In Memoriam Alex Chilton
One year ago today, the music world lost a little known Big Star. Alex Chilton was a renaissance man of the music world, starting out as the teen vocalist of the Box Tops, well-known for songs such as The Letter, Neon Rainbow, and A Whiter Shade of Pale. Interestingly, the Vietnam Conflict was at least [...]
Happy Anniversary Old Friend
Happy Anniversary to the Sinclair ZX81, my first computer. I still have fond memories of building it from the kit, connecting it to a black and white TV for a monitor, and recording programs on cassette tape for use later. The Sinclair ZX81 was a wonder in its time. The ZX81 was a home computer [...]
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Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day! According to the Official Source of All Factual Information on the Internets: International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon,[1] U.S., who proclaimed 19th September each year as the [...]
Forget the past and you’re doomed to repeat it
Image via Wikipedia These bastards stole their power from the victims of the Us v. Them years, Wrecking all things virtuous and true The undermining social democratic downhill slide into abysmal Lost lamb off the precipice into the trickle down runoff pool They hypnotised the summer, 1979 Marched into the capital brooding duplicitous, wicked and [...]
In Memoriam: Bob Probert
Sad news tonight that legendary hockey toughman Bob Probert is dead at 45. Probert was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. He played for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks. While a successful player by some measures, including being voted to the 1987–88 Campbell Conference all-star team, Probert was best known for his activities [...]
Sorry folks….
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