I'm gonna write a song about my time as a unix sysadmin in the south
I'll call it "AWKing in Memphis"
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I'm gonna write a song about my time as a unix sysadmin in the south
I'll call it "AWKing in Memphis"
Xenia: Pink Sock Edition
In 2022, Tom Lehrer released all his songs, lyrics and works to the public domain, an amazing move. While checking on the site, I found out he silently released more material in September of 2023 - a DAT tape of his work with an orchestra and some solo piano takes that are not elsewhere. If you're a Lehrer fan, quite a surprise.
Added to the Tom Lehrer Songs site later than the other songs, a pair of DAT recordings of performances and recordings by Lehrer of his work.DAT1, Side A: I...
1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.
So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.
10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.
She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!"
Three rings for the French hens under the sky,
Seven rings for the swimming swans in their pools of stone
Nine for mortal ladies dancing and doomed to die,
One ring for the Partridge Lord on his dark throne
In the land of Turtledoves where the Pear Trees lie
Ten lords to leap them all,
Eight maids to milk them,
Eleven pipers to pipe them all
and drummers in the darkness to drum them
In the Land of calling birds where six geese lay.
Lunchtime train of thought...
- Hey, that moss looks like a figure, reaching out
- I should add a Santa hat
- Hang on, it's the winter solstice isn't it? I should add antlers.
- Hmm. That doesn't work with the Santa hat. Wonder if it would work in green.
- Hmmm.
*Goes down a bit of a solstice rabbit hole*
- Oh. I'm a day early for solstice.
- Bah.
*posts anyway*
I discovered a funny thing today. If I squeeze the middle of the volume control on my wired earbuds, iTunes will open and the first movie — The Addams Family (1991) — will start playing.
I basically have an Addams Family button on hand at all times now.