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[Feb. 8th, 2010|06:41 pm] |
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The boombox I picked was a good choice. The chip I needed to solder the jack leads to was fairly accessible just taking the back off. Things went swell after I remembered (with the help of the distortion) to attach the leads after the preamp rather than before. |
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| Birthday Weekend |
[Feb. 8th, 2010|09:52 am] |
We have birthday weekends around here because we're greedy. Mine was certainly pleasant.
Saturday, we ambled down to the local diner at a relatively late hour for breakfast. Then stopped by a neighborhood thrift store run by an old lady. Hex got a $5 chair and I got a new shade for my elephant lamp and a horse lamp that needs to be re-electrified for $1. This put me in the mood for hitting other thrift stores. I was mainly in search of a broken (and hence cheap) boombox that I could wire a jack onto so I can run an mp3 player through it. So we hit a relatively local shop and then the BIG Salvation Army store that even has an antique section. Found an appropriate boombox and a few other odds and ends. Drooled over a $350 deluxe Wurlitzer organ and a cool old Burroughs adding machine. We then stopped by an architectural (and other things) salvage place for a bit. Then dinner at the Twisted Spoke--a biker bar with excellent food.
Sunday morning we headed off originally to the Golden Nugget for breakfast but everyone else in the world was there so we ended up at the Blue Angel diner, which is conveniently across from American Science and Surplus, which is the coolest store on the planet and where we went next. Got some magnifiers and tools for working on small things (like soldering connections to convert a boombox) there. Then we stopped home where I had a wacky idea.
I remembered seeing something about a Japanese store/small mall in the burbs somewhere. I looked it up and we headed off. It is a Japanese market with a few other stores and a food court in it. So much fun was had looking at and buying tasty and odd things. I then had a Gabutto Burger in the food court. They really do brand the name on the bun. They also have fries and many different flavored powders you can sprinkle on them. Hex had a latte smoothie things with those (to me) horrid tapioca balls in it.
Came home and I watched the rest of the Super Bowl. Was happy to see the Saints win even though I've got a good deal of family in Indianapolis. New Orleans is just such a great place. The commercials mostly seemed to be trying way too hard and just ended up stupid.
I've got some pictures up and will be posting more from the weekend on my tumblr.
Anyone have any idea why that tumblr link doesn't work? Livejournal insists on linking it as http://angstzeit.livejournal.com/angstzeit.tumblr.com. WTF? Anyway the tumblr is here: angstzeit.tumblr.com.
ETA Dawned on me what the problem was. Nevermind. |
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[Jan. 28th, 2010|03:25 pm] |
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If in the fight you think you're right
Think again, my friend
Think again Posted via LiveJournal.app. |
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[Jan. 27th, 2010|05:48 pm] |
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Life is better with DSL. |
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[Jan. 25th, 2010|08:14 am] |
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You might think after 40 some years of being a Vikings fan one would have become accustomed to painful, bitter disappointment. And yet no. |
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[Jan. 22nd, 2010|08:42 am] |
Dear Supreme Court of the United States,
Fuck you.
No Love,
Angstzeit |
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| Massachusetts. Or my ill-informed opinion as if another was needed |
[Jan. 20th, 2010|12:20 pm] |
I think it could be a good thing.
The previous situation has been a fustercluck. The "filibuster-proof majority" of the democrats hasn't really existed since a number of the dems in Congress are so in name only. But the illusion of this majority has allowed the republicans to abdicate any responsibility for useful action and stonewall everything.
Plus the outcome in Mass. is just another indication that the democrats needed a swift kick in the ass. Their hubris has been palpable since the last election and it hasn't helped them at all. They've failed to convince pretty much anyone that their policies are sound--I'm not sure they've really even tried.
Frankly, they've reminded me of Bush after his 2004 re-election touting his "political capitol."
The republicans have done nothing useful at all but have sold it beautifully. And the democrats seem uninterested in calling them on it.
Perhaps now the democrats will realize they have to actually convince people their ideas are beneficial instead of repeating "trust us." Perhaps they'll make the republicans actually pay for their obstructionist tactics. Perhaps they'll figure out that the way to get the legislation they want is not to publicly claim this is make or break for them and start from the compromise position or to back down from every impediment without a fight.
Perhaps this will knock a tiny bit of sense into the whole bunch of idiots in Washington.
I'm not holding my breath, though. |
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[Jan. 10th, 2010|07:14 pm] |
Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along.... All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism. It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering, Nuremberg trials |
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| A question |
[Dec. 29th, 2009|11:05 pm] |
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Do revolutions ever not end up with a different version of the original problem? |
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