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“We’re the Hordes of Hell, Matey!”
Amy sent me the Armageddon Flowchart. Simply hilarious.
Fri 30 Jun 2006
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Third comment down. I KILL ME.
Thu 29 Jun 2006
Siegelman Convicted for Corruption
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and former Health South CEO Richard Scrushy were convicted Thursday in a bribery scheme that derailed Siegelman’s campaign to retake his former office.
Siegelman, 60, was accused of trading government favors for campaign donations when he was governor from 1999 to 2003 and lieutenant governor from 1995 to 1999.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!
Enjoy jail, asshole.
[Please note: I rarely, if ever, use epithets such as "asshole" for public officials, because I rarely, if ever, have personal experience with them. But I've had more than my fair share of experience with Siegelman, so I feel like I'm qualified to label him an asshole.]
Wed 28 Jun 2006
SIM Card Hell
At some point here, my SIM card is going to register, and the new Treo will work. I’d carry the old Treo with me until then, but then … it’s not really working, so there’s no point. The good thing is that all my data did survive and is now stored on the new Treo. Phew. As soon as I can get that data synced with my Macs, I’ll go back to the data here at the office being solely a backup: clearly, it’s saved my bacon once!
Treo Delivered
My Treo is apparently sitting on my front porch. I’m going to go get it on my “holy shit, it’s 1:30, and I haven’t taken lunch yet!” break.
You might not care about this, but I do. I’ve been really, really, really struggling without it the last day-and-a-half. Painful.
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This is one of my favorite Mouse shows so I decided to put it up on Dime. A super-special thanks to everyone over at Mtorrents for sharing their Mouse shows and thanks to all the tapers out there…
(SBD quality)
Modest Mouse
- 05/12/00 First Ave
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Interesting. I wish I knew where I could find one of Ogio’s bags locally to see what this thing would do for me. I have learned the hard way about ordering laptop bags without seeing them in person, but this could work just as well or, perhaps, better t
Tue 27 Jun 2006
Setlist for Andrew Osenga CD Release Show: 20 Jun 2006: Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN
Coming soon to a BitTorrent tracker near me:
Andrew Osenga
CD Release Show for The Morning @ Mercy Lounge
Nashville, TN, USA
Recording: M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 [included microphone---sorry, I blew the budget on the MicroTrack!] @ 16 bit, 44.1kHz sample rate, 18 feet off the stage, four feet off-center to stage left.
Transfer: MicroTrack > USB > Audacity [tracking] > xACT > FLAC Level 8
Setlisting:
- [crowd noise] / Gym Class in High School.[1]
- After the Garden
- White Dove
- [stage banter]
- Following the Blind
- [stage banter]
- Kankakee
- Introduction to Farmer’s Wife
- Farmer’s Wife
- Santa Barbara
- [stage banter]
- House of Mirrors
- [stage banter]
- Kara
- Marilyn
- [band introductions]
- All the Wrong Reasons
- Black Dress
- [stage banter]
- When Will I Run
- Early in the Morning
[1] At the very beginning of the track, the conversation that’s going on is between me and Jeremy Casella, who walked up just as the show was starting. I was torn between being quiet for the bootleg and talking to a guy I hadn’t seen in about 18 months. I went with the talking. Sorry.
When I have the BitTorrent tracker up and running, I’ll post about it. I’m definitely going to open that one up very, very slowly…
TWoP Dropped Rescue Me
I’m sad to read that the wonderful Television Without Pity has dropped their coverage of Rescue Me:
Some fires burn too brightly. And some never really get past the embers stage. TWoP readers didn’t really take to the tale of a firefighter who was often drunk, irresponsible, sexist, racist, and homophobic, and therefore, it’s time to turn the hose on Rescue Me.
I personally think that Rescue Me is as up-front and visceral as it is in order to present some social commentary in there. Evidently they disagree.
Ad Astra Per Aspera, Part 49
AP shits brick over 1-in-100 risk of crew loss.
Between freaking out over the risks of dying in a war zone and the risks of dying on a Shuttle flight, the media annoys the shit out of me lately. Folks, this is rocket science: we send a crew of three-to-seven people to orbit atop millions of pounds of explosives that happen to go the other way [well, most of the time]. We learn lessons out of every single one of these flights—they’re all flight tests.
Manned spaceflight is never, ever routine and normal. The crew know the risks, and they climb up, strap in, and clench their sphincters tight. We drones down here on the ground do the same: we know the risks, and most of us worry like hell about it. But … shit is going to happen. Something that we didn’t think would ever break breaks. A contingency that we thought we’d planned for exceeds our response capability. At the worst, people die. We have to live with that.
If you freak out over the risks, that generally means that you don’t have the balls to sit at the pointy end of the rocket. Don’t worry: you’re not alone. I’m not sure that I’d do it myself. These folks, though … they know the risks, accept them, and go on with life.
Ad astra per aspera.
Mon 26 Jun 2006
Geof’s New Music: 25 Jun-1 Jul 2006
This week has one new one and four bootlegs. Happy to have Katy Bowser’s newest!
- Katy Bowser’s All of My Friends.
- 13 Dec 2003 [San Francisco, CA, USA] concert bootleg of The Counting Crows.
- 18 Mar 1991 [Charlottesville, VA, USA] concert bootleg of Uncle Tupelo.
- 10 Dec 2005 [Columbus, OH, USA] concert bootleg of Over the Rhine.
- 28 May 2003 [Los Angeles, CA, USA] concert bootleg of Elliott Smith.
Last week was Jeff Tweedy Bootleg Season:
- 29 Nov 1990 [Columbia, MO, USA] bootleg of Uncle Tupelo. Two-and-a-half stars.
- 31 Jan 1997 [St. Louis, MO, USA] bootleg of Wilco. Two-and-a-half stars.
- 10 May 1997 [San Francisco, CA, USA] bootleg of Wilco. Three stars.
- 4 Nov 1997 [Columbia, MO, USA] bootleg of Wilco. Two-and-a-half stars.
- 10 Mar 2001 [Hollywood, CA, USA] bootleg of Jeff Tweedy. Three stars.
Le Treo Est Mort. Vive Le Treo!
Indeed, my Treo 600 is dead. I have a Treo 650 on order, despite all of Alex’s work to get me to go with a Blackberry as he did. [Indeed, I get 30 days to change my mind.] In the end, I didn’t want to have to develop a whole new workflow around a Crackberry. It’s just not worth it to me.
The frustrating thing—although it’s unsurprising—is that I had another frustrating in-store experience. Thankfully, I’d expected it. I didn’t go to T-Mobile [like Ducky would've wanted] because I get a large enough corporate discount to make it worth my while, both on the equipment and the rate plans—especially as my folks also have Cingular, so unlimited mobile-to-mobile really, really makes it all worth our whiles. My monthly charges are actually going to drop with the new phone, which is a plus. [I don't know what the taxes are going to make it come out to be; I should have the phone paid for in the difference between the fees, though, in about 18 months. Which is, of course, when the 650 will die a painful, agonizing death.]
But back to the store experience: after a locked-up computer, the CSR finally gave up and went to talk to her manager; I could have the phone for $150 more than I could ordering it off the Web, even with my discount, if I wanted it today. Oh, I could go to a rate plan $20/mo. higher and knock $50 off the phone if I wanted. I’m not that dumb: I went in with a price I knew I could get, and when I got nowhere near the ballpark, I thanked the CSR for her time [because, hey, it's not her pricing!], walked out, and drove back over here, to my office, to handle it.
Of course, the sucky thing is that I’m out a phone for 2-4 days, but you know what? $150 is not a price I’m willing to pay for that service, not when I have a home line I can use for emergencies and an office number where I spend a majority of my waking hours each day.
So, if you need me, calling my cell phone is going to be useless the next few days, other than getting a number off the voicemail message that will actually get you to me. Time to go change voicemail messages to give out working numbers…
I Fear That My Treo Is Dying
I didn’t notice it this weekend, but during one of the syncs, all my contact data went away. [Zoinks!] Thankfully, I had done my faithful Friday-afternoon-backup-not-sync to my office machine, so I have all the contact data I had through Friday afternoon [which is, honestly, everything I need]. Unfortunately, after swapping the conduit to go from Handheld Overwrites Desktop to Desktop Overwrites Handheld, the Treo refuses to sync.
If I can’t figure out what’s wrong with it in the next 24-48 hours, I’ll probably just head over to the Cingular store, see how bad their present phones are, and figure out where to go from there. I might well go away from the smartphone: I’m wondering if the utility of it matches the price for what I’m using it for these days. That I’m even having that thought indicates to me that it doesn’t.
Spam Karma 2: Kills Spam Dead
I’d say that, with over 100,000+ spam stopped [and maybe .3% leaked through and fixed thereafter], Spam Karma 2 is pretty doggone awesome. I was lurking around 20k at the beginning of the month, and then this month has just been outrageous. SK2 hasn’t so much as blinked, though.
Thanks again, Dr. Dave.
Sun 25 Jun 2006
Sat 24 Jun 2006
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At least I burned this as two discs, so I only have to grab the one show. :grumblecakes:
Fri 23 Jun 2006
Tasks Proâ„¢ 1.7 alpha 1
I’m really tempted to grab TP 1.7-a1. I won’t only because other people use my TP install besides me. Just as soon as a Tasks alpha with tagging showed up, though, I’d be ready to dive in: tagging is my most-wanted feature, by far. I live inside of Tasks, people. [And yes, when I havemake time, I'm writing that up as a best practice entry.]
Kudos as always, AK.
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Man … between Ashley and Hallie, I’ve got these girls trying to foist dogs upon me. While I might enjoy them taking care of neighborhood cats that annoy the crap out of me, I like being able to leave town for five days and not worry about anything here
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I smell a rant on global warming coming to a blog near me soon.
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manual, quicksilver
Thu 22 Jun 2006
Today’s Sure Sign That I’m Nearing 30
I just had to schedule lunch with my best friend from college for a week from now, despite the fact that he works across the street from me.
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This one’s for Fred.
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Being the king of tangents … this looks like it would be a good idea.
Wed 21 Jun 2006
Ridin’ the Rails
Why does Amtrak’s site have to suck so much? I have this idea that I’d like to see the country by train—taking my laptop and a bunch of books along for company—but while I can see the routes, pricing them out? Unintelligible.
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