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Jango

Freegal (via TRLS)

Humourous music
Always look on the bright side of life / Monty Python
Viking kittens
That's a moray
Llama llama duck
99 dead baboons / Tim Cavanagh
I'm everyone I have every loved / Martin Mull
Big bad wolf / Duck Sauce

Before there was rap (X-er rock)
Abracadabra / Steve Miller Band
Witchy woman / Eagles
Hotel California / Eagles
Stairway to heaven / Led Zeppelin
Devil woman / Cliff Richard
Dream weaver / Gary Wright

Because there is rap
Gutter glitter / Switchblade Symphony
Serpentine gallery / Switchblade Symphony (full album)
Be my friend / One-eyed Doll
Be my friend official video / One-eyed Doll
The geeks were right / The Faint
Ghost town / The Specials
Zombie / The Cranberries
Sanctified / Nine Inch Nails
Blasphemous rumors / Depeche Mode

Folk and traditional music
Fonseca / Tuna U. de Salamanca
lyrics for Fonseca
Fonseca ("sing-along version") / Tuna de Madrid

Religious music
Flaming star / Sally Oldfield
Lord of the dance / Gwydion Pendderwen
Spring strathspey / Gwydion Pendderwen
We won't wait any longer / Gwydion Pendderwen
Christians and the pagans / Dar Williams
I spent my last ten dollars on birth control and beer / Two Nice Girls

Heavy orchestra
Nothing else matters / Apocalyptica
Carry on wayward son / Maniacal 4 Trombone Quartet
Doctor Who theme on cello / The Doubleclicks

Even heavier
Ich will / Rammstein
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Weird Dana's backstory

At the end of the 20th Century, I had a 2-hour commute in Seattle, which I hated but that was the way it was. Then I got a job in the Olympia area and, because I'd hated that long Seattle commute so much, bought a house about a mile away from my new office. A mile is a little farther than I want to walk, but a ridiculous distance to drive on a nice day, so I bought a bike for $17 at Goodwill, had it fixed up a little, and started riding to work on nice days because it was ecological. It also made me healthier, so when I ended up in a new job with an 8-mile commute and a Hill, well, I needed a better bike.

You gotta understand, I grew up riding a hand-me-down 2-speed with pedal brakes and shifter both, so just braking with my hands was strange to me, and that whole remembering to shift BEFORE stopping... well, it wasn't happening much, and I never did figure out the whole 2-derailleur thing.

So anyway, shortly after the job change (2007? 2008?), I came into a bit of money and went shopping for a nice commuter bike. I ended up with a Breezer: internally-geared hub (shifts best when stopped), just one set of "speeds", all kinds of fancy extras. Could -- and did -- go just about anywhere on that bike.

Shortly after that, it became my life's ambition to dump my car entirely. Well, I'd already been dreaming of it, but it started to seem achievable. And in 2016, I finally did sell the car. Olympia has a great bus system, you see, and between that and the downtown parking situation, I really wasn't driving much.

Then in 2018, I hooked up with Walk N Roll, where I started to learn about fixing bikes (and a lot about the maintenance I ought to have been doing all along). Between their, and the BCC's, encouragement and a small improvement in my health, I finished my first month of bike-only transportation, including getting up hills to both Tumwater and West Olympia (via Tumwater; still working on getting up from 5th/4th), in the 2019 BCC.

Of course, with the transit issues of 2020, I've ended up a bit limited in range and carry capacity, but pretty much everything's closed anyway...


How to science

  • drop-cooking
  • BB Gun
  • Green Cows
  • Droppings

YouTubes & Cheezburgers

  • Anna Russell explains The Ring Cycle
  • Elvish weather forecast (vid)
  • Flaming pig dance
  • Henri (vid set)
  • Jason Paul does Rube Goldberg (vid)
  • kitten yogi (vid)
  • Llama Song / Burton Earny
  • Lutefisk and yams / Ulf Gunnarsson
  • office rowing team (vid)
  • OK GO dance (vid)
  • otter with rock (vid)
  • Screwfix office dominoes (vid)
  • Simon's cat live (vid ; pt. 1)
  • Simon's cat live (vid ; pt. 2)
  • Thunder and Monkey dance the Nutcracker (vid)
  • too much time...
  • Viking kittens / Joel Veitch
  • yogi and cat (vid)
  • yogini and cat (vid)
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