Monthly Archives: December 2006

The Cornjob Memorial Library: Where Were You In 1992?

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The Cornjob Memorial Library: Where Were You In 1992?

Go to www.popCulturemadness.com and select the year you became 18. Paste the list of the top 75 songs. Bold the ones you liked; strike the ones you disliked; and italicize the ones you know but don't exactly like nor dislike. The ones you don't know will stay common text.

Sadly for me, 1975 was not a year of going boldly. In fact, it was one big strikeout, musically and socially. 

1975 Greatest Hits

1. Get Down Tonight – KC & The Sunshine Band
2. Thank God I'm A Country Boy – John Denver Normally, I like him, but NOT THIS RECORD. 3. That's the Way (I Like It) – K.C. and the Sunshine Band
4. Cut The Cake – Average White Band (AWB)
5. Lady Marmalade – Patti LaBelle "Voulez vouz coucher avec moi, c'est soir?"
6. Jive Talkin' – Bee Gees 7. You're The First, The Last, My Everything – Barry White
8. Shining Star – Earth Wind And Fire
9. Some Kind of Wonderful – Grand Funk
10. Send In The Clowns – Judy Collins
11. Boogie On Reggae Woman – Stevie Wonder
 12. You Are So Beautiful – Joe Cocker
13. The Hustle – Van McCoy
14. Best Of My Love – The Eagles
15. Rock and Roll All Night (Studio) – Kiss
16. Low Rider – War
17. "They Just Can't Stop It" (Games People Play) – Spinners
18. Lovin' You – Minnie Riperton                 RRRIIIIIP!! Not This Record! Not This Record!!!
19. Someone Saved My Life Tonight – Elton John
20. SOS – ABBA
21. No No Song – Ringo Starr
22. Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
23. Nights On Braodway – Bee Gees
24. Pick Up The Pieces – Average White Band
25. How Sweet It Is – James Taylor
26. Saturday Night Special – Lynyrd Skynyrd
27. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights – Freddy Fender
28. Sun Goddess – Ramsey Lewis & Earth, Wind and Fire
29. It Only Takes A Minute – Tavares
30. Black Water – Doobie Brothers
31. Ballroom Blitz – Sweet
32. My Eyes Adored You – Frankie Valli also known as "Nine Mice o' Georgia." I was drunk.
33. Shame, Shame, Shame – Shirley and Company
34. Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance) – Leo Sayer
35. Why Can't We Be Friends? – War
36. Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
37. Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John
38. Harry Truman – Chicago
39. Sadie – the Spinners
40. Feel Like Makin' Love – Bad Company
41. Don't Call Us, Well Call You – Sugarloaf
42. Roll On Down The Highway – BTO – Bachman Turner Overdrive
43. Killer Queen – Queen
44. Stand By Me – John Lennon
45. The Entertainer – Billy Joel
46. I Only Have Eyes For You – Art Garfunkle
47. It's A Miracle – Barry Manilow
48. Magic – Pilot
49. Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me) – Doobie Brothers
50. Dark Horse – George Harrsion
51. That's The Way Of The World – Earth Wind and Fire
52. Autobahn – Kraftwerk
53. Doctor's Orders – Carol Douglas
54. Tush – ZZ Top
55. Amie – Pure Prairie League Love this song. LOVED singing it in the dorms.
56. Attitude Dancing – Carly Simon
57. Get Dancin' – Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
58. Young Americans – David Bowie
59. Black Friday – Steely Dan
60. Good Lovin' Gone Bad – Bad Company
61. Mexico – James Taylor Actually like this one. Can't stand James Taylor otherwise.
62. Volare – Al Martino
63. Bertha Butt Boogie – Jimmy Castor Bunch Hate, hate, HATE THIS SONG.
64. Fire On The Mountain – Marshall Tucker Band
65. Mamacita – the Grass Roots
66. Struttin' – Billy Preston
67. Fly Robin Fly – Silver Convention
68. Part of the Plan – Dan Fogleberg
69. Fame – David Bowie
70. Rockin' All Over The World – John Fogerty
71. Sweet Emotion – Aerosmith   Heard WAY TOO MUCH. Liked "Big 10 Inch," though.
72. There Goes Another Love Song – The Outlaws
73. Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song – B.J. Thomas  Hate. HATE!!!!
74. Katmandu – Bob Seger
75. Hey You – Bachman Turner Overdrive

Sucks, doesn't it? What a terrible year for music. I turned 18 in September, the fall I was a senior. 1976, my actual graduation year, was MUCH better for music, and that fall I went off ot to college, which meant a lot of dorm dance parties. Thank God for Earth, Wind, and Fire: 

1976 Greatest Hits

1. Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry   Awesome dance funk
2. December 1963 (Oh What A Night) – Four Seasons    UGH
3. Shake Your Booty – KC and The Sunshine Band         UGH
4. Afternoon Delight – the Starland Vocal Band             UGH UGH UGH RIIIIP!! NTR! NTR!  5. You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine – Lou Rawls
6. Get Up Offa That Thing – James Brown
7. Rock and Roll All Night (Live) – Kiss
8. Summer – War
9. Take The Money and Run – Steve Miller Band
10. Turn The Beat Around – Vicki Sue Robinson   It sounds trite now, but it was a great song. 11. Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) – Diana Ross
12. I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Creedence Clearwater Revival
13. You Should Be Dancin' – Bee Gees
14. Boogie Fever – The Sylvers
15. Rock N Me – Steve Miller Band
16. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel – Tavares
17. You Sexy Thing – Hot Chocolate
18. If You Leave Me Now – Chicago
19. The Rubberband Man – the Spinners
20. Baby I Love Your Way – Peter Frampton
21. Love To Love You Baby – Donna Summer
22. Love Machine – The Miracles
23. Breezin' – George Benson
24. You're My Best Friend – Queen
25. Dream On – Aerosmith
26. Tonight's The Night – Rod Stewart
27. Sing A Song – Earth, Wind and Fire
28. More Than A Feeling – Boston
29. Show Me The Way – Peter Frampton
30. Love Rollercoaster – Ohio Players
31. I'd Really Love To See You Tonight – England Dan & John Ford Coley
32. Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk) – Parliament
33. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen                              OMG!! I LOVE THIS SONG! Bismillah!
34. (Don't Fear) The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
35. Fernando – Abba
36. Saturday Night – Bay City Rollers
37. Love Is The Drug – Roxy Music
38. Golden Years – David Bowie
39. Mamma Mia – Abba
40. Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot
41. Wake Up Everybody – Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes
42. Love Hurts – Nazareth
43. Sara Smile – Hall and Oates
44. Magic Man – Heart
45. Let Her In – John Travolta
46. Fly Away – John Denver
47. Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon
48. Disco Duck – Rick Dees HATE with the fire of a thousand suns. I was an Oregon Duck.
49. One Piece At A Time – Johnny Cash  How did I miss this one by the Man in Black?
50. Strange Magic – ELO
51. Kid Charlemagne – Steely Dan
52. Love Hangover – Diana Ross
53. Hurricane – Bob Dylan
54. Right Back Where We Started From – Maxine Nightingale
55. Hold back The Night – The Trammps
56. A Fifth Of Beethoven – Walter Murphy
57. Can't Hide Love – Earth, Wind and Fire
58. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out – Bruce Springsteen
59. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover – Paul Simon
60. Takin It To The Streets – Doobie Brothers
61. It's Over – Boz Scaggs
62. This Masquerade – George Benson
63. Madamoiselle – Styx
64. Slow Ride – Foghat
65. Fool For The City – Foghat
66. Beth – Kiss
67. The Fez – Steely Dan
68. More, More, More – Andrea True Connection
69. Hot Stuff – The Rolling Stones
70. Shower The People – James Taylor
71. Don't Touch Me There – the Tubes
72. The Boys Are Back In Town – Thin Lizzie
73. Locomotive Breath – Jethro Tull
74. Times of Your Life – Paul Anka            Paul Anka??
75. TVC15 – David Bowie

 

 

Fan Mashups: You Can’t Take The Gate From Me

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GCBME.COM Where You put the ME in MEdia

I dropped by my Flickr page and noticed someone had put a comment on my photo of a juvenile Goa'uld caught in my homemade snakehead trap (it's cleverly disguised as a lava lamp):

Goa'uld Trap 

The comment was:

KeepGateOpen_01

 

WATCH IT HERE

Please vote for my video HERE
The contest COULD HELP to bring back SG1 for another season!

Thanks,

Angie Moriconi

It's actually a pretty cute video, with a talking cat grumbling about how his obsessed "Tauri" has been spending all her time mailing boxes of Kleenex (inside joke) to the powers that be, and he's begging for the gate to be left open so she'll leave him alone. She's quite scary, actually, but pretty and obviously very dedicated. Good luck to her in her endeavor. Also, very smart cat she has there. 

His name appears to be "Furling," which is a pretty funny name for a Stargate fan's cat.

I didn't watch any of the other contest-entry videos; I consider myself a loyal fan of Stargate, but I can't get myself worked up to fever pitch over a science fiction show anymore – been there, did that with Earth2. Ah, the old days; I participated in a similar last-ditch campaign and volunteered to call sponsors to beg for the show's life. I actually spoke to two guys at Chrysler on a speakerphone, I wonder what the hell they made of it all. So when other shows I liked got cancelled, I couldn't muster the intensity, not even when Firefly bit it, although I did read some sites and have a login for the Browncoats site.  

Speaking of which… my husband David sent me a link: the Multiverse is about to become a reality, or as much of a reality as a MMORPG based on Firefly can be, being designed from the dirt up to the sky (which they cannot take from me). 

Shiny. Now, that could be some fun. 

Top 20 Reasons Programmers Give to Testers When “It Don’t Work.”

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COUNT DOWN……

20. "That's weird…"

19. "It's never done that before."

18. "It worked yesterday."

17. "How is that possible?"

16. "It must be a hardware problem."

15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?"

14. "There is something funky in your data."

13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"

12. "You must have the wrong version."

11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."

10. "I can't test everything!"

9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT."

8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested."

7. "Somebody must have changed my code."

6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"

5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel?

4. "You can't use that version on your system."

3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"

2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"

1. "It works on my machine"

Replies by Programmers to Testers when their software don't work.

Oh, this is so much my life in the weeks to come.

From: Under The Sun 

Via DDtB: Yes, I have used most of these.

A Bishop’s Visit

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So, the big visit today was a success. All the pictures are on a Flickr set here. We did go out into the neighborhood around St Nicholas to distribute shopping bags for a toy drive, and Bp. Scantlebury was a good sport about going door-to-door. We even had a couple of reporters there taking pictures for local papers.

This picture shows the baptistry of St Nick’s, with their fancy running-water font. Originally, this was an altar that was cut down and refashioned, and the worship space is completely flexible. Today, for example, all the chairs had been re-arranged to face the center, where the Advent wreath was suspended from the ceiling. Apparently, they do these re-arrangements seasonally.

The Matrimony Boycott

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The Sit-In at the Altar: No ‘I Do’ Till Gays Can Do It, Too – New York Times

Whether it makes sense or not, some heterosexual couples, mostly in their in 20s and 30s, are protesting the inability of gay and lesbian couples to marry by putting off their own marriage. Unless wedded bliss is available to everyone, in every state, they say, they want no part of it.

Jim Wallis Replies To Bush Radio Address

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The Swamp – Chicago Tribune – Blogs.

This is the text of the Democratic Party's radio address (audio link here):

"I’m Jim Wallis, author of God’s Politics. I was surprised and grateful when Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid called to say his party wanted to set a new tone and invite, for the first time, a non-partisan religious leader to deliver their weekly radio address and speak about the values that could unite Americans at this critical time.

"So, I want to be clear that I am not speaking for the Democratic Party, but as a person of faith who feels the hunger in America for a new vision of our life together, and sees the opportunity to apply our best moral values to the urgent problems we face. I am not an elected official or political partisan, but a religious leader who believes that real solutions must transcend partisan politics. For too long, we have had a politics of blame and fear, while America is eager for a politics of solutions and hope. It is time to find common ground by moving to higher ground.

"Because we have lost a commitment to the common good, politics is failing to solve the deepest crises of our time. Real solutions will require our best thinking and dialogue, but also call us to transformation and renewal.

"Most Americans know that the important issues we confront have an essential moral character. It is the role of faith communities to remind us of that fact. But religion has no monopoly on morality. We need a new, morally-centered discourse on politics that welcomes each of us to the table.

"A government that works for the common good is central. There is a growing desire for integrity in our government across the political spectrum. Corruption in government violates our basic principles. Money and power distort our political decision-making and even our elections. We must restore trust in our government and reclaim the integrity of our democratic system.

"At this moment in history, we need new directions.

"Who is left out and left behind is always a religious and moral question. In the Hebrew Scriptures, the health of a society was measured by how it cared for its weakest and most vulnerable, and prosperity was to be shared by all. Jesus proclaimed a gospel that was “good news to the poor.”

Right on. I'm on a mailing list for Sojourners magazine, a publication of Wallis' that a former vicar of Holy Moly turned me on to. I am greatly cheered to see that people of faith on the Left side of the political divide are finally finding their voices and speaking out, after working quietly for years for the poor and for peace-and-justice issues while the folks on the Right kept blathering on about sin. 

I pointed out in a comment in the Swamp blog that Jesus had a lot to say about feeding the poor and caring for the needy, but very little to say about sin, nothing at all to say about homosexuality, and accepted everyone without condemnation. Yes, He said "sin no more." But then He minds his own business, which I take to mean as an example of relying on one's own conscience.  

[tags]Jim Wallis[/tags][tags]Poverty[/tags][tags]Speaking Truth to Power[/tags] 

Binford, Eat Your Heart Out

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David's new toy:

 

Sears 5.5 hp 4-cylinder 2-stage electric-start gas snow thrower

Gas snow thrower with 5 forward, 2 reverse wheel drive speeds for varying conditions. Electric Start. 24 in. clearing path, 21 in. intake height. Remote chute rotation to throw snow where you want it. 13" X-Trac tires for increased traction during operation.

  • 5.5 HP Tecumseh 4-Cycle Engine w/ Electric Start (<–yay!!)
  • 24" clearing path/21" intake height
  • 5 Forward, 2 Reverse wheel drive speeds
  • 12" impeller/12" serrated auger
  • Tool-less Replacement Shearbolts/Chute clearing device

    • And I even like the color.

    We got a lot of snow the other day – wet, heavy snow, too. We currently have a small, 1 stage blower that is capable of dealing with a few inches of light, dry snow, but not capable of cutting through 2 feet of rapidly freezing, heavily salted slush that's just been plowed into your driveway and the tops of your hastily donned winter boots by the snow plow driven by a maniacally laughing public works employee.  

    David and I have both had this experience. The other day, he was working from home but had to dig out the driveway when he realized he'd probably have problems getting out, due to the deep, thick mound of plowed sludge left there by the village idiot employee driving the plow. We've remarked before that the little snowblower can't really handle wet slush, and yesterday he decided it was time for a little more horsepower. This will be fun to watch later.

    We pick up the new toy today. I occasionally will get to use it, and the electric starter will be a distinct improvement. We've offered the old Toro to family and friends; it's adequate for  small jobs, or perhaps for finessing little sidewalks too narrow or winding for the big Craftsman. And yes, my husband David did indeed measure the walkway to the front door to ensure that it's wide enough for the new machine. 

    Urrh! urrrh-urrrh-urrrggh!