Yearly Archives: 2010

Buntacles!

29 Dec 2010

From the creator of The Octophant. His Laika is nice too (previously).
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2010 music wrap-up, and mixtape 097

28 Dec 2010

In only approximate order of favoriteness, here is my year-end wrap-up. As usual, a few of the entries on the following list were released earlier than 2010, but that is when I discovered them, so I'm allowing some slack. Though most were actually released in 2010.

This year I acquired slightly less new music than I did last year, but with a higher ratio of new stuff: roughly 140 new releases but only 12 that were more than 3 years old. Though I note with interest that this list is roughly half the length of last year's. So while I acquired roughly the same amount, this year I loved less of it. Hmmmm.

Number of these bands that I saw perform this year: 30.
Number of these bands that performed at DNA Lounge this year: 0.
Go Team.

Here is your shopping list:

And here is the corresponding mixtape 097.

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People Who Touch Your Junk Venn

27 Dec 2010


Update: In the "overthinking a plate of beans" department, there's this rebuttal.

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Grim Meathook Haitian Cholera Voodoo Lynchings.

24 Dec 2010
What the.

At least 45 people, most of them voodoo priests, have been lynched in Haiti since the beginning of the cholera epidemic by angry mobs blaming them for the spread of the disease, officials said.

"People who practice voodoo have nothing to do with the cholera epidemic," said Max Beauvoir, the head of a voodoo organization in the Caribbean country.

Some of the victims were killed with machetes, others were burned alive by mobs that added tires and gasoline to stoke the fires. The cholera outbreak started in October.

The victims have been targeted because of "misinformation" that had been circulating in the community that voodoo practitioners were spreading cholera by using witchcraft, according to communications Minister Marie-Laurence Lassegue.

Previously.

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DNA Lounge update

23 Dec 2010
DNA Lounge update, wherein Fiona Ma gets Footloose.
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Location: 37° 46' 15.63 N, 122° 24' 45.70 W

20 Worst Songs of 2010

22 Dec 2010
The snark in these reviews is nuclear!

From Smash Mouth, Train picked up an earworm that burrowed into society's asshole, laid 4.7 million iTunes eggs, and gave birth to a grey cloud of banality that covers the Earth. [...] (For those of you who arrived late, Smash Mouth was a band from the late '90s that was formed when a soul patch met cake frosting. Their wikki-wikki scratching and dorkpie hats did to music what blood-soaked clowns do to the dreams of sleeping children.)

I feel lucky to report that with the exception of the Salem track, I haven't heard any of these songs!

And I'm going to keep it that way.

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A Very Zombie Holiday

22 Dec 2010
"An instructional video for ensuring a happy home during this zombie-infested holiday season."

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reset USB bus on MacOS?

22 Dec 2010

Dear Lazyweb, how do you reset a Mac USB bus?

I have a Mac Mini (Core Duo 1,1, 10.5.8) with a pair of external USB drives attached. Sometimes when I reboot it, one or both of the drives doesn't come up. Power-cycling the drive enclosure itself sometimes works; sometimes power-cycling (not just rebooting) the Mac itself is required.

But I'm not in the same building as the machine, so both of these require the hardship of putting on pants.

Is there some software-based way to smack the living shit out of a Mac's USB bus to make it reset and re-probe all attached hardware?

(FWIW, the System Profiler is only seeing one of the two drives right now. Both enclosures are the same model and report as "Sunplus Technology USB to SATA bridge ST31000528 9VP5JYCH").

I think I've asked this before and the answer was "you can't", but I figured I'd try again.

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The Deers of Perception

21 Dec 2010

What could be more festive than spending a night locked in an art gallery with a dozen reindeer and a fridge full of psychedelic drugs?

The urine is collected by handlers and stored in fridges by the walls, which also hold both dried and fresh fly agaric mushrooms. By day they're locked, but at night the fridges are opened, allowing people staying over to sample the contents. However, because only half the reindeer are fed the mushrooms, it's impossible to know which bottles, if any, contain hallucinogenic urine.

Previously.

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Wow do I hate 3D.

21 Dec 2010
The only time I even notice the 3D is when it's blurry -- which is most of the time. E.g. any time I move my head from being perfectly vertical and motionless.

I'm never making that mistake again.

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