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burn baby burn

Damn, if platters gave off cyano fumes I’d be a dead man.

Within the last week I completed the authoring process on some archival DVDs for an early-80’s band, for distro only to a tiny group, and found myself with a list of people that collectively have been promised delivery of about fifty discs, variously DVD and CD.

This is a totally noncommercial project, so at best I expect a couple comp CDs later on from some of the folks. It’s wildly time consuming. I’m glad I’ve done this; but I think next time I’ll be a bit more disciplined in what I promise to whom.

I *should* be done with the DVD portion of the burning run by bedtime.

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I feel, like, validated

I noticed I was getting an uncharacteristically large number of site visitors from MeFi yesterday – not server-buckling numbers, but more than I’d expect from a random trackback.

As may be seen in the link above, my favorite information magpie chez Mefi, none other than the musically-knowledgeable and my apparent neighbor, the redoubtable (if war-cranky of late) y2karl cites this blog in a response to the original post.

Look ma! I’m an information resource! Of course, it’s a throwaway post that just links to a single TV-news story about wild parrots in Seattle (inspired by TFG).

So here’s some better data.

Since that time (nearly a year ago), Viv and I have become friends with a couple who lives near Seward Park, in Columbia City, and they confirm that yes, there is a loud band of parrots that will occasionally swagger around the neighborhood knocking down little old ladies, frightening children, and chucking rocks through the windows of abandoned buildings.

NBC affiliate KING 5 has done a story about the birds (auto-redirects to registration page). Dated February 2003, this may be the origin of the national ABC News story linked by Scott. Friends of Seward Park mention the parrots on their ‘Birds’ page.

In December 2002, the Lake Forest Park Enterprise covered a householder’s experiences with some of the birds, and here are some photos of the apparently burgeoning Maple Leaf colony that y2karl refers to in his post.

That’s better.