I've started twittering at twitter.com/bizcuit Simplicity is a beautiful thing.

I was watching "knocked up" and this incredible song comes on.

I googled the lyrics, went to I-tunes spent 99 cents and now I'm listening and listening and listening.



If you hate the taste of wine
Why do you drink it until you're blind?
And if you swear that there's no truth and who cares
How come you say it like you're right?

Why are you scared to dream of God
When it's salvation that you want?
You see stars that clear have been dead for years
But the idea just lives on

In our wheels that roll around
As we move over the ground
And all day it seems we've been in between
The past and future town

We are nowhere, and it's now
We are nowhere, and it's now

And like a ten minute dream in the passenger seat
While the world was flying by
I haven't been gone very long
But it feels like a lifetime

I've been sleeping so strange at night
Side effects they don't advertise
I've been sleeping so strange
With a head full of pesticide

I've got no plans and too much time
I feel too restless to unwind
I'm always lost in thought as I walk the block
To my favorite neon sign

Where the waitress looks concerned
But she never says a word
Just turns the jukebox on and we hum along
And I smile back at her

And my friend comes after work
When the features start to blur
She says these bars are filled with things that kill
By now you probably should have learned

Did you forget that yellow bird?
How could you forget your yellow bird?

She took a small silver wreath and pinned it on to me
She said, "This one will bring you love"
And I don't know if it's true
But I keep it for good luck

Trees down, power lines down

We just got hit by a big storm in Indianapolis tonight.

A tree went down over on Crestview and 57th taking a power line with it.

Power is out everywhere from Kessler and Keystone down to our block but because we are on a different circuit our power is not out. The people across the street do not have power. Usually it's the other way around.

We called Martha across the street to see if she was okay and asked if Mildred was safe as well. It turns out that Mildred died last December. She must have been around 96 years old.

rivets, rivets, rivets

Have you ever grown tired of bureaucracy?

Here's a good passage to relate to from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"

What more did I want? What I really wanted was rivets, by heaven! Rivets. To get on with the work -- to stop the hole. Rivets I wanted. There were cases of them down at the coast -- cases -- piled up -- burst -- split! You kicked a loose rivet at every second step in that station-yard on the hillside. Rivets

and later on after several additional references to the non-delivery of rivets.

I had given up worrying myself about the rivets. One's capacity for that kind of folly is more limited than you would suppose. I said Hang! -- and let things slide.

January 10 2008

Republican Debate in South Carolina

I just got the transcript of the Republican debate for the 2008 primary sponsored by Fox News tonight

Here it is:

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I noticed that pages displayed in IE always looked better that they did when rendered in Opera. Here's why.

Why does IE display better than opera

Finally figured it out, should have done a Google search in the first place.

Update : Saturday night

We went to the new downtown library in Indianapolis this afternoon. It's a pretty cool building. I went up to the 6th floor and read part of a biography about Howard Hughes and gazed out at the city.

Doreen got the latest Harry Potter book in German and Mary got some books on knitting.

We went to the Rathskeller and I ordered a big plate of sausages and washed it down with a Spaten Optimator.

We saw a few quotes on the wall and I will leave them here:

"Die Maessigkeit ist gut und fein doch darf sie nicht unmaessig ein."
"Temperance is well and good but it must not be intemperate."


"Ernst is das Leben heiter ist die Kunst"
"Life is serious but art is joyous"

Interesting polling data

latest info on Barack vs HRC race

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/poll-tracker.htm

This is a site that aggregates all the different polls going on and generates a trend line.

It's pretty cool to play around with the controls and generate custom plots.

Tonight we will be checking out the downtown library and then going to eat at the Rathskeller.

Happy New Year

It's New Years Day and I have a complaint.

A new mayor for the city of Indianapolis was sworn in and I am unable to find any video of the event. I can't watch any local news on the TV due to college bowl games but more suprising is the lack of any Internet content from our wonderful local news providers.


fox 59 - no mention of the new mayor's first day in office
wrtv6 - ditto
wthr - ditto
wish TV - actually has an article on the new mayor's swearing in but no video

I realize that today is holiday but this is the first time we've had a new mayor in eight years and everyone appears to be snoozing.

Maybe the "I-team" is too busy out investigating spontaneously combusting dustbusters.

yawn....

Random Ramblings

I just took Mary's parents back to the airport. They had a nice visit and were the first guest to enjoy the new hide-a-bed in the den. My Mom was here for Xmas as well and got to sleep on the futon downstairs.

We had six people in the house for 3 nights and everything worked out well.

I returned my cable modem to brighthouse after taking Pete and Terry to the airport.
We got Uverse installed here a week ago and it's working well. We have faster Internet, 150 channels in the basement as opposed to 8 and more channels upstairs as well.

I was on Netflix Instant Viewing today and watched a bit of "Friday Night Lights". It's a pretty good show. I also like the soundtrack from the group called "Explosions in the Sky". Good stuff.

-- jk

Indie rock.

Artist: Chris Walla
Song: Sing Again
Album: Field Manual


1) I am a big Death Cab for Cutie fan

2) Chris Walla (DCFC producer and band member) is coming out with a solo album.

An mp3 has been released off of the upcoming record.

I couldn't find the lyrics to the song so I figured them out myself

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/11/12/free-mp3-chris-wallas-sing-again/

I've transcribed the lyrics:

It was not tricky to enjoy
A cigarette in hand was a key to understanding
To seek out and to destroy
A mindless oversight
A string of faithless nights

We sing again sing together with quiet eyes
I lower my chin to my chest
I thought that would be best

Another pounding of the bricks
Bundles of cells dividing
South Dakota driving

Where the darkest dirty tricks
If we still cared at all
We'd Send a battle cross

Sing again, sing together with fiery eyes
A rancor alive in our chests
No this is not a test

Let's sing again, sing together without disguise
Let's raise up a song in unrest
I think that would be best.

It's important
You will hear the noises
You will feel the breaking
It's all yours for the taking.

A mind packed full of mindless joy
Is not easy to enjoy, ohhh.

Yes, I have listened to this song about 30 times today.......

August 17,2007

Doreen has arrived from Germany and will be attending Broad Ripple High School.

She has been here two weeks and the adjustment has gone pretty well so far.

Tonight the 3 of us drove up to BRHS and attended the BRHS vs Chatard football game.

Chatard, the catholic high school down the street won the game easily 42-6. I think Chatard was state champs last year.

Last weekend I went to attend Ted Rechner's wedding on Long Island. My flight was

delayed 3 hours but I eventually made it out to Holtsville, NY.

I had a great time with Bill the Cat, Mahk the Schmahk, Qupes, Ted and the rest of the crew.

Finally, a new post.

Went to Ocean City, NJ last week.

Here is a link to the flickr account

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9029367@N02/

favorite Indie Rock Bands

# death cab for cutie

# the decemeberists

# cut copy

# sufjan stevens

# lemon jelly

# the postal service

The "U" rocks on XM channel 43

the dogs are eating tomato plants

fav dcfc song for the now "Photobooth"

Say Yes to Michigan

thanks for the directions. Though I negelected to check construction updates. For your reference last 5 miles of M-14 to Plymouth down to one lane. Also I-696 is one lane between Dequindre and Mound.

Still, no problemo as it was Saturday and traffic was light.

The wedding was cool a Quaker wedding held under a Maple tree. Never done the Quaker thing but was nice. My friend's Mom is from Iraq so after ceremony we signed wedding certifcate that was half written in Arabic. He had a bunch of relatives there who spoke Arabic. There was some ululating at the ceremony.


Back to the hotel for beers and to shoot some pool. Dropped some old school beats.

Sunday morning I-94 down to I-75, exit Jefferson. Brief foray into downtown area past Compuware HQ. Up Woodward and noticed a huge crowd of people. Tigers game is gearing up. Up Woodward a little further past B Karmanos breast cancer center. Drive-by through Brush Park which I recognized from the ruins of Detroit Website (ha! ha!) But alas, redevelopment is going on. People rehabbing homes in Brush Park, new townhomes next to Comerica Park.

Wind our way back to I-94 somehow, not well marked route. Back on I-94 over the River Rouge past two sets of blue bridges that had strange geometry.

Alas back home in Indiana.

a movieScript ending

A song by Death Cab for Cutie

Whenever i come back, the air on railroad is making the same sounds.
And the shop fronts on holly are dirty words (asterisks in for the vowels).
We peered through the windows... new bottoms on barstools but the people remain the same, with prices inflating.

As if saved from the gallows.
There's a bellow of buzzers and the people stop working and they're all so excited.

Passing through unconscious states.
When i awoke i was on the highway.

With your hand on my shoulders, a meaningless movement... a moviescript ending,
And the patrons are leaving, leaving.

Now we all know the words were true in the sappiest songs (yes, yes).
I'll put them to bed, but they won't sleep, they're just shuffling the sheets, they toss and turn,
(you can't begin to get it back).

Passing through unconscious states.
When i awoke i was on
The onset of a later stage... the headlights are beacons on the highway.

I heard this poem mentioned by Robert McNamara in a documentary about him that was done by Errol Morris.

The movie is called
"The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara "

I think it's a good poem.

The Palace

by Rudyard Kipling

When I was a King and a Mason, a Master Proven and skilled,

I cleared me ground for a Palace, such as a King should build.

I decreed and dug down to my levels; presently, under the silt,

I came on the wreck of a Palace, such as a King had built.



There was no worth in the fashion; there was no wit in the plan;

Hither and thither, aimless, the ruined footings ran.

Masonry, brute, mishandled, but carven on every stone,

"After me cometh a Builder; tell him I, too, have known."



Swift to my use in my trenches, where my well-planned groundworks grew,

I tumbled his quoins and his ashlars, and cut and rest them anew.

Lime I milled of his marbles; burned it, slaked it, and spread;

Taking and leaving at pleasure the gifts of the humble dead.


Yet I despised not nor gloried, yet, as we wrenched them apart,

I read in the razed foundation the heart of that Builder's heart.

As he has risen and pleaded, so did I understand

The form of the dream he had followed in the face of the thing he had planned



When I was a King and a Mason, in the open noon of my pride,

They sent me a Word from the Darkness; they whispered and called me aside.

They said, "The end is forbidden." They said, "Thy use is fulfilled.

Thy Palace shall stand as that other's, the spoil of a King who shall build."



I called my men from my trenches, my quarries, my wharves, and my sheers;

All I had wrought I abandoned to the faith of the faithless years.

Only I cut on the timber; only I carved on the stone:

"After me cometh a Builder; tell him I, too, have known."

XM radio rox, rox, roc

I am enjoying the XM radio

just a few things

Roger McGuinn of the Byrds had a really cool special on XM - 50 the Loft

Also XM - 43 , XMU is INCREDIBLE

Indie rock music, all the time

two songs I will jot down before I forget

U U by Cut Copy . also known as Track 8 according to Amazon
album is called "Bright Like Neon Love"

Also heard today on XMU is

The Clientele "Since Kay Got Over Me"

I can't find these songs on iTunes, what am I to do?

evil lurks nextdoor!

so Mary H next door wishes to pick a fight with me over fallen tree branches in her driveway.

But I will not take the bait.

Last Monday a storm blew through our area. Tree limbs were fell everywhere.

I went outside to clean up the mess and Mary H comes our of her house to read me the riot act.

I haven't heard her voice in over 5 years:

"Those are your branches, they fell from your trees, our trees don't have any dead branches, those are your branches".

She repeats:

"Those are your branches, they fell from your trees, our trees don't have any dead branches, those are your branches".

The woman is psychotic. She's also looking for a good fight. I said nothing to her, nothing.

What a disappointment I must be, I'm no fun to play with, I won't join the battle on her terms.

I just picked up the branches, stuffed them in the trash and walked away.

Four doors down

so soon another post.

The house four doors down sold a few months ago but no one has moved in.

I'm not sure what is going on, someone is mowing the lawn down there but I never see any lights on.

I thought I saw a moving van pull up there a few weeks ago but I could have been wrong.

I'm quite familiar with the property because Rex always takes his poops on the driveway or in the yard right next to the drive. I'm not sure what the attraction is but if he's going to go, he will do his business there.

last update was May 16, 2006

I'm getting behind here. or maybe I don;t have much to say

what has happened in the past month?

# the puppy Sabriah continues to grow and grow, she now gets as much food as Mr Rex.

# Don Tarr and his wife found a puppy out on the street and took him in, his name is Carl.

# Omar and Theresa are getting married a week from Saturday and Mary and I are driving up to Michigan for the wedding.

# I talked to Mark D last night and he and his wife will also be going to the wedding in the Detroit area.

# To stick with the Michigan theme I've been listening to Sufjan Stevens's album "Michigan, the Great Lake State"

# We are going to see my Mom this weekend, I might put the XM radio in the Matrix so we can listen to it on the drive over.

# I am currently reading "Reading Lolita in Teheran", the next book on-deck is "The Genius Factory". I haven't acquired a copy yet but I think it takes precedence over the Truman biography. And the James Adams bio and "Wheels of the World" by Douglas Brinkley.