Friday, October 2, 2009

Seven quick takes

  • Fresh-picked basil atop the pizza sauce and below the rest of the toppings!
  • America's Funniest Home Videos is our guilty teevee pleasure.
  • I tuned my acoustic guitar down a few steps and now it won't stay in tune.
  • I'm working on a texinfo edition of the King James Bible.
  • Irish breakfast tea is stronger and tastier than English breakfast tea.
  • I've rediscovered http://www.universalis.com
  • You can hear the influence of Pete Townsend in this 1969 video from Shocking Blue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DBcbZc3ck

2 comments:

  1. Now,those are some quick takes.
    I loved universalis but never understood the deal about the Bible text they used not being approved yet, or some such? Is that all straightened out?
    I pulled up the youtube and started watching it, turned to my husband who is a huge Pete Townsend fan and read the take to him. When I started the video again, he got a huge "OHHH!" look on his face. That was fun.

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  2. Universalis uses their own Psalm translation for some reason. It looks like they got approval to use the rather nice Jerusalem Bible for the rest: http://www.universalis.com/faq.html#3

    I didn't hear Townsend in the playing until the very last bit where he starts playing a little solo which sounded exactly like some mid-60s PT. Then when I played it back again the whole thing sounded like him.

    Thanks for dropping by!

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