Musical doodles and other interesting interpretations
If you can’t seize the day, at least seize the moment. Yesterday, Google’s Doodle involved a rudimentary guitar synthesizer, as a birthday greeting to Les Paul. Some people with talent to match the time available used the new instrument to perform old standards. Here’s a gallery, made available today.
But for every successful adaptation of new technology, there are some misfires. Out of Alaska: in response to a FOI (Freedom of Information) request, the state government has released 24,000 pages of email from the reign of Governor Sarah. Please, note the term “pages”.
The government, in one of those WTF (look it up) moments, is making the now public information public, but only in paper format. Boxes and boxes of printed copies. And in a misinterpretation of the term “mail”, interested parties must fly up to Juneau and carry home their own set of cardboard boxes. And pay the overage at the luggage counter. If I hadn’t seen TV footage, I couldn’t imagine it.
Maybe it was a revenge thing. If you want to search for a particular reference, then search you must. To be fair, the content will be scanned, probably within hours, and the search engines will be working overtime to offer up the tidbits of life (Palinisms) for the common reader. Respect for the letter of the law, if not the spirit.
My pool now has a ladder, and clear water and a temperature that is within striking distance of acceptable by mammals (other than hooded seals). Does this serve as a sign of summer? Here, in my yard, yes.
