‘Can a rodent generate enough electricity to power a light by running on it’s wheel?’ That was enough inspiration for us to start the project, and we soon added Skippy the Hamster to the Otherpower.com payroll. He’s a Syrian Hamster, and we chose that breed since they are nocturnal and like to run on the exercise wheel.
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Didn’t I tell you! The next party will use an iPod for entertainment. Freed from wires at last it will be handed from guest to guest who will get to choose the next song for the Party Shuffle…
Tracing Victor’s footsteps I looked at a few different CDs on amazon.com and found essentially the same Customer Review, using different aliases of course, for Yanni’s album Ethnicity and Live At the Acropolis and Higher Octave’s compilations Barcelona Nights: The Best of Ottmar Liebert 1. All of these reviews were written in July and all of them seem to have the title Thanks For The Introduction To Mehdi.
So I searched Google for that exact phrase by putting it in quotation marks and discovered this. The phrase was used onethousandfivehundredandseventy (1,570) times!!
Shocking isn’t it!!
I have ordered CDs and DVDs from amazon.com because I read informative customer reviews. I think amazon.com needs to add a field called Suspected Spam immediately, before they lose credibility and as a result sales. If you know somebody at amazon.com, you might want to point that out to them.
And to all of the artists and record labels using computer jockeys to create this sort of spam: Karma is a mother……..!
PS: Using amazon’s own A9 search
The state of Illinois sued the Dave Matthews Band on Tuesday for allegedly dumping up to 800 pounds of liquid human waste from a bus into the Chicago River, dousing a tour boat filled with passengers.
The lawsuit accuses the band and one of its bus drivers of violating state water pollution and public nuisance laws. It seeks $70,000 in civil penalties.
“Our driver has stated that he was not involved in this incident,” band spokesman John Vlautin said in a statement.
Yeah, I’m sure he stated that. In the end they’ll claim equipment malfunction and pay a fine. Some tours put incredible amounts of stress on the bus drivers. I am not saying the driver should not be fined, dumping the toilets into the river is inexcusable, but I understand the stress some of those guys are under.
This is how many Flamencos tie the excess string. I believe the reason for that was originally this: many Flamenco guitarists use olive oil to make the fingers of their right hand glide better over the strings. Some have a little sponge with oil attached to the bout of the guitar, others have a little sponge in a cup somewhere within reach. Well, olive oil is very rich and deadens the strings within an hour or two. Leaving the strings uncut and tied as shown in the photo means that one can take them off, turn them around and restring them. This was also important because Flamenco guitarists couldn’t afford to buy new strings for every gig! To this day the best Flamenco guitars cost only a fraction of the top classical guitars. I believe the reason for that is that classical musicians are used to paying top dollar for instruments, but Flamenco guitarist aren’t and often can’t.
The oil helps especially when the air is humid, which makes the strings very sticky. Instead of using heavy olive oil I prefer to use the much lighter natural oil of the skin and you might see me reach my right hand to my forehead for lubrication several times during a show. That’s a little trick guitarist Daniel Ward showed me in 1997. Until then I always struggled in humid conditions. I was used to the very dry climate in Santa Fe and playing in Florida in the Summer represented a big struggle for me.
