Padfoot earworm

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She

hated the cat

Loved bacon fat

Norwegian rat

So

Checked out my flat

Nibbled my prat

Norwegian rat

Things there ain't

Uploaded by Dick Dangerous

Ain't no wall impenetrable enough,
Ain't no void vacuous enough,
Ain't no slur insensitive enough,
Ain't no nuclide radioactive enough,
Ain't no venom deadly enough,
Ain't no international sanction threatening enough,
Ain't no mutation repellent enough,
Ain't no history obscure enough,
Ain't no grammar difficult enough,
Ain't no cemetery gloomy enough,
Ain't no predator vicious enough,
Ain't no sickness debilitating enough,
Ain't no explosive energetic enough,
Ain't no galaxy remote enough,
Ain't no pitch shrill enough,
Ain't no ghost frightening enough,
Ain't no recession severe enough,
Ain't no packaging hermetic enough,
Ain't no budget tight enough,
Ain't no robot destructive enough,
Ain't no canine aggressive enough,
Ain't no spectacle disgusting enough,
Ain't no famine widespread enough,
Ain't no extinction total enough
To keep me from you...

Unlimited temptation

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Song title: Satan Keeps Texting Me

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Fun with literal-minded electronica

Song title: (1) Jammed Shredder, (2) Androids Go Diving
Suggested partway through listening to the eleventh track on this album, which was a Magnatune freebie a month back.

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Frightful! Also, there might be a monster

Book name: Neptune's Illegitimate Daughter

LESLIE HOLMES

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Friday music! of a rather peculiar sort!
Perhaps science and technology has progressed to the point that we can settle the controversy about Loch Ness by simply creating an aquatic beast of our own and introducing it to the famous locale. We'll put whoever's responsible for this varmint in charge:

I doubt that it can be much more disruptive to the ecology than the monster-hunting robots and other seekers already clogging up the loch looking for a (presumably rather annoyed) natural sea creature.

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We'd be afraid not to give him an award

Band name: Glenduff Mobile Psyops Brigade

via instructables.com

Despite the impressiveness of the armament, I think the best part is how he made the backpack with the "jet ports" out of a broken typewriter.

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I don't know why he's standing there

Album name: Cameleopard vs. Manatee
Spotted by the cafeteria in our office building
Which would win? Or would it even possible to imagine them fighting?
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Thinking of next spring

Musical piece: Sweet Pea Sweet

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I did not do any sweet peas this year, which I think now to have been a mistake, since my soybeans did nothing either. I believe I will plant that whole bed along the driveway in sweet peas next spring for a color shot after the snows melt.

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The power behind the drone

Song name: Aboriginality Is the Art of Concealing Your Power Supply

Music for Friday. The resemblance to the experience of running a drum sander or a router is striking.

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Biting bovine band

Folk-metal group: Ox Toxin
The name is kicking around the net, I guess as folk etymology for the hormone oxytocin. It also came to mind a while back when we'd named a server OCTOXEN which is also a decent band name.
#end

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Their first single would be Melty Cheese

Band name: Racklette

The confusion with pop band Roxette is, of course intentional. The temptation to title your music group after a more or less common misspelling would also make me think that one might consider the handle Soul Alyssum as well.
 

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Private to public

sing love,
originally uploaded by rcameraw.

WQXR, the oldest commercial classical radio station in the US, is going to move over to public radio this 8PM October 8th, moving 9.6 MHz up the FM dial and going from its .com domain to a new .org domain as well. I hope they are able to keep the line-up of announcers: Annie Bergen, Jeff Spurgeon, Elliott Forrest, Bill Jerome, Midge Woolsey, Clayelle Dalferes, and the delightfully named Candice Agree. I will have to listen to the commercial spots between now and then to see if there's anything I'll be missing too.

They'll be swapping frequencies with Univision's reggaeton station La Kalle. Should make for some fun confusion for those not clued in on the shift.

The world's dullest console game

I have an MP3 player by Nextar like the one in this picture, and I like it because it plays MP3s, it doesn't insist on crippling DRM, it is fairly durable, and didn't cost too much. One place that took some getting used to, however, is the operation of the controls. Here, for instance, is the sequence of button presses you need to do if you are listening to a track you are tired of, want to erase it, and start listening to the next track:

S-L-L-S-S-L-S-L-S-C-R-S-R-C

where S is the button on the side, L and R are the buttons to advance and go back, and C is the button in the center of the ring. (You don't need to touch the up or down buttons or the A-B button.) Typically I need to execute this maneuver one-handed, while driving, not looking at the screen, and I'm getting pretty good at it. Still, it seems like they could have done away with a prompt or four to simplify what should be a rather common operation.

Four quick ones

• Computer keyboards have those little bumps to help touch-typists know whether they have their hands positioned properly. (They have a rude nickname.) Why hasn't the same idea happened on keyboard instruments such as pianos? Furthermore, by way of analogy with ergonomic computer keyboards, couldn't someone devise a curved piano/organ keyboard to make it easier for the musician to reach the very high and low notes?
• Citigroup and Morgan Stanley to merge former rival brokerage services. The new company is going to be called Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, but I think it misses an opportunity to resurrect an old brokerage unit name associated with Morgan Stanley and call it instead Dean Witter Reynolds Smith Barney. Or was the Dean Witter marque too downmarket? I know it is probably too late to cancel the order for office stationery, but still.
• If we do successfully downsize our military operations in Iraq, maybe we can take some of those remotely controlled Raptor drones and set them up with rocket-propelled paintball armament to have simulated aerial warfare. There could robotic convoy of vehicles or something that a second player could control while the first player attempts to splat the target in one particular vehicle, without causing collateral damage.
• Among religious believers, it is often customary to say a prayer before sharing a meal. It seems to me to make even more sense to say a prayer before partaking in intoxicating drink. Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy libations, which we are about to receive from Thy bounty. One could be more elaborate, with some mention of avoiding drinking and driving or whatever. Perhaps some public service spots could help to popularize this new custom.

What you should be listening to

Generate a random imaginary playlist, using four dice! (Or one die four times.) Simply roll up the song title, the artist, the release, and the record label and impress your friends with your cutting-edge taste in what's new and fresh that they haven't even heard about yet.

Roll	Title
1	Chine bone shuffle
2	Let's leave a Bush legacy
3	Hit the throttle, Simon
4	Wax tadpole moan
5	Opa Sri Ivan
6	Scandale aux têtes de l'herbe

by

Roll	Artist
1	Legs and Lots of Them
2	Forbidden Souk
3	DJ Shar-Pei
4	Baath Bungalow Borracho
5	Vandals Trocadero in Ecstasy
6	The Mule, the Miser, and the Serum

off of their new release

Roll	Release
1	Ordo LXIX
2	By the door you came in by, naturally
3	Songs for a molten glacier afternoon
4	Let's play guard and prisoner
5	Bitter small-town Amerika
6	Orbs of glowing cottage cheese

on

Roll	Label
1	Cranky White Man Records
2	Leatherfist Records
3	Self-released Records
4	Abstract Semigroup Records
5	Drop of Sweat Records
6	Tantra Creek Records

I hate earworms

"Indiana Jones" movie poster in Italian,
originally uploaded by kubacheck.

Maybe this is a couple of months late, or maybe a bit early, but I've been troubled by this every time they play the theme to that movie for years now. Either my Google-fu is weak or I'm the only one who hears it though.
Link (MIDI file)

Late to the party

Sonic Youth,
originally uploaded by Dunechaser.

I am unhappy that my band name Sonic Geezers has already been invented again and again.

Ditto with Old Farts on the Block. Which reduces one to consider constructs such as Middle-Aged-Person Rock, and that is just sad.

A list where you'll find the Carpenters to be ironically absent

The account of the life and times of the band Led Zeppelin is titled Hammer of the Gods. But haven't you wondered about the rest of the shop? Now, for the first time, the roster can be revealed!

Tool	Band
Crescent Wrench of the Gods	Heart
Measuring Tape of the Gods	Kiss
Block Plane of the Gods	Devo
Bandsaw of the Gods	The Ramones
Rasp of the Gods	The Stooges
Carpenters' Pencil of the Gods	No Doubt
First Aid Kit of the Gods	Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
Home Depot Charge Account of the Gods	Jimmy Buffett

Compare and Contrast III

Ding dong merrily on high.

This post has been removed due to bitrot of all of its content over the years. Sorry!

Robots, Giant, Space-Based

Giant Space Robot,
originally uploaded by designplanetlab.

So they have finally put one up in orbit, not to be confused with the two bands named Giant Robot or the Giant Robot magazine and stores. So, if you're looking for a name for your group, I would suggest you name it The Band Called Giant Orbiting Space Robot Not Found In Stores just to be certain.