I give you – the gummy-bear grill:
Author: scruss
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an idea whose time has not come, and probably never will
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clifton hicks
I really, really like Clifton Hicks‘s new CD.
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stewart’s rule of home networking
Three hours of frustration trying to configure a balky wireless router is better spent with a 15m Cat-5e cable fished through the cold air return.
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CHDK on Canon PowerShot SD790
CHDK works, kinda-mostly:
All I’ve really tried is raw imagery, which creates DNG files of some hugeness.
Ixus90 / SD790 Porting/details thread has more (you need to log in to see the firmware files). It’s not ready for general usage yet, but shows promise.
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Lucky
Lucky, in her favourite snoozing space, 1994. -
i really do remember when all this was fields: fresh sweet cron
At the corner of Warden & Steeles, there was a little farm. It’s gone now. I think they were better at growing than spelling. -
the action verbs of the Bush administration (according to the Bush administration)
I took all the action verbs used in “100 Things Americans May Not Know About the Bush Administration Record” (from the now-defunct The Bush Record) and linked them to web searches, so you can find some other opinions:
added, advocated, appointed, arrested, bolstered, called, committed, convicted, created, delivered, dismantled, disrupted, doubled, empowered, enacted, encouraged, established, expanded, focused, generated, halved, held accountable, helped, implemented, improved, increased, infused, instituted, invested, laid, launched, led, leveled, negotiated, outlawed, persuaded, prevented, prohibited, proposed, protected, provided, raised, reduced, removed, rescued, saved, secured, set on course, signed, supported, transformed, warned, weakened, withdrew, worked
If you’d rather search for images for these actions:
added, advocated, appointed, arrested, bolstered, called, committed, convicted, created, delivered, dismantled, disrupted, doubled, empowered, enacted, encouraged, established, expanded, focused, generated, halved, held accountable, helped, implemented, improved, increased, infused, instituted, invested, laid, launched, led, leveled, negotiated, outlawed, persuaded, prevented, prohibited, proposed, protected, provided, raised, reduced, removed, rescued, saved, secured, set on course, signed, supported, transformed, warned, weakened, withdrew, worked,
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emacs: replacing newlines
Jeremy says it’s C-q C-j, and that works for me.
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inexplicable snow balloons
Landed on our deck last night, and are now snowed in:
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A Nobel Peace Prize for Pete Seeger
A Nobel Peace Prize for Pete Seeger; go on, he’ll be 90 this year.
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pricey
Generation costs/kWh for new nuclear (including fuel & O&M but not distribution to customers) are likely to be from 25 – 30 cents/kWh.
— Business Risks and Costs of New Nuclear Power, Craig A. Severance, January 2009. [via Climate Progress]
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blues minus the blues
All the “… Blues” tracks I have, minus the blues:
- 12th street
- 1st precinct
- 30-20
- 99 year
- airplane
- alcoholic
- all
- all in down and out
- all night long
- answering machine
- apron string
- arcade
- arkansas hard luck
- autogeddon
- back door
- bad shoes
- bamalong
- banker’s wife
- bankhead
- barber’s
- barnyard
- bath house
- bay rum
- beach boy
- bedside
- bert’s
- big house
- big mouth
- big spit
- billy goat
- black and blue
- black bottom
- black cat
- black crow
- black dog
- black-eyed
- black hand
- black sheep
- blowing
- bluebottle
- blue coat
- blue day
- blue jeans
- bob dylan
- bob lee junior
- bone dry
- boogie woogie
- bottle of
- bourgeois
- bread line
- brownie’s
- brown’s ferry
- brown skin
- bull frog
- cairo
- candy man
- cannonball
- carroll county
- carter’s
- catfish
- c.c. & o
- cell phone
- checkout
- chester
- chicago
- chile
- chilly wind
- choking
- city
- coal mine
- coal tipple
- cocaine
- cold penitentiary
- columbus stockade
- coming into hard times
- country
- courting
- crazy
- crooked creek
- cross road
- cross tie
- crow jane
- cumberland
- custard pie
- custom-made woman
- cut 1/2
- dachau
- dago
- dark holler
- davidson county
- dead shrimp
- death bell
- deep elem
- deep river
- depot
- diamond ring
- dickson county
- dirty guitar
- dixie flyer
- dom
- don’t let your deal go down
- do right daddy
- down south
- dreaming
- dry town
- dust bowl
- dust pan
- dust pneumonia
- dying crapshooter’s
- early mornin’
- east virginia
- ec
- electro-shock
- elk river
- empty bottle
- empty pocket
- evening prayer
- evil twin
- expressman
- farewell
- farm girl
- fine artiste
- fisherman’s
- fishin’
- fishing
- fixin’ to die
- florida
- folsom prison
- football
- framer’s
- franklin
- franklin county
- freddy’s
- freight train
- fresno
- frisco whistle
- gambler’s
- gambling
- georgia brown
- georgia wobble
- ghost woman
- ginseng
- go easy
- goin’ away
- goin’ to leave you
- got the drunken
- got the farm land
- grace kelly
- gravel camp
- guitar
- hard time killing floor
- haunted road
- helena
- henhouse
- hesitation
- highway
- highway 51
- hobo
- hometown
- honey babe
- honky tonk
- hot jelly roll
- housefly
- huckleberry
- ice water
- indian squaw
- intersoular
- jailhouse
- jake bottle
- jake leg
- jake walk
- james allen
- james alley
- jellyfish
- jersey bull
- john henry
- johnson city
- just like tom thumb’s
- kansas city
- kentucky
- killin’
- kindhearted woman
- kozmic
- kristin’s
- kyle’s worried
- labor
- land locked
- leake county
- lee highway
- left all alone again
- lightnin’s
- little
- living here
- logan county
- lonely
- lonesome
- lonesome road
- lonesome weary
- long chain charlie
- lost boy
- lost train
- louisburg
- lovesick
- low d
- mad man
- maggie walker
- man trouble
- married life
- married man’s
- married woman
- match box
- mean conductor
- mean old ball and chain
- mean talking
- mehitabel’s
- mexican
- middlin’
- milk cow
- milwaukee
- minglewood
- mississippi boweavil
- miss meal cramp
- mistreated
- mistreated mama
- mitchell
- mixed
- moatsville
- mobile county
- morning
- mourning
- mr. e’s beautiful
- muleskinner
- multiple relationship
- muscle shoals
- my human gets me
- narrow gauge
- natural bridge
- new ground
- new minglewood
- newport
- new river
- new talking
- new white house
- new york j-d
- night woman
- north country
- no sleep
- n.r.a.
- number
- old lonesome
- old rock island
- old weary
- old woman
- ontario
- oozlin’ daddy
- original stack o’lee
- outlaw
- paddlin’ madeline
- pan american
- parchman farm
- patrick county
- phonograph
- poca river
- police dog
- police sergeant
- pony
- poor boy
- poor girl’s
- poor jane
- port arthur
- pot licker
- pouring down
- prison cell
- puckett
- quill
- rabbit foot
- radar
- railroad
- railroad hammer
- ramblin’
- red night gown
- reno
- restraining order
- rheumatism
- richmond
- rip van winkle
- rising river
- rising sun
- river
- rock style
- rollin’ dough
- rolling log
- roll my
- rooster
- rotten world
- rowdy
- rub alcohol
- salt lake city
- salty dog
- san francisco bay
- seattle rainy day
- shaking wee
- showers of rain
- sisco harmonica
- situation comedy
- skool dinner
- sobbin’ woman
- sonny’s
- spanish
- spike driver
- starvation farm
- statesboro
- station
- steel rail
- stockade
- stove pipe
- strawberry
- string band
- subterranean homesick
- sugar
- suits crybaby
- sundown
- sven
- sweet woman
- talking dust bowl
- talking fishing
- talking world war iii
- talkin’ hard luck
- talkin’ woody, bob, bruce & dan
- tallahatchie river
- teasin’ brown
- tennessee river bottom
- tequila hop
- terraplane
- testosterone
- the france
- three ball
- tinker’s
- tipple
- toby woman
- tokyo business
- tombstone
- tough luck
- train
- trane’s slo
- travelin’
- travelin’ railroad man
- triangle
- t&t
- turtle
- tuxedo
- two-timing
- unexplained
- unknown
- up country
- upside down church
- v.b.
- violin
- walking
- wang wang harmonica
- washington
- washington talkin’
- way down yonder
- wayward girl
- weeping willow
- west carey street
- whiskey & gin
- white flag
- white house
- white-shoe
- wilkes county
- window pane
- winnsboro cotton mill
- working girl
- workingman
- worried
- worried man
- xmas prison
- yodeling
- yodeling fiddling
- young girl
And yes, I excluded I Guess That’s Why They Call It The …
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mandolin strata
I spent a great couple of hours with Mike Dulak of Big Muddy Mandolins. Mike’s been making instruments for years, and is the largest industry in Rocheport. I caught him in the middle of moving his shop, so things were a little chaotic. The above pile of part-finished, discarded or otherwise parts summed up the state of the workshop as I saw it. And yes, that is a uke body.
Mike’s really refined his workflow. He’s built a nifty broach to cut all the string slots in a nut in one swipe. He has a fretting jig that cuts all the slots in one pass (hey, mandolin fretboards are quite short). But to make up for that, he shapes heel necks by hand using a rasp and sandpaper.
I’m really glad I visited, and makes my mandolin a little bit more special to know who made it, and see where it was made.
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a green Scottish New Year dilemma
I can’t really wish that Lang May Your Lum Reek if I’m concerned about CO2 and smog emissions, can I?
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chris coole at the local
Chris Coole – The Local, Toronto – 7 December 02008:
First Set
- Sail Away Ladies – medley
- John Henry Blues
- Hey Porter
- John Hartford intro
- Let Him Go On Mama, Don’t Put Him Down For It Now
- Chilly Wind Blues
- beautician’s school – cold guitar tuning
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
- I Know What I Know
- The Bandit Cole Younger
- Walking Boss intro – gourd tuning
- Walking Boss
- Little Sadie Intro – more tuning
- Little Sadie
- There’ll Be Hell To Pay intro
- There’ll Be Hell To Pay
- one more tune – tip jar – Slurf Song intro
- Slurf Song
Second Set
- Bonaparte’s Retreat
- re-intro
- Big Steel Rail
- John Hartford – batman cape anecdote
- Wish We Had Our Time Again
- recyclable banjo tuning
- Six Days On The Road
- Civil War Medley
- Introduction to Townes van Zandt
- Pancho & Lefty
- Railroad Blues
- Shelter from the Storm
- Old Dog
- Medley intro
- Turkey in the Straw, Soldier’s Joy
- tip jar – Uncloudy Day intro
- The Uncloudy Day
- tuning
- Lonesome Whistle
- thanks – and buy banjo CDs
- Cannonball Blues
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i remember that ben elton back when he was funny
Mr Butcher: [sits down on a bollard, then jumps up in disgust] Eurgh, I’ve just sat on something horrible and smelly!
Mr Baker: What was it?
Mr Butcher: My bottom.– and that, kids, was the essence of alternative comedy.
