Monthly Archives: August 2006

Siderunnin’

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Oh boy, oh boy! Via the postman, my copy of the Siderunners’ latest CD, Sabbath Country Sabbath, arrived this afternoon.

I ordered the CD and T-shirt from Failed Experiment Records in Chicago, way back on July 10, as noted here.

Early last week or so, I received an email from Mike at Failed Experiment; he said that the first shipment was returned by the USPS, with no mention as to why. I validated my address with Mike, and today, all’s well. And not only did I get one shirt, there were two shirts in the package. If this is lagniappe for my patience in waiting, thanks Mike! If on the other hand, I got two shirts in error, I’ll be glad to pay for the other one, SWMBO having already claimed it and all.

So, there’s a Busch race this afternoon, tonight is pork chop night. Thereafter, SWMBO and I will don our shirts, pop in the CD, and hear some great music. Review to follow.

The album liner notes reveal that this CD was recorded in an empty upstairs apartment in the house of a Siderunners friend on 9/3/2005. From the notes, pure poetry:

… as we positioned ourselves as best we could to get a balanced sound. We started drinking about noon and just recorded; no overdubs, no fixes, no fucking pitch correctors; nothing except wood, steel, and whatever the devil let us keep. This is a band playing together, warts and all. Treat this as if you were in the room with us, helping yourself to our cheap beer in the twilight of anonymous summer day.

Later tonight, I shall do that very thing.

-k-

Update: Forgot to include linkage to the Siderunners website. Find them here.

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TSA … VIGILANT, EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT.

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Sorry for the shouting in the post title, but it’s straight off the TSA “Prohibited Items” website, wherein they detail the latest liquid-free, gel-free edicts for safe air travel. And they are really on it; amongst the latest knee-jerk-off reactions is this gem:

We encourage everyone to pack gel-filled bras in their checked baggage.

If you don’t have a gel-filled bra, by all means acquire one. An involved citizenry is key to the war on terror. Who would have thought it was that simple?

-k-

h/t: Bruce Schneier, for the pointage.

Update: A commenter on Bruce’s post observes the following:

TSA: Protecting America from suicide boobers.Hey… Someone had to say it.

Heh.

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Like Racing, Only Twisty

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A huge WaaHHoo! to Kevin Harvick, and the entire Richard Childress Racing Crew, on winning today’s AMD at the Glen Nextel Cup race from Watkins Glen NY.

And to fantasy racers, I leave this testimony:

Team Pure Country Racing Drivers
for the AMD at The Glen
Results are as of lap 90 out of 90.
Current Points: 1123 Current Rank: 590

Pure Country Racing is my team, named for a George Strait song. Realize that those points don’t include laps lead bonuses, so there’s a few more points heading my way.

I’m just basking for the moment.

-k-

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Knoxville Nationals

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After a magnificent meal with friends, after which I’m wearing as much barbecue sauce as I’ve consumed, SWMBO and I are watching the Knoxville(IA) Nationals sprint car race on Speed TV. Dirt track racin’, the way it was meant to be.

-k-

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Punchlines #8

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OK, so I need an @HOME-COMPUTER-BLOG-POST-PUNCHLINES GTD category, but that’s taking the context stuff totally over the top. And since this blog’s tagline is It’ll shine when it shines…, here it goes.

The penguins had so much fun at the zoo, we’re taking them out for ice cream now.

-k-

Update: Any more disjointed prose and ideas like the above, and there isn’t a spam trap than can stop me. ;)

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It still takes two to tango

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The UN Security Council has passed a resolution to end the conflict in Lebanon.

Seems to me that Hezbollah, not being a country and all, is under no obligation to comply with anything the UN decides.

And from the article:

The number of U.N. troops in the area would be increased from 2,000 to a maximum of 15,000; they would be joined by 15,000 Lebanese troops.

If I’m Hezbollah, it sounds like more targets to me. If, on the other hand, the UN vote means “We’re agin’ the violence”, then rock on. And duck.

-k-

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Punchlines #7

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tbbs-land’s unadorned punchline series rolls on, with this one.
Since there’s only one, maybe I should have titled this in the singular, but it’s funny in any plurality:

Probably wasn’t the same elephant.

Nothing to do with politics.

-k-

Hipster PAA, at work usage

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Today, the PAA made its @work debut, with the following to report:

  • Took some notes from the insurance company on the follow up to yesterday’s accident. I have on a 3×5 card, claim number, claim center phone, and everything I need to move forward.
  • A reminder on some RedHat configurations that need to be changed in our standard build. This will be transferred to the Palm PDA tomorrow, in the proper category.

    • OK, two items, not an auspicious start. But it’s a start. And everything is in one place.

    I outfitted my Hipster with a hack I discovered on a site I can’t remember right now. The gist is, take two fresh cards, preferably color cards, put both at the end of the stack. As you “file” the cards from the front, put ‘em between the color coded ones. In this fashion, you don’t inadvertently give away one with important stuff on it. And you have an “end” and “very” end of your stack.

    Small steps, taken consistently.

    -k-

    h/t: Dave, for aptly pointing out that a Hipster is not a PDA, but a PAA (Personal Analog Assistant). See the comments on the post, wherein I ask, and am enlightened, on the acronym.

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    GTD Electronica

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    Back to work today, and in my final half-hour or so, I started imparting some order to my home directory on my @work workstation. I’m the download, compile, patch, and packaging king where I work, so some order was definitely needed. I made huge strides in the root level of my home directory, deleting and moving files so that an “ls” takes far less screen real estate than before.

    The plan now is to take a few minutes at the end of each work day, descend another level deeper into each directory hierarchy, and delete or reclassify as appropriate.

    The above apply of course to my Solaris workstation. I also have a work PC, whose sole purpose in life, other than to drive me absolutely bat shit insane, is to receive Lotus Notes email. Lotus Notes (aptly named since it rhymes closely with “blows goats”) actually did me a favor in inbox defenestration before I went on vacation. I’d selected a bunch of messages to delete, Lotus in its wisdom somehow reversed the sense of my selection, and when I clicked “delete” the stuff I wanted to keep was suddenly gone. I routinely purge deletions immediately after, so those messages are now in the bit bucket in the sky. So I then had to clean out the inbox, which now consisted of stuff I’d originally wanted to delete, so that part was trivial. Result, nothing in the inbox, and with few regrets or worries on my part about the inadvertent deletions.

    -k-

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