Originally uploaded by isaidjon.

The Turntable Tour came through Seattle last evening. Needless to say it was a night of pure hip hop love.
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Was just thinking about this again. Two nights ago, we went to an open house for our school. The last place we went was the computer lab.

My daughter logged in.

It was the cutest thing ever.

I often forget that she does know how to use a computer (she sometimes gets to go to NickJr.com when we’re on it), and I *know* she knows how to play the games, but the logging in thing (from the control alt delete to the whole username/password) was just the cutest, most precious thing I’ve seen so far this year. :)

The thing is, it’s not such a point of fascination with her as it is with me. She can do with or without it, it’s such a part of her existence. I think it’s so much more interesting for me for two reasons. The first and most obvious is that I like to program, design, and manipulate these things to get what I want out of them. The second is that I think there’s still a wow factor that she may not grow up with, since personal computers have just been around her all of her life.

That’s such a good thing.

Listening to this Earth Wind and Fire greatest hits vol 1. I got so much EWF vinyl from growing up–I’d have to say that I prefer a well-produced all live instrumentation of groove of a sampled piece, with few exceptions.

This is why i love the people under the stairs production so well. This is why i prefer sampled hip hop over synthesized “Royalty Free” beats.

computer music is quickly dated.

even my favorite “techno/electronic” style music is music that is obviously a hybrid of sampled music (Roni Size, Pieter K).