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• Yeah, so Tuesday is the new Monday. No interview with Radical (already filled the position). Haven’t heard back from *anybody* else. #
• Pretty pathetic when the only good thing you can see in the day so far is that you can apply for Employment Insurance online instead of IRL. #
• What do you do about it if you’re anti-logging, but a photo of you ends up promoting “second-growth?” forestry? #

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• I think I might have broken my own domain today via FTP thinking I’m attacking it, when I’m actually just trying to upload helpdesk. Ironic? #
• Digging Tweetdeck Gives a nice three/four column dashboard for everything that’s happening in the tweetosphere. Free. #
• Wow. Forgot how grating the 1987 album by Big Black was. Accidentally bought that album because I read review NEXT TO a Prince piece. #
• I think the tweetosphere’s going to think I only listen to Prince. I don’t. I haven’t in a long time. Honest! Not since about ’93, much. #
• Watching “The Big Bang Theory,” and can’t believe nobody told me about this show. It’s like XKCD on crack, in sitcom form. #
• Have I mentioned lately how awesome http://www.fusednetwork.com is as a hosting solution? I asked for a php extension enabled. 20 mins, done. #

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• From the “What the Bleep do Six Year Olds Know?” files: “Two months summer vacation? I guess time travels when you’re having fun.” #

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• Listening to the new Franz Ferdinand, and the big hit single Ulysses has the vocal moved forward by about a 16th beat. Was that intentional? #

Edit/Update:  So, this was really bugging me, because the album version vocal seemed so “slushy” compared to the single I downloaded a month or so ago.  I wasn’t entirely sure about the veracity of the album version I had, so Ripley and I wandered down to the HMV at Robson & Burrard yesterday and listened to the track on a listening post.  Same thing.  Sounded like their singer was off a bit, y’know?

So I threw both tracks into Sony’s Acid 7.0 and did a quick slide edit to put the music tracks together as closely as I could bother, and aside from a little flam on the percussion that isn’t there normally, I think I got them pretty tight.  Here’s an MP3 of BOTH tracks, and you’ll notice a distinct echo/doubling of the vocal that gets more and more pronounced as the track progresses.  Frankly, I kinda dig it, ’cause it gives the track this weird dizzy feel to it.

Franz Ferdinand – Ulysses (Both Versions)

• Laundry day, and trying to keep it all together (me, not my laundry). Sunny day in Vancouver, makes it seem like there’s Spring ever again. #

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• I’ve now officially been told the company here is shutting down, due to exchange rates and economic downturn. Bye, Humanature Studio. #
• If I hear one more person say that something is a “mute point,” I’m a go ballistic. Isn’t it “MOOT?” I feel like I’m taking crazy pills! #

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• Am flabberghasted by Star Trek he’s never seen before. Thought I’d seen them all by now, at least. #
• @edIT_ Any Vancouver BC dates? Would love to catch a live show. #
• @dooce Does Discovery Health also run ads for Saw constantly, including at dinnertime, and during what’s normally kid-friendly MythBusters? #

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• Slept in this morning, but my back hurts again. Am I doing something wrong while unconscious? My coffee is too hot. (and other complaints) #
• Finds it surreal to be talking bootleg Prince albums with the host of a NY hiphop show. Net makes that whole six degrees thing seem quaint. #
• Someone should invent Wii Floor-Rolling Temper Tantrum, because our kids would excel at it. Probably wouldn’t need the wrist strap either. #
• I also think my kids would excel at “Yoga Interruption.” If equestrian show jumping’s a sport, shouldn’t “Submarining Downward Dog” be, too? #
• I’m overly-proud that he just detected Bill Cosby’s voice on the NickJr site Captain Brainstorm that Ripley was playing with. #
• Watching StarWars IV “Untouched” with the kids, eating pizza, and munching veggies. Now THAT is a Saturday evening well-spent. #

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• @jsmooth995 was there ever an official answer on whether or not it was Leeds on the “Prince and Miles Davis” bootleg, all those years ago? #
• The previously “Vaulted” Prince show is up at http://www.geckotemple.com/podcast #

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• In some weird sort of limbo lately. Don’t feel very connected. Partly denial, partly just good ol fashioned fear, I suspect. #

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