Archive for August 2007

• Importing the Memphis Belles box set on Bear Family. Late b-day present from Wil — said it was something little! This is huge!! #
• Renewed my hosting w/ ICDSoft.com. 5 years of great service, I swear by ‘em. (And I get a month free for every referral… just sayin’…!!) #
• GOD!! FeedGrab’s offset parameter works in SECONDS, not hours. No wonder it wasn’t doing anything! (I only use HH:MM in my templates.) #
• Ordered a PayPal Security Key for five smackers. It’s pretty James Bond… http://tinyurl.com/yu6e63 #

• OMG I went around all morning thinking it was Thursday #
• …which means one more day to figure out the NPR Sunday Puzzle challenge! It’s hard this week but maybe it’ll come to me. Piefight? No… #
• Maxin’ in the back. I watered the plants today and now everything smells like donkey. #

• Last thing I remember from my dream is seeing one of those LOLcat pictures, a walrus variation that said “BUCKY BUCKY BUCKY”. Dunno… #
• Deleted my old Orkut account. Never used it. #
• Geotagging some Flickr pics I took @ the San Francisco Bathhouse in Wellington #
• Wil’s birthday present has arrived! Don’t tell him! #
• Turning off trackbacks on my blog, maybe forever. Fookin spammers. #

• Great name guys. “Moco” means “booger” in Spanish. http://tinyurl.com/ytxzy5 05:00 PM #
• Wil got new strings for his upright so he’s playing on ‘em to stretch ‘em out. Thinks it’s very silly that I’m all wowed by his playing. #
• Seems like it’s gonna be too cloudy to see that lunar eclipse tonight. Bring the helicopter ’round… #

• I feel like such a prick, turning down Facebook requests from certain highly awesome people who don’t happen to be family or RLFs (yet)… #
• Twitter found a bunch of Gmail contacts for me, but DOESN’T say who the hell they are. Some have funky usernames & I have no idea who’s who. #
• Don’t take off your headset when hoisting your messenger bag! Put iPhone through the strap, THEN the bag over your head. Yes, I am a genius. #

• Following Leo’s lead on Facebook: “Unlike my other networks I only accept friend requests here from actual real-life friends.” (Too bad Leo) #

• Friends are posting pics of the flooding in Chicago — it’s making me very very homesick, but at the same time glad I’m not there right now! #
• Nice when nice people write nice notes asking to use my pics, which are CC-licensed anyhow. News is not nice tho. http://tinyurl.com/3cfcdv #
• I f’in hate showing my receipt at the door, and showing ID when I use my card. Considering polite noncompliance. http://tinyurl.com/2hz3ht #
• Googling “chronic earworm”. Got one that’s bugged me for at least 25 years if not more, a 4- or 8-bar loop I call the Default Song. It sucks #
• Argh!! What would Leo do? #

In the last post I talked a little about how we now have RSS* comments feeds on a per-post basis.  All but useless to anybody who doesn’t follow that one particular thread of mine that gets all the comments!!  So here’s something for the rest of y’all.  A sitewide comments feed.  It’s a master list of the most recent fifty comments, as they come in, no matter where they show up on this site.  Just like the "Recent comments…" thingy on my front page, but in RSS form, and with full comments instead of snippets.

So yeah, at this point I have almost 3000 potential feeds being served up here, I shit you not.  Three normal feeds, a comments feed, and one for each of the 2800-someodd blog entries.  Can I think up a few more?  I bet I will!

(Oh, dude… don’t tell me your life has yet to be transformed by the power of syndication!  Read this.)

Update: I’ve decided to move this conversation to a new place on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/scintillating-scotoma. Any future comments should be placed in the new group rather than here… anyone can post, you don’t have to be a member. The reasons behind the move are explained over here if you’re interested.

I haven’t had a migraine aura in about three years, knock on wood. But we’re up to almost 200 comments on the last post so I reckon it’s time to refresh this thread. I do that every once in awhile so it’ll be less taxing on the system.

Here’s a roundup of previous posts, where you’ll find approximately one bazillion comments from other migraine-aura-havers: Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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Awhile back in Chicago, Leroy Bach asked me to join in on a song he was recording.  I was to be singing in a girly trio type thing along with my good pals, the divas of the barroom, Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor.  It was for a project he was producing for his friend Sonny Smith.  Sonny is awesome.  He’s a San Francisco native, a traveling-troubadour type dude, the kind of guy who always wears a hat.  He’s toured around and recorded with some of my most esteemed musical contemporaries, like Jolie Holland and Neko Case.  So anyway, this record’s been out for a few months now. It’s called FRUITVALE and it’s very very good.  I’ve been negligent about posting it to my discography — got my copy last week though, so here it is.

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