Radio Free Colorado (In Exile) Rocks You Into The Very Smoky Night

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      1. Don’t buy house insulation from him!

        (He got in office as a Green and was part of a coalition Gov’t Cabinet, was put in charge of home insulation scheme that managed to cause numerous house fires . . . cue Talking Heads!)

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        2. I was down in Australia when he was doing a pompous, pretentious TV bit about the environment and Aboriginal peoples and sheesh, dude, stick with music, OK?

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          1. almost all of his music was about ‘the plight of aboriginal peoples’
            except the part that was anti-corporate and anti-capitalist.

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  3. Jeanne d’Arc is my most horrible example of betrayal and cruelty.

    We named our daughter after her. Not that we expected her to meet smarmy Burgundians and perfidious French monarchs.

    Re-watching The Messenger now.

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  4. Sarah, great music. We must be of an age, as I knew almost all of your music. I love music, as I had absolutely no rhythm of any kind. I can only dance when the beat reverberates in my chest, or I am quite plastered, often both. It’s why I don’t play an instrument, a failing I wish I didn’t have. I can’t read music, either. I’m an engineer, and can do a lot of math in my head. Strange, as most people who can do that are musical. I guess I’m the mutant.

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    3. It’s actually pretty common, both to have musical engineers and “unmusical” engineers.

      There is a lady who posted somewhere about being a ballroom dancing instructor near Stanford or MIT or something, and how she often taught “unmusical” engineers and science people how to dance.

      I think the gist of it was that some people are so into doing math in their heads, or into picturing math spatially, that they have trouble translating it into sound (and back again).

      So she basically set up ways to make things more spatial, or more head-ish, and then added the music when they were already familiar with the math/pattern that had been laid out.

      I wish I could remember where I read about it. I don’t think it was on Sarah’s blog, although that’s possible.

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  7. Playlist Sundays? I can go with that. Although I don’t have to click on very many of them to get them running on my built-in CD player. (Except for Jason’s. I’ll be busy for the next few days.)

    Somewhat of a relief, as Aerosmith has been on “loop” this week.

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  8. Phantom update, all is well.

    Or as well as could be expected, anyway. I got over my crud, got in to see Mom. She of course has no idea what’s what, but my funny face got a laugh out of her anyway. Resting comfortably, the rest of the clan going in to see her every day.

    So, in keeping with this post, here’s a song for Mom.

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    1. But while we’re digging up gold in the grooveyard of forgotten favorites, as Rush Limbaugh loved to say, here’s one of mine from the Good Old Days when I was young, dumb and so forth, doing wheelies down University Avenue and behaving like a public menace.

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  13. Red Barchetta

    YYZ

    Bastille Day

    …

    Battle Hymm of the Republic

    Ballad of Roger Young

    Battle of New Orleans

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      1. I’m low-grade looking into what I would need to do it now. Turns out, for purely music/recorded things, all I need is a Rasberry Pi, some wire, and a power source.

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        1. Uncle Charlie lacks a sense of humor.

          Local HAMs will make your day interesting if you get too noisy.

          There are actually ways to play “broadcast” legally. I of course recommend doing so legally. (Grin)

          But someone in that urban novel can ginn up a decent transmitter fairly easily. Hard part is avoiding that notional StatzPolezei pair of RDF vans and their HK drone associates. Lol.

          Long ago, in an RPG far away, the Russians left behind an orbiting microwave deathray that zapped radio sources and the half acre around them.

          Thus I started salvaging aircraft distress beacons, as weapons. “Wrath of Diety Grenades”.

          One small airport wreckage yielded enough to nuke a Mech Infantry battalion.

          I boggled the animator. (Grin)

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  15. and may I say, waking up at 4am to the neighbors smoke detectors announcing “kitchen fire” is a crappy way to start Monday.

    We are all ok. Pros responded and solved. Fairly minor. God bless firefighters. You magnificent maniacs.

    Clothes and weapons handy in the dark.

    Get. The. F. Out.

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  16. Man, there are some terrible horrible bitchy teachers who post on Reddit.

    This guy posts about how it’s terrible to be an anxious person asking a teacher for help with math problems, and then not to be helped.

    There were some decent replies by teachers, but also a lot of ones repeating that obviously it’s bad for the teacher to help students, because they need to learn to do it themselves.

    So then a bunch of anxious people, or people who missed part of classes where important concepts were covered, talk about how they never ever got taught X or Y, or only learned it in college or from a tutor, because the teacher refused to help or explain.

    And then there were a bunch of replies about how that was obviously the students’ fault for not working hard enough, because if they had worked they would have magically figured it out. And they have tons of students who are always asking for help, so obviously they’re all lazy.

    First off, I seriously doubt that teachers can’t spot their anxious students. It’s not exactly hard to tell with most, and there are tells with the ones trying to act cool. I’m the least social person ever, and I can freaking tell.

    Second, if you have tons of students failing at the “attack” of starting the problem, then the answer is to go over math problem strategies as a whole. I mean, duh, it’s like a game and there are rules. You can freaking explain the general strategies as well as the specific problems.

    (This goes for all test questions, too. They are all parts of a game with rules, and you can explain how test questions work. Sheesh.)

    If you want to be lazy teachers or if you want kids to learn by themselves, you have to give the students their tools with some explanations first, not just a tool catalog.

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    1. Second, if you have tons of students failing at the “attack” of starting the problem, then the answer is to go over math problem strategies as a whole. I mean, duh, it’s like a game and there are rules. You can freaking explain the general strategies as well as the specific problems.

      If one student has an issue, it’s their issue.

      If several students have an issue, there is something wrong.

      But that is “disrespectful” of the paid educators, that’s what a real teacher does….

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