Dr. Mutex
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Lowery's attack on the Free Culture movement makes it difficult for me to take anything else he has to say seriously. He seems to be parroting ASCAP's deceptive claims. I'm involved in the Free Culture movement and I've released a number of works un…
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@kargatron - I know some authors. "Quiet desperation" is more like it for the covers. The authors are resigned to the fact that the publishers are the experts at moving product…
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Germanprof: Sounds tenuous. The very name of Mardi Gras tells you it's completely about hedonism. It isn't Mardi Socialement Responsables. As for the beads, if you don't hold out beads, the women leave their shirts down. That's not fun for an…
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Recently finished "The Discovery of the Future", a talk RAH gave in 1941 to the Third World Science Fiction Convention.
Currently readingin What Are You Reading? Comment by Dr. Mutex January 2013
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Things got crazy at work and the time available to finish the piece vanished. Should I press on now that thing are a little calmer? I feel like I took the guy's time, I should at least do the article. On the other hand, do we want to run an article …
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A Sharp GF-777 would be sufficiently retro for me.
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This is taking longer than I expected. I'm around 1200 words and not quite half through the conversation.
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The call went well. I will have an article with pictures & tracks ready tomorrow.
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It looks like I'll have an article ready to review tomorrow that we can run for Christmas. It's a conversation with Richard Souther about his album "Tesla's Christmas". I hope to get permission to include a couple of tracks. He's agreed talk to me. …
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Music is the space between the notesClaude Debussy, famous jazzman.
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I require comments to have some indication that the poster read the article. The generic nature of the innocuous style comments gives them away. Wolfram Alpha could probably construct a coherent, thoughtful comment on one of our articles but thankfu…
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That hard brown substance is Hash. You'd think the little silver pipe in the empty condom box with the cassette tape would tip you off. That slip of paper with the hand-written set list: Zig-Zag. Your old man was way cooler than he appeared. The con…
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I like the poetic justice in that. Throw ads back at the spammers.
Today I spent some quality time with the Bad Behavior logs in the MiG database. This confirmed what seemed to be happening in the server log. The spammers use any given IP for … -
I finished A Dance With Dragons last week. My words on reaching the end: "You bastard!" I mean that in the friendliest possible way. Reading ADWD you start to think you see where it's all going. Then it doesn't, and won't.
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It sounds like that spa is worth every penny!
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Where I come from we call "saturation and added harmonics" distortion, as do all reputable vendors of audio equipment and LPs. Distortion is the antithesis of fidelity. It's one thing if Pete Townshend turns it up to 11 to make an interesting…
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And now the lyrics I came to post which are a counterpoint of sorts to the Cake. Warning: Deep Existential contents.
Pray God you can cope.
I stand outside this woman's work,
This woman's world.
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The first Cake lyrics made me think of this:
We sit in the car outside your house
I can feel the heat coming 'round
I go to put my arm around you
and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds
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Oh, I love to delete those generic ones. "I found this article interesting and informative. Keep up the good work." Damn SkippyThe good work of keeping worthless noise off at least one tiny part of the internet.
The generic posters want to ge… -
It look like what's going on is the spammers are using botnets. I can see in the log an IP is trying the comment 3 times then a different IP starts hitting the same comment. Some hours later the first IP comes back and tries a different comment 3 ti…
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I tried another anti-spam plugin but it blocked legitimate posts. I won't mention the plugin because it's equally likely something in the theme is causing the problem. I've got another one to try that is a manual install so it will have to wait unti…
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Lost power for about an hour Monday evening. I thought I'd be going to bed with the generator running but about the time I had finished plugging things into the generator the lights came back on. I've still got the HD extension cords snaking thoroug…
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I'm thinking of disabling comments on posts older than a certain age, such as 90 days or 6 months as a means to limit the spam. While I like people who find the articles to be able to comment, I don't like all the spam. The old posts generate few le…
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When all the hourglass sands on your mantle have gone, when all the painters are dead, when you take out a small loan for a pint of Oxygen, that's when I'll know you're in love.
I know the time will come someday, but for now it is all th… -
NPR has an audio program titled How Musicians Make Money (By The Fraction Of A Cent) On Spotify. A tra…
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Replacing the Hipsters didn't help. If anything the new ones are even worse. Just remove them, preferably to a tiny island in the south seas with no regular transportation off-island.
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Several times now independent developers have demonstrated that the defective features can be created from afar, despite the lack of an API. This includes:
Lists that worked correctly on Mixtaper.com (Gosatango & Yours Truly)
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On Spinner:
Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze EP. Solidly in the Dream Pop category featuring reverb-drenched girls. What more could you want? More tracks!
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