29 Feb
Not a lot to say. Ten songs from your mp3 collection…at random. Here’s mine: “Bastards of Young” – The Replacements “All I Really Want” – Alanis Morissette “I Know There’s A Word” – Aimee Mann “I’m A Worried Man” – Johnny Cash “The Na-Na Song” – Sheryl Crow “Ghost (demo version)” – Inidigo Girls “Easy” [...]
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28 Feb
In my quest to find more interesting JoCo videos, last weekend I discovered the wonder that is Molly the Ukeist… The video below is perhaps one of the funnier and, frankly, adorable things I’ve seen in a while. I’d say that I have an innocent, completely non-stalker kind of crush, but then I realize that [...]
Posted in geek stuff, music by: chuck
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28 Feb
When activity is slow, the mind, and sometimes the browser, wanders… Since I redesigned the domain front page (that nobody uses but my sister), I’ve finally cracked the first page of a google search for chuck parker! Yay, Number seven! Sure, I’ve been number one on Yahoo! for years now, but Google is something special… [...]
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26 Feb
yeah, I really don’t have much to contribute to the discourse of Teh Interwebs™ today, but I have this space, so it kinda feels like I ought to fill it. So I shall fill it with this. A question: If you were six, and your eight-almost-nine year-old sibling came up to you with a pair of [...]
Posted in family, it's funny, laugh! by: chuck
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22 Feb
Since we’re ahead on the project, I came home a day early. Probably for the best, given that three inches of snow in DC has pretty much turned the beltway into Thunderdome this morning. Damn, it felt good to sleep in my own bed last night…Here’s your music: “20 Closest Friends” – Innocent Nixon “The [...]
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20 Feb
It was as if an occult hand had reached down from above and surreptitiously adjusted my alarm clock ahead twelve hours. An occult hand, perhaps, but more likely, it was a bored former occupant of my hotel room having a bit of a laugh at my non-observant expense. Damn the lack of standards which exist [...]
Posted in bitching, movies and tv, program notes, random blathering by: chuck
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18 Feb
It’s time for a few program notes… I’ve been playing with a few new toys here this past week, using my domain as a proving ground for some new stuff for Mike T’s site. As a result, I have a couple of new toys to play with, linked here, and to your right: Guestbook – [...]
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15 Feb
Going back to that post a while back about that study that says people don’t read any more, I wanted to see exactly how much I read, in some quanitifiable form. The first step was adding that “number of books read” count over to the left. The second, was to add a new page, where [...]
Posted in books, hyper-obsessive by: chuck
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15 Feb
Since my throat is shot, I’ll let the music do the talking… “Scattered” – Rusted Root “Crazy” – Tori Amos “Last Day of the Miner’s Strike” – Pulp “Crazy On You” – Heart “Cold Beer and Remote Control” – Indigo Girls “Joe Rey” – Fountains of Wayne “I Wanna Live” – The Ramones “I Turn [...]
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