The first video is the money one.  Somebody's driectly making money of its views: that's why it's "featured" and has nothing to do with anything. The second video is suggested based on something you watched recently. The third video is completely random. After that are the videos that have anything at all to do with the video you're watching ( Read more... )

The thing about Obamacare is that it doesn't really kick in till 2014. So, in 2013, I'm still dealing with the weird, weird, impossible old system.
( much more rumination about health insurance than you want to read )

I'm just free-associating here, right, and I find myself clicking on every version of "MacPherson's Lament" that comes up in the list -- it takes four clicks to end up with a version in Czech and it's not the only one ( Read more... )

I have been taking care of business, but I could be doing so much more if youtube did not have clips of the Watersons from 1965 or all of Gid Tanner's ouevre (including a lot of songs I can't listen to anymore: somebody better put new songs to those tunes, eh?).

Mostly this week I've been clearing the medical decks while I still have insurance, and ( Read more... )

Dropped the boom on Yanek. Now he just has to flop around a bit before he's marching away with the other "recruits." The chapter will end in drum training camp, which I cannot find any references for so I'm making it up whole cloth.  So glad this is a fantasy. I figure they drum and drum and drum, mostly ( Read more... )

First trap, first night set: productive. Rat is so small I thought it was a mouse till I saw the ears ( Read more... )

How can I go to bed -- or do anything else responsible -- when I have found Charlie Poole on You Tube?

Next thing you know, I'm going to find Fiddling John Carson and Moonshine Kate.  Or the Coon Creek Girls.

I'll never leave this chair again.

Inside Insides is a blog that features the magnetic resonance imaging of foods.  I can't tell you which is the most beautiful -- the cucumber, the cantelope, or the orange.

Also, you can find a Henry Thomas mix on YouTube, and a Bascom Lamar Lunsford one, and a Clarence Ashley one.  It turns out that when I'm not thinking about it, I will generally ( Read more... )

See, the thing is -- somebody sends you a YouTube link, and it's hilarious, but it's kind of a one-trick pony. What do you do? if you're really pressed for time, you keep clicking around, following the related links till you find something really puzzling.Frank says there's no puzzle at all: it's just a fixup, and we're supposed to think the ( Read more... )