Cyrus Farivar

SF Weekly (August 31, 2005): I throw out a little heavy metal, meathead philosophy. “When I was little, I didn’t go to church. Metal was my religion!” I explain, throwing my fist in the air. “Metal concerts were my church — except, unlike the other church, I’d drink a 12-pack before attending services!” As the cameras roll, I share my decadent metal days in my former, non-Christian speed-metal band Skull Fuck! “I gave into all of the devil’s temptations. Satan…

Thursday, November 3 & Friday, November 4 Bimbo’s 365 [Just bought tickets to the Nov. 4 show.] A completely different set each night! They Might Be Giants Thursday – Doors at 7 p.m and show at 8 p.m. Friday – Doors at 8 p.m. and show at 9 p.m. Tickets are $25. 18 & over are welcome

Someone at Vandenberg Air Force Base and at the Department of Homeland Security turned up in my referral logs this morning. Whoa.

NYT: September 25, 2005 As Test Scores Jump, Raleigh Credits Integration by Income By ALAN FINDER RALEIGH, N.C. – Over the last decade, black and Hispanic students here in Wake County have made such dramatic strides in standardized reading and math tests that it has caught the attention of education experts around the country. The main reason for the students’ dramatic improvement, say officials and parents in the county, which includes Raleigh and its sprawling suburbs, is that the district…

East Bay Express: “Comin’ up,” Deputy Bob Brandt called out to his partner, John McDonnell. He nudged the throttle with his right hand as the August Vollmer, Alameda County’s antiterrorism gunboat, lifted its nose and motored away from its Alameda berth toward the Bay Bridge. It was just after 10 a.m., and the boat skipped over tiny ripples in the green bay waters, which resembled a rumpled sheet of AstroTurf. To the left, San Francisco was still capped in morning…

So my maternal (read: Berkeley) grandparents and I are working on a family history project to digitize a whole mess of family archives (photos, cassette tapes, letters, military certificates) that they have, some of which go as far back as the late 19th century. This is one of my favorites. It depicts my grandparents in 1943, dressed up and on their way to a Southern Ball in San Francisco. My grandfather (John Hadsell) and grandmother (Virginia Hadsell) got stuck on…

Ed: Thanks to Aaron for the story tip! Goof Lets Times’ Content Go Free By Cyrus Farivar Wired News 02:00 AM Sep. 22, 2005 PT On Monday, The New York Times introduced the first paid section of its online version. In less than 24 hours, someone found a way around the TimesSelect paid subscription service. Never Pay Retail was created on the same day that TimesSelect began. The blog links to other newspapers that syndicate the Times’ Op-Ed content and…

Macworld: Torn between the iBook and the PowerBook? Do you love the Mac mini but feel tempted by the greatness of the Power Mac? And what about the iMac? Macs might be easy to use, but figuring out which one to buy? That’s another challenge entirely. Which is where Adam C. Engst comes in. The TidBits publisher and Macworld contributing editor has written Take Control of Buying a Mac, a $5 electronic book from TidBits Electronic Publishing that aims to…

Lane pointed me to this article on the BBC site talking about the famed (well, famed to me, anyway) Trans-Gambian Highway, which I had the “pleasure” of crossing a few times during my séjour in Senegal. Apparently there’s been quite a bruhaha going down across the River Gambia. (Senegalese newspaper Le Soleil’s latest article [FR].) BBC: The Trans-Gambian Highway, which runs further inland, has effectively been closed to cross-border traffic for over a month by Senegalese transporters protesting against the…

This mustard I first discovered while chowing down with Rachel and Eric over at Magnolia. For the past few weeks now I’ve been putting it on my sandwiches at work. Man, that stuff is great. Even better? They’re offering a promo where you get two 4.5 oz jars for $3 shipped, as a sample! That’s a steal! In other news, I had to send in my iBook to Apple’s repair facility in Tennessee for white spots on my screen. Fortunately…