Well, okay, that Digidesign plug-in is pretty cool, but few things are as good as cranking a real-life amplifier to "eleven" (while using comfortable ear filters to preserve your hearing!).
Also: Happy Veterans Day! Thanks to all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines (and other titles relevant to the armed forces) who serve and sacrifice for their country.
It's time to dust off the record player!
Keeping up with the Calrissians? (But seriously, this advertisement is on the newspaper's front page!)
Anyhow, this is what NASA says about it: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/09/tiny-asteroid-created-bright-m...
At Google+, I have been telling the story of Kate from the beginning, to my friends in various "circles." Well, it's not really the beginning, since I have no documentation from Kate's first dog year on Earth, the first eight weeks or so when she and her siblings were presumably fed by their mother (who is either a Labrador or a Cocker Spaniel, I will likely never know). The story starts about three dog weeks into Kate's stay at the local animal shelter, along with (what I can guess) her two sisters and one brother. Long story short: Kate is now in what I hope isn't her terrible twos (in dog years), and she's grown a whole lot since we first met.
Photographed above is Kate in all her majesty, one human month after she moved into my home -- and life.
Upon getting used to the format of Spotify, I am unsure whether the "Ma Belle" track played was from Spotify's servers or from my own hard drive, played through the app. I have a lot of songs by the Smashing Pumpkins already in my computer. In any case, I really enjoy Spotify. I spent a good part of the day listening to latter-era Queen -- they were just as powerful near the end as they were at the beginning (perhaps more-so!). I have yet to discover some more quality music through Spotify. (The occasional ads aren't so bad, so far.)
Anyhow, I want to thank Billy Corgan again for the Spotify invitation, and I want to thank my cousin David for the Google+ invitation (but that's another story altogether). It's been an eventful day...behind a computer.| pirate_billy RT @DeRamos: @Billy Thank ye, Billy! First chanty played in Spotify: "Ma Belle"! 7/17/11 10:30 PM |
Yes, there are several large dollops of Caesar dressing and various kinds of cheese sprinkled atop the veggies -- kind of defeating the purpose of a salad.
Of course, adding a vegan snack as a topping to my all-beef Bar S hot dog kind of defeated the original purpose of the snack...I think. Oh well. It was delightful, on top of a very delightful Independence Day (USA).
...and perhaps the best Best Boy Grip as well.
...actually, the closest we figure is that Kate is part-Labrador Retriever and part-Cocker Spaniel. Spanador seems to be the popular name for this sort of dog mix.
Why Kate? My mom is ultimately responsible for the name, since she apparently got a Kate Middleton vibe from the Spanador's eyes. Either that, or her name is a tribute to the late Nate Dogg: Kate Dog! In any case, the name Kate is great because is rhymes with all sorts of words with the long-A sound. I'm sure this website will have more photos of Kate in several future entries.
A certain pink-chinned hummingbird was being a douche to pretty much everyone else and chased any other hummingbird that wanted to take a drink from the sugar-water dispenser. This particular red-headed hummingbird tried probably four or five times during the course of an hour to get a drink. I guess the douchey pink-chin was off doing something else for a few minutes, which was just enough time for the red-head to get a few good sips.
