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ramblings of an information troubleshooter
jaded is as jaded does
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Monday, 03APR2006:
spent the morning unpacking 70 some
boxes of books at the new location.
over lunch, i paused to listen to
my recording of stef's documentary
on the current which had aired
earlier in the morning. then spent
the rest of the day putting out
fires and trying to figure out what
to pack up tomorrow to send over on
wednesday, what to pack up thursday
to send over on friday, etc., etc.,
etc. my own office ? haven't even
thought about it yet.
Aur.Oral Exposures setlist for 04apr2006:
- Gamble - Lowest of the Low
- Small Victories - Ron Hawkins & The Rusty Nails
- Pokerface - Ron Hawkins
- Bite Down Hard - Ron Hawkins & The Rusty Nails
- Partners in Crime - Ron Hawkins & The Rusty Nails
- Subversives - Lowest of the Low
- For the Hand of Magdelena (live) - Lowest of the Low
- Black Monday - Lowest of the Low
- 'poetry' - Charles Bukowski (read by yours truly)
- The Taming of Carolyn - Lowest of the Low
- The Tame, The Half-Born, The Wild and You - Ron Hawkins
- Crackstatic - Ron Hawkins & The Rusty Nails
- Bleed a Little While Tonight - Lowest of the Low
- Beautiful Chemistry - Ron Hawkins & The Rusty Nails
- 4 O'Clock Stop (live) - Lowest of the Low
- City Full of Cowards - Lowest of the Low
- Three Penny Operator (live) - Ron Hawkins & The Rusty Nails
- 'brewing a beer from mermaid tears' - yours truly
- (Waitin' On) My New Heart - Ron Hawkins & The Rusty Nails
- Rumours and Whispers - Ron Hawkins & The Rusty Nails
- Turpentine - Ron Hawkins & The Rusty Nails
- Letter from Bilbao - Lowest of the Low
i've uploaded a
copy
of tonight's show to yousendit.
you can download it and listen to it
at your convenience.
- ip idiocy link of the day: from
heritage canada's 'music is my
business', here's a flash chart of
who
is supposed to get paid when
music gets played on community radio.
Community radio stations in Canada
pay SOCAN 1.9 percent of their
gross operating costs.
SOCAN relies on sampling to track
public performances on all community
radio stations in Canada. Each
community radio station is surveyed
during a 3 or 4-day period quarterly,
or approximately 14 days annually.
Consequently, songwriters and music
publishers will not necessarily
receive payment for every musical
work broadcast.
so, ron hawkins is unlikely to ever
get a red cent from tonight's
broadcast. either that or he gets
EVERYTHING. what a joke.
recognizing cycles is the key
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Tuesday, 04APR2006:
packed up another 79 boxes of books,
some of these actually destined for
the new library space, rather than
tucked away in some backwater storage
space. once they were out of the way,
jim helped me to dismantle one of the
bays of shelves and the whole lot will
go over to the new location tomorrow
morning. small glitches like how
to mount some shelves to the wall
are still popping up, but i am
still guardedly optimistic that
everything will continue to go
smoothly, which i can partly credit
to the many months of planning and
prep work that i have put in on this
project over the past couple of
years.
after my movie plans fell thru for
the evening, i brought my nav supper
over to todd's for a 5-hander. this
is a warm-up to a 20-hander on friday,
but i may not make it to that one due
to previous commitments. patrick
outlasted becky to limp into the
money round as the short stack, but
then displayed amazing tenacity in
winning a whole series of all-in bets.
he had actually built up quite a nice
stack by the time his luck finally
ran out against me and i was quite
grateful for the leg-up that left
todd and i to play heads up for the
title. on the deciding hand, todd
caught a third 7 on the river to
match his pockets, but that 7 also
gave me the spade that i needed to
fill my flush. when he went all-in,
i quickly called.
todd got his revenge, tho, as our
quick winner-take-all 2d game had me
out in the first round. i had
pocket J's and then flopped a set,
but slow-played it and let vinnie on
the button raise the bet for me.
everyone else called, so i was happy.
on the turn, i checked again, hoping
that vinnie would raise again, but he
didn't. when a Q came on the river,
i bet hard, hoping that someone had
made a pair of Q's. however, todd
had made a straight instead, which i
had completely missed, and the loss
crippled my stack. on the next hand,
vinnie sent me to the rail. at least
becky was pleased that she managed
not to be 1st out in either match.
after todd prevailed against vinnie
heads-up, we closed out the evening
with a couple of rounds of drinks at
the elks lodge, where they apparently
host a happy hour on tuesday
evenings.
- link of the day:
anatomy
of a bubble outlines the
stages of a boom and bust cycle.
a smart investor waits for and
welcomes the bust for the best
opportunities to jump in.
So instead of asking, "Is it a
bubble?" it's more financially
intelligent to ask, "What stage of
the bubble are we in?" Then,
decide if you should be fearful,
greedy, or hibernating.
the bad with the good
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Wednesday, 05APR2006:
ran into my first major move snag
today. we moved 79 boxes over this
morning, but i could only unpack 16
as the shelves for the rest needed
to be screwed into the floor ... the
concrete floor. alas, this means
that my anticipated pack one day,
unpack the next schedule will be
thrown off and i may have to actually
confront the mounds of mail and email
that have piled up since this began.
iqaluit broomball chronicles:
team white: JFra, tim, jacques, christian, mark (1), julian (2)
team black: marco, alistair, kerry, me, julian (1), mark (2)
the teams were a bit mismatched
during the first half and team
white racked up a score of 4-1.
the solo shot from team black
came about from a nifty pass by
marco, streaking down the wing
with 2 defenders chasing him. he
deftly passed it diagonally
backwards across the goalie
crease right onto my stick and
somehow the ball landed in the
net. too sweet. team white
spread the wealth, with 4 players
scoring their goals - mark (shot
past me in net as if i wasn't even
there), jacques (off of a beauty
cross-ice pass by JFra), JFra (his
usual dipsy-doodle dance) and
christian (making his return from
a few weeks skiing in the south).
at the half, we traded the speedy
julian for mark and team black's
new front line of kerry, mark and
marco kicked the pace up a notch.
the mark / marco pair notched up a
couple of nifty passing combos that
marco successfully navigated into
the net. however, team white did
not stand still for this and JFra
and christian both added to their
tallies to give a final score of 6-3.
alistair was playing like a rock in
net for most of the 2d half and one
time was beat only because i
attempted to pass in front of my own
net. tim also showed off some major
chops in net for team white.
- link of the day:
taxes
can be good, as long as you "tax
the bad stuff, not the good stuff".
rote learning thru repetition ??
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Friday, 07APR2006:
accepting a bit less optimal design
for some of the shelf orientations,
the move to the new location is now
back on track. i set up more shelves,
unloaded more boxes, moved the empty
boxes back to the old site, filled
them up again, returned them to the
new site, unloaded them again, repeat,
rinse, etc.
i was very glad when 5 o'clock came
around and i could sit down for a bit
at the monthly meeting of the press
club. i paid my annual dues, had a
couple of slices of pizza and sat in
for the first part of the guest
speaker's presentation. john
henderson is a 30-year veteran of the
police services since starting off as
a rookie in london, england. he is
leaving the territory at the end of
this month, but was glad to share of
few of his observations. i thought it
was neat that he had been a constable
in town here during the '80's and came
back as superintendent. i missed the
rest of his talk as i followed vinnie
in ducking out to attend todd's card
tourney.
i should have stayed at the press club.
i did ok in the big game, but well out
of the money. tho the prize pool went
down to 4th, i busted out in 7th. the
only consolation was that i finally
beat cyndi for the first time in a
heads up situation. i was gunning for
a straight draw and hadn't made it, but
when cyndi bet all in at the river, i
checked my cards one last time before
folding and noticed that i had a 5 to
match the two that had shown up on the
turn and river. i teased cyndi for the
rest of the night that i had beaten her
'by accident'.
i played 2 subsequent sidegames and
fared miserably at both of those as
well. in the first, i busted out in
5th of 5 and in the 2d, i bailed out
in 4th place of 5. with my wallet
now emptied of all of the cash that
i had brought for the evening, i
decided to bid todd's tourney tables
farewell. i did stay up a bit to
play a few games online and did make
up some ground before my mind
collapsed and i went back down to
where i started.
optimal positioning
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Saturday, 08APR2006:
showed up at the new location for
a couple of hours to load up some
more shelves. one of the things
i'm trying to do is to leave an
open 'window' in the shelving at
about head level so that visitors
do not feel like they are walking
through a dungeon or tunnel. this
will both enhance the natural
lighting and ensure that no one
will get lost in the stacks
(hopefully).
iqaluit broomball chronicles:
team white: JFra, JFre, kerry, julian, kevin, me
team black: marco, alistair, mark, jacques, christian, tim, daniel
while the score was a bit of a
blowout, the teams started out
pretty evenly matched, with team
black having the advantage of a
sub. however, team white's front
line of JFra, JFre and kerry made
some nice crisp passes to assist
each other in putting the ball
into the net. both of the JF's
scored 2 apiece and kerry got a
single. the best goal was a
zero-angle shot by JFre that
somehow got past mark in net.
near the end of the game, both
teams found some extra energy and
both kevin and daniel were forced
to make some amazing saves.
alistair made some great defensive
moves and i managed not to give
away the puck at the blue line too
often. mark, marco, jacques and
julian all had nice opportunities,
but just couldn't seem to get the
right bounces into the net.
there was a bit of chippiness
during the game as frustration built
due to the goal run-up. i like one
of the ideas that came up during the
post-game review at the nav bar,
that switching the goalies would be
the quickest and easiest adjustment
to make in the future when the score
doesn't reflect the evenness of the
teams. another explanation that i
heard was that no one on team white
played a bad game and when everyone
on your team is clicking, it's hard
to overcome that rhythm.
in the evening, i huddled back in
front of my pc, hoping to repeat my
online tourney victory of last week.
alas, tonight i finished well back
in the pack, placing 112th out of
228. but at least i was done before
4 in the morning !
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