New Josh Ritter Album

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Josh Ritter’s new album “So Runs the World Away” comes out May 4th.  I’m pretty sure he timed that for my birthday.  He has a great post on his struggle to write the songs – which can be found on NPR until the album is released.

And, he has some free songs on Daytrotter – a site worth checking out on its own.

I leave you with “Change of Time”, which you will find yourself singing at random moments:

FarmPorter

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I originally thought of FarmPorter for a summer grant, and then a summer project, but now that my summer is planned, I’m giving the idea up to whoever wants it.

There are a few aspects of the idea, and FarmPorter would probably be better if simplified to perform one of the following:

  • Home delivery of CSA shares
  • Fractional CSA share purchasing
  • Subsidized CSA shares to low-income communities
  • Handling excess crops through online sales/food bank donation
  • Marketing CSAs beyond farmers markets

Please see this .pdf for more information.

Roads that only exist in traffic reports

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I’m convinced in order to justify having traffic reports every certain number of minutes, sometimes reporters have to fabricate traffic situations.  And to do this, fabricate roads.  The following is a list of suspected imaginary roads:

  • Dequindre
  • Mound
  • Crooks
  • Halsted
  • Livernois
  • Dixie Highway
  • Sashabaw
  • Haggerty