mother should I build the wall?
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dragonlady7God this CD is excellent.
One of the best parts is that one of the female vocalists has the heaviest Canadian accent I've ever heard, and so in The Trial when she sings about throwing away the key she pronounces it "aweee" and it's quite amusing.
Actually I sorta wish Luther didn't have such a heavy put-on generic-hick accent; it gives the proceedings a slightly more cartoonish aspect than they need.
Now I've forgotten what I set out to blog with this. Hm. Oh yes, we just looked up our zip code on the USPS website and it informs us that we're in Kenmore. Which a lot of Dave's friends have said-- seeing where we live, they've said "oh that's Kenmore isn't it?"
But I've gone walking in this neighborhood a lot, and it's two blocks over that there's the sign about Kenmore's parking ordinances. So I really think that technically we're outside the village. Though, we know fine well that the school next door lists its address as Kenmore, since they send Dave begging letters all the time.
Meh. We could also write "Tonawanda"* and don't; we just put "Buffalo" because we're not that interested.
Dave is next to me in the midst of composing a cover letter for a company in Cheektowaga* that sells VoIP equipment. He was inspecting their website and telling me a bit about what they do: using the equipment they sell, you can cheaply assemble what amounts to a corporate telephone system, using Voice over IP technology. Now, he used to work for a company that did traffic studies and security audits on corporate telephone systems, so he's reverse-engineered corporate telephone equipment before (the non-VoIP stuff tends to be poorly documented and worse-supported). So he finds it amusing that he probably knows more about what these people do than they do. He's trying to think of an advantageous way to phrase that in his cover letter.
I've just had far too much fruit for breakfast. But Wegman's had nectarines on sale, and plums, and I haven't had a good plum in years. I also bought a quart of heavy cream, so I may be doing experiments with fruit-based ice creams later. But first: to dismantle the sheet rock in my basement, and do some measuring... And yes, I'm aware that doing extra blogging is just a delaying tactic. Expect to hear from me a lot over the next couple days.
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* as a non-native of the area (I may have mentioned this before) I personally find, on a simple phonetic level, that both "tonawanda" and "cheektowaga" are inherently humorous.
Given that I live in one and work in the other, the humor has faded through sheer overexposure. But just try pronouncing them and tell me the result isn't funny.
One of the best parts is that one of the female vocalists has the heaviest Canadian accent I've ever heard, and so in The Trial when she sings about throwing away the key she pronounces it "aweee" and it's quite amusing.
Actually I sorta wish Luther didn't have such a heavy put-on generic-hick accent; it gives the proceedings a slightly more cartoonish aspect than they need.
Now I've forgotten what I set out to blog with this. Hm. Oh yes, we just looked up our zip code on the USPS website and it informs us that we're in Kenmore. Which a lot of Dave's friends have said-- seeing where we live, they've said "oh that's Kenmore isn't it?"
But I've gone walking in this neighborhood a lot, and it's two blocks over that there's the sign about Kenmore's parking ordinances. So I really think that technically we're outside the village. Though, we know fine well that the school next door lists its address as Kenmore, since they send Dave begging letters all the time.
Meh. We could also write "Tonawanda"* and don't; we just put "Buffalo" because we're not that interested.
Dave is next to me in the midst of composing a cover letter for a company in Cheektowaga* that sells VoIP equipment. He was inspecting their website and telling me a bit about what they do: using the equipment they sell, you can cheaply assemble what amounts to a corporate telephone system, using Voice over IP technology. Now, he used to work for a company that did traffic studies and security audits on corporate telephone systems, so he's reverse-engineered corporate telephone equipment before (the non-VoIP stuff tends to be poorly documented and worse-supported). So he finds it amusing that he probably knows more about what these people do than they do. He's trying to think of an advantageous way to phrase that in his cover letter.
I've just had far too much fruit for breakfast. But Wegman's had nectarines on sale, and plums, and I haven't had a good plum in years. I also bought a quart of heavy cream, so I may be doing experiments with fruit-based ice creams later. But first: to dismantle the sheet rock in my basement, and do some measuring... And yes, I'm aware that doing extra blogging is just a delaying tactic. Expect to hear from me a lot over the next couple days.
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* as a non-native of the area (I may have mentioned this before) I personally find, on a simple phonetic level, that both "tonawanda" and "cheektowaga" are inherently humorous.
Given that I live in one and work in the other, the humor has faded through sheer overexposure. But just try pronouncing them and tell me the result isn't funny.
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Date: 2005-06-07 04:51 pm (UTC)I am glad our town names amuse you! =) Did anyone ever tell you that Cheektowaga comes from an Indian name that means "Land of the Crabapples"?
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Date: 2005-06-07 05:46 pm (UTC)I hadn't heard that explanation for Cheektowaga before.
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Date: 2005-06-07 06:40 pm (UTC)That would be Sarah Harmer, whose solo album You Were Here is awesome. Though of course I must point out that you are completely mistaken -- she has no accent.
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Date: 2005-06-07 09:13 pm (UTC)I never would've pegged her being the same musician on the Rebuild the Wall CD.
She has no accent, and yet you recognized what I was talking about??
*snort*
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Date: 2005-06-09 01:48 pm (UTC)