Archive for May, 2009
Help Me Find This Recording
Sunday, May 24th, 2009Way back when sometime, Soul Asylum of “Runaway Train” fame recorded a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Bird on the (a) Wire.” Since then, I’ve been on the verge of believing I hallucinated it, since I can’t find it anywhere. No iTunes, no eMusic, not even in the list of covers acknowledged by the Wikipedia article [...]
Canceled!
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009So, I’m really kind of bummed. This last year, there were only three actual television shows that I watched with any regularity, and two of them have been canceled: The Unit, the unfortunately named show about a team in the US Army’s Delta Force and their struggles in fighting unconventional war at home and abroad, [...]
Sciencey Stuff
Friday, May 8th, 2009Related stuff: First, is that Roger Ebert criticizes the new Star Trek movie, in part, for its poor and imprecise grasp of science… and uses imprecise language to do so. Such as: “Consider, at light warp speeds, how imprecise it would be to say “At my command … 3 … 2 … 1 …” Between [...]
For Some Reason
Monday, May 4th, 2009The vast majority of my WordPress comment spam comes in to this post about Howard Tayler. Don’t know why–maybe because of his overwhelming popularity on the internets. In other blog housekeeping news, I’m going to add a Twitter plugin for the sidebar. And I upgraded to 2.7.1 on WordPress without a hitch. I’m digging the [...]