John profile picture

John

No plan; nothing can go wrong.

About Me

Check out my OTHER website: WUNDES.COM
and, if you're looking for an excuse to throw money at me, here's one:
If you want to help a nonprofit, click below:
or get your own badge .
A Few Songs of Mine
Look, it's FREE MUSIC on the INTERNET!!! Well OK, totally non-professional free music... Just me and a guitar, and the most rudimentary recording equipment you can imagine. Listen and enjoy.
Years ago, I fell hard for a girl, and she turned me down flat.
But before she did, I wrote this one.
Fall My Way
Another silly love song from my Seattle days:
Coyote
A friend wrote the lyrics for this, and I put it to music.
Stumble onto Grace
(the mp3 player code is not mine, I got it here )
----------

If you're a musician, perhaps you will find these helpful:
Here is a downloadable program I wrote that plays different Scales using your computers MIDI synthesizer.
I'd also like to put in a plug for Band in a Box . I didn't write this one, but the program is like musical crack infused Wheaties. I definitely recommed it for anyone serious about learning to play an instrument, or just wanting to jam at home. Good fun!

My Interests

the mind, guitar, scripting, Illustrator, font design, hiking, ethics, philosophy, PC games, the singularity, sleeping late
Favorite Quote “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
-Jack Kerouac

I'd like to meet:

People. Only cool people though. Mean people are no fun. I want to interact with everyone as if they are characters in a book; unflinching at every wrinkle and wart, to learn more about my own bullshit and how to not be guided by habit into accepting a cookie cutter existence.I'm just not very good at doing that with mean people, so they go to the back of the line.

Books:

My life's bibliography is a topic for discussion in person... In recent years, computer manuals and other people's blogs mostly, but this month, "Frogs into Princes", "My Words Will Go With You", and "Memoirs of a Boy Soldier"

Heroes:

Ray Kurtzweil, Aubrey de Grey, Nicola Tesla, Milton Erickson, R.D. Laing, Gregory Bateson, Fritjof Capra, J. Krishnamurti, Carlos Mencia
Gadgets Light: Jet-I AA
Pocket knife: Mini-Grip
Phone: Treo 650
Flash Drive: SD Ultra II

My Blog

Save the world, (no cheerleaders needed...)

Want to make a better world whilst sitting on your ass? Let me begin with a story.  For those that don't know,both I and my wife got 'downsized' at the beginning of the summer. It was, however pr...
Posted by John on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:49:00 PST

R.A.G. (the Reverse Acronym Game)

OK, I want to start a blog game here. Anyone can play.  The rules are simple, pick a word and then turn it into an acronym. Bonus points if the sentence ends up somehow describing the word.Here's...
Posted by John on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:20:00 PST

New Technology Online Videos

If you have the time, and want to blow your mind about the current work being done on the human body, check out the free Videos and MP3s from the Edmonton Aging Symposium, held March 30-31.If nothing ...
Posted by John on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:30:00 PST

Why I don't talk Politics

"Our's is the greatest system in the world... Except for all the others..." -W. Churchill   Choose a problem.  You can call it "global warming" or "genocide",  "cheap oil", ...
Posted by John on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:31:00 PST

New Territory

I've reinvented myself a few times now; each time, finding a new set of friends, and finding new aspects of myself.  This is a great and wonderful process, but it seems, that part of the process ...
Posted by John on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:35:00 PST

Hello World (mySpace)

I just saw this article on genetically editing mouse DNA to allow them to see more colors. Of course, this begs the question, are there animals out there with dna that allow them to see more than...
Posted by John on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:37:00 PST