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• Back in my day, all the hair was this big.

Not doing anything particularly meaningful or productive of late. I could do with a new passing enthusiasm.

I'm reading more books on my phone, using Calibre's command-line tools to convert stuff to .mobi for the one free BlackBerry ebook reader I could find. The main Calibre interface is ridiculously awful, but this way I never have to use it ever.

Today's book is The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins, in which he explains the ridiculously simple and powerful idea of evolution. He is of course ridiculously strident in the first chapter, claiming to be writing for people he then abuses. (My inner PR person was cringing and going "AAAAAAAAA STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT.") Nevertheless, I think his track record has established that such apparently offputting behaviour has, in practice, been quite successful at getting his memes out there. And this book is, after all, on the thing he's actually a world-renowned expert on. He explains it really clearly and simply. I recommend it highly, even if you know this stuff already.

I finally found the USB-B cable, and LMMS talks to arkady's Casio keyboard via MIDI! And crashes lots doing so. Bug report time! But good for input at least. Modulo a really annoying one-eighth-second delay.

For most of the '80s, I did not in fact listen to Severed Heads on headphones. I really should have. If only today's bleepsters bothered to do so.