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It’s Friday? Again?
Awrightee then: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, October 20 ‘68.
And since Belgium isn’t playing the World Cup this year, I’ll be rooting for Argentina this afternoon… Vamo Argentina! Vamo!

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For those interested, you can find my review of yesterday’s ZPZ in Brussels right over here. Apart from the music, a couple of notes:

• For anyone outside of Brussels, Vorst Nationaal is insanely hard to find. I mean, we’d gone to mappy.com, printed out the itinerary, followed all the directions, and still managed to get lost somewhere between Etterbeek and the Montgomery Tunnel. In the center of Brussels: not a single sign saying “this way to Vorst”. Argh.
• Getting out of Vorst at 1:30am: ditto. Times two.
• It was cool to meet a couple of KUR-readers. Hi Vrnzr, hi Bert, hi Matias!
• You there who made me drop my freshly purchased beer on the floor during intermission: you owe me 3 euro.
• Dr Sharl is convinced that Napoleon M Brock blew her a kiss at the end of the concert. If anyone present at the show can corroborate this, I would like to hear from you!

Here’s a couple of pictures we took (click to enlarge). Pardon The Crappiness™ but our camera was running out of gasoline.

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In the “Blatant Self Promotion” Department, have we got news for you! If you liked the weirdo ecards Dr Sharl and I provide over at weirdocards.com, you’ll be glad to know that some of those designs are now available on T-shirts, hoodies, tank tops, thongs, mugs, mousepads, posters and other what-have-you’s. Just head on over to the online store and have a look around. Unfortunately, anything to do with Zappa got refused by CafePress — however! There is Cheese! Cows! Hairdo’s! Punks! Sumo Wrestlers! Exclamation marks!

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Happy birthday Doctor Sharl!

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Ya know, in the past we’ve been metafiltered, linkfiltered, growabrained, powazeked, and now this: it ain’t Rolling Stone, but Burnt managed to have Boing Boing post my FZ vs PMRC Flickr set on their frontpage this morning. What’s next? Slashdot? Digg?

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To sum up my week so far, I’m going to introduce a hitherto unused emoticon and be done with it:

In other news, Xorg just mailed me a link to the US National Recording Registry picks for 2006. Guess who’s in it for the money?

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This test which measures the extent of autistic traits in adults tells me my AQ is 23 whereas the average is 16.4. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m off to take the test again.

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If you’re wondering what Dr Sharl and I have been up to lately, wonder no more — introducing: weirdocards dot com! Sure, it’s an eCards service, but one with a twist. Our cards tackle such elusive topics as androgynous gnomes, Outcast Smurfs, Cheese, Slime, Liberated Girls, noses and much more.

Feel free to give the site a whirl, click around, send some cards and let us know what you think. Oh, and did I mention there’s some Zappa there too?

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How to become an early riser.

I don’t think I’ll ever become one — after 30+ years of existence, 8 am is still godawful early in my book. Which is why my jaw drops when I read Cory Doctorow:

(…) by the time I get to work, I’ve already gotten my blogging done, worked on my novel, cleared out my inbox, done some physiotherapy exercises, Tai Chi and yoga, eaten a healthy breakfast and gone for a walk.

Amazing!

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Let’s have some fun, shall we?

If enough people leave an audio message, I might just create a mashup in Garageband or something, and put it up for download.

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Early in the morning today, Dr Sharl met with the legendary John Mayall of Bluesbreakers fame — and managed to snap a photo, as well as an autograph. Kudos, Dr Sharl!

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With the weekend finally in sight (hallelujah!), may I suggest you spend some time perusing Chas Radio — a deluge of wacky, hard-to-find audio stuff up for download is awaiting you there. The guy had a post about FZ some time ago which unfortunately consisted mostly of official material (for shame!).

That said, I must apologize for the lack of posts this week. It’s just that work has been a bitch lately (”we need a bilingual site with a shopping cart with different pricing for individuals vs companies and we want the customer to be able to smell our products before he makes the purchase; can it be done by tomorrow?” — that kind of thing). Things should sorta-kinda get back to normal by the end of next week. In the meantime, you can always check that other place of mine where I post stuff that doesn’t fit in here. Like drawings. Pictures of my cat. That sort of thing.

Note to self: must do something about my excessive usage of the word “thing”.

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‘t is a thing of wonder, the iTunes Signature Maker:

iTunes Signature Maker (iTSM) analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to. After it checks your system configuration and asks you a few simple questions, iTSM will spend a few minutes analyzing your collection and generating the audio signature.

As for mine? Have a listen, see if you recognize some tunes.

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Nice bit of fun with surnames: feed it yours, and it’ll show you how common it is in the US.

Here’s my chart:

... and here's Dr Sharl's:

Teehee! (via J-Walk)

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Take this for what it’s worth, but…

You scored as Art.
You should be an Art major! How bohemian!

Art 92%
Linguistics 83%
Dance 75%
Mathematics 75%
Philosophy 67%
Theater 67%
Engineering 67%
Psychology 58%
English 58%
Sociology 50%
Anthropology 50%
Journalism 42%
Chemistry 42%
Biology 17%

75% Dance? What’s up with that? (Take the test here)

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