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Start-up Paddlings
These go back to 2016 or so, when start-ups and Kickstarter and optimism were all cool. For reasons I don’t exactly remember, I made a bunch of memes of Jasper-the -old-guy-from-The-Simpsons calling out shit that start-ups kept doing and telling them that “that’s a paddlin’”. Then I put them all in my Google Drive and…
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How many Don McGlashan songs are better than Anchor Me?
It’s got to be kind of weird, being as great a songwriter as Don McGlashan. Even weirder when the song that becomes your trademark, and your only #1, is really good, but definitely not as good as all your great ones. How many better songs did he do than Anchor Me? If I was given…
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Zippedy Doo Dah
A playlist for Raz. TV Priest – The Big Curve I make fire, too, except quicker. Kae Tempest – People’s Faces (Streatham Version) Any minute now our struggles are going to finish us. And then we smile at all our friends. A remix that isn’t actually a remix. (The original version I’ve already flicked your…
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Longjams for Raz
You seem like a man who might want a bunch of songs where nothing’s less than 5 minutes long. Get some headphones and set aside an hour. Spotify version: Almost-entirely non-Spotify version but far out it’s hard to find Fuck Off Machete anywhere: Willy Mason – Restless Fugitive From Carry On (2012) Tell us when…
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In Another Aeroplane Over Another Sea
For no good reason, here’s a cover album of Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. The internet is awash with candidate tracks and almost all of them are awful.
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The Unofficial Teenage History of the Hamilton City Council Elections of 1998
This is one of 5 or 6 good threads that I bashed out when I had control of the @Hamilton_Humans Twitter account for a week in June 2019, and the third one that I’ve added here. The original 56-tweet thread and its threadreader version are, at the time of writing, still alive. I intend to…
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Super Overs are bad and boundary countbacks are worse, so here are some better ideas
Super Overs and boundary countbacks are bad for deciding tied ODI matches. Comparing wickets lost or using DLS par scores would be much better.