- I still fail to grok Dog the Bounty Hunter. It's been on forever, which I also fail to understand. If any of you can explain the attraction to me, I urge you not to.
It's Recommend Software Time!
There's a pretty cool MP3/audio player called Dead Beef. It plays most formats and works on android and linux. It may be coaxed to work on OS X, but there will be no Windows version. Bummer (hysterical laughter - use Winamp). With a name like Dead Beef, you know it has to be some good software. It supports plugins and plays APE files, which is a format used by [this joke has been pre-empted by the University of Pennsylvania, which has filed suit because they don't want anyone else to enjoy the humor].
I have this bizarre problem (which one?): while random playing my music collection, I keep hearing the same songs. When I changed players, I kept hearing the same songs. Dead Beef at least uses a different randomizer.
* don't forget: Beef Flaps is the name of the subreddit about women with large labia.
Winamp is a wonderful player that runs on most OSes, except linux (naturally).
VLC runs on anything and plays anything, audio and video. I highly recommend it for every OS except android, because it won't simply play one folder. It has to locate every media file on the entire phone. If this is good by you, go for it. It's my primary player on linux, although Dead Beef is moving up quickly.
It's Recommended Artist Time!
Carl Verheyen is a premier session guitarist, known for the spelling and pronunciation of his name. He's a phenomenal talent, with a tone and skills all his own. I think he's with Supertramp somehow, but he tours with his own band. The man can play almost anything.
Nazareth is a huge act from Scotland, known for the single Love Hurts. Another is Hair of the Dog (both 1975). Search YouTube. The vocals are a country of their own - delightfully scratchy. Due to concerns I am not permitted to divulge, he left the band recently, as well as the band being a merry go round of other members. I think the guitar roadie is the only original member. Don't tell anyone I told you.
Oh yeah, the absolute mostest funkiest riffiest keyboardist, Joe Cocker's very own Chris Stainton. Go ahead - argue with that riff.
Dear lefty
- Rear Admiral Brucie, from Down Under, asks where we get ideas for the blog
- Dear Poof: don't you have voices too?
Let me say something nice about Microsoft.
just kidding.
No, really, here's some dirt on Win10's new Notepad features. None of us will use them, but it's good to know they're there.
- a mishap at a factory in Germany caused a ton of chocolate to escape and solidify. Honey, we're moving to Germany! Sprechen ze Chocolate?
Crime Tip:
When you're going to do something Extremely Naughty, use Private browsing mode, so there are no records you searched for beheadings before you did whatever you did.
That is all.
- In my 2009 post on WWII, I divulged that I wasn't blogging in 2009.
Senate Intel staffer James Wolfe, who was busted leaking info to reporter Ali Watkins in return for sex .... blah blah...
HANG ON... you can exchange info for sex?
Why am I always the last to know?
- Mess Up Marketing: the theater wants to let me know Mary Poppins is back. Drop what you're doing... alert the press... masturbate furiously!
- I can barely contain my joy - Air Supply too!
Dear lefty
- Steve Blah, from Brighton Rock, wants to know how to play the guitar
- Carefully.
- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed that the government believes China is behind the Marriott Hack.
- Well.. we haven't 'exported freedom' to any country lately, so War On China! Just think of the corporate contracts! New planes, guns, fuel... this is like Viagra for Dick Cheney!
Speaking of China, no other country will take them seriously if they don't learn to spell. Sales are plummeting at Huawei. This is because it's pronounced Wah-way. They're worse than the French, who tend to drop a letter here and there.
G-Bus, watch and listen to this: stunning, in honor of the new Queen movie.
Generation Axe.
- Burton Cummings, of the Guess Who (These Eyes, No Time, Undun) tells a story about playing the flute on Undun. The guy at the music store said it was the same fingering as the sax. WHO CARES? IT'S A FLUTE.
In today's breach news, 40,000 stolen government logins are for sale on the Dark Web. They're from all countries, including... wait for it... the US.
Hundreds of accounts on the websites of the US Senate, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Homeland Security and NASA were among those affected....
Remember: these are the people protecting US.
They're only protecting us from our tax dollars.
- Work will soon have a gathering to talk about downgrading our computers to Windows 10. I asked my boss how much it would be worth to him for me to stay home that day. Alas, no; he told me to tell him how it goes. Rest assured he will hear about my participation.... right after my probation period.
A comic turned down a gig at a British university because he was requested to sign a behavioral agreement first. This is what University Hijinks hath wrought.
The full list of topics listed by the organisers were "racism, sexism, classism, ageism, ableism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia or anti-religion or anti-atheism".
The contract said: "It does not mean that these topics cannot be discussed. But it must be done in a respectful and non-abusive way."
Think about that for a second... these are our institutes of higher learning. At this point, they're institutes of ideas that don't exist outside their protective walls.
The bigger surprise is that the college group apologized(!)
Unicef on Campus told Newsbeat: "Given that Unicef is a children's charity, we wanted to make sure it was an appropriate event for the cause. We would never wish to impose that guests would have to agree to anything they do not believe in.
No, they'd never impose censorship. Except with any guest that comes to the university, signing the behavioral agreement.
- What's Penny the Dog up to lately? When shredding books, she prefers hardcover. When shredding magazines, she prefers glossy (my Vintage Guitar magazines, to be precise).
- If we take her outside every two hours, she only pees on the carpet a few times per week.
- The antibiotics are supposed to clear up both types of worms.
- The dog who lived with three other dogs snaps and growls at every other dog she sees while walking.
- She's terrified of linoleum. The Doggie Shrink says she was probably molested by it when she was a puppy.
- She's really affectionate and cuddly and only barks constantly several times a day. We're quite fond of her.
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