There's also a Smothers Brothers version ending with John Henry saying, "I'm gonna get me one of them steam drills too, oh boy, gonna get me a steam drill too."

Entirely different interpretation wrt what you wrote!

Revolt on Alpha C, by Robert Silverberg. Probably from Scholastic Books. Read it in elementary school. I still remember the closing lines, six decades later!

In France, it is called Août.

LLC. Take your annual salary, divide by 2000 (okay, 1800 or so to account for PTO including Federal holidays). That's what YOU are getting paid. Your MINIMAL billable for long term work is 2x that. Higher for short term work.

I use microcontrollers to create LED art and other sensor/interactive things. Most use onboard flash storage, but some projects require greater storage. SDCards to the rescue!

Last Saturday -- walked the snowy four blocks from my house to the three-block-long "center of town". Went to the (independent) bakery. Bought a still-warm-out-of-the-oven sourdough batard; chatted with the baker and a few of the staff. Walked home, slices for breakfast. Small towns!

Trim the end of a straw into a long'ish (3/4"?) triangle, with the point in the middle. Two triangles, top and bottom.

Press it between your teeth just past the triangles and blow. You'll get the most horrendous buzzing sound.

A double reed, the haut straw or ostraw. Like haut bois/oboe.

Thanks, and yes to the Barkleys. The volume covers 12/18/50 (Holiday Affair) through 1/8/51 (Once More, My Darling). I also have 6/4-25/51.

Sometimes it is right three times. And sometimes, just once.

I use a lot of binary orders of magnitude...

I have a bottle of '93 Mouton Rothschild. The European label, including the artwork. I kinda sympathize. ( www.chateau-mouton-rothschild.com/label-art/di... , if you're interested in the story.)