Bifurcated Rivets
Eclectica for epopts
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8 May 2009
13:13:08
Interesting - haven't had a chance to try it yet though.
6 May 2009
15:48:06
Hey, Amazon ever heard of International Standards? 8.5 x 11 screen indeed.
5 May 2009 4 May 2009 3 May 200921:23:03
I think Shaun Murphy looks like Chandler from Friends for some reason.
30 April 2009 29 April 2009 28 April 200909:38:28
Sorry about the lack of entertainment here recently - it gets harder and harder to find good stuff and that takes time that I haven't had recently.
08:58:28
Coke Flash - nicely done (I hate Coke except when taken with vodka)
24 April 200920:31:24
RIP John Michell - I was just reading the articles about him in Fortean Times too. Very sad.
23 April 2009 20 April 2009 18 April 2009 16 April 200911:05:16
Album covers - some I hadn't seen before in here.
09:32:16
RIP Clement Freud
15 April 2009 11 April 2009 10 April 200910:02:10
Son out of hospital now but a lot of recovering to do for him. Thanks to everyone for your messages - much appreciated.
8 April 2009
16:49:08
There is a partial descent of the cone of silence - I am supposed to be in Portugal but the son is in hospital so I am not....
6 April 200911:14:06
RIP Bud Shank
4 April 200921:58:04
Some great archive Jazz footage in the Arena program on Cool - still on the iPlayer at the moment. I do like 50s jazz more and more.
3 April 2009 2 April 2009 1 April 200909:50:01
Recompress - nice
31 March 2009 30 March 200915:27:30
Chat to strangers - most of whom seem to be stupid and not at all up for randomness.
29 March 2009 28 March 200922:52:28
There is a shop near me called Pets Haven which is a grooming parlour. Unfortunately they advertise it by URL and of couse the name comes out petshaven which I always read the wrong way.
27 March 200908:58:27
Nicely put together (I do find the narrator very annoying)
26 March 2009 25 March 2009
23:04:25
Someone just pointed out that Star Trek boldy goes where no one has gone before, but they always manage to meet someone. How?
16:50:25
Test
24 March 200910:14:24
Everything I want to post these last few days, I have posted before. The internet must be full or something.
23 March 2009 22 March 200920:25:22
Been away ths weekend....
20 March 200920:52:20
Bracket of Evil - many of these people are unknown to me
16:50:20
Ugh, marking.
08:57:20
And this is where I went to school from being 5 till 17. It isn't a school now so it doesn't look quite like it did.
08:54:20
And we lived here (brown door) when students, but it had proper dormer windows in those days. And we also lived in here (in both 122 and 124). The much missed Joe Scurfield loved a couple of doors down for a while.
08:49:20
We used to live in this house when I was young.
18 March 200913:04:18
Spam Joy : "Periodic Internet Baking Updates"
17 March 2009 16 March 200916:37:16
Bloody spammers in the comments again. What a pain
15 March 200923:11:15
JD Crowe and the New South - badly dubbed with the version from the record but well worth watching just for the clothes and hair. One of my favourite songs ever this.
11 March 200914:03:11
Bizarre spam o'the day : "Calvary greetings to you and the rest of your household, how are you doing today? I sincerely hope fine because am fine with family over here" What on earth are Calvary greetings?
10 March 2009 8 March 2009 7 March 2009 6 March 200908:10:06
Damn, Emily Remler was good - Dahoud (e-music not Spotify, Sorry)
4 March 200914:29:04
Harry and Caresse Crosby once travelled round Europe only stopping in places whose names had one syllable.
3 March 2009 2 March 2009 1 March 200922:20:01Catch me on Youtube on the Aljazeera channel
19:39:01
Minor Swing isn't the only tune that I like a lot of course : Lullaby of Birdland
10:09:01Oklahoma Swing - why do swinging bands like this so often have such dull drummers?
28 February 200919:37:28
RIP Ian Carr
27 February 200917:50:27
Hmm, I got the button maker parameters wrong. I'll fix it another day.
17:45:27
Added a twitter button if you want to be bored rigid with inanity by following me
17:26:27
I really do need to do a makeover on this weblog
26 February 200913:04:26
Watch how the twitchhiker does
25 February 200909:57:25
Dylan Moran was very, very funny last night at the Tyne Theatre.
08:51:25
Outdoor Love Map - it is SFW but definitely odd
24 February 2009 23 February 200922:26:23Emily Remler - very fine
22 February 2009 21 February 200910:20:21
Hmmm, Simpson sky over my house at the moment
10:19:21
Ugh, Twitter has the fail whale
20 February 200913:24:20
RIP Snooks Eaglin
11:23:20
brain fag today. Steven Grossmand and Damon Brown very good last night. Nice Hard bop.
19 February 2009 18 February 200920:57:18
Good lord, the Brits are dreadful. Really, really, dreadful. But not bad enough to be car crash TV either.
20:36:18
I do like the Warren Buffet line "It's only when the tide goes out that you see who's swimming naked"
12:37:18
Interesting and strange (via metafilter)
09:08:18
RIP Louis Bellson
17 February 200922:43:17
I read a couple of the comics on the go comics site. Have you ever read any of the comments that people post? Some of them are mind-bogglingly stupid. Like repeating the punchline, or seeming to miss the point a) that it is a cartoon and b) that it is meant to be funny. One has to assume that the posters are just stupid.
16 February 2009 15 February 200922:03:15
Hmm, Sugarhill Gang, Rapper's Delight. The 14 minute version.
14 February 200910:18:14
Damn, this is good - Quicksiver Messenger Service play Minor Swing (Sorry if you can't spotify - I cant find it anywhere else - I do have 9 invites left but I have no idea if they work outside the UK)
13 February 200916:03:13
Hmm, the test was successful but I am not sure it's quite right yet.
16:02:13
This is by way of a test
12 February 200917:48:12
Off to TyneTwestival via some food
11 February 200922:43:11
Visions of China - Japan
22:04:11
However I will never understand why/how the medal he won in the war weighs 500 pounds and it sleeps on the floor.
22:00:11
Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man - great stuff! Lovely steel playing.
10 February 200916:20:10
Spotify is now open to all.
7 February 2009 6 February 2009 5 February 2009 4 February 2009 3 February 200916:40:03
Don't forget to build snow lanterns
09:43:03
Pornotron - see the difference between safe search and search. May well offend (if you are lucky enough to get the right keywords of course)
2 February 200911:24:02
Infinitism - the funeral service is really rather good.
09:24:02
More weird spam : "Dear, I am Mr. Mark Johnson of tripod consulting company. We will be
coming for massage treatment and we are in number 8 adults, and we are
to spend 7 day's. Please get back to me with the rate per person;
please also get back to me with 30 minutes daily session. Your
professional advice needed. Arrival date: 20 July 2009. Departure
date: 27 July 2009. Please check the availability and get back to me
with the
Total cost. Mode of payment: credit card or cheque."
1 February 200919:32:01
My mother mentioned to me today a radio programme called "The Boys of Glen Morrach" - a sort of schoolboy detective story. Very unusually there appears to be no mention of this anywhere on the internet. Indeed I could only find a single reference to the boys of glen morrach and that was at a book seller. Odd
31 January 200918:06:31
Jimmy Raney - note that he was almost completely deaf at this time of his life.
10:15:31
Sexy People (Via Gromblog)
09:42:31
Was at a birthday party last night - all folkies so lots of good singing and playing Johnny Handle did a song and Rachel and Becky Unthank too (it was their dad's party) - very much the old and the young of Tynrside music
30 January 2009 29 January 200915:40:29
RIP John Martyn Solid Air is arguably my favourite album of all time. Listening to it now on Spotify.
28 January 2009 27 January 200920:10:27
Bizarre spam sent to me asking about reserving two rooms for two couples travelling, with a promise to fooolow up wiht credit card details for reservation. I wonder what its all about.
26 January 2009 25 January 200922:02:25
I invented an Amaretti Betty (dessert) today - worked quite well but it was perhaps a bit too strongly flavoured by the amaretti biscuits. (Apples, blueberries, sugar, rind and juice of an orange and crushed amareti biscits)
21:59:25
Folk America (pictures not music)
09:57:25
Cam with me - Japanese attitude to women summed up very neatly in an ad. Christmas cake!
