Month: November 2007

The Radio Kitchen

I’ve always wanted to get a decent radio rig and surf the air. In light of my financial priorities, I settle for The Radio Kitchen instead. If nothing else, the attached .mp3s make for great mix fodder. And as if the guy wasn’t already pumping out quality material, he also has a blog The Audio Kitchen that showcases found audio.

I’m a sucker for found audio…

Whatever Happened to Sandy and Gina?

Sandy and Gina were two women ensconced somewhere in the Great White North building a steel sailboat from the ground up. Sandy ran a blog at Sandyscb.com where each day of work on the boat was chronicled. The last day I saw was Day 374. Every so often I’d go through to view their progress because it the whole project was just really effin’ cool. At the end I’d update my bookmark to hit the next day.

I got away from checking things out because of work or some other distraction but the last time I looked, the site was down. Not only that but the domain is now just a squat-vertisement site. Googling for information provides nothing and this kind of makes me sad.

I hope they’re bimbling around the Caribbean or Mediterranean and the carefree lifestyle distracted them from re-upping the domain or even posting updates. I fear that this isn’t the case. Perhaps there was a falling out or maybe the well ran dry. And for some reason this really concerns me in a way that some random detritus found on the Internet shouldn’t.

Do you know what happened?

Update of 2007-12-16

I do! Oh fortuitous luck.

I was bimbling through the referral stats for this site and noticed someone hit the site searching the exact phrase that titles this post. It piqued my curiosity so I headed off to the great search engine collective to see where I hit in the grand scheme of things. I saw a posting on some welding discussion board. Following links from there I eventually stumbled upon the new and improved site that Sandy maintains.

She’s maintained the site navigation so you can find any day starting at day one or jump back in it like I did at day 375. I found it easiest to break out of the flash-obscuring frame navigation and just get at the internal frame. The next / previous links get you most places and you can edit on days where there is a jump. Seriously, the damn flash navigation is completely orthogonal to a useful site. And it adds nothing aesthetically.

For the attention deficient: I rambled through all the stuff since I lost the site. They’re booming toward an April 2008 launch. The business is sold. The house is for sale. The project is just freakin’ incredible and the boat is beautiful. I’m not much for open water and will die happy having never sailed anything other than the seat of my pants but I can really appreciate the work and dedication and beautiful lines of the boat they’ve built from the ground up.

Something Weird

You know what’s weird? Seeing a blog entry written by someone and having them reference you as “their boss.” Even if that is technically true—that person does work for me—it just gives me the willies. I never wanted to be anyone’s boss. I just want to write code and see what goofy crap can be conjured up out of a bunch of computers sharing files over a decentralized network.

Also weird? Wanting to go back to that time in Lincoln when I was noticeably hipper, younger, and ‘in the scene’ as it were. Can’t really hang out with the neo-bohemian set when you’re pushing the upper edge of your fourth decade on this planet. Conflict and contrast—the keys to artistic endeavor.

The Coming Storm

I’ve been following the ever-increasing Storm Worm phenomena since it’s arrival almost a year ago. I was originally impressed by the relative polish of its social engineering aspects. It has always seemed to me that all manner of phishing, social engineering, and general spam vectors have had some very obvious clues. It’s like the individual crafting the vector was dropping these signs as warnings to their clued-in brethren—as if it were all a practical joke on the n00bs.
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Devastating Shortcake

Another in what promises to be a long line of repurposed entries from the old Millionaire’s Holiday page. This one originally aired on October 23, 2005. Here’s what I had to say about this show:

A really fun show this week where we hear all sorts of novelty oddities with just enough beats to tie it all together. Particularly rare gems include rap from Strawberry Shortcake, an excerpt from Devastating Dave the Turntable Slave, and a few thrift store home-made cassette finds. Oh, you better believe this is goodbad stuff. You’ll also notice either:

  1. A lack of announcing and PSAs in the first half of the program; or
  2. A sudden loss of audio quality in the second half of the show.

Again the stream capture gremlins were out in force and I dropped the first half of the program. However, this time I was able to recreate it from the audio master files on the laptop thus you get the full show this week. Lucky you. . . Speaking of the show, you can either nab it using the podcast link on the right or grab the direct link to the audio file.

Playlist after the jump

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Cooks.com – Recipe – Curry Pumpkin Soup

I’m not exactly the king of cookery and I am hardly a recipe blog kind of guy, but this recipe is superlative. We made it little over a month ago to rave reviews and then promptly lost the paper it was printed on. Elz and I are using it as the opening gambit for our Joint Family Thanksgiving Spectacular meal so I had to do a bit of internet digging to rediscover the thing. Now that it is found, I will memorialize it forever here on the ol bloggy blog.

Cooks.com – Recipe – Curry Pumpkin Soup