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Another fine fix....
Today was flea market in Niles. This led, as it always does, to sunburns, a lot of food, and the occasional exchange of goods and services for either money or other goods and services. Today, the goods-and-services exchange led to a table traded for a mandolin, to wit, this:
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Best piece on medical insurance I've seen so far
Dmitry Orlov has written a brilliant piece on medical insurance that doesn't once mention medicine.
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Linux FTW (again)
The recent software update for the phone ensures that video shot with the phone now goes out in 3GP. About this format, Windows (natively) knows nothing. Ubuntu, otoh, had a converter utility installed which knocked out the conversion to MP4 (it's posted on B's blog) in about six seconds. Without ads or nagware trying to sell me something ( Read more... ) -
back - hands!
After a protracted bout of soreness related to cleaning and stacking about a billion bricks, the soreness in my hands has abated. Yay! Last night, I was able to play for about half an hour. This is good.
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Mid-America
Headed to Columbus (OH) on business later in the month. Is there anything I should check out while I'm there? -
Icarus
Icarus is Ralph Towner's signature piece, a wonderful standard which bears repeated listening very well.
Towner plays it solo or with Oregon, but the LA Guitar Quartet does it ample justice in the clip below.
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Meme day
From e_juliana
Your result for Howard Gardner's Eight Types of Intelligence Test...
Naturalistic
22% Logical, 39% Spatial, 41% Linguistic, 14% Intrapersonal, 18% Interpersonal, 25% Musical, 14% Bodily-Kinesthetic and 55% Naturalistic!
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