Monthly Archives: February 2005

I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean to say this.

Posted on 2/22/2005 by Andrew

Upon lis­ten­ing to Slaid Cleaves’s song “Wish­bones” the other day I com­pletely mis­heard the lyrics to the cho­rus. The actual lyrics are: Spin the bot­tle cap, throw a shot back, everything’s gonna be all right and I heard, Spin the bot­tle cap, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Songs in the key of…uhh…whatever…

Posted on 2/21/2005 by Andrew

It’s stuff like this Ask MetaFil­ter thread that makes me wish I’d paid more atten­tion in col­lege music the­ory class. My inner geek longs to be able to express the things I hear in terms like “imper­fect cadence” and “sub­me­di­ant.” … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Thought for the day

Posted on 2/21/2005 by Andrew

Has any­one ever been sent to Fed­eral prison for “using a prod­uct in a man­ner incon­sis­tent with its label­ing”? It seems like they would have their own cell block along with those soci­etal men­aces who pull tags off mattresses…

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Don’t know my own strength, apparently

Posted on 2/16/2005 by Andrew

Much like Godzilla inad­ver­tently tram­pling inno­cent Tokyo bystanders in an epic bat­tle with Mothra, the newly-installed Spam Karma plu­gin has been delet­ing some inno­cent com­ments from non-spammers. I’m try­ing to keep an eye on it to make sure this doesn’t … Con­tinue read­ing →

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In praise of the default

Posted on 2/16/2005 by Andrew

I know it’s just a default and the whole world is likely using it now, but I gotta admit the vari­a­tion of the Kubrick theme that comes with the Word­Press 1.5 really looks slick.

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