Joel’s wife’s brother’s friend owns this little tea shop in SF Chinatown which now has an extremely slick web site.
Web link of note: Red Blossom Tea Company
(At http://redblossomtea.com)
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
The book that is the movie. Yikes. I guess I have to read this now!
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The BOOK for the Parrots
Holy Moly… I wonder if I should stop soon. I had no idea this was a book as well as a documentary.
Maybe there are collectible trading cards? A videogame for PS2 and XBOX? Promotional soda cups at McDonald’s?Web link of note: The BOOK for the Parrots
(At http://www.wildparrotsbook.com/)
SF Wild Parrots… home page
This is the home page for the parrots, distinguished from the other one, which is for the film about them.
Web link of note: SF Wild Parrots… home page
(At http://www.pelicanmedia.org/wildparrots.html)
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Do the Brooklyn parrots have their own film? I think not!
Web link of note: Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
(At http://www.wildparrotsfilm.com/)
Brooklyn Parrots
Posers.
Web link of note: Brooklyn Parrots
(At http://www.brooklynparrots.com/)
Things We Learn From B&H
- Sennheiser-25SP headphones are still overpriced at $79 for a floor model. I could have gotten a much nicer set of headphones from Sony for the same price… or a much much nicer set for $20 more. I hope I can return these…
- if you’re going to buy a hard case for your cabled boom pole, make sure you accounted for the length of the cable in addition to the pole (I have to kind of cram it in there)
- Some elementary school kids in Cincinatti, OH, are missing their 6 Mavica cameras right now because B&H sent them to me instead. I wonder how they are getting these back?
Make an iSight tripod
I want more control over where my iSight is pointing. And now I can humor me.
Web link of note: Make an iSight tripod
(At http://www.nuxx.net/gallery/isightcapsule)
Mail for David Chadwick
PSChadwick you complete monkey;
I just reread my copy of Thank You and OK! before I donate it to the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple, and read the section where you mention “nine clay balls.” I’m sure you recall, you never do get around to describing what it means.
So, I’m thinking, this is the Information Age, it’s been a while since he wrote that, maybe someone somewhere has published what that phrase actually means.
So I Google it… guess what. There are only two articles containing that phrase that are archived by Google. One of them is a list of names of punk bands, singled out for their terrible names (Dogen-inspired punks?). The other is… you.
And you still don’t describe what it means.
So? Did you make it up? Is it your version of “the thing with the cup“? Is it some scatalogical koan equivalent?
Tell me tell me Brian
- The thing with the cup (PDF)
- Chadwick’s comments page
- the band list
- Wikipedia: David Chadwick
Dave’s Imaginary Sounrd
A blog about sound generation- I first saw this with his listing of Speech Synthesis Audio Samples And History, originally linked from a “daleks” page.
mmm daleks
Web link of note: Dave’s Imaginary Sounrd(At http://spaces.msn.com/members/soundblog/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c01_blogpart=blogmgmt&_c=blogpart)