O Brother Where Art Thou? is a great movie, and this is a great tune.. I found a couple of good versions on YouTube. This one suffers from being interrupted by a racist loudmouth. However, it more than makes up for it with the scene of said loudmouth being run out of town on a rail. I really liked the part whe

This video is a little long (almost ten minutes) and, if you aren't in the tungsten business, rather boring, until you find out that the people who made this video just sold this mine for thirty times what they paid for it three years ago. That's kind of impressive. Of course, there are plenty of old, tapped out mine

Last month I came across a treasure trove of music videos on YouTube, a bunch of songs I had never heard before that I really liked. This along with my resolve to try and make something out of Pergelator, led me to posting one every day. Even if I don't have anything to say, anybody who stops by will at least see that I'm s

I think I have posted this one before. Those hip moves out to be illegal.

The fluorescent light in the closet failed last week. I replaced the bulbs with some spares I had, but it didn't help. Ballast is probably shot, so I go to the store and pick up a new one. The ballast is like $23, while a new fixture is only $30. Hardly seems worth it to futz with the ballast, just buy a new fixture and sav

I read something earlier this week about a speech someone gave to Congress. I don't think it was the state of the union. It may have been the Republican response to the President's speech. No matter. In any case, the speech started out talking about starting a war with Iran, which was greeted with thunderous applause. The s

I really like Joan Jett even though she is out on the fringe, orientation wise. She's a doll*, she rocks, her band has a very cool name, and this video is not a bad piece of theater.  *At least she was a doll when this song came out in 1983. Geez, that's almost 30 years ago. We were all supposed to

I noticed a couple of videos using this song. This one is notable for the sustained notes produced by the redheaded Kate Pierson. They are just a little spooky. I don't think I've heard anyone produce similar sounds, except maybe by using a synthesizer. The lead singer's manner used to be kind of wacko, but I don't t

We've had a bit of rain, enough to double

What kind of name is Grace Slick? I dunno, but she shore sings purty. From 1967.

What a sad, sad song. No wonder they call it the blues.

Perspectival, as in "Technologies of surveillance and control all aim to achieve a perspectival advantage over some adversary, but the vast quantities of data produced by these devices threaten to overload the system, thus defeating the original  goal." - Roger D. Hodge in

This was drawer pull from one of our dresse

Baba Ram = Barbara Ann? Obviously an honest mistake. Daring daughter sent me the link along with this note: "only one of the best parts of one of the best movies of my childhood (

Glenn has plans for making some fancy metal bits that requires heating them to high temperatures and then smashing them with a hammer. Marc gave him a hand with constructing the fuel-air mixing device (the plumbing sticking out of the top of the chamber).

Funny how you can write a hit song about nothing at all. Aimee does a nice job of casting it in the light of someone who has gone off the rails just a bit.

Just got an offer in the mail from ING Direct, which appears to be

Circle the Cat. Via Scott.

Michigan Mike reports: I still use a clock radio. This may not seem odd, but in case the technological world of hip trends has left me in the dust of obsolete behavioral control devices, it seems safer to announce it up front. In fact, I just got another one. This one has nice obvious control

The tune is Big Chief by Professor Longhair.

A while back Stu put up a post that had a newish formula for computing the value of pi. Just for grins, I thought I would see if I could implement the formula in code, that is, write a computer program to compute the va

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Another blast from the past, 1976 to be specific. The band is Wild Cherry. Rob Parissi, the singer, is still around. He wears a shirt these days. He is originally from Mingo Junction, Ohio, which is on the Eastern border of Ohio, on the Ohio River, just downstream from

Followed this guy from Highway 26 down to

3G refers to third generation cellular telephone data transmission techniques, and 4G refers to, you guessed it f

I don't think I've ever heard anyone get beats out of a flute. It's really pretty cool.

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