Bifurcated Rivets
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21 October 2006
23:48:21
Now I'm watching The Fifth Element. Much better....... That was fantastic and I don't even like Bruce Willis.
21:18:21
Watching xXx - what wonderful hocum. I love the image of decadent Europe where people smoke and nightclubs have techno and flames and tesla coils and all the women are modelled on Louise Brooks. Of course everyone is evil apart from the American. Lots of rather too obvious product placement. Sadly it lost its impetus and just became weak. In fact pathetic. Terrible ending.
20:08:21
Dim Mak - all the diggers and tubers are arguing like mad about htis and not a single person has pointed out that Dimmak is of course the martial art that Robert Rankin invented in his books......
14:17:21
So that's what happened to 
Bing Hitler (The Bush thing is just an extra)
20 October 200620:59:20
So there is the game show where people have to pick someone who gets a million quid, so surely you all just agree to pick one person and then split it 9 ways after? Or is that just too obvious?
20:00:20
I just watched Pimp My Ride UK. How bizarre. I'm just about to watch Pimp My Ride the US version. I expect that to be even more bizarre, though in a quite different way.....Oh my lord, it's worse than I thought
19 October 200622:28:19
Want!!!!!! - almost certainly not available in the UK yet (via Neatorama)
16:58:19
Radiochemistry as opposed to radio chemistry, which is quite different
12:59:19
I note this page doesn't seem to render particularly well in IE7. Some of the stuff that didn't work in IE6 now seems to work, but where are all the comment images? Feh.
12:55:19
BTW if you hover over the time for a posting you will see its title...(assuming I have given it one)
12:52:19
I am now using tinymce as the editor for comments rather than HypertextArea.
12:42:19
Hmm, a daily doze of obviousness, with a dash of just downright weirdness.
18 October 200621:51:18
I broke comments this morning. They are still a tad shaky, but should be postable again.
17 October 200623:19:17Caravan a la zingari - lovely stuff. Nice harmonica playing and cracking accordion
23:12:17Angelo Debarre - fantastic player. Avoids lots of the gypsy jazz clichés too.
23:10:17Louis Armstrong in the 30s - fantastic clip. Wonderful horn playing. All those smears and things.
23:01:17Giddy up a ding dong - nice solo
23:00:17More steel - appears to be played by space aliens.
22:58:17
Just watched the steel clip again. Still wonderful music, but what's with the weird mariachi band uniforms, and there is something very odd about his hair.
22:50:17
New bravia ad - I'd seen bits but the whole thing
22:10:17Wonderful steel - best steel I've heard for a while, and it's nice to actually see him playing it in a steady shot. (via Daily Jive)
11:58:17
I love Sleepy John Estes' Milk Cow Blues. Nice mandolin from Yank Rachel too.
16 October 200617:37:16Very Strange (via Pink Tentacle)
15:41:16
Anyone else think that the new BBC Robin Hood is just Star Wars with bows and Arrows (OK, I know that Star Wars is just Robin Hood with light sabers). Listen to the music. Look at the vaderesque armour the Sheriff's men wear. Look at the laboured script....
15:32:16
I have been getting complaints. About the lack of titles on the RSS feed. Of course, I don't have titles anywhere. Do people want titles? Or perhaps I should just randomly generate things and drop in the title field? I could do clever things like grabbing the title from the page that was linked and using that. Is there a call for this sort of thing? Inquiring minds want to know.
15 October 200621:01:15
This might well offend (even though there is no actual reason for it to)
14 October 200623:09:14
RIP Freddy Fender
20:32:14
Rabbit pictures for Ole
20:16:14
It was a nice day today - crazy to be working in the garden in a T-shirt in October. Cleared a lot of beds, planted garlic and some green manure.
13 October 2006 12 October 200618:36:12
Lovely sunset this evening
17:27:12
I do like the It's All About the Stragglers by Artful Dodger. Woman Trouble is such a great track.
11:22:12
Good grief - I can't decide whether to be shocked or to ask what the scam is.
11 October 200623:27:11
"randomatious" only has (had) one hit on google which strikes me as surprising. The fact that it was a myspace page was not surprising though.
22:20:11
This is not me. Obviously
17:05:11Amazing - that really is the funniest thing I have seen all week. You have to watch it to the end as well.
15:48:11Japanese Djemba - Djemba groups are all the rage in schools round here.
09:33:11Belly Dancing to Duelling Banjos - skip to 1.40. (via J-Walk)
10 October 200616:23:10
Undeniable facts - most excellent
12:43:10
Fall in Tennessee (a seasonal description, not an accident)
09:15:10
Lots of nice photos here (Korean)
9 October 2006 8 October 2006 7 October 200618:31:07
Tent heaters??? now that's soft (unless you are in deep snow of course)
17:57:07
No idea, not the remotest clue. Film viral? Millenialist nonsense? What happens in 38 days or so? Over to you guys...
09:00:07
The South Park/WoW episode is very funny. Watch it if you can find it.
6 October 200611:48:06
I have to confess to being not nearly as impressed by this as everyone else seems to be. It's really not that hard if you have the equipment, in particular the claims of "understanding" are just bogus.
5 October 200619:46:05
Media Convert - brilliant. Bookmark it.
19:03:05
Too good not to link to (via BB of course)
4 October 200622:17:04
RIP Josh Graves
21:28:04
Nice to be prepared. I suspect if they put it in the right savings acount the interest might build nicely.
08:46:04F&S do Bjork (pretty funny, but not exactly hilarious as it is described. Iceland is a frozen food store in the UK by the way)
3 October 200622:58:03
RIP Henry Townsend & Dewey Redman
2 October 200611:50:02
The Horizontal Way - I wonder if I should go horizontal? You could have a really thin window then. ALmost a ticker tape in fact.
11:28:02
I managed to give away 5 marrows yesterday in the space of 30 minutes which is pretty good going, given the normal desirability of marrows.
1 October 200621:57:01The original version of heartbeats (or so I am told) I like it.
09:54:01
I've realised why I never get review freebies - the delivery people have collided with the crush of publishers trying to sign me up for a book and nobody can get through. That must be it.
09:16:01
Which composer (I suspect they mean songwriter really) I came out Tom Waits which I don't think is accurate since I am not a huge fan, but there again I don't know what the other possibilites were.
30 September 200623:46:30
Why is Second Life filled with placenames taken from the Lake District?
23:30:30
Good grief - I have never understood Disney fandom. I loathe Disney.
00:30:30
I have to say that Second Life seems pretty dull to me. Perhpas I just haven't found the action yet (however currently I am sitting in a chair in a BDSM club. This activity (or inactivity) earns me money, of which I have none)
29 September 200623:08:29
I fiddled with comments again so tell me if they are broken. I am thinking about taking out the captcha and using an enforced preview as an anti-spam measure. Need to think about it.
22:26:29
More US Images (better sound)
22:24:29
Interesting images (not good sound)
22:15:29
There was a *VERY* weird comedy programme tonight on C4 which was 30 minutes just taking the mickey out of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. Very bizarre and very funny.
21:51:29
Watch the video about the Macon wreck - that hangar ia amazing and they are planning to knock it down!
28 September 200616:01:28
God of Desire ( I found this linked from here)
15:19:28Lovely playing, but not ideal for Montreux. I wonder why they booked him (other than for the reason that he was a great musician)?
27 September 200616:01:27
: Das Rivet
15:31:27One of my absolutely all time favourite tracks. Great horn solo. Dodgy video though.
26 September 200617:21:26
Someone suggested that we use Second Life as part of one of our courses so I signed up for it - what a pain that was. It all seems a little weird - any of you know much about it?
14:17:26
Chy, mail me about the captcha system.....
13:05:26
Odd (via Daily Jive)
12:48:26
Why can't you buy sandwich bags that are not made of plastic? it really annoys me.
25 September 2006 24 September 200609:00:24
Stupid but neat (a monk may think this NSFW)
08:54:24
Name that reveresed tune (Main problem is I don't know several of the songs)
23 September 200622:00:23
Good stuff - I gladly review one of these :-)
21:09:23
Mementoke (I have never heard of Memento so the parody is lost on me, but it is funny anyway)
22 September 200621:02:22
Just watched a 1974 performance by Oscar Peterson with Barney Kessel and that Scandinavian bass player whose name I can't spell. You know the one I mean - he died a little while ago. Anyway it was fantastic - Peterson in his prime. I was have expecting it to be loaded onto youtube by now, but it's not.
09:20:22
I see that J-Walk got a offered a free bean bag chair for a plug on the weblog. How come I don't get offers like that? I can play the banjo too, and I have a proper beard. How often have I offered to review the latest Apple equipment? Have I heard anything? Huh.
09:07:22
I looked at KittenAuth - I might make my own RivetsAuth based on the idea.
08:51:22
Pay attention guys! You aren't filling in the captcha so your comments are dropping on the floor!
21 September 200621:04:21
I saw one of these a while ago and thought it was neat, but it is way to expensive to actually buy one for the amount I would use it.
15:50:21
More good stuff - Jerry Douglas and then a seque into the Dallas String Band playing the Dallas Rag. The random numbers are coming up good today. Oh, and then Morton Gunner Larsen playing Sensation.
15:33:21Jobs at Stanford(sent by several people). Terible presentation.
12:40:21
Ah, Arthur McBride by Planxty - one of my favourite songs. Lovely tune they use for it too. The bozouki playing works really well on it. Clicks play again...
12:38:21
There have been 6436 comments made to this weblog. Please note that there I have the added the start of a captcha mechanism to the comment page. I don't like to do it but I am getting sick of the moronic spammers. I had one this morning that looked as though they had actually looked at the link, so now either they are paying real people to type in the comment spam by hand (which you can't easily beatr) or else they are looking for people linking to particualr pages and generating a comment for that page and spamming it round. Which also sounds like hard work for a spam message that nobody will read. I have no clue why they think that comment spam gets them any audience share at all. Quite bizarre. Some of it doesn't even have any advertising material in it all.
12:07:21
I just saw something on the net described as "myspace for cricket fans".....sorry I must have nodded off there.
11:19:21
Early recorded sound - listen to Arthur Sullivan. People don't sound like that anymore.
08:35:21Bill Evans - wonderful. Thanks Pat
20 September 200622:00:20
Horribly windy here tonight.
13:32:20
oh, now it's Tony Rice and Co. playing Birdland Breakdown. Gorgeous. (Sam Bush again)
13:26:20
Lovely Sam Bush/David Grisman duet called 'Cept Old Bill
19 September 200617:25:19
I get really annoyed when emusic won't let me download some album "that is not available" in my country. Why the hell not! Grrrr.....
18 September 200615:57:18
Another Cyril revelation - neat impromptu trick too.
17 September 200611:25:17
Free Movies - this is the best list I've seen so far
09:24:17
US Political compass test (I come up as a Socialist)
16 September 200621:46:16Garcia and Grisman (and Ricky Jay too)
21:39:16Joe Maphis - very fine
21:32:16
Just watched the first two episodes of Entourage. I have to say I can't decide if it is any good or not. It might be a young persons programme.
18:27:16
Actually, I'm absolutely lacquered - I was cladding the inside of the summerhouse. Clearly the answer is licquor.
11:28:16
10 Seconds (via Snarky)
15 September 200617:01:15
Wood magazine (that's its name, silly)
16:49:15
Oooh, Mulvhill's and the Dawn from Mist Covered Mountain by De Dannan. Stonking tunes.
14:26:15
I suspect that iTunes 7 is buffering enormous amounts of tune in memory : everytime you come to the end of a track, the whole machine freezes.
09:25:15
Hmmm - he did have his Tai Chi master with on stage of course. Oh, I was wondering about the secret of HUNG MEN. I'm guessing that that is in reality a Chinese name, but I bet it brings of lots of hits to this particular item....
09:13:15
The thing that always worries me about foreign movies, particularly funny ones, (see yesterday) is all the cultural jokes that I know I am missing. This is particularly true of Almodòvar who has all kinds of jokes to do with accents and things.
09:10:15
The Dash Movie - soppy overload.
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