iffy photo, great evening
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Dan Jones and Dave Snider playing an impromptu set at Sam Bonds Garage (Brian Patrick is out of shot).
Archive for August, 2008
in Eugene less than 12 hours, already addicted to Yumm! sauce
Friday, August 29th, 2008We met up with Dan and Tracy last night. Dan fixed us an epic chicken salad, with the local delicacy of Yumm! sauce. Yumm! sauce is somewhere between almond butter, hummus and mayo, except not quite any of them. It’s good; we had the chipotle.
A purported recipe for Yumm! Sauce must be tried.
(Dan was disappointed that I hadn’t mentioned that dog treats were sampled after the meal: they were.)
on missing the boat
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Nothing quite like missing the Tsawwassen ferry by one minute.
(And this post was photographed and sent entirely on blackberry. The geotag I cheated and used my Garmin. I had time to kill …)
hooray for heather’s
Thursday, August 21st, 2008We arrived in Vancouver yesterday, and in the hotel hit a snag: the combination lock of my case wouldn’t open. I don’t remember setting one, so the prospect of going through 000 .. 999 to get at my clothes would be tiresome.
Thank goodness for Heather’s Luggage Repair. They reset the combination, and showed me the annoying little feature of combination locks that can cause this to happen.
this might only work with my accent
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Q: What do you call a geek with no clothes on?
A: Bernard.
(it’s payback for this one by Lewis Carroll.)
real stupidity trumps artificial intelligence every time
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Why no droids? Because scientists are crap - from the Guardian.
it is done
Sunday, August 17th, 20081626 Artists / 1124 Albums / 17082 Tracks / 39.4 Days / 70.15 GB.
That was a lot of ripping.
one of the wind turbines I operate
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
owl
Sunday, August 17th, 2008also seen at the zoo.
early morning windshield drops
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
i was supposed to be looking at bigger animals
Sunday, August 17th, 2008but here is a chipmunk I saw at Toronto Zoo
oh my
Sunday, August 17th, 2008Google sponsored link in gmail:
By the way the result page reads, Egypt, Lebanon and Zimbabwe are about to get theirs.
i’d like to apologize
Sunday, August 17th, 2008for submitting The Music Tapes‘ Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes to freedb under the genre reggae; all the other genres I tried had a disc ID clash.
Above all, though, draw a tiny musical note on your acorn.
this is quite good
Saturday, August 16th, 2008
less than 100 CDs to go …
Saturday, August 16th, 20081492 Artists / 999 Albums / 15245 Tracks / 34.9 Days / 62.12 GB
(and here’s me thinking I had about 2000 CDs, too)
CDs that wouldn’t read: 0 (so far). That’s not to say that there weren’t some difficulties (copy-controlled CDs can go die, glitching and gronking in my drives) and my oldest CD (XTC’s Skylarking, my copy of which I think has just turned 20) had a ton of retries.
Lost CDs: Thomas Dolby’s Aliens Ate My Buick is somewhere in the house, but nowhere I’ve looked.
Found CDs: My long-lost promo copy of the (Portland) Decemberists’ Picaresque, which I thought had vanished in a road trip to Missouri. It was lurking in a long-forgotten portable CD player in the bottom of a storage bin.
Pleasant surprises: that freedb is generally better than it used to be.
Peeves: copy-controlled CDs (see above); flappy cardboardy cases that only have the title on one spine; oversized CD cases (Japanese imports, I’m looking straight at you), dark blue text on a black background, idjit freedb submitters who insist on Band, The syntax or worse, submit whole albums called sdfsdf;aefhsdf; bonus DVD “premium” releases (who watches these?).
an appropriate use of company time
Friday, August 15th, 2008$ pbmtext Hello | pnmcrop | pnmtopnm -plain | tail +3 | tr '01' ' #' ### ### ## ## # # # # # # # # # # ## # # ## ###### # # # # # # # # #### # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # ### ### ### ###### ##
don’t stab the banjo player
Monday, August 11th, 2008
song counts
Sunday, August 10th, 20081332 Artists / 774 Albums / 12074 Tracks / 27.1 Days / 47.34 GB
– and the sad thing is, this would barely half fill a current iPod.
telling groceries
Sunday, August 10th, 2008The person in line in front of me had:
- a birthday cake
- an “I am 5″ candle
- a bottle of Advil.
I’m pretty sure I know what their day holds.
