Archive for February, 2005

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

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

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, throw a Shop Vac…
I like my version better.
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Songs in the key of…uhh…whatever…

Monday, February 21st, 2005

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.”
My younger self always assumed this theory stuff was irrelevant since I have perfect pitch. […]

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Thought for the day

Monday, February 21st, 2005

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

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

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 happen again, but if your legitimate comment has been eaten by the “monster,” please try […]

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In praise of the default

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

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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