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Category Archives: Personal
Amsterdam ’68
It’s Friday? Again? Awrightee then: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, October 20 ’68. And since Belgium isn’t playing the World Cup this year, I’ll be rooting for Argentina this afternoon… Vamo Argentina! Vamo!
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots, Personal
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Wherein Barry Goes To Vorst
For those interested, you can find my review of yesterday’s ZPZ in Brussels right over here. Apart from the music, a couple of notes: For anyone outside of Brussels, Vorst Nationaal is insanely hard to find. I mean, we’d gone … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Zappa Plays Zappa
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Weirdo Swag!
In the “Blatant Self Promotion” Department, have we got news for you! If you liked the weirdo ecards Dr Sharl and I provide over at weirdocards.com, you’ll be glad to know that some of those designs are now available on … Continue reading
Boinged
Ya know, in the past we’ve been metafiltered, linkfiltered, growabrained, powazeked, and now this: it ain’t Rolling Stone, but Burnt managed to have Boing Boing post my FZ vs PMRC Flickr set on their frontpage this morning. What’s next? Slashdot? … Continue reading
In It For The Money
To sum up my week so far, I’m going to introduce a hitherto unused emoticon and be done with it: In other news, Xorg just mailed me a link to the US National Recording Registry picks for 2006. Guess who’s … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Personal
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A.Q.
This test which measures the extent of autistic traits in adults tells me my AQ is 23 whereas the average is 16.4. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m off to take the test again. :)
Posted in Personal, Randamonium
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Weirdo Cards
If you’re wondering what Dr Sharl and I have been up to lately, wonder no more — introducing: weirdocards dot com! Sure, it’s an eCards service, but one with a twist. Our cards tackle such elusive topics as androgynous gnomes, … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, Comics, Personal, Visual Arts
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Early To Rise
How to become an early riser. I don’t think I’ll ever become one — after 30+ years of existence, 8 am is still godawful early in my book. Which is why my jaw drops when I read Cory Doctorow: (…) … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Randamonium
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Have Something To Say?
Let’s have some fun, shall we? If enough people leave an audio message, I might just create a mashup in Garageband or something, and put it up for download.
Posted in Personal, Randamonium
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Dr Sharl Meets John Mayall
Early in the morning today, Dr Sharl met with the legendary John Mayall of Bluesbreakers fame — and managed to snap a photo, as well as an autograph. Kudos, Dr Sharl!
Posted in Music, Personal
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Odds ‘n Ends
With the weekend finally in sight (hallelujah!), may I suggest you spend some time perusing Chas Radio — a deluge of wacky, hard-to-find audio stuff up for download is awaiting you there. The guy had a post about FZ some … Continue reading
iTunes Sig
‘t is a thing of wonder, the iTunes Signature Maker: iTunes Signature Maker (iTSM) analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to. After it checks your system configuration … Continue reading
Posted in Geek, Music, Personal
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Suits You Sir!
Nice bit of fun with surnames: feed it yours, and it’ll show you how common it is in the US. Here’s my chart:
Posted in Amusing, Personal, Randamonium
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Perfect Major
Take this for what it’s worth, but… You scored as Art. You should be an Art major! How bohemian! Art 92% Linguistics 83% Dance 75% Mathematics 75% Philosophy 67% Theater 67% Engineering 67% Psychology 58% English 58% Sociology 50% Anthropology … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Silly
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