The apps keep getting better and better: The ability to integrate other capabilities/services with this sort of function will greatly improve ability to use one device for most anything. = c
Paul Draper : The Dancer, not the Winemaker
From Wikipedia: Paul Draper, a nephew of Ruth Draper, was a famous dancer, born in Italy. Draper taught dancing at an Arthur Murray dance school. In 1930 he took tap dancing lessons at Tommy Nip’s Broadway dance school. After only six lessons, he sailed for London, confident that he would find work as a dancer….
Crooked Fingers : Forfeit/Fortune
My pal Bryan and I went to listen to Crooked Fingers at the Turf Club last week. Eric Bachmann and his band were in town to help promote their new album : Forfeit/Fortune I’ve been biased towards his work ever since I first met him while living in Chapel Hill, NC all those years ago…
Is it over yet?
Nope, a few more days of this : = c
Fey as Palin
As the PFD checks were delivered to Alaskans [$3300 this year] Saturday Night Live parodied Palin, played by Tina Fey. The resemblance is uncanny : = c
history : bicycle : internal hub : epicyclic gearing : sun
from wikipedia : The first patent for a compact epicyclic hub gear was granted in 1895. This was a 2-speed but was not commercially successful. In 1896 William Reilly of Salford, England patented a broadly similar 2-speed hub which went into production in 1898 as ‘The Hub’. It was a great success, remaining in production…
35W Bridge v2.0
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Baston-bound
Jen and Phole are on their way to live and work near the hahbah in Bahston! We celebrated with them on Tuesday night before they set off on their long journey, but not without helping workaround a glitch here and there ; ) Above you can enjoy a quick, stop-motion memory of the two of…
Admit it…
…you want to learn how to yodel like cowboy Wylie here : From Wikipedia : Yodeling (or yodelling, jodeling) is a form of singing that involves singing an extended note which rapidly and repeatedly changes in pitch from the vocal or chest register (or “chest voice”) to the falsetto voice, making a high-low-high-low sound. This…
Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Part II
If you’re not hip to Black Cab Sessions, you are in for a treat! …if you touch me, well i just think i’ll scream cuz it’s been so long, since someone challenged me. and made me think… about the way things are… made me think…about the way they could be. i believe it- why? oh…
So long, Facebook
Today i say goodbye to social networking. I no longer wish to opt-in to additional consumer surveillance. If i had an office job that bored me to tears, i would surely feel differently and continue to click my way through mob, zombie and other such mindless *wars*. Alas, i have no such job and after…
YARTGROYTV
Have you ever wondered why they call it television “programming”? Wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that it INFLUENCES people how to behave would it? Wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that it TEACHES people to adopt an identity that isn’t their own would it? Wouldn’t have anything to do with…
In the Beginning was the Command Line
My pal Steve turned me on to this essay, written in 1999 by Neil Stephenson. Highly recommended. Here’s an excerpt : If I can risk a broad generalization, most of the people who go to Disney World have zero interest in absorbing new ideas from books. Which sounds snide, but listen: they have no qualms…
Down Under
Until today, I was not perfectly clear on the words to the iconic tune by Men At Work, let alone the subversiveness of them : Traveling in a fried-out combie On a hippie trail, head full of zombie I met a strange lady, she made me nervous She took me in and gave me breakfast…
GoDaddy.com shills domain auctions?
Before you purchase hosting or domains, check out NoDaddy.com, which explains the way GoDaddy.com operates. Via Slashdot : When a GoDaddy customer forgets or otherwise fails to renew a domain, GoDaddy sells it off to the highest bidder through their TDNAM subsidiary. Some registrars–even Network Solutions–give the domain owner a percentage of the proceeds of…
I Got Mine!
I just haven’t wanted to listen to much of anything besides these fellas lately. From wikipedia : The Black Keys are a blues-rock music duo consisting of Dan Auerbach (vocals and guitar) and Patrick Carney (drums and percussion) from Akron, Ohio. The band’s name was inspired by an artist friend of the band in Akron…
Farewell, Mr. Carlin – Thanks for the Balance
Surely, there are many people who strongly disagreed with his views. More conservative folks especially would rather he hadn’t reached the levels of success he did. He made a career out of stirring the pot and providing balance to the hard right and its overwhelming amount of political correctness and closed-mindedness about the world. Known…
You Think You Really Know Me
The DVD is out for anyone who didn’t see the film in theaters. “In 1977, a 24-year-old musician from Endicott, NY released a wonderful, odd album, combining elements of pop, proto new wave, jazz, avant-garde composition and electronic music, alternately sweet and angst ridden, about the women in his life and his fantasies…†– The…
Spore : pre-order
It’s coming…!!! : ) = c