Bifurcated Rivets
Eclectica for epopts
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20 January 2010
20:34:20
Good Grief (definitely one for J-Walk that)
19 January 201019:54:19
RIP Robert B. Parker
15:16:19
RIP Kate McGarrigle
18 January 2010 17 January 2010
22:07:17
Insane skills in the snooker final tonight.
15 January 2010
17:18:15
Why can't I get a control unit for my central heating that I can talk to over wifi? Not a room thermostat, the actual programming unit.
17:13:15
BTW, I am not going to link to 1st person tetris
09:58:15
Poker face (via mefi)
14 January 2010 13 January 201012:45:13
Everyone is linking to Priori Acute today but it is worth it.
12 January 2010
20:22:12
I am entirely mystified by all the stuff about NBC and shows on the net. Who is this Conan guy anyway? I watched a clip that someone posted and there was this guy reading from a prompter jokes that he had not seen before (he kept laughing, though god knows they weren't funny) in front of a crowd of what I take to be werewolves from all the howling that was going on. Leno is the one with the chin isn't he? Craig Ferguson used to be a rather poor stand up in the UK going by the name Bing Hitler. Weird.
15:56:12
Bruce : Best. Random. Present. Ever. Simply superb.
11 January 201022:07:11
RIP Eric Rohmer
9 January 2010 8 January 201010:43:08
A Grisman version of Minor Swing that I don't seem to have heard before! Lovely stuff. I'm sure it is incredibly uncool to like this tune as much as I do, but I don't care : it seems to have some kind of magic in that I really have never heard what I would describe as a bad version of it. Really must learn it myself (though that might produce the bad version!)
7 January 201010:09:07
What a load of pretentious nonsense - any good oats, water, a little salt and of course a spurtle, that's all you need. Bottled water to make porridge? For goodness sake!
5 January 201020:36:05
I missed hearing about this at the time. I commented to Mrs Rivets how incomprehensible the words of carols are when we are at the carol singing that happens in our village.
3 January 2010 2 January 201010:25:02Harry Reser - check out all those coonskin coats!
10:22:02Gene Sheldon - lovely sounding 4-string and the knee mute part in the middle is fantastic.
1 January 201015:47:01
Ah, Pony Blues by the Allman Brothers off of Brothers and Sisters - thank you Spotify.
00:01:01
Happy new year
31 December 200911:34:31DJ Earworm does it again for 2009 - putting this kind of thing together takes such skill.
30 December 200917:38:30This mashup is rather fine.
29 December 200917:38:29
RIP Tim Hart
28 December 200921:36:28This made me laugh a lot for some reason - NSFW language
27 December 2009 26 December 200921:48:26
Watching J-TV via Keyhole.6.30 in the morning there. Some kind of 3-legged race but involving about 20 children strapped together. One lot falls over and are utterly disgraced and behave like it is the end of everything. Very strange. Then there are the adverts.
25 December 200911:22:25
Merry Xmas. Or something.
23 December 200917:26:23
RIP Pete King (of Ronnie Scott's fame)
21 December 200916:18:21
A bluegrass day today on the music front. Lot's of good stuff - Fred Geiger, "I've found a new baby" on at the moment - excellent stuff, one of the better banjo players around.
20 December 2009 19 December 2009 18 December 2009 17 December 2009 16 December 2009
11:48:16
Happy birthday to me!
15 December 2009 14 December 2009 13 December 2009 12 December 2009 11 December 2009 10 December 2009 9 December 200909:54:09
Keyhole TV - live Japanese TV and Radio
8 December 2009 6 December 200910:19:06
There is a ridiculous amount of spam e-mail around at the moment. Running at about 10 spam to 1 sensible at the moment (and that is after filtering). Is it because it is the start of the month or because it is xmas?
09:54:06
See, I hadn't forgotten that I had started changing this page.
5 December 200909:20:05Good grief (via geekologie)
4 December 200923:38:04
RIP Liam Clancy
3 December 200912:44:03
Rotating Kitchen (via Gromblog)
2 December 200914:39:02Interesting (via neatorama)
1 December 2009 30 November 2009 27 November 200913:11:27
I just saw a news item on the web referring to the polce raiding "bogus workers". Is this a new term for "illegal immigrant" because if it isn't most of us are in trouble.
10:32:27
I really must finish playing with the css for this page. Or maybe I should just go retro and put up an under construction sign.
10:31:27
This is fun (in a strange way)
24 November 200921:10:24
This is everywhere but it is very good.
23 November 200922:40:23Ridiculous skill (via the Daily Jive)
20 November 200923:32:20
As I've said before - a backbeat, narrow and hard to master. We have constructed pyramids in the honour of our escaping. Good stuff, the WASP.
22:01:20
Read the kanji - very good!!!! The only problem is that I can't work out how to enter the little tsu that indicates a pause. That and the fact I don't know many of the the characters.
19 November 200921:09:19Christian side hug.........
16:10:19
They are quite right - big name stars just don't do this
18 November 200916:51:18
Under Beijing (via gromblog)
13:43:18
Another Nickel - interesting stuff
17 November 200921:43:17
I just heard that Geordie Hunter - a fine Newcastle singer - died last week of swine flu. He had MS and his immune system could not cope. Very sad. Sing a few verses of the Kielder Hunt in his memory or perhaps the Old fisherman's farewell to the Coquet.
15 November 200910:08:15
Yes. I am fiddling with the CSS
09:54:15
This a test
09:40:15
Rather fine - I can only understand 1 word in 5 though.
14 November 2009 13 November 2009 12 November 2009 11 November 200916:22:11
Having a bluegrass day today.
10 November 2009 9 November 200911:41:09
Was in the Fitzwilliam Museum on Saturday : knocked out by the Sickerts and the Seurats.
6 November 200922:36:06
Some of these are very good, others,meh (The Steve Miller one is my favourite)
5 November 2009 4 November 200912:55:04
I won't glorify the ridiculous new name for Jt James Park by even mentioning it. But the nufc forums will be worth reading tonight I bet.
3 November 200916:24:03
Oooh, I thought they were going to land an air ambulance on the new platform right on a line with my window, but no, they've landed in the park.
13:21:03
Watch this video and note where the guy emphasises the family orientation and fun over the two guys blasting away with machine guns.....
2 November 2009 1 November 2009 31 October 200917:27:31
That being said feel free to insert a rant about the Americanisation and commercialisation of halloween at this point.
30 October 200913:45:30
Machinarium - fun if you like this kind of thing. I don't particularly it turns out - not enough patience.
13:01:30
Reduction Pills (could offend I suppose)
11:47:30
Dunston Rocket - it probably needs to go but I will miss it. (Like the Get Carter car park)
08:44:30
Why not a game called Folk Band - you could have all kidns if interesting controllers : an Irish chanter where you got more points for cranning and things like that.
29 October 2009 26 October 200921:15:26
Now, I though that I kept fairly in touch with what was going on on the web, certainly more than most people, but I went and had a look at this list of what apps "VIPs" had on their iPhones and I thought "who the hell are these people?". Sure, I recognise a couple of names, but the rest, not a clue. By what definition are they VIPs?
20:25:26Peg Leg Bates (via HW)
25 October 200900:39:25Amazing cane work - imagine how hard these guys practised to get it that slick
00:36:25Acrobatic Tap - mad skillz.
00:24:25EP and Buddy Rich - insanely complicated and acrobatic. And some really mean spirited comments in true youtube fashion
24 October 2009 23 October 200920:07:23
RIP Mac Tonnies - fortean and weblogger
22 October 200922:38:22
I have been enjoying my new mandolin.
21 October 200916:30:21
This is a test from windows 7
19 October 2009 18 October 200921:41:18
Just had a great weekend in the Lake District - glorious day on Saturday, went up Wetherlam, but managed to come down the wrong way so ended up walking rather further than we meant to... Went Fellini's for dinner afterwards - highly recommended, do go if you are in Ambleside and want a great veggie meal.
14 October 200915:17:14
I do love the Forth Railway Bridge
14:37:14
Painfully slow wifi on the train journey north
13 October 2009 11 October 200916:54:11
the Slo-mo bullets thing that everyone has been linking to is very clever but it really could do with a good edit - it gets quite dull quite quickly.....
15:24:11
Mrs Rivets went down to the kitchen this morning to find that the cat had brought in a fish! Pigeons, rabbits, mice, yes, but never a fish before. A fresh, ungutted fish (partially eaten of course by the cat) Very odd indeed.
9 October 200916:19:09
toooo busy
16:19:09
toooo busy
8 October 2009 7 October 2009 6 October 2009 5 October 2009 4 October 200919:43:04
Miles Aldridge - NSFW warning
16:47:04
Ploughed my way to the end of Colin Bateman's Mystery Man and am now entirely perplexed by the ending. Not a clue what is meant to have happened. (There are some funny bits bit in it but overall really not worth effort - it certainly isn't hilarious)
2 October 2009 1 October 200922:14:01Odd, very odd (I just found this in my in box, sorry Ian!)
13:31:01
The wave invitations came and have gone I'm afraid. If I get more I'll say
30 September 200921:35:30
No sign of any invites over at google wave so I may not have been allocated any. I will let y'all know if any do come through.
17:04:30
I haven't checked yet but I suspect I will have Google Wave invitations if anyone is desperate for one.
29 September 200922:01:29
Does anyone recall where the *third* Giant Steps visualisation is on the net? Not the Meyer Levy one, not the youtube one - this one was a key centre visualisation done in flash. I can't find it anywhere.
28 September 200923:06:28
We spent two hours working on Giant Steps tonight so my brain is going da da deee da da. da da DA........
26 September 2009 25 September 2009 24 September 200914:17:24Wonderful - Japanese is a great language for proper Pop Music. I have no idea what this is about of course.
23 September 200916:54:23
BTW I am sure that I have posted that rap impersonator video before but nobody but me seems to have noticed.
22 September 200920:26:22This is great - he is note perfect on all those guys
21 September 2009 18 September 2009 17 September 2009 16 September 200913:13:16
Concert Hands website - it does seem to be a real product, JW
11:25:16Concert Hands - not jazz hands
15 September 200923:11:15Spade Cooley - something oddly creepy about this.
14:58:15
busy, busy, busy
14 September 2009 13 September 2009 12 September 200922:34:12
Dating sites are getting more specialised - rather coyly advertised on TV. (OK, I know there are lots of speciakised dating sites, but this one seems to be a bordering on fetish - the TV ad makes no particular mention of the military singles aspect)
11 September 2009 10 September 2009 9 September 200909:09:09
I do like Chuck Klosterman, but I also have to say that I can't get excited about all this Beatles stuff, particularly the later records which I have never really liked. I do like the early stuff, probably because it is all embedded in my brain from being played so much during my childhood. But I'd rather listen to Chet Baker.
8 September 200909:36:08
I remembered to create a new volume
