May loose? Mai oui.

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Seriously? I am struggling with those post titles…

  • 1900s . “bring the good boys home”
  • detroit cobras . “boss lady”
  • final fantasy . “many lives”
  • final fantasy . “this lamb sells condos”
  • frank black . “cold heart of stone”
  • gomez . “how we operate”
  • josh ritter . “girl in the war”
  • katatonia . “deliberation”
  • petra haden . “god only knows”
  • pilate . “barely listening”
  • pilate . “knife-grey sea”
  • she wants revenge . “these things”
  • stills . “destroyer”
  • tilly & the wall . “lost girls”

[tags]loose music[/tags]

"You'll need a snorkel to breathe underneath the pile of groupies that will sack you."

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My wife sent me this link titled How to totally fake being a geek (which I assume she found through some sort of google search that scours the web for any mention of Buffy The Vampire Slayer). I’m glad it’s tongue-in-cheek, ’cause I’d hate to think that knowing Assembler is the ne plus ultra of geekiness. Why? Because I know Assembler. At least, I knew it. At least, a I knew a little bit. When I first moved here my job was mainframe programming; don’t ask me why, ’cause I had no programming experience.

It was tough to learn, since writing Assembler is what I imagine it’s like to talk to a retarded robot, but from then on every other programming language seemed like a treat. The first time I tried COBOL I was ecstatic because it could do, you know, math like a human. It was like when my brothers and I learned to drive; we didn’t learn on a car, or on any automatic…we learned on the 2-ton stick-shift farm truck. Once you can work with that, a Ford Tempo’s a pussycat.

That said, it’s been so long since my foot’s touched a clutch, it’d probably be pretty comical to watch me try.

[tags]geekery, buffy, assembler, cobol[/tags]

"Any site that's got a longer entry on 'truthiness' than on Lutherans has its priorities straight."

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I’m not sure even Stephen Colbert himself expected this after wikiality was The Word on Monday night. [via Digg]

.:.

Also via Digg, I learned about the Christian version of Ubuntu Linux. I anxiously await operating system flavours for Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Scientology. Unless someone figures out that this is retarded first.

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Make Marketing History points us to a couple of disturbing statistics: 58% of people never read a book once they leave high school, and 46% of people don’t read newspapers. I think the first stat freaks me out the most. I actually can’t figure out how you’d avoid it, what with long airport waits and bedtime stories and such.

[tags]colbert report, wikiality, truthiness, christian ubuntu, people don’t read[/tags]

Aprilooseness

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  • calexico . “deep down”
  • calexico . “letter to bowie knife”
  • calexico . “panic open string”
  • caroline . “where’s my love”
  • cut copy . “going nowhere”
  • elf power . “an old familiar scene”
  • fembots . “history remade”
  • fembots . “so long”
  • human television . “in front of the house”
  • imperial teen . “ivanka”
  • irving . “situation”
  • jason collett . “i’ll bring the sun”
  • jets overhead . “seems so far”
  • kt tunstall . “suddenly i see”
  • kula shaker . “govinda”
  • kula shaker . “into the deep”
  • kula shaker . “knight on the town”
  • lanterna . “luminous”
  • mono . “the flames”
  • pearl jam . “life wasted”
  • pearl jam . “marker in the sand”
  • raconteurs . “steady as she goes”
  • robert cray & shemekia copeland . “i pity the fool”
  • rogers sisters . “never learn to cry”
  • sebadoh . “hoppin’ up and down”
  • sebadoh . “the freed pig”
  • sebadoh . “total peace”
  • shearwater . “white waves”
  • snow patrol . “chasing cars”
  • snow patrol . “you’re all i have”
  • velvet underground . “sister ray”
  • wilderness . “emergency”

[tags]loose music[/tags]

Looseness on the march

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This is fun, catching up on music that I listened to once, liked and jammed onto my MP3 player. Here’s what I collected in March:

  • ben harper . “better way”
  • kula shaker . “hush”
  • michael meldrum . “rainstorm”
  • mogwai . “1% of monster”
  • pearl jam . “world wide suicide”
  • prodigy . “voodoo people”
  • raising the fawn . “carbon paper”
  • raising the fawn . “christmastime in the fields”
  • raising the fawn . “the maginot line”
  • track a tiger . “sound as ever”
  • wintersleep . “fog”

[tags]loose music[/tags]

UPDATED: ………Aaaaaaaaaaaand we're back

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So, that happened. Our power came back on around 4:30. Needless to say that was not the best night of sleep I’ve ever had.

Apparently it was just our street. More specifically, it was just our side of the street, in this particular block. Lucky us.

Anyway, no harm done. It stayed remarkably cool in the apartment, and we had little trouble sleeping. To the HydroOne guys who worked through the night in that insane heat: thankyouthankyouthankyou.

[tags]blackout (but not really)[/tags]

More looseness

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OK, I burned through the loose MP3s from January. Now on deck:

  • american music club . “rise”
  • american music club . “royal cafe”
  • courtney love . “the 2nd most beautiful girl”
  • death set . “intermission”
  • early years . “all ones & zeros”
  • eux autres . “le projet citron”
  • grandaddy . “disconnecty”
  • grandaddy . “this is how it always starts”
  • gregor samsa . “young and old”
  • longpigs . “on and on”
  • lush . “nothing natural”
  • massive attack . “live with me”
  • mellowdrone . “oh my”
  • my latest novel . “when we were wolves”
  • sounds . “song with a mission”
  • sword . “winter’s wolves”
  • television hill . “easy come, easy go”

[tags]loose music[/tags]

Ass-whuppin' indeed

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My good friend MLS — who at this point must be staring at her pregnant belly and yelling, “Get the @$%& out!!” — wrote something today that made me howl:

“I’d like to compare how I am currently feeling, to what I imagine a small boy whould feel like who was just told by the school bully to meet him by the flagpole after class for a beating…Waiting is almost worse that the actual butt-kicking you are about to receive.”

She was due over a week ago; I was hoping she’d hold out until the 30th so her baby could share my birthday, but that date’s come and gone. Maybe she’ll match me in another way: I was 28 days overdue. Just kidding, M; I’m sure my mother wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Not only was I late, I was more than eleven pounds.
[tags]overdue babies, giant babies, giant overdue babies[/tags]