It’s really no fun when your kitchen sink barfs up your neighbor’s dispos-alled schmutz and floods your kitchen and dining room at 10 am.
And then when your indoor cat runs away outside in fear it’s also no fun.
Sigh.
UPDATE: Sink still clogged. Cat came back.
thingsmagazine.net‘s jpl mentioned that his fambly posesses a fragment of the zeppelin L32, shot down over England the 23rd of September 1916. A police account may be found here, and entertainingly, an illustration of Lt. Sowrey’s victory over the L32 may be found within the deep reservoir of Rosebud’s WWI and Early Aviation Image Archive, the link that prompted my discussion with jpl in the first place.
(Rosebud is a former comrade-in-pixels of mine from my days as a kite-wrassler in the underpopulated massively-multiplayer online sim Dawn of Aces.)
I’m pretty sure it’s a different 23rd of September than the one the song is about. It’s also worth noting that this is not the Great Zeppelin Raid, which took place in February 1916.
jpl notes that it’s uncertain how the object came to his family. If our cousins over there behaved as we did when one of these huge things came down in our countryside, I’d guess a relative came as a part of a crowd and took the cross away as a souvenir. I would particularly direct new readers to the comments on the linked entry which feature personal anecdotes relating to souvenirs and at least one eyewitness acount of the death of the airship in question, the USS Shenandoah.
In this instance, there is a song.
I had a couple of beers with a new friend and promised to dig up some links on the Dick Tracy watches recently developed by Microsoft. I’m particularly looking for a specific blog that I thought had trackbacked me on something. Thus far, I think my recollection was flawed.
Spotlight on SPOT is a dedicated blog that I bet he’s familiar with.
I think the site I was looking for is here. Paul Robichaux wrote about his SPOT watch here, here, and here.
I also mentioned the band Midnight Thunder Express, but today Karel let me know that they broke up, I guess. It was still a great show.
I myself have also been rooting around in search of certain other sites I know I’ve seen before on several topics. I have a good handle on iSight and iChat stuff, but I know I saw an excellent overview site when I was first researching it. I have no idea what it was called and naturally, I neglected to bookmark it.
The other topic I’m chasing (again) is iDVD theme construction, which is woefully underdocumented. Michael Braly linked to some tutorials back in April, 2003, but the links presented there, as I recall, provided instruction more on how to hack existing themes than on crafting them from scratch. Ah well, time’s up for today.
Salam gives us the skinny on the Iraqi Shia festivals.
Later, after the explosions and mortars, the ever-elusive Raed weighs in, worried.
sheep at b3ta proffers an amazing thing.
Sheep Films is the creator’s site.
The image may appear to be broken at first.
Hm… look at the other anims on his member site! Fantastic!
NASA to announce ‘significant’ finding – tomorrow.
Hm, could it have to do with the recent rock-drilling thing they were doing?
Everything Burns points out that you might prefer to avoid microwaving your New Twenties.
Or perhaps you’d prefer to nuke them. At any rate, tin foil should probably have a place in your wallet next time you need to fly.
Albert Ayler: His Life and Music, by Jeff Schwartz.
This book is my attempt, as of 1992, to assemble the information available on the life of Albert Ayler. Since then, I have added a few things and attempted to correct errors. There have not been major updates. For example, relevant material from recent books on Paul Bley, Sun Ra, Perry Robinson, and Bill Dixon, has not been worked in.
Also, here is a discography.
