Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced

I woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep until 7:30. Graah! Is all I have to say to that. And, I met a set of potential housemates last night, for beer, which motivates today’s Oracle question: if it bothers you that your housemates don’t replace the toilet paper roll, but […]

Friday Fluffypost

Last night I dreamed that I was buying bras. My choices were pea green, and olive green. Am I the only one whose dreams are always this boring?
I haven’t felt in need of mystic Oracular iTunes advice this week. But it’s been a while since I’ve done search requests!

Search Requests

exploded moms
giraffe my butt
the most boringest […]

The Shoppingest Friday iTunes iChing of the Year

Dear iTunes: Do you think I should participate in the crass commercialism of the holiday season?

The Covering: Edith Piaf - Partance
The Crossing: Loretta Kelley - Ingjen Fugle Fyke Sa Hagt
The Crown: Low - California
The Root: The Be Good Tanyas - Horses
The Past: Stones in the Field - Trip To Durrow/My Love Is In America (Reels)
The […]

Friday Friday Friday

It seems that all the cool kids of Bay Area geo-blogging were at Kevin Starr’s lecture (on the lessons learned from the 2020 San Francisco earthquake) last night. I was not; I was doing homework. I’m not cool.
But in the spirit of commemorating destruction, let’s see if, in addition to being uncool, I’m also doomed: […]

Friday iTunes iChing

O great and powerful algorithms! Will my print job ever actually print? Or will it just sit in the queue forever and ever amen?
The key.

The Covering: Wolfstone, Jen’s Tune(from Seven)
The Crossing: The Pogues, Rainbow Man (from Hell’s Ditch)
The Crown: Walt Michael, Si Bheag A’s Si Mohr (The Little Fairy Hill And The Big Fairy Hill) […]

Friday iTunes iChing

O great iTunes pseudorandomizer, help us lowly ones! What shall happen with the problem of half-time vs. quarter-time teaching appointments?

The Covering: Brak’s Tales of Suspense
The Crossing: The Be Good Tanyas, The Coo Coo Bird
The Crown: Reelroad, Венгерская
The Root: Nightnoise, On the Deep
The Past: Stephane Grappelli, The Nearness of You
The Future: The Skels, Swing
The Questioner: Oysterband, […]

Friday Random Ten-and-N

Loretta Kelley - Amerikaspel - Tussedans I Harptjonnberget
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs - 2020
Värttinä - Ilmatar - Lieto
Cordelia’s Dad - Spine - In The Cars On The Long Island Railroad
Matt Pond PA - This Is Not the Green Fury - A List of Sound
Flook - Rubai - Larry - Kalamantinos
Cordelia’s Dad - Spine - Return […]

Friday iTunes iChing

O great iTunes, you who have pulled me from the depths of petty irritation by getting Lake of Pontchartrain stuck in my head for days on end, you whose beneficent pseudorandomizing is second only to the Great Mother Mandelbrot, I pray that you do my research for me answer my query: can heat loss via […]

Friday Hangover Blogging

I knew better than to let L. mix me a drink. I really did. Zurgh.
Search Requests

Who are the internet scientist
geologist’s punchlines
chronology of apparatus
why women shouldn’t use corn on the cob

No random ten for you today, nyah! However, I note in passing that it is fully legal in the state of California to have music playing […]

Friday Random

Värttinä - Seleniko - Paukkuvat Pasuunat
David Bowie - Moulin Rouge soundtrack - Nature Boy
Pixies - Doolittle - Hey
Bent - The Everlasting Blink - Strictly Bongo
Smølferne - Smølfehits Vol. 1 - Smølfehits Vol. 1
Laura Illeborg - Sværger & Lover - Ingen Steder
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs - Sweet Things
G.F. Handel - Overture from Music for the […]