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February 07 2010
Arched
So early in December, I went on a quest for a new Linux distro. It wasn't so much that I was unhappy with my openSUSE 11.0 installation, but I knew I was probably going to install the new 11.2 version and so I figured I would cast about to see...
Weekend Random 10 - Feb. 7
- On the Run - Pink Floyd (The Dark Side Of The Moon 1973)
- Drugs - Black Heart Procession (Six 2009)
- Atman - Rodrigo y Gabriella (11:11 2009)
- Do Not Despair - El Perro Del Mar (From The Valley To The Stars 2008)
- Wish You Well - Katie Herzig (Apple Tree 2008)
- A Day For Letting Go - The Charlatans (You Cross My Path 2008)
- Plainsong - The Cure (Disintegration 1989)
- Yellow Submarine - The Beatles (1 2000)
- BBQ Party - Shonen Knife (Super Group 2009)
- Ya Verdad - Savath And Savalas (Golden Pollen 2007)
Interesting group of songs this week. One golden oldie, from the magical The Dark Side Of The Moon CD. Man, does that ever bring back high school memories, even though it came out years before I graduated. Then a bunch of new songs, including one from The Charlatans, who released this CD as a free download, although I'm not sure it is still available. Six and 11:11 were both great 2009 purchases. I still need to get Herzig's CD, as I've heard samples from all the songs on cdbaby and I really like them. This MP3 I bought as a single. Then we go back a little ways for one of the best Cure CDs (but Vox won't let me up load the song, saying it "cannot accept this file". Weird) . And then even further back for a Beatles song, although the CD is the more recent 1 CD, which contains all 27 of their #1 (UK or US) hits. Not sure where, exactly, I got the Shonen Knife song, although I've always been a big fan of theirs. And I usually don't include songs from any of the various free compilations I grab, but Ya Verdad is a really tremendous song from the best of 2007 Stereogum collection.
Jonathan marked as to-read: Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Hardcover)
by
Jon Krakauer
bookshelves: current-events, non-fiction, to-read
bookshelves: current-events, non-fiction, to-read
Jonathan marked as to-read: The Bounty: the True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by
Caroline Alexander
bookshelves: history, non-fiction, to-read
bookshelves: history, non-fiction, to-read
Jonathan marked as to-read: The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War (Audio CD)
by
Caroline Alexander
bookshelves: history, non-fiction, to-read, war
bookshelves: history, non-fiction, to-read, war
Jonathan marked as to-read: About a Mountain (Hardcover)
by
John D'Agata
bookshelves: current-events, non-fiction, to-read
bookshelves: current-events, non-fiction, to-read
Jonathan marked as to-read: The Bell Ringers (Hardcover)
by
Henry Porter
bookshelves: fiction, sci-fi, thriller, to-read
bookshelves: fiction, sci-fi, thriller, to-read
Jonathan marked as to-read: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (Hardcover)
by
David Aaronovitch
bookshelves: current-events, history, non-fiction, sociology, to-read, us-history
bookshelves: current-events, history, non-fiction, sociology, to-read, us-history
Jonathan marked as to-read: Union Atlantic (Hardcover)
by
Adam Haslett
bookshelves: current-events, fiction, to-read
bookshelves: current-events, fiction, to-read
February 06 2010
Jonathan
is on page 45 of 336 of
Xombies: Apocalypse Blues
"started off slow, but now that the Xombies have shown up, it's moving right along"
"started off slow, but now that the Xombies have shown up, it's moving right along"
New comment on Steve's review of
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
by Matt Taibbi
wasn't this a brilliant book? I think it was my favorite from 2009.
by Matt Taibbi
wasn't this a brilliant book? I think it was my favorite from 2009.
Play fullscreen
Google Goggle for Android Phones | Bit Rebels
Downloading this visual search engine now. Looks pretty cool, but I wonder how well it really works?
A Fresh Look at Cows
Just over the email transom comes this joke, an update on the cow joke:
DEMOCRAT
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?
SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk
the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.
AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are
surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the
analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.
FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and
produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.
GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give
excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.
ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.
RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.
TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan , which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives
to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.
IRAQI CORPORATION
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.
POLISH CORPORATION
You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.
BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.
FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally
vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you
think is the best-looking cow.
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegal.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.
February 05 2010
Jonathan marked as to-read: Bones Of Coral (Hardcover)
by
James W. Hall
bookshelves: fiction, mystery, to-read
bookshelves: fiction, mystery, to-read
Jonathan marked as to-read: Winter of the Wolf Moon (The Second Alex McKnight Mystery)
by
Steve Hamilton
bookshelves: fiction, mystery, to-read
bookshelves: fiction, mystery, to-read
Jonathan marked as to-read: April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.)
by
Jay Winik
bookshelves: american-civil-war, borrowed-mem, history, non-fiction, to-read
bookshelves: american-civil-war, borrowed-mem, history, non-fiction, to-read
Jonathan marked as to-read: Anathem (Hardcover)
by
Neal Stephenson
bookshelves: borrowed-michael, fantasy, fiction, to-read
bookshelves: borrowed-michael, fantasy, fiction, to-read
Jonathan marked as to-read: Glasshouse (Hardcover)
by
Charles Stross
bookshelves: borrowed-michael, fiction, sci-fi, to-read
bookshelves: borrowed-michael, fiction, sci-fi, to-read
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