Balsa Racers Music http://blog.balsaracers.com Music Musings More Wed, 02 May 2012 15:56:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New song!: Death and Taxes http://blog.balsaracers.com/2012/05/02/new-song-death-and-taxes/ http://blog.balsaracers.com/2012/05/02/new-song-death-and-taxes/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 15:48:58 +0000 Oscar http://blog.balsaracers.com/?p=204 Death and Taxes 01May2012

 

‘Tis a silly song about, well, Death and Taxes. Written for The Skeptic Wire monthlyish song challenge of the same name. Yeah it’s a little late for Tax Day, but I do what I can. And in this case I recorded the whole thing in about 4 hours. You can tell, can’t you?

BTW you can get songs on my Soundcloud as well.

Death and Taxes

There are two things we all expect
Just take a minute to reflect
It won’t take a giant intellect
To maintain a society
In which our freedom isn’t free
They are our patriotic duty
Death and Taxes
To fight the wars and build the roads
To clean the streets when it has snowed
To keep the rivers safely flowed
Because our bodies do not last
Because we will repeat the past
Because some hate the iconoclast
Death and Taxes
We pay the price (Certified Accountancy)
We pay the price (Just for being born)
We pay the price (unless you can afford a PO box in the Cayman Islands)
We pay the price

 

]]> http://blog.balsaracers.com/2012/05/02/new-song-death-and-taxes/feed/ 0 It send like I am always editing. http://blog.balsaracers.com/2012/04/05/it-send-like-i-am-always-editing/ http://blog.balsaracers.com/2012/04/05/it-send-like-i-am-always-editing/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:11:58 +0000 Oscar http://blog.balsaracers.com/2012/04/05/it-send-like-i-am-always-editing/ Not always always, just mostly always. The great majority of the time recently I am less creating than fixing. of course the end result is a creation, but it is a less “active”firm of creation. I suppose I want more to swing the hammer than work the blueprints.
but right now, that isn’t the task, so onward and metaphorically speaking upward!
Skeptic Wire Podcast

]]> http://blog.balsaracers.com/2012/04/05/it-send-like-i-am-always-editing/feed/ 0 New songs! Valentines Day and My Baby Is A Scientist http://blog.balsaracers.com/2012/02/14/new-songs-valentines-day-and-my-baby-is-a-scientist/ http://blog.balsaracers.com/2012/02/14/new-songs-valentines-day-and-my-baby-is-a-scientist/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:08:24 +0000 Oscar http://blog.balsaracers.com/?p=200 Valentine’s Day written for a songwriting challenge on The Skeptic Wire podcast (http://skepticwire.blogspot.com)

And
My Baby Is A Scientist written for my girlfriend on her birthday

]]> http://blog.balsaracers.com/2012/02/14/new-songs-valentines-day-and-my-baby-is-a-scientist/feed/ 0 Part of a song on WOAI with Cleto Rodriguez http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/09/29/part-of-a-song-on-woai-with-cleto-rodriguez/ http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/09/29/part-of-a-song-on-woai-with-cleto-rodriguez/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:34:46 +0000 admin http://blog.balsaracers.com/?p=194 Oh, yeah: up at 4am to prepare, then a just-before-6:30am 45 second segment. The life of rock’n'roll!

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If the embedding doesn’t work (which sometimes happens, curse it all) it’s the 29 Sept 2011 clip here:

http://www.woai.com/content/blogs/cleto/default.aspx

]]> http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/09/29/part-of-a-song-on-woai-with-cleto-rodriguez/feed/ 0 Oooh broadband back in business http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/07/11/oooh-broadband-back-in-business/ http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/07/11/oooh-broadband-back-in-business/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:57:58 +0000 admin http://blog.balsaracers.com/?p=183 I’m giving the next step up broadband a shot. And I just uploaded a new “Injudicious Ramblings” Episode 013 to the site. Wow. It’s a 2 hour podcast this time- mainly due to laziness of editing on my part, but hopefully some interesting discussioning. But the 40.6MB file only took 5 minutes to upload, as opposed to the nearly 45 minutes it was taking. I’m wondering how much of that was the broadband upgrade and how much was the new cable modem for which I exchanged, today? I know it’s a good part of the extra bandwidth, but as the old modem was on it’s final shaky…um…legs, I think a little can be attributed to the new modem.

]]> http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/07/11/oooh-broadband-back-in-business/feed/ 0 Runnin sound for a middle school http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/05/20/runnin-sound-for-a-middle-school/ http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/05/20/runnin-sound-for-a-middle-school/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 23:29:03 +0000 Oscar http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/05/20/runnin-sound-for-a-middle-school/ I feel misinformed about the start an end times. Plus I had to spend all day just setting everything up. Joy. Badly wrapped cords, lost assorted, incorrect labels, broken or bad equipment: whee! Then a 7:30am call for a 6:30 show which I was told would be ending at that time. Foolish me for lacking the critical element of asking: “really?” ah well it’s a paid gig.

]]> http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/05/20/runnin-sound-for-a-middle-school/feed/ 0 New Injudicious Ramblings up http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/05/16/new-injudicious-ramblings-up/ http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/05/16/new-injudicious-ramblings-up/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 19:05:12 +0000 Oscar http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/05/16/new-injudicious-ramblings-up/ Get on iTunes or download it from here: Injudicious Ramblings

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1) Skeptic Wire : skepticwire.blogspot.com and iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-skeptic-wire/id434251897

 

2) Injudicious Ramblings : injudiciousramblings.blogspot.com and iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/injudicious-ramblings/id435520148

 

Yeah. I’m rude and a nasty person. But I shower everyday (mostly) and treat my pets (companion animals, if you must) well.

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Full size (H: 68″, W: 32″, D: 33″…ish), bottom freezer section with ice maker, Hinges on the right side. White.

Refrigerators and I have been through a lot and it is sad to see this one leave the nest. Why, I remember my first refrigerator: ’twas just a small dorm fridge, keeping my carbonated high fructose corn syrup-y beverages cold, and the occasional beer. OK, let’s be fair: it was always beer. And then the small apartment fridge, with the discolored shelves from the exceedingly dirty prior tenants. And finally blossoming into this monstrosity: a full-blown, real, honest-to-goodness ginormous refrigerator. But a brief two years overseas (where I had a smallish European style model..very classy when it wasn’t covered in the sand and dust that leaked through the doors and windows), caused this guy to morph into a garage refrigerator, holding those items that simply didn’t fit into the daily nutritional requirements a newer-y refrigerator would contain. And so it sat in the garage, keeping the guest beers cool, the popsicles, ice cream, and left-overs frozen, and the…no I think that must be pretty much everything it’s done for the last few years.

Asking $150. I think it’s worth it. If I were looking for a used, working refrigerator that’s about what I’d expect to pay.
Will consider delivering for an extra $528.42, cash, exact change only. No pennies. In other words: please have your own vehicle, tie-down straps, rope, tape (to keep the doors closed), and assorted refrigerator transportation type equipment. If I recall correctly, this refrigerator has been known to fit on its side in a Ford Windstar with all the back seats removed.

Call/ text [information redacted]

]]> http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/05/14/my-refrigerator-sold/feed/ 0 Tim Minchin’s “Storm-The Movie” http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/04/08/tim-minchins-storm-the-movie/ http://blog.balsaracers.com/2011/04/08/tim-minchins-storm-the-movie/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 14:27:06 +0000 admin http://blog.balsaracers.com/?p=177 Available at last!

 

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