This turns my stomach

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 15 January 2013

T4TAir a Danser – Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Penguin Cafe Orchestra [Listen]
Baby, Baby, wo ist unsere Liebe (Where Did Our Love Go) – The Supremes – Stars Sing German [Listen]
Child Is the Father of the Man – Brian Wilson – Smile [Listen]
Death Will Never Conquer – Coldplay – LeftRightLeftRightLeft [Listen]
Honey Don’t Leave L.A. – James Taylor – No Nukes [Listen]
Hurt – Timi Yuro – Billboard Top 100 – 1961 [Listen]
King of the Mountain – Matt Nathanson – Please [Listen]
My Uncle – The Flying Burrito Brothers – The Guilded Palace of Sin & Burrito Deluxe [Listen]
New Multitudes – Jay Farrar – New Multitudes [Listen]
Your Feet’s Too Big – Fats Waller & His Rhythm [Listen]

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How fast is a Formula 1 car?

THIS fast.

Comparison of a F1 and GT cars.

Same circuit, same perpective.

The 22 second mark is the one to look at – the F1 car’s out of the picture before the Porsche gets to the first corner….

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Lunch @ Sapori Mannheim

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The world’s safest password

One of the  IT security people at a company I worked for told me this one:

They were doing password audits and found  an employee with this classic:

“MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofyLondon”

Asked why she had such a long password, she rolled her eyes and said:

“Hello! It has to be at least 8 characters and include at least one capital.”

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 8 January 2013 – The Mike & Mary Mix

T4TClassy Girls – The Lumineers – The Lumineers [Listen]
Dream On – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds [Listen]
Graveyard – The Devil Makes Three – The Devil Makes Three [Listen]
Green – Edie Brickell – Picture Perfect Morning [Listen]
Handwritten – The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten [Listen]
I’m Not The Same Without You – Donald Fagen – Sunken Condos [Listen]
Live And Die – The Avett Brothers – The Carpenter [Listen]
Misfits And Lovers – The Wallflowers Feat. Mick Jones – Glad All Over [Listen]
Never Go Back – Grace Potter & The Nocturnals – The Lion The Beast The Beat [Listen]
Only Love Can Break Your Heart – Rickie Lee Jones – The Devil You Know [Listen]
Speak In Rounds – Grizzly Bear – Shields [Listen]
We Don’t Grow Tobacco – Old Crow Medicine Show – Carry Me Back [Listen]
Weekend In The Dust – David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant [Listen]

Pitchfork Records in Concord, NH is my ultimate downfall.

Go in with 3 records on my list and come out with this (2nd track of each album, given that it’s Calendar Week 2.)

Mike Cohen (who owns it) and Mary Diburro (who works there and knows more about music at age 22 than she has any right to) have stuff that they reckon’s worth listening to spread around the counter.

Plus “Buy 5, get 1 free” and “Well, you’ve only bought 4 so pick something from the used rack for free” and my fiscal force field shield starts looking a bit tattered.

Good thing I’m only there once a year.

(Although – if I’m honest – I could happily spend a LOT of time there)

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Trombone. GoPro camera. A thing of true beauty

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Tunes for a Tuesday – 1 January 2013

T4TDisappearing Industries – Grass Widow – Birp! February 2012 [Listen]
Don’t Be on with Her  (Treasure Fingers Remix)  – Miami Horror [Listen]
Fast Forward – The Windy City Strugglers – Kingfisher [Listen]
In the Midnight Hour – Moloko – Fabriclive.07 [Listen]
Paperback Writer – The Beatles – 1 [Listen]
Pop Gun – Mary Monday & The Bitches – The John Peel Singles Box [Listen]
Struggles – The New Yorker – New Yorker: Comment [Listen]
Sunshine (Shlohmo Remix) – Little Dragon – BIRP! December 2012 [Listen]
Take Me Deep (Song for C.) – Zachary Richard – Zack’s Bon Ton [Listen]
Where Is My Mind – Trampled by Turtles – Where Is My Mind [Listen]

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How to organise a party…..

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Booze?

More booze?

Even MORE booze?

And it’s not a REAL party unless EVERYONE overdoes it…..

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“But why “PMT”….?

SCCZEN_231212SPLSIDE02_220x147A dad writes: “My annual pilgrimage to the shops is at Christmas. All I have to do is to get a gift for my wife, chosen expressly by our 9-year-old son. This year, my son could not be dissuaded from this coffee cup (sorry, dear). He thought the line “be afraid, be very afraid” was funny and probably thought the PMT was the brand.”

HT Sideswipe

And why PMT?

“Mad Cow” was already taken….

HT  Dusty and Lefty in “A Prairie Home Companion

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