Louis Armstrong’s Trumpet Used As A Fruitbowl?
November 17, 2007 in News
I don’t know about you, but this is disturbing:
Matt Mullenweg, lead developer of the open-source WordPress blogging software, last night celebrated a $25 million “bonus” from investors by purchasing a $1 million Louis Armstrong trumpet, which he plans to use as a fruit bowl.
There are a lot of things a trumpet used by Louis Armstrong could be used for. A Fruit bowl is not on my list. In fact, why not donate the money to some worthy foundation? Or maybe set up a scholarship program in the bay area for music? There are a lot of things you could do instead of buying a historic instrument and using it for a fruit bowl. Seriously. And $7 million for a house? Hope the tech bubble does not burst again….
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Matt said on November 17, 2007
Didn’t this website used to be powered by slashcode? I used to come here all the time when I was seriously studying music at HSPVA, and I still have printouts of all your PDFs.
Very cool that you’re using WordPress now.
P.S. That article was a spoof/parody. I’m a woodwind guy, anyway.
admin said on November 17, 2007
Um, hard to tell if it was a parody when it ended up on Digg the other day. But, whatever………
Yes, I used to run Slashcode. I changed a couple of months ago. Basically, Slashcode seems to have become stagnet. Plus, you need to have a lot of Perl skills to do anything to it, and modifying it is a pain in the a##. Slashcode’s Blob/File thing worked, sorta. At the time, it was the best thing out there (1999). So, yeah……I got it up an running.
The only thing I kinda miss are the threaded comments, but, I can live without them I suppose. The only thing that hasn’t been transferred over is the player database. I suppose I’ll have to make something to do that. PHP is a lot easier than Perl.
Matt said on November 17, 2007
Well if it was on Digg…
Check out Brian’s threaded comments:
http://code.google.com/p/briansthreadedcomments/
I see you’re already using Akismet, two other good ones are Easy Gravatar and the WP.com stats plugin.
admin said on November 17, 2007
Well, at least the info was not on Craigslist!
Jen said on March 7, 2008
I read from a CNN news article that Louie’s trumpet was being held in a time capsule – burried in 2000 by the Clinton administration to be unearthed in 100 years. I was searching for the brand of trumpet he used. I thought I saw that he had a pinky slide ring for his 3rd-valve-slide and wondered whether it was true. I’ve never seen a slide ring on the bottom of the slide before.
admin said on March 7, 2008
Hmm, I dunno. I would assume that he had more than one trumpet over the course of his life.