very large shoes to fill being the successor to the infamous Billy Legg$$$. I wish her the best of luck.

The internet has returned to my humble abode. I had to fight with the connection a bit, but it all works now. I’ve also spent a good chunk of the last few days fighting with the internet and various computers here at work. I cobbled together a couple of working computers from the old ones that were laying around too. They’re having a whole bunch of routing trouble here, some of it is ITS banning the mac addresses of computers that appear to be infected with viruses. It’s kind of pain, because I need an internet connection to clean them up. The router refuses to assign ips, so you can’t see the machines on the network at all. I guess it’s back to old-fashioned cdr burning and sneakernet.

From a Wired article on Google’s IPO offering:

Geek humor: If you take a close look at the form Google filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the exact value of its planned offering is $2,718,281,828 dollars, which some would immediately recognize as the mathematical constant e.

E, for those not blessed with a PhD and a job at Google, is Euler’s number, which is used as the base for natural logarithms.

I can appreciate that. It’s good to know that they’re still in firm control of their company and having fun doing it. Gives me hope for having enlightened employers in the future. The article also has a link to the company’s SEC filing (2.8mb)

My internet presence will be sporadic until sometime next week. We have to return our modem today, I’ll be coming tomorrow and won’t have it hooked up until Tuesday. It also means that I somehow have to get everything packed by tomorrow. I don’t think it will be that hard.