{"id":87614924,"date":"2012-11-01T19:02:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T03:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614924"},"modified":"2023-05-04T08:30:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T16:30:47","slug":"namo12_11_01-those-arent-dust-bunnies-theyre-dust-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614924","title":{"rendered":"Namo&#8217;12_11_01: Those Aren&#8217;t Dust Bunnies, They&#8217;re Dust BEARS."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi.\ufffd Been eleven months.\u00a0 Any of you still out there? I occasionally post on Twitter now, and maybe post a little more often on Facebook, but mostly I just.<\/p>\n<p>I just what? I work. I cycle. I sleep. I surf. I make stupid jokes at my lovely wife, the doula\/writer\/teacher\/mom, and watch my kids get huge.\u00a0 17combined years of childhood combine in the house to create one hell of a mess sometimes.\u00a0 Also, we have rats now. Rats are odd.<\/p>\n<p>I occasionally drive around in<\/p>\n<p>Hi.\ufffd Been eleven months. Any of you still out there? I occasionally post on Twitter now, and maybe post a little more often on Facebook, but mostly I just.<\/p>\n<p>I just what? I work. I cycle. I sleep. I surf. I make stupid jokes at my lovely wife, the doula\/writer\/teacher\/mom, and watch my kids get huge. 17combined years of childhood combine in the house to create one hell of a mess sometimes. Also, we have rats now. Rats are odd.<\/p>\n<p>I occasionally drive around in other people&#8217;s cars. People keep giving me cars, or asking me to drive their car, or park it somewhere. I sound like a mule, but I&#8217;m totally not. Just near the airport, and the sort of person not likely to destroy your vehicular baby. Though there was that one time I went WAY too fast through the tunnel, but I was young and foolish, as opposed to now. I&#8217;m older.<\/p>\n<p>Holy crap you guys, I&#8217;m almost 42 now. I&#8217;m not going to ask where the time went, &#8217;cause I know where it went. Away.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some sort of format radio button that&#8217;s called Aside, and I suspect if I played with it even once, I would probably want to use it all the time, and wonder why Thunderbird\/Facebook\/Twitter don&#8217;t also all have this wonderous feature.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;d better just leave it the heck alone.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;ll play you a little of what I&#8217;ve been hearing in my head while cycling the 10k to\/from work every day this Summer up until, the uh, the third day of Bike-To-Work-Week. To be fair (to me, not to you) there&#8217;s been some reasonably good excuses for driving my dad&#8217;s car to work for the last two days, but they&#8217;re more about reason (I&#8217;m getting a cold? I have to get home faster than 30+ minutes?) and less about anything approaching what I&#8217;d normally do.<\/p>\n<p>Ramble bramble scramble, get on with the music. Alt-J album An Awesome Wave simply blew my mind, and continues to do so, a full two months of heavy rotation later. I&#8217;ll let it speak for itself, but I wanted to say that I&#8217;m pretty sure this the most beautiful control and playfulness I&#8217;ve ever heard in what is, at best, a very weird voice.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m a big fan of weird vocalists.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping in and feel free to say hi.<\/p>\n<p>other people&#8217;s cars. People keep giving me cars, or asking me to drive their car, or park it somewhere. I sound like a mule, but I&#8217;m totally not. Just near the airport, and the sort of person not likely to destroy your vehicular baby. Though there was that one time I went WAY too fast through the tunnel, but I was young and foolish, as opposed to now. I&#8217;m older.<\/p>\n<p>Holy crap you guys, I&#8217;m almost 42 now. I&#8217;m not going to ask where the time went, &#8217;cause I know where it went. Away.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some sort of format radio button that&#8217;s called Aside, and I suspect if I played with it even <em>once<\/em>, I would probably want to use it all the time, and wonder why Thunderbird\/Facebook\/Twitter don&#8217;t also all have this wonderous feature.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;d better just leave it the heck alone.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;ll play you a little of what I&#8217;ve been hearing in my head while cycling the 10k to\/from work every day this Summer up until, the uh, the third day of Bike-To-Work-Week.\u00a0 To be fair (to me, not to you) there&#8217;s been some <em>reasonably<\/em> good excuses for driving my dad&#8217;s car to work for the last two days, but they&#8217;re more about reason (I&#8217;m getting a cold? I have to get home faster than 30+ minutes?) and less about anything approaching what I&#8217;d normally do.<\/p>\n<p>Ramble bramble scramble, get on with the music.\u00a0 Alt-J album An Awesome Wave simply blew my mind, and continues to do so, a full two months of heavy rotation later.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let it speak for itself, but I wanted to say that I&#8217;m pretty sure this the most beautiful control and playfulness I&#8217;ve ever heard in what is, at best, a very weird voice.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m a big fan of weird vocalists.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for stopping in and feel free to say hi.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S3fTw_D3l10\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi.\ufffd Been eleven months.\u00a0 Any of you still out there? I occasionally post on Twitter now, and maybe post a little more often on Facebook, but mostly I just. I just what? I work. I cycle. 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