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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 A while back, I poked fun at a an album cover by Sterling Blythe, called Sterling Blythe Sings (CAC #47). Mark Portillo, keeper of the blog called Drop Me Off In Harlem, started a concept where simple animation to familiar, and not-so-familiar album covers could bring out many salient features, or poke fun of drawbacks, of […] […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers — Sidebar: CACs brought to life  Tweet Buy this album and you will always be able to see this beautiful photo of a telephone held by someone in a tasteful suit. Yes, I’ll bet you will stare at this one forever. I’m only saying all this because I’m jealous, of course. Aren’t you, knowing now that Jerry Irby has a hotline to heaven? […] […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #218 — Old-School Telephones Tweet This is Kenny Rodgers, with his 1981 open declaration of love to his saviour, “Kenny Loves Jesus”. The next sweet odour you smell may be the sweet smell of the Holy Spirit, which will draw you closer to the Lord. It says so on the back cover of this LP. I have resisted this crappy cover from […] […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #171 — Pinin' for the lord Tweet Frickin’? Friggin’? I wish they had a dictionary for the correct spelling of expletives. Lillian Southard Robinson looks like a kindly enough elderly woman in the picture. The kind that would give an extra quarter to the paperboy, and who would visit shut-ins twice every week. In the middle ground of the photo is a quote […] […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #134 — Still more frickin' sunshine Tweet Felix Lorentz will sing your requests whether you want him or not. He comes out of his shack near the lagoon to the bar in the nearby village and rips the mike out of the hand of the entertainer that was scheduled to arrive, and yells out “I take requests!”After a few moments of stunned […] […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #133 — Hicks from the sticks Tweet I was going to name this blog entry “family style”, but then I remembered that was the name of a 1990 duet album by brothers Jimmy and Stevie Ray Vaughan. It would have been an insult to SRV’s memory, I thought. So, I changed it to a straight title. Now they say that the way to […] […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #58 — Family Bands Tweet Not clear on this idea of double-barreled handguns. Especially guns that use actual wooden barrels to guide the bullet. Some guns are not made for actual shooting, I suppose. Dave and Ansel Collins put this reggae album out in 1971. The title track of this album peaked at #22 on Billboard back then. It was a bigger […] […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #48 — Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn … Tweet Donnie and Joe Emerson’s 1979 offering, Dreamin’ Wild, is classed in some blogs in the psychedelic rock genre. So, then I if I look at this picture and think that I see two heads growing out of one body, then I suppose that it’s because I am on acid? If this is not the case, then, is […] […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #47 — I don't get this Tweet Hello, ladies and Gentlemen, and welcome to Strider’s Country Hayride! We only have one instrument for this concert, the Moog synth, played by Gil Trythall. So far, the 1970 album cover meets the requirements of crappy for the purposes of this series. But today I will demonstrate that this album is crap, through and through. I pity […] […] Go to article Crappy Albums Covers — Special — Focus on Country Moog Tweet Phallic symbols, their effects, and other weirdness… Sigmund Freud once was quoted as saying “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” After inventing the idea of phallic symbols, and knowing how much he loved to smoke cigars, there are people who would have disagreed with Freud’s veiled attempt to shield the psychological dimensions of his own […] […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #26 — Phallic symbols Tweet This album was only released in England in 1976, by a Pop/Country musician from Missouri named Jimmy Payne. Payne wrote hits for the likes of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (Remember “Woman, Woman”?), Charlie Pride, Glen Campbell, and Tammy Wynette, among others. He still lives with his wife in Nashville, and he apparently is still recording […] […] Go to article Crappy Album Covers #25 — Da Doktor's In Da House |
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