A quick disclaimer

[solarbird]

So I've picked up a lot of readers over the last several months and I need to throw up a reminder disclaimer: I'm a musician, not an economist. While I do have investment and currency interests, economics is just a hobby; I am not an investment advisor, and none of this is investment advice.

And right now, most of my time is going into working on a CD, by which I mean a music CD, not a certificate of deposit; the instruments I'm playing most of the time are musical, not financial. ^_^

Please keep that in mind when you read any posts on economics I might make. Thanks.

Comments

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I find your posts so interesting is because you're not a professional economist. You're not wearing the blinkers of economic theory which enables you to spot the bullshit more easily.

[zarq.livejournal.com]

FWIW, your posts are far, far more insightful, fascinating, educational and (frankly,) better written, than the handful of honest-to-goodness economists I read on a regular basis.

[ravyngyngvar.livejournal.com]

If a comedian, Jon Stewart, can become our most trusted name in news, a musician can become our trusted name in economics. :)

[solarbird]

aw. *^_^*;

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

I admit, I came over here when Brad mentioned you had some good insights into economics...but the musician part was good too, as I am also a musician, and used to run as small studio in Montreal. The fact that you are also using Linux is icing, since I have been using Linux since kernel version 0.12! Back in the days when I would compile my own kernels, and anxiously wait for the next kernel release to see what was new...memories..."Shut up Ren!" :-)

Once I have the spare time, I am going to be setting up one of the Music distros on the AMD Phenom II system I just built. And my true love is my Ovation 12-string...

ttyl

[solarbird]

Ha! Linux 0.12! OMG, I had to look up linux history to see when that was. ^_^ Our first Linux was... hum... a Slackware 2.mutter distribution compiled from source. (I didn't do this part, a then-friend of ours did.) This was in 1995 I think, right after the MicroVAX - the original murkworks.seattle.wa.us primary server - died forever, snif.

Wait for 9.10 if you want the rtk. 8.10 and 9.04 realtime versions were kind of broken. I'm still on 8.04 and will sit there until this CD is finished. ^_^

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

Well, my first distro was SLS, which Patrick based Slackware on...and I have been using Slackware ever since, for the most part.

I have been monitoring the mailing lists for 64Studio and Ubuntu Studio...and I am waiting for them to fix things interacting with the the RT kernel as you suggest.

ttyl