Song of the Day: Blondie Double Bill: Heart of Glass and Atomic

Two classic tunes from Blondie. The first takes me back to my schooldays and the second I heard more recently when I listened to the sound track from "Bend it like Beckham". Both have that instantly recognizable and tirelessly rhythmic Blondie drum-beat.

Blondie, Heart of Glass



Lyrics:

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind <-- oh..! I always wondered what she was saying!
Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out I was losing my mind
It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

In between
What I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine
Love is so confusing there's no peace of mind
If I fear I'm losing you it's just no good
You teasing like you do

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out I was losing my mind
It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind

Lost inside
Adorable illusion and I cannot hide
I'm the one you're using, please don't push me aside
We could've made it cruising, yeah

Yeah, riding high on love's true bluish light

Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out I had a heart of glass [radio version]
Soon turned out as a pain in the ass [album version]
Seemed like the real thing only to find
Mucho mistrust, love's gone behind


Blondie, Atomic



Lyrics (nothing too profound here..!):

Uh huh make me tonight. <-- ooh err..!
Tonight make it right.
Uh huh make me tonight.
Tonight.
Tonight.
Oh uh huh make it magnificent.
Tonight.
Right.
Oh, your hair is beautiful.
Oh, tonight.
Atomic.
Tonight make it magnificent.
Tonight.
Make me tonight.
Your hair is beautiful.
Oh, tonight.
Atomic.
Atomic.
Oh.

Crap, I think I ruined that song for myself by printing out and reading the lyrics, I had never really paid much attention to them until now (luckily).

Oh well. Still like the melody.

-BT

Ricky Gervais meets Tony Hart

For the Brits who grew up watching Tony Hart on the telly - here is a somewhat-recent interview that had me in stitches. Tony Hart died this week, sadly.



-BT

Nice Robotic Arm Demo

Pretty cool...

From the link:

"Evan Reynolds, 19, got his hand and part of his arm ripped off in a car accident and has since been fitted with an i-LIMB, a robotic hand developed by an Apple/Star Wars fanboy. The i-Limb was developed by a Scottish company, Touch Bionics, and has won awards for its innovative technology. The total cost including the hand itself and the fitting is about £30,000. Time Magazine named the i-LIMB as one of the Top 50 inventions of 2008."

http://pogpog.com/v/guy-gets-arm-replaced-luke-skywalker-style/

-BT

Geeky Stuff: Brian Kernighan lecture notes and stuff

You can find some of Brian Kernighan's (co-inventor of the C programming language and lecturer at Princeton) lecture notes here:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall08/cos109/

By looking at the URL you can probably figure out how to get some of his notes for other courses, I'll leave that as an "exercise for the reader"! The stuff that I have read so far from the above link (much of which is in PDF) was very interesting and well-explained and would probably be a real help to anyone who is looking to get their feet wet in the IT world.

Enjoy!

-BT

A good read...

Some good reading for a Sunday over a cup or two of coffee. An interview with the somewhat-famous actor Bill Nighy in The Times:

Click to read

-BT