Entries from August 2008

Defiance, Ohio; K-9; Beyond Things at Lower Cascades Waterfall Pavilion. 6p. $donation.

August 30th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Defiance, Ohio; K-9; Beyond Things at Lower Cascades Waterfall Pavilion. 6p. $donation.

So in an attempt to make my life seem less disconnected, I wanted to tell you all about a show that I’m playing with the band that I play in and have been on tour with for the last 2 weeks.
Sunday, August 31.
6pm
$donation
Lower Cascades Waterfall Pavilion, Bloomington, IN
(see http://bloomington.in.gov/documents/viewDocument.php?document_id=274  for directions)
Defiance, Ohio (that’s me! punk [...]


Asking about animal ingredients in Spanish

August 28th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Asking about animal ingredients in Spanish

 
We were in Miami 2 days ago and were pretty excited to make sandwiches with Cuban bread.  Unfortunately, a lot of Cuban bread has lard as an ingredient.  I struggled to ask if bread contained lard.  I found on the web that the Spanish word for lard is manteca (or perhas grasa de cerdo).
My high [...]


go outside and play

August 25th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

go outside and play

We’ve been playing Oh, Susquehanna pretty much every night on tour.  In part it’s a song about how childhood mobilities have been affected by a changing environment.  But, as this editorial suggests, its not just the loss of natural spaces that is changing childhood.
From Remember ‘go outside and play?’ – Los Angeles Times:
Increasingly, American children [...]


Great moments in personal sporting history

August 21st, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Great moments in personal sporting history

The collective sense of captivation that the Olympics now seems to hold and just trying to be more active on tour has made me think a bit about sports.  On the first day of tour, stopping in Columbus to pick up t-shirts, will and I played a fast game of basketball against Ryan and Austin.  [...]


Sports, Race, and Imagination

August 20th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | 2 Comments

Sports, Race, and Imagination

I came across this article in the New York Times, A Country Feels a Hurdler’s Pain, and was at first surprised that there would be such a reaction to one runner being unable to compete.  It made more sense when I read further in the article and read this quote by the runner, China’s Liu [...]


Reading across the lines

August 20th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Reading across the lines

The book group I’m facilitating at the county jail met again this past week, interrupting an Uno game going on in the common area of the cell block.  I had just played a game of Uno that afternoon, sprawled out across a post-picnic blanket on a grassy patch just above the lake.  Kids splashed below [...]


passing grep results to other unix commands

August 18th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

passing grep results to other unix commands

This is old news to a lot of folks, but new and powerful to me.
Search for text in files and move matching files

$ grep –files-with-matches –null foo * | xargs –null -I xxx mv xxx dir_for_foos/

The above command searches for the string foo in all files in the current subdirectory.  It then moves each file [...]


A PMP, finally

August 5th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | 1 Comment

A PMP, finally

Working a lot with computers, acronyms have become second nature – lately it’s been SIP and DID and PBX and a slew of other ones.  Somehow though, I’m surprised when I realize that they don’t just exist in the realm of computer technology.  I’m more surprised when, in these other contexts, they no longer seem [...]