Who Was that Masked Rabbi?
Here’s a small world story. I was looking around on the web to see if Atlanta band DQE, a group I’ve loved for many years, has a website. I want to put them in as band of the day. I googled on them, looking for such, and ran across this page about some kind of [...]
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Today I browsed around a little, and saw that my boy Paul Melancon
will be opening for the Indigo Girls in November! Good for him. Whilst
browsing around their site, I found this article by Amy Ray debunking the
notion that lesbians currently control folk music. It makes for
interesting reading.
What if a few mediocre, straight, male rock bands [...]
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I did get the lawn mowed yesterday, so that was good. I’m not
embarrassed walking into the front door now.
We rented Sopranos, season three, volume two this weekend. I like Joe
Pantoliano on this show. I like him in everything, but his character
Ralph just emanates such bad vibes that I’m suprised he is still
alive, particularly after his [...]
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Did a little work at WREK today. I went in and did an hour on the air,
testing my new interface that allows live DJs to enter their music the
same way the robot does it now. When this is in use, the current song
will always be up on the WREK page, which I find really cool. [...]
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Into the Treehouse
On to more fun things, a band of the day. This one is new to
me, which I found out about because of WREK. They are called Treehouse Project. Earlier this week, a
music director had a problem with the web UI while programming tracks
from this album, so I had to fix it in the database which [...]
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Create this
This creationism thing is still eating at me. I’ve heard a lots of
good comments from people I’ve talked to. One coworker points out that
a lot of this seems to stem from a misunderstanding of how the
scientific method works. The word “theory” says to them “Hey, this is
still up in the air” and “This is less [...]
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Cobb Country, just north of Atlanta and where I used to live, passed a
resolution in their school board meeting last night requiring the
teaching of creationism. I watched some footage on the news, and it
was the same tired crap, “Evolution is just a theory, Darwin only
thought it was a theory.” Well, yes, and we have a [...]
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From Larry Hammer on Dueling Modems, comes
a link to Create
your own Bush speech. It’s fun for a few minutes, and then sad as
you realize your speech is no more coherent or sensible than anything
the real one says.
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Currently I’m listening to one of the better shows at WREK, the
psychedelic show Psych Out. It’s really good, and you can listen to it
any time via the MP3 archives. If you like psychedelic music at all,
60’s style or modern, American, British or Japanese, give it a
listen. You can hear it in High
bandwidth or dialup
style versions [...]
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A week after I first was afflicted, I begin to feel human again. I’m
still kind of coughing and snotty, but Sudafed is taking care of the
worst of it.
Interesting report from Gallup
that puts Democrats generally ahead for this election cycle. This came
from Phil Agre’s Red Rock
Eater’s News Service.
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PHP lessons learned
I did a little more work on the WREK web pages today. I do believe I’m
to the point where I can bat out PHP pages that do a number of DB
tasks pretty simply. I’m at the point where I have the hard won
knowledge. Here are a few of my nuggest that I’ve learned, all the
hard [...]
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Ponzi blogs
It appears to take more to get in the Ponzi scheme than I’ve got. I
submitted this URL to Blogdex a month ago, and it
just started crawling it in the last few days. I can see the
statistics, and out of the 10,000+ weblogs, there are 0 links to
me. Sigh. I knew that one of the problems [...]
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Back at work. I don’t really feel that much better, but this is the
best I’m going to get anytime soon. Water, OJ, Sudafed and then let it
roll. There seems to be two major camps in sickness vs. work
issues. There is the “Sick days are for wussies” camp, of which my
boss is a proponent. These are [...]
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Out of work again with a relapse on this cold. I’ve been finding it
hard even to weblog. Here is something that I ran across via a post on
DM.net - an article by Col. David Hackworth questioning
the headlong flight to war. I’m not familiar with WorldNetDaily,
but it has commentary by local (to Atlanta) Libertarian talk show [...]
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Here’s a link to a metric buttload of
WW2 style parody posters for the Bush war effort. “Back the
Attack! The Bush Doctrine of Foreign Affairs: Someone out there has
something we want … So let’s take it. A message from the Minisitry
of Homeland Security”
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I’m learning more about various logging packages - Log4j for Java and its
Perl port, Log4perl. I’ve gotten tired
of doing ad hoc logging/debug statements in my programs. I think as an
experiment I’m going to look at using both of these packages.
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Suburban Assault Vehicles
Here is an interesting link to an SUV parody site, The Future of SUVs.
We buy Kenworth semi chassis and build SUVs on them. Shown is the
Dominator model, which includes the eight rear wheels for handling those trips to Sam’s Club.
. Funny stuff.
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Fat, Greek
I’m finally starting to feel a little better. If this was a workday I
would be up to going to work. My mother-in-law is in town this
weekend, and yesterday we went to see My Big Fat Greek
Wedding, which I liked quite a bit. I especially like how it
was atypically Hollywood, in that the transition from frumpy [...]
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More SUV stuff, this time from The Car Talk guys, including
the “Need a SUV quiz?” I’d like to see a study on how many accidents
are caused indirectly by SUVs, by the fact that drivers in normal
sized passenger vehicles can’t see around them. My personal SUV goal -
I’d like to see them require a special class [...]
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I didn’t even write anything in here yesterday because I was too sick
to even focus long enough for it. I had foolishly gone into work and
then faded fast and by lunchtime I was ready to just put my head down
and go to sleep. I came home and watched a couple of those MST3K
episodes on my [...]
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