Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Whatever happened to Swifty Lazar?

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 16, 2009

First, who was Swifty Lazar? It’s one of those names that has been embedded in my consciousness seemingly without antecedent. So, this morning, when–while following a thread from Improprieties–I happened upon a young fellow named Irwin Lazar, my thoughts swiftly turned to Swifty. Swifty Lazar. The name stood out clearly in my mind, like the [...]

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If a tweet falls in the forest…

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 6, 2009

Is twitter down, or is it just me? Thank you “is-it-down-for-everyone” guys! I was about to do the whole bad connection dance. (…and *snap* –just like that– twitter is back up and pumping tweets-

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Jeepers

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 27, 2009

A sleeping dog will always tell the truth, even when authorised or encouraged to do otherwise. In 1961, Soviet scientists claimed to have trained a sleeping dog to lie, but it was discovered that it was really a dingo that had misrepresented itself during the screening process. ∞ I lifted the above citation from Anne [...]

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one more test…

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 16, 2009

no pings, no strings, no smoke and mirrors… let’s see if this post gets fed without any manual intervention.

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making progress

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 16, 2009

just another feed test

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noob, rube, or just unclued

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 15, 2009

this is by way of a test message to see if my rss feed works now that google and I agree that my feedburner account is real. I feel like such a noob. 7/16 – problem solved with update to [dot]htaccess file. Duhh.

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140 characters is too few

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 1, 2009

“Twitter” rhymes with “fritter” and that’s what I’ve done–frittered too much time away following other people’s interests. The stream of information is compelling, but my continuous-partial-attention time slicer doesn’t slice thin enough for me to follow your tweets while I do my stuff. Yet online connection and conversation enriches me. It’s my intention to follow [...]

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Steve Himmer

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 12, 2009

@ monkeybicycle “…Tuvan throatsong rendition of “Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer,” arranged by Harry Partch. With the puzzling (and not a little disturbing) exception of his duet with Diamanda Galas on “Frosty the Snowman,” the Italian semiologist hardly takes a false aesthetic step. The liner notes also feature Eco’s now-classic essay on the traditional holiday sweater [...]

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