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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: The fine art of procrastination (the Bone Mama helps a bunch)
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 03:40:45 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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-
- Here I sit, taking 5 hours, at least, to implement the
- world's simplest data-conversion in a preexisting program.
-
- I've read the news four times (it takes a while, these
- days, since I have to be the proper athiest and put the
- fear of god out of the god-accepting twits who occasionally
- let their objectivity slip over in sci.physics), my mail
- twice, checked out the latest skein of
- alt.binaries.pictures, and gone to the bathroom more than
- the average bear.
-
- I've listened to the brand-new and unbelievably awesome
- Studio Z on the new worlds-coolest radio station, KZON,
- 101.5 on my FM dial. Studio Z is a show about the local
- R&B scene and its roots, which stretch back to the great
- Duane Eddy, who recorded all his #1 hits in a studio in
- Mesa. Tonight's episode: Al Carter, who's played guitar
- on recordings for Elvis, the Monkees, Sinatra (Frank *and*
- Nancy), the Beach Boys, and Harry Neilssen, to name a few.
- Mary "Bone Mama" McCann, easily the coolest person ever to
- talk into a live microphone (and I *am* considering Damien
- and the Weasel, here), is our moderator, and interviews our
- subject in perfect, call-response, word-association style.
- The musician has a few friends with him and they play live
- in the studio for her. Most cool, in the utter sense of
- both words.
-
- Considering that eight weeks ago the best radio station in
- this market was the one that played two *different* Rod
- Stewart songs, this is tantamount to musical fellatio
- applied directly to exposed nerve endings in the spinal
- column.
-
- You have much to envy, if you have any inkling that you
- might.
-
- Then, to top it all off, I'm in the vending-machine room
- digging for change in my pocket (and liking it, if you
- must know), and a light-bulb blinks in EBCDIC over my head.
-
- I look in the community refrigerator and there, in the
- freezer, is 0.3pt of Ben&Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie
- that I'd left there after an all-nighter (not my most
- recent) some four weeks ago. I've just eaten it, since the
- first sentence in this article.
-
- Soon, I will begin to convert nine write() statements to
- printf()'s, because the new data format is textual. I might
- even have to swap two function calls at one point in the
- flow. I will most likely just delete six of the writes
- and tell them to run the damn program on the three inputs
- separately. But first, I have to go explain the difference
- between truth and facts again. Now KZON's into the new
- two-hour, weekly Jazz show that's better than 168 hours
- of the other phoenix-area Jazz station's bad idea of musical
- talent. Dexter Gordon beckons. It's 8:40; I should be home
- in about ten minutes, if I have to read the news again...
-
- --Blair
- "Envy me."
-