Colin & Mingo started podcasting almost five years ago and are planning to resume creating new podcasts in the near future. We have a lot more "fans" (in the Facebook sense) now, so we're going to review the old podcasts to let everyone catch up.
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Listen to the podcast: www.trovish.org/cm/pod/20050718-3.mp3
Subscribe to our podcasts: www.trovish.org/cm/pod/mb.xml
- Magakrampi & Blanda on the Super Cultural Panorama podcast with Geoff Collens
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spargelkohl- July 11th, 11:28
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- Ad Absurdum & Phrenology
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- spargelkohl
- July 4th, 15:48
One score and three years ago, Colin & Mingo recorded new audio tracks called "Ad Absurdum" (5:34) and "Phrenology" (2:16) during the recording sessions "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare". This post goes into some detail about these tracks (and the "more popular" versions that appeared on "Swamp King of the World" in 1987).
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- Reading
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- spargelkohl
- June 25th, 7:51
My daughter looked intently at this container of sunscreen, then declared that it read "doggie, don't eat my underwear."
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- ramfs script for MacOS X
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- spargelkohl
- June 22nd, 21:32
This script creates a RAMFS disk with an HFS+ partition on it and mounts it so it is visible in the MacOS X filesystem (including the Finder).
The example script in the hdid(8) man page did not work for me on MacOS 10.5.7. Making the required minimal changes to make it work at all resulted in a volume that could not be cleanly unmounted.
If you are searching for such a script, feel free to use this one for any purpose with no strings attached (and no warranty). Let me know if you improve it.
I was unable to find a working script to do this and only have basic Mac OS X programming knowledge, so this was a learning exercise as well.
Enjoy.#!/bin/bash # The volume name will be based on the string "RAMFS" and the number # of days since the epoch. DAY=$(($(date +%s)/86400)) VOLNAME="RAMFS-${DAY}" # The size of the RAMFS disk (in 512K blocks) NUMBLOCKS=128000 # Use hdid to create the raw RAMDISK myrdev=`hdid -nomount ram://${NUMBLOCKS}` # Use diskutil to partition the RAMDISK and create an HFS+ filesystem # on the only partition. (Noisy output) diskutil partitionDisk $(basename ${myrdev}) 1 HFS+ "${VOLNAME}" "100%" # Use hdiutil to mount (attach) the partition on the RAMDISK mydev=`echo $myrdev | sed -e 's#/rdisk#/disk#g;'` hdiutil attach $mydev # Make the mounted filesytem private. (Any other ACLs to munge?) # (Can we get the mount point some reliable way?) mountpoint=/Volumes/${VOLNAME} chmod 0700 ${mountpoint} echo "run \"hdiutil detach ${mydev}\" when done or use Finder to \"eject\" ${VOLNAME}"
- Practice
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- spargelkohl
- June 9th, 7:47
Practice makes perfect. She experiments with buckling Robbie in the car seat.
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- Natural born hiker
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- spargelkohl
- June 7th, 9:54
We enjoyed a walk in the woods this morning. On our way to the playground now.
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- Daddy's Car
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- spargelkohl
- June 5th, 19:47
Daddy's car is fun!
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- Where is Heather's H?
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- spargelkohl
- May 30th, 14:14
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- A walk in the park
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- spargelkohl
- May 14th, 19:30
We went for a family walk and Heather led us to the park. What a surprise!
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- Family Update
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- spargelkohl
- May 3rd, 21:41
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After almost a week, our son is doing very well. So is mommy!
At a pediatrician appointment on Friday he had lost about 5 oz of his birth weight, but the doctor figured he was already on his way back up. We have an appointment this week to make sure.
The little guy's been very well-behaved too. He doesn't like having a poopy diaper much--and doesn't like the process of having it changed either. But this evening he was a perfect gentleman during his diaper change.
He really does sleep most of the time still. When he's up though, he's up.
I'm going back to work this week. We'll see how that works out!
- Pro haircut
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- spargelkohl
- May 2nd, 14:00
Her first professional haircut. Just a little trim around the edges, please.
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- Big hat
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- spargelkohl
- May 1st, 19:50
This hat is somewhat big for 4-day-old Todd.
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- Dad and son
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- spargelkohl
- April 29th, 14:42
My son was born on Monday! Mommy and son are home now and doing well. Big sister will get her chance to chime in for real on this situation this evening when she realizes that little brother is really here and is staying for good :)
- Bill
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- spargelkohl
- April 24th, 19:57
The bill of her hat is placed strategically to block the sun.
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- Template
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- spargelkohl
- April 17th, 18:21
Today we watched a man feed the ducks, walked and played in the sand, and went to the playground. A template for many days to come.
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- Spring is here
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- spargelkohl
- April 16th, 18:14
We spent a lot of time swinging today. What else is there to do on a fine spring day?
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- Snow
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- spargelkohl
- April 7th, 8:46
After a slow start this morning Heather wanted to make a snowball and walk in the snow.
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- Conidium
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- spargelkohl
- March 30th, 22:50
The third named track we recorded for the new Magakrampi & Blanda album Sporangia is called Conidium. Conidia are spores. (You can read more about them on Wikipedia if you like.) This track, recorded tonight, features Greg's (Magakrampi's) voice for the first time in this series of recordings. He wrote the lyrics too. This is an agressive, dance(ish) track at 125 BPM.
Conidium is available at last.fm (link above) and on the Magakrampi & Blanda page on Facebook.
Please check it out and let us know what you think!
- Spores R Us
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- spargelkohl
- March 28th, 17:14
Magakrampi & Blanda emitted a new podcast earlier in March. You can check it out here or by subscribing here (then you'll get new ones as we make them!)
The theme of the recent podcast is the same as the theme of the new album Magakrampi & Blanda have been working on since the beginning of the year: reproduction via spores. Ah, a topic everyone can really enjoy.
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Please listen and let us know what you think!
This update has been brought to you by the kingdom Fungi and their chitinous cell walls.
- Hooked on Phonology
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- spargelkohl
- March 25th, 22:46
I haven't been doing a good job at documenting my 2-year-old daughter's progress in acquiring her primary language skills. So here's an attempt to rectify that... It's a little scattered because I haven't allowed myself much time to write it up.
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I'll post more (and maybe in a more organized fashion, with consistent use of IPA) at a later date.
