Trickling Down

Dear California,

South Jefferson would like its water back. Please consider investing a significant portion of the extra money you will be making through increased car registration costs and recreational marijuana sales in safe and scalable desalinization technologies and infrastructure.

Sincerely,
Chad

P.S. Taxes suck.

There! Beyond the Bounds of Your Weak Imagination

Squonk icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 03 from the A Trick of the Tail LP by Genesis icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )
“Squonk” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12

"A Trick of the Tail" album cover, by Genesis [Formatted]

Mad Man Moon icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 04 from the A Trick of the Tail LP )
“Mad Man Moon” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12
A Trick of the Tail icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 07 from the A Trick of the Tail LP )
“A Trick of the Tail” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12

Dust Down Your Wings Again

Drive Home icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 02 from The Raven that Refused to Sing (and Other Stories) LP by Steven Wilson icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Cold windowpane—a car upturned in the rain
Wait on in vain—don’t try to bear the blame
Deal with the pain—dust down your wings again

You need to clear away all the jetsam in your brain and face the truth
Love can make amends while the darkness always ends
You’re still alone so drive home

Pause without end—a moment in time suspends
How could she leave?—release all your guilt and breathe
Give up your pain—hold up your head again

You need to clear away all the jetsam in your brain and face the truth
Love can make amends while the darkness always ends
You’re still alone so drive home

Repetitive Redundancies

On Facebook, it is possible to have a dedicated page for a baseball team. It is also possible to have a private group for the players of said team. These exist as two separate entities until the dedicated page is made to be an administrator of the private group—at this point they become linked together.

Confusing? Yes. Apparently it is confusing to Facebook as well. When the page and the group share the same name, goofy things like this start to happen:

"Redding Ringtails Baseball Club made Redding Ringtails Baseball Club an admin of the group Redding Ringtails Baseball Club," brought to you by Redding Ringtails Baseball Club.

To translate, this is Facebook sending out an announcement to all members of the group Redding Ringtails Baseball Club that Redding Ringtails Baseball Club the group made Redding Ringtails Baseball Club the site an administrator of Redding Ringtails Baseball Club the group.

If one our players hadn’t “liked” the posting then I never would have noticed that Facebook was capable of such silliness. (Having a keen sense of humor is an unspoken requirement in becoming an official member of this team.)