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Time and Time Again

This blog goes back 10 years or more...in that time the places I have used to post my thoughts, links and whatnots have shifted from services both self hosted and otherly hosted. I think its now time to think about unifying all the bits and bitness that makes up the loose miasma of my gestalt in this place. And so I will try to once again make this the place all things can be gotten and from which a capture of things can be had. Connect the dots. Such is the idea.....

Scopes Trial attendee E. Haldeman-Julius

Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: Publisher E. Haldeman-Julius, standing in front of the Defense Mansion.
Originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution

Two great historic items that go great together... The Scopes Trail and Little Blue Books publisher E Halderman-Julius. This reminds me that I need to unpack and continue cataloging the hundreds of Little Blue Books I collected a few years back.

The Family Creative Workshop Books

I found these at a treasure trove of greatness in Portland OR called the Dollar Scholar. I have 20 or so volumes, each jam packed with well written well documented howtos and diyisms. !974 and DIY was a strong force. This jared my memory a bit as I realized back in those times I made a dasheki from instructions I got from mailing in a card to Zoom. I wish there were pics of that...on second thought...

Mix tape For My Wife

Blue Recordings from the 1890's

Whore’s Union price list From the sharp eyes of our pal at the Soup Greens blog.. "Whore’s Union price list The following MP3s a very dirty jokes from the 1890s on a wax cylinder recording, via the incredible Archeophone release Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s:"

Welcome Home Delilah

Delilah and Dad
Originally uploaded by TomHiggins

After years of saying "no pets!" the family broke me down last night. Bright and early this morning off we went to a local adoption place and found us a new family member.

Delilah is a 4 year old Black Lab/German Shepherd with the pulling capacity of a tank. She took to the kids immediately, told us when she need to go outside to pewp ( a big plus) and is such a slobbering love machine it is now, an hour after getting her home, hard to imagine life without her.

How to make seedbombs

Heavy Petal: How to make seedbombs: "This past weekend, Al from my guerilla gardening group led a seedball-making workshop. I loved it; it was so satisfying just to get my hands muddy and spend a couple hours in a zen-like trance rolling seedballs... I highly recommend the process! Here's the recipe: 5 parts dry red clay* 3 parts dry organic compost 1 part seed** 1 - 2 parts water"

Omnivore Jean Shepherd Playlist and player

You folks know I love me the Jean Shepherd. I have run shoutcasts and podcasts of his works over the years and still a day dose not go by when I need a fix. Archive.org has become a common ground place to put such things and so good people have been uploading the good there. Problem is I wanted to have one play list with all the shows listed in one place...so in went all 760 something shows into one playlist. plop. I used the newish Yahoo Embedded Player Lucas Gonez crafted up. I like the little touches like using plain old urls to make up the playlist and the ability to add artwork for each track right in the tag.

Danny Kaye

Danny Kayes First Show A little test here to see if a tag system might work.

SoupGreens Vess Ossman Playlist

Vess Ossman was born in 1868, made his first recordings in 1893, and died in 1923 at the age of 55. His given name was Sylvester Louis Ossman. He was American.

Speed Readers

Trevor F. Smith: Speed Readers Speed reader is a damn interesting concept and a nice change of pace for reading books. Give it a spin.

Whats up?

the sky

xkcd On english as a national language

A New York of the Maybe

The New Face of the Singulariy

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Originally uploaded by TomHiggins

TADA!!! The future.

National Novel Writting Month and My Part In It

Some of the folks over at LibriVox decided to tackle writing a collaborative novel in this fine month of November which just happens to be National Novel Writing Month. I am Chapter 6, I might be more chapters if i have the time and more folks do not sign up to fill in the need. The story so far is interesting. I have my thoughts on where its going as I am sure everyone else has their very different thoughts, that is the fun of a collaborative effort. You can read the work as it unfurls at this url. Enjoy, and jump in with a chapter if you feel so moved.

James Burke - Balanced Anarchy

Why is the universe the way it is? Cause James Burke Say SO! Well actually cause we consensually say so. And thats one to grow on....