Shorespirit's Journal: rays

over spring break, I went to San Francisco on a community service mission. it was my first time in the city, as opposed to the airport, and the weather was perfect, nary a droplet of fog. with an information scientist who made sure nobody within handing distance was left without his business card we got heckled by street people, packaged needles and paint buckets, ate at a purportedly heavenly Chinese place atop a hill. I'd never met so many professional activists and fundraisers. pity San Francisco: because it's relatively nice to the homeless, they gather there from all over. the economic decline of the last two years is making it harder to raise money and forcing more people to ask for it.

back in sultry LA I climbed partway up a huge banyan tree and realized, because a family friend asked, that the wandering stars don't twinkle.

back to getting IDL to make maps.

I want to expand my old world CD collection beyond gamelan. can anybody recommend music by Arabic-speaking artists? my hipper-than-thou friends are all-electronic, and the closest they know of is Muslimgauze.