Tag Archives: Music

Music Review: Donal Hinely’s “We Built a Fire” and “Giants”

Earlier today I wrote a post about the new Donal Hinely CDs that just came in the mail on Sim’s Facebook wall. I decided that they might make a worthwhile blog post, and I figure that you can’t plagiarize yourself, … Continue reading

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Concerts I’d Love To See

When I checked my Facebook page this morning I noticed that So had added Emmylou Harris’s “Red Dirt Girl” album to his favorites list. Since he was the source of all of those Warhammer 40K books Trip and I used … Continue reading

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Five Favorite Who Songs

What can I say about The Who that’s worth saying? You know who they are. Heck, you’ve probably seen Roger Daltrey on Highlander: The Series. They once held the record for loudest band ever recorded. And they may be responsible … Continue reading

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Five Favorite Rolling Stones Songs

My last couple of posts have been kind of unhappy, To turn that trend around here are my current five favorite Rolling Stones songs (in no particular order): Street Fighting Man (Beggar’s Banquet) — Listen to that intro, groove on … Continue reading

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Rockbox can’t play AAC files on my iPod correctly

Just a little word of warning. It plays MP3s just fine, and most of my collection is in that format because I ripped it myself, from CDs I own. I’ve only bought one or two songs from iTunes. For some … Continue reading

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Happy none-of-your-business-th birthday to me…

Since I’ve last blogged (the stolen-from-Rich quiz doesn’t really count) there are new doors and a mailbox on the house, a new shelf in Misty’s closet, I’ve been to Minneapolis (props to my Phrozen Peeps), and I’ve had a birthday. … Continue reading

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Drive your brains out

Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower’s signing of the Federal-Aid Highway Act, which established the Interstate Highway System. To celebrate, Conference Room 4 (“The Engineer’s Place for Discussion and News”) is running a series of five articles. In case … Continue reading

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Ooh, LaLa!

I love finding new, cool things to do with the Intarweb. This week, I found LaLa, a used CD trading service. The service is based on the first-sale doctrine that makes brick-and-mortar used CD sales legal. There’s also a karmic … Continue reading

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iPod Top Ten

It’s no secret that I love my iPod. You’ll get it when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. The NRA’s got nothing on us Apple types, I tell you what. So, here are the ten most frequently played … Continue reading

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Work is boring; Springsteen on Seger?

Meh. I spent half of the day working on changes to the stillbirth evaluation requested by the NAAB Dairy Sire Evaluation Committee. My job would be a lot easier if everyone would just agree with me all the time. The … Continue reading

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