What's Your Vector, Victor?

The new Wilco album, A Ghost Is Born, debuts next Tuesday. It's one of the ones I've been waiting for. I've scanned through the streaming player on their website, and it sounds like it's going to be an excellent follow-up to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and one more step away from traditional alt-country. (Wait, is there even such a thing as traditional-alt anything? Ah well, no matter.) If you haven't ever heard of Wilco before, or any of Jeff Tweedy's other musical projects, I highly recommend them. Pick up Wilco's Being There for some stuff that's closer to country but still rockin', or the afore-mentioned YHF if you're into something more groundbreaking, unclassifiable, but still really, really good.

... In other news, you can read about our great wiffleball showdown from this evening on TSPN today. I pitched for the losing team (we never quite came up with a name, or scored any runs to even make a name matter). We gave it our all with the bats and the gloves (wait, no gloves -- just hands), but we definitely came up short. It was still a good time, however.

... I found a good deal on a DVD burner at Newegg.com yesterday, so I went for it. It's on its way to me from New Jersey as I write this, so I'll let you know how the installation of my newest gadget goes. I've found that with the increasing amount of digital pictures I'm taking, it's becoming less and less efficient to back them all up on CD-Rs. With this beauty, I can get all the documents and images I've ever created on one disc, with probably a GB or so to spare. With Newegg's exceptional service, I'll probably get it by Friday. Man, I love that store!