Chris Judge. Jonathan Richman - I, Jonathan.
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Archive for June, 2008
Cryptic Dylanesque lyrics, Water-conservation-letters-from-the-landlord edition:
You may hear it running / or see ripples in the bowl…
Rhyme suggestions?
These guys are more fun…
Bonus Easybeats goodness.
Been reading all about the wildfires tonight on Google News and I keep coming across the term “dry lightning” which really just sounds like a total drag compared to various other sorts of lightning.
I haven’t used a Mac as my main computer in awhile, but I hear there is this app called Quicksilver that is pretty great for launching apps, searching your hard drive & the web and a variety of other things. Well I’m not sure how big of a rip-off this is exactly, but there is an app called Launchy for Windows that basically does the same thing and it is amazing. Particularly for somebody like me who is already hooked on auto-complete in my web browser (and Firefox 3 does a really nice job of building on this fuctionality, btw) having a fast, predictive, keyboard-based way to launch apps & websites is just amazing. Basically how it works is, you hit Alt+Spacebar, a little windows pops up and you start typing. After you’ve put in the first few characters (P-h-o…) it’s got Photoshop selected and you can hit Enter to launch it. The devil is in the details though and the details are sweet. For instance, it indexes everything in your “Start” menu by default, but you can also tell it to index other folders, your MP3 collection for instance, and it will then give you direct access to these files as well. Certain apps also support passing command-line switches for example typing “Firef+Tab+antinomian.com+Enter” will open up Firefox with this site already loaded. Alternately, you could type “Google+Tab+launchy+Enter” to go directly to that search. It also supports basic math operations and a bunch of other stuff I probably haven’t even delved into yet. So yeah, in other words, it’s great. Get it. Now!
At the Jonathan Richman show I went to last week he played a new song (or at least one I hadn’t heard before) about cell phones. As best I can remember, it went something like:
Well you can have a cell phone, that’s OK
But I won’t… Not me!
When I go to the beach, I go to the beach
No, you can’t call me there!
And when it’s breakfast time, it’s breakfast time
No, you can’t call me there!
But, but… Jonathan, what if you need to get in touch?
I mean, what if you and Tommy are late for a show
You’re supposed to be in Salt Lake City right now
But you’re only just outside Reno?
Well, I guess we better plan ahead then…
Well you can have a cell phone that’s OK…
If you wanna DIE!!
And so on… Then today I saw this great list on Defective Yeti about the different reactions that people have had to cell-phone holdouts over the years. It makes me think about the first one that i got, my sophomore year in college I think. I had been checking out the Sprint ads outside Radio Shack in downtown Evanston as I was walking to and from campus for a couple weeks, but it never really occurred to me that getting a cell was a valid thing to do. But then at some point I just had this moment of, “Hey… waitaminute, I can afford that!” (which in my experience is usually a pretty dangerous moment, but anyway…) So I picked up a nice little monochrome flip phone and that was that. Since then I’ve had an ultra-sweet/super-tiny Ericsson flip, an oddly shaped AT&T brick (with data!) a slightly-too-small-to-be-useful HTC smartphone, a totally boring Motorola flip, and my current HTC behemoth. Everyone’s telling me to get an iPhone but I’ve been holding out to see what HTC does with Google Android. Now that I stop and think about it though… maybe I’ll just not have a phone anymore. I mean, I’m not going to be satisfied until it’s wet-wired into my brain anyway, so why bother keeping up?
