Lady Gaga is not an artist that I am particularly into - she is mentioned in newspapers, her music floats by on the radio (and I sometimes even know that it's her), and so on. But this is too good not to share. It is not Lady Gaga as such - some people at the Hui Zheng lab at Baylor College of Medicine instead made a parody/tribute remake of Lady ( Read more... )

The fact that this computer is completely unable to rip more than two CDs at a time without the DVD-drive suffering an existential crisis, is really driving me up the wall. I am anticipating that the next time there is a major upgrade of my computer, one of the elements of the upgrade will be that I carefully remove the drive in question, whereupon ( Read more... )

Anybody know if there is some way of forcing iTunes to accept that a specific set of songs belong to the same album? iTunes is currently importing my music collection, and with some albums insists on songs being in separate almbums (in the case of The Civil War TV soundtrack, it insists on splitting it into 23 distinct albums).

This weekend my parents have recruited me to help wash the ceiling and upper reaches of the walls in their kitchen. From this I conclude that kitchen cabinets that do not go all the way to the ceiling are evil.

This last weekend was a quite exhausting one, but in a good way. On Saturday evening there was a big feast at work - we feasted on fish, leg and (honeyglazed) heart of lamb, roast boar and more, the serving accompanied by music on bagpipe, drum, flute, nyckelharpa (keyed fiddle), table harp, lute, etc. - metheglin was served to drink, though I ( Read more... )

Today, the day after summer solstice, an aircraft had to make a forced landing due to the wings icing down. This took place a couple hundred miles South of here....

I know some people on my friendslist are interested in things like historical reenactment and historical cooking, so this should be of interest to you ( Read more... )

There is nothing quite like being woken up before 7am by 21 blasts of dynamite.

Winter took a break three days ago, but is due to return again tomorrow.

We have somewhere between one and two inches of fresh snow on the ground today. I think I'll wait just a little while longer before taking my scooter out of the garage.

So today I spent one and a half hour sitting in a dentist's chair. I don't much like the taste or smell of slightly charred dentine flour.