2015-09-26 : Random Geekery

Activity Log

2h of Cities: Skylines, big lesson: don’t be afraid to throw a city away.

Also don’t put water pump & sewer dump next to each other. Ew.

A Pot of Coffee, some Instant Oatmeal – and Thou

For some reason when I read The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam I hear the tune of Don McLean’s American Pie. I dunno.

No of course I didn’t. What a -

Wait.

No.

That’s brilliant.

I must try that.

TIL Dropbox has a group messaging system.

Email notices of people I don’t know asking other people I don’t know why they’re being spammed.

Coffee and cinnamon-apple instant oatmeal was a bad idea. Further news as it develops.

Rufus Wainwright -> Run DMC is an interesting random transition, but it worked surprisingly well.

Random Everything gives me deeper appreciation for Otis Redding & Muddy Waters.

Hearing them & hearing them in so many other tracks.

Checking the TV <-> stereo sound connection quality with “Inglorious Basterds” because what the heck.

I think of Tarantino movies as excessive violence, cartoonish gore, and cheesy 70s aesthetics, but the dialogue scenes always pull me in.

Nice verdant evening.

“You know - that might not be the blues, but it sure makes me sad.”

True story, but only because feral chickens eat pigeons.