Where’s the peanut butter?!

The A9 href="http://a9.com/optical?a=oyp">Yellow Pages is
incredible. You have no reason to get lost on your way to href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/yp/B0004EMWOY/102-6218953-5541753?">Shorty’s
in Bell-town for their next pin tournament. See also href="http://a9.com/-/company/YellowPages.jsp">how they did
it.

Caffeine, fruit flavoring, herbal guarana, ginseng, and
beer.

What is the secret recipe of Anheuser-Busch’s new href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/050126/480/mojf10101260358&e=5&ncid=1756">“B^e“?

That’s correct! Please go again…

I’d fallen off years ago but I’m finally back on the bandwagon to
donate my spare CPU cycles to a research project. This morning I href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=1&u=/nm/20050126/sc_nm/environment_climate_dc">read
a story about href="http://climateprediction.net/">climateprediction.net which
tries to forecast the climate of the 21st century. According to
initial results from the project, global temperatures may rise almost
20 degrees within 50 years. Kind of helps put href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/social-security/">dismantling
social security into perspective, no?

I finally have some servers working again. My problem was that I
hadn’t opened the right ports in the Windows firewall. It’s so good
that I couldn’t figure anything out remotely about the site/ports I
was trying to reach, but now I’ve got href="http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/">FileZilla Server and href="http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/">sshd rolling again.
Whee!

So I needed to do some XML recently again and am confused (again) with
why everybody isn’t using RELAX
NG. RELAX NG, its compact syntax, and href="http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/jing.html">jing are so
easy to
learn and use, I don’t know why anyone bothers with href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema">anything href="http://www.w3schools.com/dtd/default.asp">else.

My favorite DJ is, without question, href="http://kexp.org">KEXP’s href="http://kexp.org/aspnet_client/get_dj_archive.aspx?djs=300">Kevin
Cole. When I was growing up in the Twin Cities, Kevin DJ’ed shows
on Modern Rock KJ104 which folded because the powers that be decided
the station should change their format to country (ugh). Later he
DJ’ed with Rev105 and I lost track of him for a while.

Then years ago I loaded up the truck and I moved to
Washington–Seattle that is–and one day after a Bob Mould show I was
hanging out by the stage trying to get a set list and noticed two
ambassadors of Minnesota: href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?P=amg&opt1=1&sql=mighty+mofos">Mighty
Mofo Billy Batson (helping work the stage) and Kevin Cole who was
in the crowd. It turns out he moved to Seattle and took a position
with Amazon helping their online music store. He had a radio show with
KCMU which became KEXP and his weekend Variety Show has recently
switched to a daily 2-6 slot (yippee!)

But trouble may be brewing. The Twin Cities finally has a competitive
radio station that launched yesterday from href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/">MPR called href="http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/thecurrent/">The
Current. Nick has heard enough to decide it’s href="http://www.tcob.com/index.cgi/music/no_longer_left.html">“everything
these Twin Cities have been missing since the brilliant Rev 105 left
the air years ago”. A great lineup and commercial-free. They have
a good quality
stream and so far I’m super impressed, too. The comments on the
blog are overwhelmingly positive and I’ve noticed two people drop
Kevin’s name. How many DJ’s can you name? How many DJ’s can you name
who hosted a show you listened to maybe 10 years ago who you’d request
by name on a new station? Let’s hope he doesn’t heed the calling. 7
months of blistering cold or 7 months of rain?

One side-note: I shouldn’t make the Minnesota radio situation sound
quite so dire since there have been two other great stations around
for a long time: KFAI (whose slogan
was once “a different station every hour” but could arguably be “the
best station on the air, but only for one or two hours a week”) and href="http://radiok.cce.umn.edu/radiok/">Radio K which is real
college radio and as such was only available on AM for a long time and
has a pretty unreliable signal.

Over Christmas she wound up in the hospital for an appendectomy (two
years ago for Christmas she had her tonsils and adenoids removed - the
bright side of this is that she’ll run out of vestigial organs sooner
or later and not need this kind of surgery). Then last week she went
to the dentist for the first 2 hours of a root canal. And finally
this morning she’s on her way downtown for jury selection. I predict
either…the storm is almost over–she will dodge jury selection, wrap
up her root canal this week, and get back to life as usual…or we’ll
see the resumption of conscription right around the time when the
trial finishes. I’ve got my fingers crossed for the former!

UPDATE 2005.01.24

Tanya made it through the first round of selection and finds out
tomorrow if she’ll be on the case or not.

Courtesy of my good friends at Merge Records, I’ve got the new mail order treats:

• American Music Club - Love Songs for Patriots
• Superchunk - Cup of Sand
• Superchunk - Clambake 3
• The Arcade Fire - Funeral

Also - it looks like cheap-cds have finally updated their inventory for the Jam box set I was trying to get a couple weeks ago. And they are out - bummer.

Poll: Nation split on Bush as uniter or divider
Forty-nine percent of 1,007 adult Americans said in phone interviews they believe Bush is a “uniter,” according to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday. Another 49 percent called him a “divider,” and 2 percent had no opinion.

Too funny: href="http://blog.monkeymethods.org/2005/01/bill-gates-strikes-pose-for-teen-beat.html">Bill
Gates Strikes a Pose for Teen Beat Photospread, 1983