Twain called the game of golf “a good walk spoiled”. He obviously never played Ninja Golf! Download the rom.

It is now time to listen to insane music. TheRaymond Scott Orchestrette

Here is a fascinating interview with a fascinating woman, Alexandra Aikhenvald, talking about a fascinating subject; one which is overdue for attention on this here blog: rare languages.

Imagine how different politics would be if debates were conducted in Tariana, an Amazonian language in which it is a grammatical error to report something without saying how you found it out - as Alexandra Aikhenvald tells us its speakers tell her.
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Once I asked, "Can I use this word this way?" and the response was, "Of course, you're foreign, you can say a wrong thing. But I can't say that."

Happy Birthday Kurt Cobain.

Thanks for the Memories courtesy of bushflash.com

Open Sauce.

As if you guys really needed to read another article about it, here is a very long, very good article about open source software.

And my other favorite axe-to-grind:

A message from Don Henley, you know, the Drummer for the Eagles, about the state of the music industry.

In their world,
music is generic. A major record label president confirmed this recently
when he referred to artists as "content providers."

I have a new axe to grind.

If you clicked on that last link, and I hope you did, you’ll find that the WaPo.com now has a login requirement. If you’re reading from abroad, they might not let you in without a matching zip code and city. So use mine: Nashville, TN, 37212 (ahh, my beloved Hillboro Village, I think fondly of Thee).

It only goes to show that the system not only allows you to lie, it provokes you to. The Washington Post thinks I’m an 90 year old woman, the CEO of an Aerospace company with 10,000 employees. Who does the the WaPo think you are?

Test grading time
Is a really fine time

No, not really. I hate it. But so far, so good. Nobody has failed. I think the questions were maybe too easy. I have until the end of next week to get it all done, so I am taking my time. I have more pressing things to deal with just now, like being a rockstar and stuff.

There has been a bit of a scare over at my esteemed colleague Sarah’s place last week. When she was holding Lil Wee in her arms, Lil Boots jumped on Sarah’s lap and went straight for Wee’s neck. It was a shocker because the cat has never acted openly aggressive to the bunny before. And to do it right under her nose. You have to wonder what that cat was thinking.

Sarah swore if that happened again she would put the cat down. That would be kind of too bad, because the cat was really just acting out its cat nature. But everyone involved is totally mad at Boots, and again going along with cat nature, he doesn’t care.

We’re back on line. The lads from T were nice enough to come down. They came in and said “what a friggin’ dump!” Then they said the NTBA was kaput due to a power surge, because of the storm last Thursday. I asked them if they bought their jackets, which were pretty sharp except for the big pink “T” and reflectors, at the same store.

Telephone line is dead,
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