#14606: Kambiz Kamrani — 01/28  at  01:20 PM
Wow, Cat Power -- yargh!

#14607: JM — 01/28  at  01:21 PM
I've always been uncool. Thus, I will continue to do it, too!

#14614: paperwight — 01/28  at  02:21 PM
Well, I'll give you cred for the Green Day and the California Guitar Trio. I can't even really play this game right now, as I'm still ripping my CD collection, so any random shuffle would not be all that representative.

#14617: — 01/28  at  02:35 PM
Hm. My library is also somewhat less representative after the "Airport Incident" (yes, I helped fill out the CD collection of some poor, musically deprived baggage handler in Atlanta) and the fact that I crammed my favorite albums on first and have been lazy about the rest, but anyway it has most of the important stuff:

Kiss Me, Son of God
They Might be Giants

Rocket
The Smashing Pumpkins

Cygnet Committee
David Bowie

Saviour Machine
David Bowie

Ashes to Ashes
David Bowie

Find the River
R.E.M.

Afraid
David Bowie

Pieces of the Night
Gin Blossoms

It's All About the Pentiums
Weird Al Yankovic

Time Capsule
Matthew Sweet

#14620: Jan Theodore Galkowski — 01/28  at  02:43 PM
What do you mean pirates are no longer cool!?

My life is pirates! I play "Sid Meier's 'Pirates!'" for hours on end. My recent bookshelf?

Philip Gosse, The History of Piracy

Alexander O Exguemelin, The Buccaneers of America

Geordge Francis Dow, John Henry Edmonds, The Pirates of the New England Coast

David Cordingly, Under the Black Flag

(and arguably) Jasper Ridley, Garibaldi

When a wee lad of eight, I single-handedly capt'ned a Day Sailer and took over a pleasure craft off Cape Cod. Next year I learnt how to pilot a sloop an' wi' maties took over a liner. Y'didn't hear o' it 'cause the federals paid me good to hush it up. Next I purchased a brigantine with me take. By age thirteen I was winning ocean-wide pirate contests. I am told this is unusual behavior.

Me says this not in puffery, m'lads, but because I reckon it supports m'case that pirate motivation and capability is innate, y'hearties, and not influenced by diet, exercise, mentors, self-esteem mongers, etc.

And that darn Piaget can go rot, the scurvey dog!

And whiles I know the fairer sex are sometime pirates, and darn mean ones, there aren't a lot o' them, and thus must be somethin' genetic thar, 'cause 'tis innate.

#14622: Chris Clarke — 01/28  at  02:48 PM

And whiles I know the fairer sex are sometime pirates, and darn mean ones, there aren’t a lot o’ them, and thus must be somethin’ genetic thar, ‘cause ‘tis innate.

Seen this, Jan?

#14623: Jan Theodore Galkowski — 01/28  at  02:53 PM
Yes, Chris, I was kidding around, o'course. Read and de Berry are well known and chronicled in Gosse. Indeed, perhaps the most famous woman pirate is a Chinese pirate by the name of Mrs Chang (we don't know her first name), who took over after her pirate husband was killed.

Actually, I chimed in because a small part of the story is true. I do like pirate lore, own and have read most of those books, and do find Sid Meier's "Pirates!" very entertaining. I also sail, although I'm current land-locked. The rest? It's a nautical yarn patterned, I'm afraid, after a recent pronouncement over on the MLK rotational velocity thread.

#14630: — 01/28  at  03:40 PM
What does a vegan pirate do in jail?






Starrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrve!

#14631: — 01/28  at  03:41 PM
What has 8 arms and 8 legs?






8 Pirates!

Trackback: King Nerd Once More Tracked on: Thoughts From Kansas (67.18.73.162) at 2005 01 28 14:21:38
I think Myers' list would sound good together, albeit parrots and eye patches would feel out of place, but this is too much. Radiohead and obscure educational songs later covered by They Might Be Giants? No. The Carter Family and Outkast? No. Tom Leh...

Trackback: No longer cool Tracked on: Creek Running North (65.58.240.229) at 2005 01 28 14:23:43
Just found out through PZ that Lauren at Feministe says the Random 10 meme is no longer cool, because some prominent blogger or other used the idea without crediting the source. Since it's no longer cool, it's safe for me...

Trackback: King Nerd Once More Tracked on: Thoughts From Kansas (67.18.73.162) at 2005 01 28 14:49:12
I mean, I think Myers' list would sound good together, albeit parrots and eye patches would feel out of place, but this is too much. Radiohead and obscure educational songs later covered by They Might Be Giants? No. The Carter Family and Outkast? No....

#14632: — 01/28  at  03:43 PM
How can you tell if a pirate is Jewish?






They have Barrrrrrrrrrrr Mitsvahs!!!!!

#14633: — 01/28  at  03:46 PM
What Star Wars character is really a pirate?



AARRRRGGH-2 D-2!

I'm sorry, I'll stop now.

#14635: — 01/28  at  03:52 PM
OK, one more I just made up...

What is a pirate's favorite virus?






Epstein-Barrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhh!!!!

#14636: PZ Myers — 01/28  at  04:08 PM
You win, Ceibatree. You are officially the uncoolest.

Trackback: friday random ten: since I don't post anything else Tracked on: The Devil's Robot (216.41.128.138) at 2005 01 28 16:25:05
PZ reports that the game is no longer cool; I suspected as much when I saw that it had crossed over into the mainstream lefty blogs like Pandagon and Yglesias. This, to me, is happy news! I've never been cool...

#14638: Orac — 01/28  at  04:33 PM
Ah, I see rrt is a fellow Bowie fan. Excellent taste.

That can't possibly ever be "uncool" (unless, of course, your favorite Bowie song is "The Laughing Gnome").

#14640: Jan Theodore Galkowski — 01/28  at  04:53 PM
If we can have vegan pirates, we can have 'sustainable cowboys'. Oh, that's been done.

Enjoy.

Actually, pirates are a really curious and interesting lot. I think their lives and experience even has input to Torah! At their heyday, pirates had a strict code, largely because they did not trust each other at all, and in his day Exquemelin says they had injury insurance. That means all those rules in Leviticus and Exodus are there because the population broke them and they became problems. (Answer to question, "When do you put up a stop-light at an intersection?") Their age ended less because of concerted effort on the part of governments, and more because of the advance of sailing and communications technology, but that's another blog ....

Anyway, the code went something like:

1. Every man shall obey civil Command; the Captain shall have one full share and a half in all Prizes; the Master, Carpenter, Boatswain and Gunner shall have one Share and quarter.
2. If any man shall offer to run away, or keep any Secret from the Company, he shall be marroon'd with one Bottle of Powder, one Bottle of Water, one small Arm and shot.
3. If any Man shall steel any Thing in the Company, or game, to the Value of a Piece of Eight, he shall be Marroon'd or shot.
4. If at any Time we should meet another Marrooner (that is Pyrate) that Man that shall sign his Articles without the Consent of our Company, shall suffer such Punishment as the Captain and Company shall think fit.
5. That Man that shall strike another whilst these Articles are in force, shall receive Moses's Law (that is, 50 stripes lacking one) on the bare Back.
6. That Man that shall snap his Arms, or smoak Tobacco in the Hold, without a cap to his Pipe, or carry a Candle lighted without a Lanthorn, shall suffer the same Punishment as in the former Article.
7. That Man that shall not keep his Arms clean, fit for an Engagement, or neglect his Business, shall be cut off from his Share, and suffer such other Punishment as the Captain and the Company shall think fit.
8. If any Man shall lose a Joint in time of an Engagement he shall have 400 Piece of Eight; if a limb $800.
9. If at any time you meet with a prudent Woman, that Man that offers to meddle with her, without her Consent, shall suffer present Death.

And there were even religious pirates, at least those who insisted on Sunday practice. They didn't have much luck recruiting reverends, 'though, for some odd reason. And there was Mission, a pirate who came under the influence and guidance of a Dominican priest, Signor Caraccioli. They became great friends, and ex-priest Caraccioli joined on Mission's ship, the Victoire, participating in fighting and duels. I now quote Gosse:

During the whole voyage Caraccioli lost no opportunity of preaching to young Mission the gospel of atheism and communism, and with such success that the willing convert soon held views as extreme as those of his teacher. Those two apostles now began to talk to the crew and their views, particularly on the rights of private property, were presently shared by almost all on board.

These are all courtesy of Philip Gosse, in the abovementioned History of Piracy, Longman Greens, 1932.

#14641: Mrs Tilton — 01/28  at  05:52 PM
Okay:

Infant Holy, Infant Lowly Tewkesbury Abbey School Choir
Western Stars k.d. lang
As Tears Go By Marianne Faithful
Party in the Woods Tonight Jonathan Richman
Haifisch Biermösl Blosn
Kol Nidrei Jan Peerce & Warner Bass
ged Attwenger
We A de Rasta Israel Vibration
Orane Les Negresses Vertes
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) Van Morrison

I assure you that any seeming coolness is merely an artefact of the iTunes Party Shuffle. Still, the program did at least show the token uncoolness of choosing that song by Israel Vibration, rather than the much cooler Babylon by Bus or IV's cover of Black Muddy River. And Peerce's Kol Nidrei?! That's so uncool it goes 180 degrees round, and drips icicles. (The Christmas carol is probably deemed officially Uncool here in partibus infidelium, but I really can't claim Uncoolness Credit for it, as it is a very pretty tune.)

#14643: Lauren — 01/28  at  06:25 PM
You're good with me.

#14649: — 01/28  at  07:40 PM
Ahh, Orac. You have exposed my greatest secret...and shame. I must hang my head for as a follower of the Great Master of Pretention, I have failed in my duty to experience the legendary "Laughing Gnome." As penance, I must perform a pilgrimage to the land of iTunes, and once there, purchase the Deram Anthology.

#14650: — 01/28  at  07:48 PM

Ah, I see rrt is a fellow Bowie fan.

Four Bowie songs in a 10 song random set?

I'd say we just crossed over into the obsessive.

Or... maybe rrt just "beat" the odds.

How about we ask one of Pharyngula's males math prodigies to figure out the odds of 4 Bowie songs coming up? Let's just assume (for no particular reason) that rrt's collection has 25 Bowie songs, out of a total of 500 songs (this would, IMO, not constitute obsessive behavior).



Any volunteers?

#14651: — 01/28  at  08:05 PM
Oh, no need, let me save you the brain cells. 325 songs Bowie out of 1454 total? Happily obsessive.

Of course, the TMBG playlist comes in at 309.

#14653: orac — 01/28  at  08:34 PM
Indeed, rrt. One cannot be a true fan of the Chameleon unless one has experienced "The Laughing Gnome" and convinced oneself that it is great art.