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catdynamics | May 9, 2008Friday. Raining, again.
So, Oh Mighty iPod - what is going on on the mystery Canadian Train in Ontario?
Woosh goes the randomizer.
Whoosh.
The Covering: The Firebird: Lullaby - Stravinsky
The Crossing: Introduction - The Lilac Fairy - Tchaikovsky
The Crown: Ten Little Bumblebees
The Root: The End - Doors
The Past: Jimmy Crack Corn
The Future: Sexuality - Billy Bragg
The Questioner: Inoculated City - Clash
The House: I Have a Wiggly Jiggly Tooth
The Inside: Hamingjan er Krítarkort - GCD
The Outcome: Sunday - Cranberries
Very classical and youthful.
Not at all happy about the Root.
The…
catdynamics | May 2, 2008Last friday!
And, somewhere, it is snowing.
So, we skip joyfully to the Mighty iPod, and ask, intrepidly: what interesting things are we in for this summer?
Whoosh goes the randomizer.
Whoosh.
The Covering: Orgasm Addict - Buzzcocks
The Crossing: III Menuetto & Trio - Mozart
The Crown: Know Your Rights (Live) - Clash
The Root: And She Was - Talking Heads
The Past: Sgt Rock (Is Going to Help Me) - XTC
The Future: Senses Working Overtime - XTC
The Questioner: Trust - Billy Bragg
The House: Why, Oh Why - Woody Guthrie
The Inside: Vizka Einsteins - Utangarðsmenn
The Outcome: Death of a…
catdynamics | April 30, 2008
Crucio!
Ok, here is a crappy photoshop with hat...
Here is the video
Cheney mastrubation joke is around minute #5, band conduction is at the end
catdynamics | April 26, 2008After the revelations about Syria's plausible secret nuclear project, destroyed by an Israeli air raid, speculation is turning back to Iran
Arms Control Wonk and Whirled View have info, and interesting discussion in comments; and Nuclear Mangos has sprung back to life, which is a worrying sign to the cognoscenti.
If you trust the provenance of the photos that have been published, then Syria was doing a poor man's nuclear weapons program: they had the smallest possibly gas cooled, graphite moderated natural uranium reactor being built.
British technology, via North Korea.
Capable of…
catdynamics | April 25, 2008The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is being reinforced.
That is not good.
It is generally true that aircraft carriers to not launch air strikes while in harbour.
I believe it has been done, probably by a UK carrier at Malta, but generally not a good idea.
So, if one were to worry that intemperate rhetoric on war is something to be taken at face value, and if one assumes that the US armed forces like to use the advantage their large and many aircraft carriers provide, then it is prudent to keep an eye on the very public deployment of these carriers.
At any given time, of the 11 currently…
catdynamics | April 25, 2008Friday, at last, and just one more week to go.
So... lets be scientific today and ask the Mighty Inscrutable iPod One: have seasonal modulation of WIMPy Cold Dark Matter really been detected, as reported?
Whoosh goes the randomizer.
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The Covering: So Am I - Alison Moyet
The Crossing: II - Beethoven
The Crown: Peaches - Stranglers
The Root: Ch' Ella Mi Creda - Pavarotti
The Past: Three Babies - Sinead O'Connor
The Future: Complete Control - Clash
The Questioner: I'm Sick of You - Iggy Pop
The House: I Like It - Dixie Chicks
The Inside: No Meaning No - Chuck D With Fine Arts Militia…
catdynamics | April 24, 2008Happy first day of summer!
Today is the first day of Harpa, the first of the summer months.
Enjoy.
In other news,
two black swans were found in Iceland. Really. Click through for picture.
Economists all around the world swoon.
Icelandic birders are now looking for a pair of white ravens, for completeness...
catdynamics | April 23, 2008Another one bites the dust
Ok, this is only because I like the OINK and couldn't find "vote for we" on youtube.
Consider it a commentary on local politics.
catdynamics | April 22, 2008the blog belongs to me
and Patti Smith on the Old Grey Whistle Test, live, has embedding blocked
But Sam the Sham is there for posterity.
catdynamics | April 22, 2008people changing their votes
Question is: does this count as a political song that doesn't suck
catdynamics | April 17, 2008It is a beautiful warm day in the Bay as we contemplate our flight home.
So how will we fare in this fair round?
Whoosh goes the randomizer.
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The Covering: She Moves On - Paul Simon
The Crossing: La Glace Au Citron - Henri Des
The Crown: Girlfriend is Better (Live) - Talking Heads
The Root: Change - Melissa Etheridge
The Past: Savez-Vous Planter Les Choux - Sien Diels
The Future: Ever Fallen in Love - Buzzcocks
The Questioner: War Crime (The Crime Remains the Same) - Special A.K.A.
The House: Up the Junction - Squeeze
The Inside: Afriki - Alpha Blondy
The Outcome: Carnival of the…
catdynamics | April 17, 2008It is, I gather National Poetry month...
This one is a little over a thousand years old:
Það mælti mín móðir
að mér skyldi kaupa
fley og fagrar árar
fara á brott með víkingum
standa upp í stafni
stýra dýrum knerri
halda svo til hafnar
höggva mann og annann
I learned it when I was eight
I still remember it, the back story and the illustration
and the error
Egill was seven when he wrote it
catdynamics | April 11, 2008Friday again, and it is not raining, here, yet.
So we skip over to the Omniscient iPod One, and ask, most humbly: Whence The Frontier, of Physics, natch?
Whoosh goes the randomizer.
Whoosh.
The Covering: If Not Now... - Tracy Chapman
The Crossing: I Allegro: Eine Kleine Nachtmusic - Mozart
The Crown: The Price I Pay - Billy Bragg
The Root: Sidewalking - Jesus & Mary Chain
The Past: Mother of the Bride - Billy Bragg
The Future: Mýrdalssandur - GCD
The Questioner: II. Concert No. 3 - Autumn - Vivaldi
The House: The Saturday Boy - Billy Bragg
The Inside: Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy…
catdynamics | April 10, 2008deep insight into the human condition
sometimes we just link because linking is good
catdynamics | April 9, 2008Krugman blogs crazy conspiracy stuff...
Original FT story here
Did I mention that you really do not want to piss my cousins off?
If it comes to my cousins vs my ex-classmates - no contest.
Sorry guys.
On a more serious note, this is not a game for Flamers from NY to be playing. Sovereign nations have laws, and extradition treaties, and seriously pissed off people who do not think they exist to salvage the year-end bonuses of drunk New Yorkers.
PS: Bear Stern went under. Iceland did not.
Were it not for the rather dubious federal intervention in Bear Stern, they'd have gone under completely…
catdynamics | April 8, 2008The high tech of the modern financial quant never ceases to amaze me...
"These internet originators have been a problem too...it's unbelievable to me they are back already. When I go on my AOL account over the weekend I'm seeing no-doc, low-doc, 'bankruptcy okay,' a $200,000 loan for $800 a month. They are back. It is just amazing to me." - says Federal Deposit Insurance Chair, Sheila Bair.
AOL?
AOL?!!!
AOL!!!!!
It is good to know the head of the federal agency supervising and insuring bank operations is keeping her finger on the pulse of America. Noting financial trends and sharp…
catdynamics | April 4, 2008B-2 ready to fly, says Air Force Link, despite safety pause....
Huh?
Oh. Dear.
Spirit of Kansas crashes at Andersen AFB Guam back in Feb '08.
Right after take-off. Crew ejected. Missed that one, what was I doing late Feb...? Ah.
Apparently still do not know what caused the crash.
Apparently a B-1 had a runway crash on Guam shortly after, what is interesting about that is why B-2s and B-1s were there at the same time, they usually alternate forward staging, as I understand it. Maybe overlap during rotation.
catdynamics | April 1, 2008stumble on the step
slug flies high, I lose my zen
sad inner eye cries
I must go to California ASAP and confront my materialism
catdynamics | March 30, 2008The Chaos Computer Club, in an inspired hack to draw attention to some of the idiocies of biometric IDs, lifted the fingerprint of the German Interior Minister
they then published it, in their newsletter, on a plastic film for use as fake biometric on an ID scanner.
With instruction on how to do it with any set of lifter fingerprints, of course.
"Full Steam Ahead"
h/t y-ranter
read the rest of the y-ranter on some other shenaningans, including the underage arms supplier for the Pentagon, and the Mahdi army acquiring some Russian SAMs