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Lone Star’s National Anthem of Texas

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Lone Star GuitarA lot of great songs on their list.   A few I could do without.  You can chase the link on the guitar and vote on the National Anthem of Texas (as anointed by Lone Star beer).

Boogie Back to Texas — Asleep at the Wheel
Miles and Miles of Texas — Asleep at the Wheel
Colors Are All the Same — Bill Pekar
San Antonio Rose — Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
I’ve Been Everywhere (In Texas) — Brian Burns
Llano Estacado — Cooder Graw
Texas Time Travelin’ — Cory Morrow
That’s What I Like About Texas — Dale Watson
Way Down Texas Way — Dale Watson
Lone Star Blues — Delbert McClinton
Rolling Stone from Texas — Don Walser
Beautiful Texas Sunshine — Doug Sahm
Texas Me — Doug Sahm
Yellow Rose of Texas — Ernest Tubb
Waltz Across Texas — Ernest Tubb
Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio — Flaco Jimenez
London Homesick Blues — Gary P. Nunn
What I Like About Texas — Gary P. Nunn
I’m a Texan — Gary Stewart
Deep In the Heart of Texas — Gene Autry

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Adjectivisitude

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An impressively adjective-laden sentence: Some say that some of Scarlett’s plotting and scheming aspects might have been drawn from Martha Bulloch Roosevelt’s beautiful and vivacious, independently wealthy and grandparent-spoiled, rebellious and attention-seeking granddaughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Thanks to Wikipedia’s Scarlet O’Hara entry. And the phrase “some say that some”, to boot!

Map Schmap?

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All of my Flickr photos are marked with a creative commons license. It’s an attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives license, which I would suspect is a fairly common one. This doesn’t prevent allowing other uses, of course. So, recently I got a random email from Schmap.com. What dot who? They would like to use my photo … Read more

NP Complete Humor

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Ahh, jokes about non-deterministic polynomial time complexity problems. Doesn’t get much better than that! Thank you xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. (If you don’t Get It, you’re not a computer scientist.) If you want to know more: np-complete, knapsack problem, traveling salesman, xkcd.