Jerry Garcia’s wa-wa guitar solo in “Dancing in the Streets” from the justly legendary “Barton Hall concert”:http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=12279 at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May 8, 1977. It almost made me cry tonight.
Chax rocks
I have to use Apple’s iChat application, not because it’s the best at text IMs (because it’s not) but because it is the best at audio and video chats. Getting the honest-to-goodness video phone we were promised in 1956 has been a joy. But now I can enjoy iChat even more. That’s because of an iChat extension called “Chax”:http://www.ksuther.com/chax/. Continue reading “Chax rocks”
Headline of the day: April 3
“Sox overcome rain, Tribe”
bq. _Chicago Tribune,_ April 3, 2006
Cleveland at Chicago, Opening Day 2006
Defending World Champion Chicago White Sox, division-rival Indians, Opening Day — who minds a three-hour rain delay?
Headline of the day: April 1
“Post-Title Pitfall: Complacency”
bq. _Chicago Tribune,_ April 2, 2006, early edition
Smelly forearms?
When I was a kid, I remember being puzzled why grown-ups apparently needed to put deodorant or antiperspirant on their forearms. No one *I* knew had smelly or sweaty forearms. I never actually saw anyone doing it in person, but they were constantly showing you how to in TV ads.
How Easy
What makes someone good at what they do is not how hard it is; it’s their knowing how easy it can be.
The New South
“Of all the things I’m fed up with, I think I’m fed up most with hearing about the New South…. One of the first things I can remember in my life was hearing about the New South. I was three years old, in Alabama. Not a year has passed since that I haven’t heard about a new South. I would dearly love never to hear the New South mentioned again. In fact my definition of a new South would be a South in which it never occurred to anybody to mention the New South.”
bq. Walker Percy, in John Shelton Reed, “New South or No South?” in _My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture_.
Thanks to “Al Zambone”:http://www.zambone.com/ for quoting this.