Archive for the ‘Commute’ Category
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
When you sing the opening lyrics to Journey's Faithfully, it sounds cool. Saying the lyrics-- not so much. I suppose this is the case with all song lyrics.
For whatever reasons unknown to me, I wake up with this song in my head, a lot. I visualize the Greyhound bus rolling ...
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Dearest Reader - you know how much I love to tell you when I upgrade my blog software? That's right, I'm running WordPress 2.7, also known as "Coltrane". Pretty geeky, eh? The new admin panel is completely different. It's sveltely in appearance. I want to eat it, not write with ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
I found out it takes me about one week to go from raving fan to, "hey, this is an oldie but a goody" when it comes to music nowadays. It's all that quality time I spend on the commute. Three albums by the Pixies chewed up in one week. If ...
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
So this morning on the commute I'm like, "Shit. I don't know what to listen to. Oh yeah! I have like three thousand songs on my iPod. Let's try the shuffle songs mode." Yes. I actually spoke this aloud.
The shuffle songs mode is hit or miss. It's not like the ...
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Saturday, January 20th, 2007
The campus I work on is not very large but the staff parking lot is like seven hundred miles out in left field from my office. So there is a bit of a walk. Everyday I cue the same song. Beck's, "Qué Onda Guero" which as I understand it, translates ...
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
Last night I downloaded the most recent This American Life podcast to my iPod and listened to it during my commute to work this morning. That makes me a geek, right?
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