So if he were successful, the person you voted in is oot. And as he didn’t get voted in, he’s still oot. Did his supporters chant “Oot! Oot! Oot! In! In! In!”, or did they make do with “In Oot, In Oot, Shake It All Aboot!”?
Author: scruss
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a big fan of picasa
I’ve just started using Picasa, and its ease of use is great. It does all you (well, okay, I) really need of a photo editor, with some nice effects. It also does cool things like handle raw images, and uses Google Earth to geotag images. Here’s one I prepared earlier:
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lowville
(rhymes with how, not low, apparently)
I’m in Lowville, NY, tonight. I’m looking at wind turbines. In fact, if my room faced the other way, I probably would see them right now.
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the voice of the Mr. Owns
I am trying to speak to my computer I’m not sure it understands the two well actually it’s doing not badly I’m speaking in a rather disjointed manner I have to go to New York state tomorrow I’m not quite sure why I have to look at twin turbo inns no I don’t have to look at twin turbo ends I have to look at wind turbine what’s
While it’s remarkably accurate I’m going to be really mean and bald face and sure I don’t know “bold face is that I’m going to be located anyway, to your things have calmed pear shaped nine
This is the voice of the Mr. Owns and I do I think I’m going to live. I suppose this is better than I expected especially since Mike accent is unusual most people in Canada do not understand a and so finally I have a computer that understands the this is a bit worrying isn’t it?
Well that wraps it up for dictation. You have a pleasant evening. Good night!
– what Microsoft speech recognition thinks I said. The random “what” and “nine” is me starting to laugh, and “bald face” is “blog this”.
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Sunny War
… is rather a good guitarist:
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aagh! brainscrub required!!
So I was idly picking away on the mandolin sort of playing scales when this song from my childhood starts playing itself. It’s the Uist Tramping Song, and has ultra-cheesy lyrics:
Come along, come along, let us foot it out together,
Come along, come along, be it fair or stormy weather,
With the hills of home before us and the purple of the heather,
Let us sing in happy chorus, come along, come along.No, really. I always thought that footing it out would involve a lot of squelching, this being Scotland. Must’ve learnt it when I was 8 or so; our headmaster was a teuchter, so my head is filled with Gaelic-ish things still. One of the pieces I recently heard Rhiannon Giddens perform with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, so they’re not all bad.
Anyway, to share the brainmelt, here it is in all its awfulness:
Plus the score, if you care to: Uist Tramping Song [pdf].
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cosmic coincidence
Three consecutive space songs in today’s helping of the automatic podcast:
- The Lovely Universe — Circulatory System
- See The Constellation — They Might Be Giants
- Kelly, Watch the Stars! — Air
That’s the thing about randomness – we see patterns that are of no import.
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mandolin madness
Lack of recent posts have been almost entirely due to this:
It’s a Big Muddy flat top mandolin, hand made in Missouri with a lovely Adirondack spruce top.
I really like the portability of the mandolin. I didn’t think I’d like the tiny scale (hey, its entire fretboard is only as long as 6 of my banjo frets), but it’s pretty comfortable. Way more so than a ukulele.
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november crickets
I’m at our windfarm – and the crickets are singing!
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evil mutant alien piglet baby
a blob of uhu-tack ended up this way.
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David Bellamy – Power From The Wind
Excerpt from the educational video made for the CEGB in 1989:
Local copy: David Bellamy: Power From The Wind (excerpt).His views have changed a bit since then.
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white poppies ’08
White poppies are now at Toronto Meeting House, and will also be at Yonge St Meeting (Newmarket) from next week.
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goodbye, guardian
Summary: tl;dr
The Guardian has changed its news feeds to contain the whole article instead of just the lead paragraph. That’s just too much reading for me.
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until next year
So CanWEA 2008 is done. The high point was the launch of WindVision 2025. See you next year in Toronto.
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Hugin comes fully of age
I made the Generic Vancouver Seawall Panorama today using all of Hugin‘s defaults, and in the words of Eric Morecambe, “You can’t see the join!”. You used to have to play with lots of settings – now it just gets it right. Bravo!
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windy west
CanWEA 2008 starts here. Undecided whether I’ll twitter anything … -
in which you expect a worthy Canadian election post, but get something about a lady who impersonates operatic chickens instead
Seriously, Orriel Smith — yes, that one who was so earnest on Hootenanny in 1964 (it must’ve sucked to be alive in the early sixties, living in low-resolution black and white) and the two spaced-out tracks on Fuzzy Felt Folk — is definitely the best chicken-impersonating coloratura I’ve heard. She even gives the Cackle Sisters a run for their money.
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maybe I shouldn’t play with HDR …
Cultus Wind Farm, Fall HDR
