I'm here.

In case you aren't down on the upside I'll give you the straight skinny. Listen good. This cat's been scratching on a different roof, you dig? Kitty got his own litter box and now it's tuna every night. We're broadcasting live from midtown D-Town at 50,000 watts. So can you hear me, people? Holla' Detroit what!

Detroit, sho'nough. No skin, baby; I wouldn't kid you. I'm a straight talkin', tall walkin', cool character. I got no time to mix and rhyme. I just keep riding and swinging, lifting and singing, breathing and holding that line. And I'll be hold it till the kingdom come or bust. Bank that, baby-o.

Bank that.

Dissatisfied and Leaving - Jungle Disk

I've been using Jungle Disk for some time now to backup my data to Amazon's S3. I've formed a less-than-stellar opinion of the software on a number of different heads, (see: Jungle Disk 3.04 - Update From Hell) but today I noticed an 800mb data transfer in process and wondered what it was - so large - that I was unexpectedly backing up. Upon investigation I found that Jungle Disk was re-uploading a certain collection of videos and other files which I'd recently gathered together and moved into their own sub-folders. Now, these files had all existed in the backup previously, they were just moved one folder deeper from their last position.

I personally find it ludicrous that an online file backup system should be unable to deal with a simple move operation like this, without uploading the whole file's content a second time. There's hash data, modified dates, file sizes, file sampling, and so forth... all which could be used to recognize these changes to say: "Hey wait, this file is already on the server, it's just somewhere else in the file tree now. I don't need to upload the data again, I can just modify the associated meta data."

Today's 800Mb's pushed me over the edge and set me on the search for some other software solution that will quietly run in the background and let me backup to S3. Yes, Jungle Disk has so disappointed me that I'm willing to re-upload my entire data set at Amazon's usual 85Kbps just to be rid of them. I'm making inquiries now. I'll report any success using other software.

'Jitensha' Tab by Oreskaband

My first official guitar tablature. ...by Youtube request.
[Watch my cover HERE.]

'Jitensha' by Oreskaband (Ore Ska Band)

Tabbed by Roy Tousignant
June 10th, 2010

I should note that this is my way of playing 'Jitensha'
on an accoustic guitar for the purpose of a live, solo
performance. It is not 100% faithful to the band version.


-Verse-
 F5        Eaug5     D5        Bb5      C5
E|----     |----     |----     |----    |----     
B|----     |----     |----     |----    |----     
G|----     |----     |----     |----    |----     
D|-10-     |-10-     |-7--     |----    |----     
A|-8-- x16 |-7-- x16 |-5-- x16 |-8-- x8 |-10- x8 
E|----     |----     |----     |-6--    |-8--     

F5        Eaug5     D5        Bb5
|----     |----     |----     |----    
|----     |----     |----     |----    
|----     |----     |----     |----    
|-10-     |-10-     |-7--     |----    
|-8-- x16 |-7-- x16 |-5-- x16 |-8-- x16
|----     |----     |----     |-6--     

A5        D5        Bb5
|----     |----     |----     
|----     |----     |----     
|----     |----     |----     
|----     |-7--     |----     
|-7-- x8  |-5-- x8  |-8-- x16 
|-5--     |----     |-6--      

A5        D5        Bb5       C5        C5 (staggered tempo)
|----     |----     |----     |----     |-------     
|----     |----     |----     |----     |-------     
|----     |----     |----     |----     |-------     
|----     |-7--     |----     |----     |-------     
|-7-- x8  |-5-- x8  |-8-- x16 |-10- x9  |-10---- x3 
|-5--     |----     |-6--     |-8--     |-8-----     

-Chorus Chords-
FMaj    EmAug5  Dm      Bb
|-1--   |----   |-1--   |-1-- 
|-1--   |----   |-3--   |-3-- 
|-2--   |-0--   |-2--   |-3-- 
|-3--   |-2--   |-0--   |-3-- 
|-3--   |-3--   |-0--   |-1-- 
|-1--   |-3--   |-x--   |-1-- 

-Bridge 1-
Bb5       A5        G5        C5
|----     |----     |----     |----    
|----     |----     |----     |----    
|----     |----     |----     |----    
|-8--     |-7--     |-3--     |-10-    
|-8-- x8  |-7-- x8  |-3-- x8  |-10- x8 
|-6--     |-5--     |-5--     |-8--    
 
Bb5       A5        G5        F5
|----     |----     |----     |----    
|----     |----     |----     |----    
|----     |----     |----     |----    
|-8--     |-7--     |-3--     |-3--    
|-8-- x8  |-7-- x8  |-3-- x6  |-3-- x1 
|-6--     |-5--     |-5--     |-1--    

-Bridge 2-
Bb5       A5        G5        C5       
|----     |----     |----     |----      -|
|----     |----     |----     |----      -|
|----     |----     |----     |----      -|  x3
|-8--     |-7--     |-5--     |-10-      -|
|-8-- x3  |-7-- x3  |-5-- x3  |-10- x7   -|
|-6--     |-5--     |-3--     |-8--      -|

Bb5       A5        C5       
|----     |----     |----     
|----     |----     |----     
|----     |----     |----     
|-8--     |-7--     |-10-     
|-8-- x3  |-7-- x3  |-10- x8  Pause x6
|-6--     |-5--     |-8--     

-Outro-
Bb5  A5 G5             C5
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|----------------------5------5--5------5--|  x3
|-8--7--5--x--x--5--x--5------5--5------5--|
|-8--7--5--x--x--3--x--3------3--3------3--|
|-6--5--3--x--x--3--x--3------3--3------3--|

  F5        C5        Bb5       D5        Bb5       E5        F5
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------5--5-5-5--3--3-3-3--7--7-7-7--3--3-3-3--9--9-9-9--10--|
|-3--3-3-3--5--5-5-5--3--3-3-3--7--7-7-7--3--3-3-3--9--9-9-9--10--|
|-3--3-3-3--3--3-3-3--1--1-1-1--5--5-5-5--1--1-1-1--7--7-7-7--8---|
|-1--1-1-1--3--3-3-3--1--1-1-1--5--5-5-5--1--1-1-1--7--7-7-7--8---|

-End-

W00t.

'Jitensha' by Oreskaband

Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle... I reverse engineered this song from scratch, people. Though, it's probably tabbed out nicely somewhere -- I just always have to do things the hard way, don't I? I'm covering the full version here, but I heard it first (and fell in love) by way of Naruto Shippuden's latest credit's roll.

The lyrics are memorized phonetically and from katakana transcription. No, I don't speak Nippon-go.

O, ne? Hai! So desu!

[UPDATE: By request, I've tabbed out my method of playing this song and posted it here.]

This Day in 1981...

By "this day" I mean Sunday before last, and by the trailing ellipsis I mean to say that I was born. Whereas "this day," 2010, I went golfing con mi padre.


'Old Joe Something was a woodsman and he rowed his boat ashore.'

After nine holes and 48 strokes at White Lake Oaks I then proceeded immediately to Bay Court Park for 18 holes and strokes-unspecified of disc golf, yet still con mi padre.


"Everybody get down!"

As you can surely imagine, after twenty-seven holes and two golf-oriented sporting activities I really needed to eat some Mexican food. "To Mexico Lindo!" ...con mi padre y mi madre también.





Now that I had the whole family assembled we retired to la casa for cake-by-Mom.


Just add homemade whipped cream.

And you were there, and you were there, and your little dog too.


Andy, the timid.

Let's open presents! I got a divot repair tool; A crazy prong-ended hand tool whats purpose only my dad knows -- and isn't telling; A deck of cards printed for the website Omega.com featuring - instead of naked ladies - ham radio equipment, capacitors, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and other obscure tech; a good hat; And... wait. What's this behind me here?


"A brand new car!"


No one mention the white Mongoose in the room.

I recover from the blind-side. Dad goes home. My mom and I have a beer and talk about the good-old days, or the lack thereof, or something. I don't recall.


Mi madre con su perro Andy.

Some days later my new license arrives to announce that in four short years I've gone from pudgy, rosy-cheeked stoner, to officer tight-ass, highway patrol.


Me thinks, for soothe, the truth lieth here betwixt.