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This week on I’m Smarter Than You Radio

This week, The Sound are being featured. The Sound are an early to mid Eighties band that get lumped into the same pool as Echo and the Bunnymen and Joy Division. I’ve never really heard them, so that should all change this week.  To listen, go to http://www.imsmarterthanyou.com and click the link in the upper …

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This week on I’m Smarter Than You Radio

This week, The Sound are being featured. The Sound are an early to mid Eighties band that get lumped into the same pool as Echo and the Bunnymen and Joy Division. I’ve never really heard them, so that should all change this week.  To listen, go to http://www.imsmarterthanyou.com and click the link in the upper …

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This week on I’m Smarter Than You Radio

This week, Siouxsie and the Banshees are being featured. I never really listened to their albums so putting several of them into the mix will get me more aware of what they were doing back in the day.  To listen, go to http://www.imsmarterthanyou.com and click the link in the upper right.

Dear Websites who offer downloads:

Please stop with the automatic downloading of a file I’m getting from your website. It doesn’t work due to this message: Just give me a big fat button called “Click here” and I will do so. Thank you.

David Bowie…

…was way more influential to music in the ’70’s (and by association, today) than I ever gave him credit for. Meanwhile, tiny little Kraftwerk continues to show up in more and more places as an influence. David Bowie admits that he was influenced by them on his Low album which influenced countless bands (Joy Division, …

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Dynamically Editing Cisco ACL’s

This has been around a while, but I only ever found out about it a few months ago. There aren’t a ton of obvious articles about it on the Internet so I’m writing this mostly to have something for my own personal reference.  In short, do a “show access list XXX” to print out the …

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Dynamically Editing Cisco ACL’s

This has been around a while, but I only ever found out about it a few months ago. There aren’t a ton of obvious articles about it on the Internet so I’m writing this mostly to have something for my own personal reference.  In short, do a “show access list XXX” to print out the …

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Colts v Bears

I like the website www.mratings.com. The guy does stistical analysis of all sorts of sports, and his college football stats are used as part of the BCS. Anyway, here is his strength assesment for the NFL: http://www.mratings.com/rate.php?lg=nfl Indianapolis: #2 schedule in the NFL. Chicago: 30th. (THIRTIETH!) – the second EASIEST schedule in the NFL, and …

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10 Questions with Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes

10 Questions with Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes. The indianapolismusic.net community was asked to submit questions to Violent Femmes Bassist/multi-instrumentalist Brian Ritchie. The questions are italicized and his answers are in bold. I can remember when I heard my first Violent Femmes album. It’s rare that I can remember exactly where I was the …

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Poke In the Eye; Sharp Stick

So I got poked in the eye with a sharp stick this morning. I can’t say I highly recommend it, but I can say that it’s not as bad as people lead you to believe. I got diagnosed (again) with histoplasmosis. My first bout was in 1997. At that time, the best medical science had …

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