Steve Platt
drsteveplatt.bsky.social
Steve Platt
@drsteveplatt.bsky.social
Retired from being Professionally Confused. Light (LED) artist. Cat person. Husband of Robin (ironic for a cat person, you think?). Parent of a bunch of wonderful people. Favorite pasttime: walking in the woods and fields. Philadelphia Eagles fan.
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!
August 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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!
August 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
In France, it is called Août.
March 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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.
March 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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!
February 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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!
January 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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.
January 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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.
December 29, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Sometimes it is right three times. And sometimes, just once.
December 29, 2024 at 4:14 AM
I use a lot of binary orders of magnitude...
December 29, 2024 at 4:11 AM
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.)
Mouton Rothschild 1993 - Balthus
Balthus is the pseudonym of Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola. He was born in Paris in 1908 into an ancient and highly cultivated family of Polish descent. By the time he was thirteen, he had already...
www.chateau-mouton-rothschild.com
December 29, 2024 at 4:08 AM