197 Strange pickings from musicalia

Oh, I love the sheer idiocy of this one. Fandom Wank: The Battle of Versailles So what happens when an obscure American musician finds out that a Japanese indie band that just might be less obscure has the same name as the one you've already picked. Well if the name is Versailles you copyright the name and threaten legal action against the Japanese band for stealing the name from you. Because you know there's no way that they could have been inspired by the French city the name comes from being... read more

  Title: Rich Pickings (Part 16) Author: beatle_boot Rating: R (for themes) Word Count: 2142 Disclaimer: Beatles aren’t mine, yadda yadda yadda… Summary: ‘Regency Buck’ Paul McCartney is sent to stay with relatives in the country for the summer of 1813; how does his visit fair with the neighbouring Lennons? A/N: This part made my head hurt, I hope you all enjoy it. Previous Parts: www.livejournal.com/community/jp_richpickings   Part 16 Comments are Love...

Still needed to prepare for the hog hunting trip, so I decided I'd use my day off to go rifle shopping. Decided against using my 12 gauge, since Ive never fired rifled slugs out of a smoothbore before and have no idea how that would really work...better to take the safe route. Called up a guy I met off the boards that works at Action Pawn in Cedar Park...turns out its the same pawnshop I bought my xbox from forever ago. I asked him what he had in hog killin caliber and he said pickings were lean...

What a weekend. I spent the entire week in a PMS-induced panic over the coming weekend's events. I had two events to coordinate on short notice and there weren't enough volunteers to go around with all of the other activities planned for the Kerry campaign. In my search for helpers, I discovered that the network of Kerry supporters in these three rural counties is in total disorder -- a tangled web of groups and organizations acting independently with overlapping lists of volunteers. There is no...

Yeah! I finally got my BiCubic Interpolation to work properly! The internet is a funny place. There is lots of information out there, but there is also alot of information that isn't online. Stuff that a profession might consider "common knowledge". For example, BiCubic Interpolation. BiCubic is one of the standard methods of rotating and scaling images. It is most likely taught in most college course on computer graphics. Being a Math major, I never took a course on computer graphics. So while...

I think I'm losing my sense of humor. I bought the Sunday paper, something I hadn't done in about a month, and was reading the comics. Usually, the comic section is the only thing I read cover to cover. Our paper carries SALLY FORTH. I'm not sure how familiar everyone is with that, but it's basically the life and misadventures of a yuppie-esque family and their friends. I've never found it massively amusing, but my major professor always liked it, so I think I read it in his honor. Sunday's episode...