April 2009
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More Music Acquisitions
Metallica - Master of Puppets Metallica - S&M Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets via Rasputin
Apr 28th
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Today's Music Acquisitions
“Bonus” studio tracks from Alan Parsons - The Very Best Live (I didn’t buy the live part, just the studio tracks) When Take the Money and Run You’re the Voice Other miscellaneous Alan Parsons tracks The Naked Robot Antarctica And two other individual tracks Ozzy Ozbourne - Crazy Train 3 Doors Down - When I’m Gone All via Amazon MP3
Apr 27th
Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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YACF
So I knew I had to take the truck in today, and knew there was a good chance it would be there all day or overnight. So this week I bought a bike. I’d post a picture but that would involve hiking upstairs, and I’ve already dealt with enough bullshit for one day. The bike cost $260 at Costco. Of course, with the bike has to come the inevitable accessories. First I went to OSH, but...
Apr 21st
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Reactrix, RIP
Reactrix went out of business. You’ve probably never heard of them, but if you ever visited a fancy mall you might have seen their handiwork. They made these neat little interactive projector displays. Basically it was a ceiling-mounted projector that projected an image onto the floor, with an electric eye that would sense when someone/something moved over it, and alter the image...
Apr 15th
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Handy Household Tip Of The Day
To get mildew out of a shower curtain: Throw it in the washing machine, with bleach.
Apr 15th
Test
At Pete’s. Typing this on his Google phone
Apr 13th
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Music Review
As always, everything is rated on the Binary Scale. Synthesizer Greatest, Volume 2 A compilation of new-age synthesizer music. Very spacey. Score: 1 Top picks: Magnetic Fields Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape Roughly half bubblegum pop and half rapless-hiphop (the subject of another article I might write soon), not entirely dissimilar to her previous album. Score: 1 Top Picks: The...
Apr 10th
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Unified Agenda
To Do Doctor’s appointment Tuesday Wood Shop Tuesday Take the truck in to get smogged Find a dentist More blood work [DONE] Figure out what time I want to go to Weight Watchers and do it Call EAP about further therapy Taxes [DONE] Clean room Clean truck [DONE] Shopping Hard drive enclosures Lawn chairs and tables for back and front Projects Fix Truck Look for a car...
Apr 7th
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The "Complete" Beatles Discography
A.K.A. “The complete list of CDs you have to buy to get all the material the Beatles ever released” Having bought “Past Masters” volumes I and II today, I was reminded of the confusion regarding the official, complete Beatles discography. Between the myriad non-album singles, EPs, and differing album versions, it’s difficult to tell what exactly makes up the...
Apr 7th
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Unified Agenda
To Do Doctor’s appointment Monday [DONE] Wood Shop Tuesday Take the truck in to get smogged Find a dentist More blood work Figure out what time I want to go to Weight Watchers and do it Call EAP about further therapy Taxes [DONE] Clean room Clean truck Shopping Hard drive enclosures Lawn chairs and tables for back and front Projects Fix Truck Look for a car that I...
Apr 6th
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Today's Music Acquisitions
The Beatles - Past Masters Volume I The Beatles - Past Masters Volume II Beatles For Sale The Police - Every Breath You Take - The Classics Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits via Rasputin
Apr 6th
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“Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.”
– Bumper sticker of the day. (I need this one.)
Apr 6th
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Cluserfuck Update
My dad got up early Wednesday morning and went shopping for fridges so I didn’t have to. He ordered a new one, it’s supposed to get delivered sometime tomorrow. In the meantime the little one is working well. In fact it’s working a little too well. My milk was starting to freeze, so I turned it down a notch.
Apr 6th
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The Latest Clusterfuck
The fridge just died. I noticed it this morning, when my milk wasn’t quite as cold as it usually was. Probably only someone as anal-retentive about their milk being ice cold as me would have noticed. But now it’s blazingly obvious. It’s already cooled off enough that everything in the freezer has defrosted. I can hear the compressor cycling on, then cycling back off after...
Apr 1st