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Just as well Bolty is back, because I’m out of here until mid-August.
(Not entirely; there’ll be occasional posts meantime, and the column never sleeps.)
(Admin note, July 31, 2007: sorry folks, forgot I had set comments to close after five days. Since you all (well, most of you all) seemed to be having such fun, I’ve extended the comment expiration to ten days. Andrea Harris, Administrator.)
Meanwhile,
Those of us who are unwilling to allow the Iraq war to become another in a series of anti-military “object lessons” to be wielded in the future like a rhetorical cudgel owe it to those fighting this war to make sure their sacrifices aren’t minimized or marginalized — and owe to those who have remained steadfast in their support of the mission (if not the actual tactics or specific strategies) to refuse to have their idealism reduced to barbarism, racism, imperialism, or some other putative evil that represents the exact opposite of their motivations and beliefs for lending support to the overall strategy to beat back Islamic terrorism and the fevered dreams of Islamists for pan Arabism or a new Caliphate.
Tks Ash, it’s pretty good lookin’ out my backdoor ...
Now that the lawn’s done, granny can get some target practice in ...
Khachaturian’s Gayneh. Or Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 04 at 01:23 AM • permalinkBaby Einstein have a good range of CD’s featuring well known classics arranged cutely, but not too cutely. Being a bit of an anal retentive purist, I didn’t think I’d like them, but they’re actually quite good, and bub loves them.
If you prefer, however, the proper stuff, may I suggest the Brandenburg concertos by Bach, Concerto Grosso Opus 6 by Handel, virtually any collection of symphonies by Mozart, Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, the Beethoven, Bruch and Mendelssohn violin concertos, the Schumann and Grieg piano concertos and, arh, natch, that’s enough.
You’ve just gotta read this story to believe it.
Murder and mayhem going on year after year around Your Black Muslim Bakery and no one seems to have joined the dots (ahem!). Murder of Chauncey BaileyTo change the tone entirely - some Saturday night party music.
You Know My Name
Best song for a 007 flick since Diamonds Are Forever.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 04 at 06:15 AM • permalinkPity the vision here is crap, though. Looks like it was done on a mobile phone in the cinema.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 04 at 06:20 AM • permalinkGlad you liked it, Ash. The credit sequence is quite impressive on the big screen.
And since I’ve mentioned it…
Shirley does DiamondsPosted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 04 at 06:42 AM • permalinkLater, folks, I can’t linger tonight. Be good.
But I can’t leave without leaving something for Miranda.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 04 at 06:52 AM • permalink#238 I read about the UK lawsuit awhile ago. very nasty stuff.
Hopefully the people who write these valuable books will publish them on the web for all to see.In other sad news, here is something from the blog One Jerusalem.com
July 31st, 2007 Maurice
Israel’s anguish regarding its two captured soldiers by the Hezbollah, has become more intense following the revelation of an article in a Lebanese newspaper that one captive is alive but the other is “no longer among the living”.Posted by carpefraise on 2007 08 04 at 08:59 AM • permalinkKae,
I was involved in the Burnett River (Paradise) dam on the Burnett (surprise!) completed in 2006.
So few dams have been built in Oz in the past 25 years that they have to bring us expats back to help out.
problem is not really beattie or the other labor premiers, it’s the unelected ecofascists who are controlling the agenda
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 08 04 at 11:58 AM • permalinkToccata and Fugue in D minor (Bach): graphical display
Guys, don’t worry about cleaning up around here. What are the odds Blair ever reads this site?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 04 at 12:45 PM • permalink#41 Jack: about 25 years ago, when I was a bank examiner living and working in Miami, I got to talking with an elderly bank guard about his background. He mentioned that, when a young man, he had been one of the laborers who had worked on the Hoover Dam. He told me some fascinating stories, and the basic facts of the technology involved were very interesting, indeed. It was from this old gentleman that I learned about the necessity of piping in cold water to remove some of the heat from the drying concrete (otherwise, it would have taken over a hundred years for the stuff to completely harden). Old news to an engineer such as you, but I remember being spellbound by the science involved.
32. SandiM—The Libs are on the warpath now that hoodlums have murdered a Journo.
Before that, the city was subsidizing the operation, while ignoring years of rumors of thuggery. San Francisco Bay is a fine model of the future of Liberalism
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 08 04 at 04:09 PM • permalinkPaco - Hoover dam is an amazing piece of work and one of my inspirations. It is truly a tribute to the enterprise and resourcefulness of American engineers, contractor and workers back in the ‘30s.
Like the later Snowy Mountains scheme in Australia (initiated with support from USBR engineers), it would not be possible to construct today.
When we do build concrete dams these days, we use much less cement and use earthmoving techniques to place. i.e roller compacted concrete (RCC). Using this approach, we can avoid the need for forced cooling (circulating chilled water through the structure) and produce a cheaper (but not better product).
Needless to say, RCC techniques were developed in the US and are now used worldwide with no attribution to the Great Satan.
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 08 04 at 04:53 PM • permalinkJack from Montreal
Yes, thegreensunelected ecofascists have a lot to answer for, however, the governments of all stripes are to blame for pandering to them and halting infrastructure development. On something vital as water it is absolute foolishness, espeically in a country where drought is not uncommon*.Jack f. M. & Paco
My first job was with British General Electric (GEC) in their Construction Division in Sydney. GEC Construction built power stations.
I was the office junior, fresh out of school. It was fascinating working there, learning little things about power stations and their construction. Every Easter break we’d be back working to complete a tender to one of the east coast electricity commissions (the only one I can remember was ECNSW at the moment). When I hear the name of power stations now I am a bit proud that I worked for that company all those years ago.
*unless you believe the AGW idiots who imply that drought is unheard of in Australia, as are floods and cyclones, except for the last thirty years or so.Paco et al,
Boulder Dam by Zane Grey.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 08 04 at 06:18 PM • permalinkPaco, there’s a marvellouse BBC doco serious, Seven Wonders of the Industrial World,which covers the Hoover in one episode.
It’s fascinating and favourite viewing in my house, and one I love recommending to all and sundry.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 08 04 at 08:15 PM • permalinkPaco, I’ve got it here, I can burn you a copy if you like.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 08 05 at 12:56 AM • permalinkAnd now for something completely different, Barry Bonds ties the home run record.
Yay!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 08 05 at 12:58 AM • permalinkIt’s a great series, Kae. I like to put it on and rewatch it every couple of months - especially the Bell Rock Lighthouse and the Hoover Dam.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 08 05 at 01:31 AM • permalink#58 Ash, I don’t know, but at the thread above us, they’re being very serious, discussing how rape is bad. (Of course it is, why does it need a lot of discussion?) Count me among the Deltas.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 08 05 at 04:50 AM • permalinkSunday afternoon.
I spent half the day digging holes in the front yard to find the holes I put in the retic pipe while aerating the lawn with a pitchfork. Well I only hit ‘gold’ four times, three if you count the two that were really close together.
Went to Bunnings, bought hacksaw, priming fluid and glue, joiners… AND I COULD NOT PUT THE %$#%$%&&%^%$#%^^%S TOGETHER NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED.
In utter frustration I rang the landlady. She said, ‘Don’t worry about it hon!’ Her husband’s a housebuilder and he can do this PVC pipe repair with his eyes closed. Or with one hand tied behind his back. Whatever. It’s not my job any more. YAY!
Still I was feeling deflated, so I dug into the collection for one of my guilty pleasures - Bobby Goldsboro’s Greatest Hits. And when he started singing Honey, I found myself thinking of youtube…Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 05 at 05:45 AM • permalinkIs ‘slashes my acreage’ some kind of code? Are you using girl talk here, kae?
Sounds kind of… salacious.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 05 at 05:54 AM • permalink||||||||
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“Please Timtam slash my acerage!”
- Another original faux 1.618. Thank you, thank you - no, really! You’re too kind!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 05 at 05:58 AM • permalink#1,pg1 Paco, just read your comment in its entirety.
“sheer lawlessness”, hm?
Prefer the opaque kind myself.
Just thought of a cheer song
(to tune of Hey Mickey)
hey Paco, prose so fine
prose so fine it blows our minds hey Paco!
do do hey Paco!
hey Paco plots sublime
You hit the story arc each time hey Paco
ooh ooh ooh ooH…
Oh Paco
You’re no slacko
make a lotta tales
you drag us by the eyes
and it never ever fails.
Your stories
full of danger
constantly enthral
it’s guys like you Paco -
oh whatcha do Paco, do Paco
it’s in your typing Paco!
do do do do etc.Gee, where did THAT come from?
*humming happily*Posted by carpefraise on 2007 08 05 at 06:01 AM • permalinkAre we getting ready to close the doors on this one?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 05 at 06:25 AM • permalink2700+ comments is not a bad run, Ash. And this time hardly any of them came from me.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 05 at 06:51 AM • permalinkBy the way,
Can anyone spot the car in this picture?
I’ve been looking for days, and I swear I haven’t found it yet.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 05 at 07:09 AM • permalinkSo, I don’t need glasses!
Great. I’ll go on drinking straight from the bottle.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 05 at 07:19 AM • permalinkWhat’s in the bottle?
As of two minutes ago… nothing.
Bombs Away!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 05 at 07:28 AM • permalinkTanqueray - excuse me, Ash, it’s very difficult to drink, type, and polish shoes. Especially when you’ve done all the drinking first.
Tell me about this house you might be buying. Which suburb is it in?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 05 at 07:47 AM • permalinkUh-uh, sounds like Andrea’s warming up for the closing song.
How did your move work out, AHA?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 05 at 07:49 AM • permalinkWTF? I’m the one who emptied the bottle and it’s Ash who fell asleep at the keyboard?
Time to say Goodnight, Dick.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 08 05 at 07:50 AM • permalink
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