lyrics revelation

A cooling system
Burns out in the Ukraine
Trees and umbrellas
Protect us from the new rain
Armies of engineers
To analyze the soil
The food we contemplate
The water that we boil
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i just had a lyrics revelation.  (or at least my guess at it.)  Paul Simon's song "Can't Run, But" from his 1990 RHYTHM OF THE SAINTS album refers (in part) to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.  i just got it.

heh, i've got to pay better attention and not let this stuff slip by!
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[Rhythm of the Saints, "Can't Run But" © 1990, Paul Simon]

Hello, Summer!

OK, so it's not really summer; but after that winter, it is to me.  Opening the windows, prepping the fans, bicycling to the store with ease, and — most of all — being able to wear shorts again.  (Although maybe i should wear shorts year round, just with tights during the winter.  Hmmmm....)

And . . . the DSM32 Ultimate VA Collection is up and running; it's like having my own personal radio station with all of my favorite songs and a very generous sprinkling of pop stuff from the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, & '00s:

Billy Joel - New York State of Mind; Led Zeppelin - All My Love; Gordon Lightfoot - For Lovin' Me; The Cranberries - Pretty; John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads; Bill Haley And His Comets - See You Later Alligator; Little Richard - Jenny Jenny; Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive; Santana - Evil Ways; . . . (to name a few that just played).

Well, at least i'm ready for summer, if a little early.  :-D

Enjoy!

Bye-Bye "Tea Party"

All right, newly elected "Tea Party" Congresspeople, U.S. citizens can now see what you really stand for:  inflexible "morality" and unwillingness to participate in politics (otherwise known as the art of compromise).  You're not actually interested in fiscal policy.  Instead, all you want to do is jam your sadly out-moded values down the throats of U.S. Americans; but we're not swallowing.

At least you won't have to worry about getting re-elected; everyone is seeing what a farce you're making of budgetary issues.  Rinse and spit.  And thank you for helping insure a second term for Barack Obama.

Bye-Bye!

Feeling Good about Line Dry

Thank you, Concord Conserves and First Parish for helping motivate me to dry my clothes on a drying rack instead of using the dryer in the basement.  I only do one load of laundry each week, and it's really no problem to set up the rack in my kitchen before i go to bed and hang up a washer-full of clothes — and it makes me feel so good!

[here's a link:]
http://www.concordconserves.org/art-action-line-dry-your-clothes

ugh . . .

i definitely need some friends.  i was going to say "new friends", but i don't really have any old friends to replace with new ones.  i guess it's what happens when you get married and divorced:  you lose contact with your friends to accomplish the former; and because of the latter, people are more hesitant to become friends with you in the first place.

at least i still have Star Treks and Ally McBeal and X-Files, even if i've seen Friends too many times and Seinfeld is too depressing.  and someone at church to commiserate with about what wanks my neighbors are (and thank god there's no God at my church, either!).  lol.  :-D

there's still hope.

Deviloid is terrible compared to PureTnA! BOYCOTT Deviloid!

heh, i've got to chuckle at how childish & silly the sysops are at Deviloid (a site which has recently gained in popularity after the downfall of the legendary PureTnA).  at PureTnA, users had to maintain a mere 0.30 upload to download ratio; at Deviloid, the power-hungry kids running the show demand a 0.90 ratio, plus they're crazy with trying to enforce ultra-conformist torrent naming standards and a new video-preview requirement for video clips (and banning the violators).

i mean, sure, the internet is all about downloading nude photographs & videos — but let's not get all anal retentive about it!  i say boycott Deviloid; there are plenty of other places for nudity.

:-D

Rats! the new version of iTunes lets me down

Waiting for me on my computer this morning was a notification that there was an Apple iTunes 10.2 update available.  I click on install and was given the usual License Agreement text to agree to; usually i don't read these too closely, but this time i looked—only one thing really stuck out:

THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.

Damn it all to hell!  All my plans to continue running my secret fission reactor, my air traffic control business, and independent hospital ICU with iTunes are foiled!  I thought that was what iTunes was supposed to be used for!

All this stuff with music, isn't that just a side gimmick?  Maybe i should have stuck with the old version—it's been handling all the air traffic of Acton International Airport, plus a roomful of coma patients on ventilators.  Oh well, maybe Apple will bring those features back in the next version.