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.
Category: goatee-stroking musing, or something
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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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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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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.
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oliver postgate’s world
Sad to hear that Oliver Postgate passed away. Bagpuss was my series; it started just as I started school, and I caught the first episodes. I spent the whole evening learning the theme on the mandolin, and watched a couple of episodes, half-teary. Was it really nearly 35 years ago?
The music and sounds are what stuck with me. I didn’t know it at the time – but did as soon as I picked one up – that the Bagpuss waking up magic sound is a slow upwards glissando on an autoharp. Similarly, the falling asleep sound is an autoharp strummed slowly downwards. Gabriel’s instrument confused me for years – I now see it has a 5 string banjo neck, but no fifth string (like someone else I could name). To add further confusion, it’s really a mandolin that’s Gabriel’s sound.
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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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the invisible hand of the market was flipping you off all along
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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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advice: just buy a can of kidney beans
Okay, so now the house smells of damp, the stove top is covered with evil red liquid, and the pan is coated with something that looks like it came from the insides of a duck. This is why canned red kidney beans are a good idea, and why almost no-one cooks their own.
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giving up roasting for now
I’m giving up roasting coffee – too much smoke, too many smoke detectors. That, and the fuss, the mess, the occasionally imperfect roasts. It’s been fun, but it’s time to move on.
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I spy …
Why is there so much writing about a US $700 billion plan, and almost nothing about a $634 billion one?
