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Featured Postings  Eldred, Saskatchewan on the map ... barelyI've written about obscure Saskatchewan communities before. Here is another community far to the north of Unity. My ancestors from France settled here. Many of my ancestors were pioneers that broke new farming ground nearest to a community called Eldred, Saskatchewan. Eldred was about 10 km ... Fortune Cookies for Human RightsYou know, I was minding my own business in this classy Chinese restaurant, engorging myself on their copious buffet, had my fill, and was handed the bill with an accompanying fortune cookie. This fortune cookie (the one to the left) really existed, and I never saw ... Getting f(x) notation to work in MapleMaple is a robust math environment which can graph, solve equations, and solve for the unknown with the aid of its computer algebra solver (CAS), which is capable of computing exact roots of cubic functions, for example. I wanted to demonstrate for myself that Maple could ... Kudos to the 1050 CHUM Memorial BlogRecently, I've been hit (my website that is) by someone possibly checking his plethora of links from his/her website, and when I back-traced it, I find this cool blog which acts as a convincing historical shrine to the late great 1050 CHUM Radio in Toronto. ... The Obfuscation of Electronics: The Behringer Xenyx 502This is more like a meta-review. I have gone to Canada Computes where nearly the entire Behringer line is sold, and was impressed by the specs. But does it do what I want, the way I want it? I face a number of obstacles, being a ...
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Tweet Theodore Anthony Nugent Ted Nugent or “The Nuge” is a hard rock/psychedelic guitarist whose musical career dates back to 1963. He has made his stance against drug and alcohol abuse part of his right-wing activism. He is an ardent Republican supporter, and is strongly in favour of gun rights. It is said […] Go to article Famous Teetotalers 012: Right-wingers  Tweet Scott Miller (right) standing next to his biggest musical influence, Big Star’s Alex Chilton (1950-2010) (left). The band Game Theory existed in the 1980s, and had a good run as artistic output goes. But during their day, they were beset by various runs of bad luck: the folding of their record label, […] Go to article The latest on Lolita Nation Tweet Cuban born Perez Prado (1916-1989) showed himself as the Head Honcho of Mambo University. I guess it was the Latin kind, not the horizontal kind. During his tenure, Prado was known as the King of Mambo. Living for most of his life in Mexico, he had a long recording and performing career which […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #214 — Where they learn to dance Tweet June Mary Gough (stage surname is Bronhill) (1929-2005) sports a long dress made from curtains taken from a rummage sale at the Sydney Opera House. She is a renowned operatic soprano, and was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. She is here posing outside of an opera house in […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #161 — The uses of recycled curtains Tweet This would be the soundtrack to Elvis’s first comedy, GI Blues, released in 1960 by Paramount Pictures, where he acts as Tulsa alongside some token girl named Juliet Prowse, who plays Lili. This is not Elvez, but “El Vez” (The Time), played by Hispanic smart aleck Robert Lopez. He is not strictly an Elvis […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #160 – Elvez Prezley Tweet Allmusic.com sums Pat Boone up best. Having started his hit-making career before the “British Invasion”, Boone was the only worthy rival to Elvis Presley. Boone was the “nice guy” of the set, seeming to symbolise wholesome values at a time when Rock and Roll was considered by many to be a sign of […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #139 — Out of their depth |
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