NYT: For the Pennsylvania Dutch, a Long Tradition Fades.
200 of 800 Pennsylvania Dutch barn ‘hex signs’ remain.
Odd, I recall seeing these a great deal in the early seventies as our family drove around the lower northeast. Seems like there must have been more than 800 at one time.
NPR ran a five-minute end-of-the-hour feature on the New Voyages Star Trek fan film crew this morning. As is becoming par for these stories, passing acknowledgment was made that this crew is not the only one making these fan-produced episodes, but the entirety of he reporting was focused on Cawley’s project. This is likely as much a reflection os the snowball effect of that initial Wired story as much as a reflection of the skill with which Cawley’s assembled his media hook, which is that the project features the original series characters played by new actors with increasing numbers of professional Trek veterans appearing in the New Voyages episodes.
Another factor in the coverage, I believe, must be the continuing delay in release of Starship Exeter‘s new episodes; Exeter has been acknowledged as the inspiration for New Voyages and the Exeter creative team initially worked with the New Voyages team prior to the production of the first New Voyages episode. Personally, I found the initial Exeter episode to be a more successful translation of the original-series ethos than the first episode of New Voyages. I have been holding off on watching the more recent New Voyages pieces until Exeter releases the full second episode to be better able to compare the teams’ work.
However, the rate at which New Voyages has been producing episodes may well make this moot, as practice brings experience and soon the series may no longer be comparable in any meaningful way.
Lindsey ran away to sea, and is home again, but, I think, may be actively seeking ways to become the world’s first wind-propelled librarian.
I must admit, I thought of Lindsey as I watched Pirates II, which apparently gave short shrift to the Aberdeen Seaport.
Lindsey, you gots to check out “Two Years Before the Mast.”
LA kegger in the works? Sounds like you need to hit Bevmo.
Zidane: to headbutt. Act to verb in three days. See the following: ZIDANE a new way to solve problems.. make it like zidane….
zidaner: je zidane. tu zidane. vous zidanez. nous zidanons. ils zidanes. il zidane.
j’ai zidanait.
tu zidanais. et cetera. et je suppose on peut eventuellement zidanerait.
I happened to hear a great old-time tune from my iTunes pile the other day, “Fair Miss in the Garden,” by Roscoe Holcombe from Mountain Music of Kentucky, a fantastic collection of field-recorded tunes laid to tape on the porches of Hazard County in the mid-fifties. To my aggravation, nor Google nor Digitrad unearthed the lyrics. Adding to my frustration, I have not yet found any references to the song but the two-or-so released versions. The song, in form and language, sounds very much like a Childe ballad, medieval ballads that survived into the twentieth century in various backwaters and which form the foundation of the cult of authenticity in folkloric circles, to my personal derisive amusement and pseudohistoricist fascination.
Ah well, I’m reduced to the same technique I employed some twenty-odd years ago in seeking to lean the lyrics of songs by the commercially unsuccessful likes of The Gizmos or the (1980s) Ramones. I’ll hafta transcribe ’em.
From the EyeHome FAQ:
“Originally, EyeHome could also use aliases or symbolic links, instead of full movies, pictures or music.”
Meaning, of course, that they’ve pulled features from the software. I’m downgrading immediately. I noticed that the current version also removed the interactive view-by-view option to invoke shuffle and buried it as a universal option for listening to music, a seriously stupid thing to do.
Oh well. Software companies making stupid decisions? Not news.
Apparently Gmail is finally rolling out a delete-all feature for the spam bucket. Hope it shows up in my account soon!
Adam Engst runs an amusingly-styled look at what may well be dangerously hot running temps in Apple’s current MacBook Pro line. Get a CoolPad!