Electric Josh

So the lovely wife was at the library and found a CD of old Woody Guthrie songs for kids. Regrettably this CD didn't contain one or two of the songs I remember from my own Songs To Grow On LP that I listened to a couple dozen years ago, but it does have a version of what Wilco and Billy Bragg later recorded as Hoodoo Voodoo, and it's exactly as ridiculous as you'd expect, but it was great fun to stumble across it by surprise on the car trip back from the Berkshires the other weekend (c.f. as-yet-unloaded baby pictures), which, of course, took us through Stockbridge, MA.
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So I have an unexpectedly large pile of baby pictures to rifle through. This could take a bit. Update: iPhoto is unforgivably horrible and slow once about a year's worth of pictures have been loaded into it. I know there are other pieces of software that can rescue iPhoto from itself, but why should they even be necessary? I know a lot about writing software with a mediocre user interface, and there's pretty much no excuse for a user interface to ever run quite this slowly. Further update: Now my web host is refusing FTP connections, thereby making upload of all these pictures impossible. Barely able to suppress its rage, this space is heading to bed.
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