Category: random
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Robert Hunter, Idiot’s Delight
Just came across my scan of the cover, random posting.
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Keystone Berkeley’s Smitty
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Things Happen When You Wear Eleganza
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My Unicorn, Sparkle
a.k.a. the frictionless market.
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Inflation Calculator
Here’s an inflation calculator: http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ For example, consider this little tidbit: A June 1975 Bay Area Kool Jazz Festival at the Oakland Coliseum had a $276,000 weekend (Selvin 6/29/75). That’s $1,161,692.48 in 2012 dollars. Sounds like a lot of money to me.
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New Jerry Garcia website
http://jerrygarcia.com/ Gonna have to check this out, naturally. Looks very promising on first glance. Hooray!
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The ubiquity of revolutionary times
My too-verbose formulation, sometimes used in large freshman lecture. Good little color: “Next year marks a millennium since the sermon given in 1014 by Archbishop Wulfstan in York where he declared that ‘the world is in a rush and is getting close to its end’” (ht http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/12/we-dont-want-to-believe-it-but-things-really-are-getting-better/)
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Rabbit’s Epistemology: If It Says So, Then It Is So
Lyrics: A map is not a guess An estimation or a hunch A feeling or a foolish intuition A map is a dependable Unwavering, inarguably accurate Portrayer, of your position Never trust your ears Your nose, your eyes Putting faith in them Is most unwise Here’s a phrase you all Must memorise In the printed…
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Eyjafjallajökull
JGMF is stuck in Paris. Anyone know anywhere in town where there might be some rock & roll memorabilia?