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Agriculture, skepticism, politics

Arkansas and Jenny's song

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More studio time
Hoping to finish a few songs

Playing a show tonight
With people I’ve never met
Guess I’ll be playing defence again

Here’s a video for the weekend
Posted to the Amateur Scientist today
Pretty cute lyrics with a great point

[youtube width=”400″ height=”355″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v_85tAey9s[/youtube]

Aaron's tweets for the week

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Aaron's tweets for the week

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Classical Gas

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Aaron's tweets for the week

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  • Aaron’s tweets for the week http://ff.im/2dK86 #
  • Enjoying using Acidrip to backup’home DVDs to files using 2 clicks per movie. #
  • Playing Tiger Woods 09 on the Wii with @traffase #
  • Settling in for Star Trek IV with my girl. Can’t go wrong with an even-numbered Star Trek. #
  • RT @stbain: 900lb database gorilla (Oracle) buys the leading open source database (MySQL) by purchasing Sun: http://tinyurl.com/cs5lut #
  • http://twitpic.com/3nox5 – My father and I look up at the St. Louis arch. #
  • Counting Crows – Hazy http://ff.im/2fc6c #
  • RT @dreamnotoftoday: There are two types of people today. People who have shit their pants over Oracle buying Sun and people who should #
  • I just realize I haven’t eaten yet today. It was because of the realization that I now am hungry. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? #
  • At Tubby’s in Aggieville. The food is a lie. #
  • Tip for all you writers out there: new sentences haven’t needed two spaces after the previous period since typewriters and mono-spaced fonts #
  • Happy Jaunty Jackalope day…new version 9.04 of Ubuntu not posted yet, but will be soon! http://www.ubuntu.com #
  • @scbidcaller I thought the meeting was this weekend. Was it moved up? in reply to scbidcaller #
  • @dreamnotoftoday Should have switched to apt-p2p. #ubuntu in reply to dreamnotoftoday #
  • I’m going to be furiously playing L4D and Counter Strike tonight to try and unwind. Two hours to go… #l4d #counterstrike #
  • RT @themediaisdying: INTERESTING : Yahoo! is closing Geocities : http://tinyurl.com/dagzh9 (via @startupmeme) #
  • @dreamnotoftoday I think I probably remember your first Geocities site, too. in reply to dreamnotoftoday #
  • The new L4D play mode is a Kobayashi Maru mode without the ability to win. #
  • Manhattan’s Griffith Lumber Co. is across the street from PW. I’m watching the firetrucks put out the flames through my window. #
  • Griffith Lumber is on fire. #
  • volunteers showing up now from neighboring fire departments #
  • Purple Wave parking lot filling up with firefighters #
  • firefighters just ordered to evac second building #
  • http://twitpic.com/3x4pd – second building about to go. #
  • http://twitpic.com/3x5ei – second building in flames #
  • @dreamnotoftoday VIDEO of Griffith Lumber burning http://12seconds.tv/channel/traffas/145685 in reply to dreamnotoftoday #
  • http://twitpic.com/3x76u – More from the Griffith Lumber fire. #
  • http://twitpic.com/3x84u – Mobile Air trailer refilling firefighters’ spent air tanks so they can go back for more. #
  • http://twitpic.com/3x8rx – Still four streams of water trained on the fire at Griffith Lumber Co. in Manhattan, Kansas. #
  • Cox cable outtage 30 minutes before some really important server work. Lovely. #
  • Four support calls tonight, all to different techs asking them to pick up my messes…solid crew of professionals. #rackspace has my back. #
  • Welcome to Saturdee. Raining in Manhattan today. #
  • Looks like some possible tornado action in Lawrence, Kansas. #
  • Going to try the new Jaunty Jackalope Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my EeePC 901. #
  • Ubuntu Netbook Remix works out of the box on my Eee PC 901 without the need for the kernel from array.org #

Aaron's tweets for the week

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  • Aaron’s tweets for the week http://ff.im/24wtb #
  • RT @jdschultz: Rumors Sprint being trained in demonstrating Palm Pre, street date of late April, early May http://tinyurl.com/dx97w8 #
  • Digging in for a long week, full of new things. #purplewave #
  • Very saddened by sudden death of auctioneer Danny Ratcliff. I will miss his participation, contributions in the industry. http://is.gd/sbsj #
  • @dpoe Be sure you do the invites. in reply to dpoe #
  • Done with meeting at KState Alumni Center. Back to #purplewave then home for House and 24 party. Come join us! #
  • @dreamnotoftoday W00t! ‘spector’ is trending! #
  • @dreamnotoftoday That looks like a Foursquare reference. in reply to dreamnotoftoday #
  • Oh, Firefox, why do you have to be so unstable on Linux? #
  • I have no bike #
  • Ben Nichols – Dog Day Nights http://ff.im/27r2T #
  • The Great Divide – Cowboy Song http://ff.im/27tsP #
  • Goo Goo Dolls – Black Balloon http://ff.im/27tsO #
  • You shouldn’t get to play music without a website. Facebook and MySpace pages don’t count. #
  • Deleted Facebook column from Tweetdeck. Too much useless static. Twitter only, my friends. #
  • Now that I’ve excluded Facebook from my Twitter client, it’s time to look again at Seesmic Desktop. #
  • Just cut page load times in half for a script by kicking MySQL to the curb. Cold, hard cache. #
  • Yeah!! Fail whale! #
  • Websites should NEVER be written in CamelCase. #
  • Watching Numb3rs on Hulu, wondering if Chelsea Lately is enough to justify paying for cable. #
  • Loving the Islay smoke. #
  • We Didn’t Start the Flame War – College Humor video, well worth watching, not quite safe for work. http://tinyurl.com/c976s7 #
  • Twitter clients http://ff.im/29D7s #
  • @ssmusser http://tinyurl.com/avje65 #
  • @HartkeRecords Slightly less secret now that it’s been announced, though not yet defined. in reply to HartkeRecords #
  • Rolling down to Kite’s to eat before the auction…I miss concession stand burgers! #
  • Live auction starts at 5 p.m. I’ll be live on http://www.purplewave.tv #purplewave #
  • #purplewave currently averaging over 6 web pages served per second. Love auction days, especially those with multiple events. #
  • Google needs a mail fail whale. #gmail #
  • Going live at http://www.purplewave.tv #purplewave #
  • AuctioneerTech blog post: Twitter clients http://ff.im/29D7s #
  • It’s amazing that when Twitter fails it’s more gracefully than Gmail. #gmail still down for me #
  • Why, yes, I AM wearing Roper boots and a Star Trek tie. #
  • RT @joshstegmaier: @traffas Twitter has more experience with failing than Gmail, so it makes sense that it’s better at it. #
  • Anyone able to access Google Apps for Domain email? My Gmail is fine, but my AFD is still down… #
  • Facebook should allow users to become anti-fans, or haters, of things. I would be a hater of all companies. Fans only is so boring. #
  • An enjoyable read, even if you’re not a fan of Green Day or punk rock. I am. RT @dreamnotoftoday Local Band Show http://ff.im/-2aDtP #
  • @dreamnotoftoday So you have the new disc or you’re basing the eval. on the live shows? in reply to dreamnotoftoday #
  • Flashblock now installs on the new Firefox beta Shiretoko, but it doesn’t seem to work properly. It blocks flash, but won’t allow requests. #
  • I just realized I’m short – actually, completely out – of after-auction junk food. No chips or Hot Pockets to be found. #
  • Heading for a more free, more liberal Friday. See you there. #
  • RT @JesseNewhart Watchout Boxee! GoogleTV being created by Motorola: http://bit.ly/68ENY #
  • Twitter’s servers must feel like the Spartans from 300, getting ready to be annihilated today against an onslaught of middle-aged women. #
  • Sprint just sent an email about the Palm Pre. I know about it. Don’t bother me unless you have something to deliver. http://is.gd/sXZf #
  • Google Maps Add Webcam Layer: http://bit.ly/5DrQ (via @JesseNewhart) #
  • Pedanticity would be such a better word than pedanticalness. Either way, mine is second to none. #
  • I <3 Geany! Geany lets you search groups of files and go right to the line with the string! http://www.geany.org/ #
  • @twosecondsaway Oh, yes! Hot, database migration action all…weekend…long! in reply to twosecondsaway #
  • @dreamnotoftoday I’m a grep fan. But performing grep within Geany lets you click on the results and go to the file and the line in the file. in reply to dreamnotoftoday #
  • @LucasMaddy ?!?!? As in quit your job or quit working for the day? in reply to LucasMaddy #
  • @traffase Jump up and down really hard, perhaps you can shake the elevator loose. in reply to traffase #
  • There’s a word that describes blogs that don’t include the whole article on the front page. It’s called ‘suck’. #
  • It almost looks staged http://ff.im/2bSQj #
  • Ban Comic Sans! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123992364819927171.html #
  • Always fun when Toby Keith gets put in his place, even if it is only allegedly. Old new, but a fun read. >> http://is.gd/rh7y #
  • Harry Chapin – Barefoot Boy http://ff.im/2bWZY #
  • The Waning Adoration of the Life-Long Fan http://ff.im/-2c0C0 (via @dreamnotoftoday) #
  • Happy Auctioneers Day! >> http://is.gd/t8AC #
  • EeePCs at Woot! for $149 + $5 shipping. Get ’em while they’re hot! http://www.woot.com #
  • @timseley phpList in reply to timseley #
  • http://twitpic.com/3k0wg – Diane, her sister Holly and her mother Debbie show their dirty hands in victory after planting flowers. #
  • I hope the new Star Trek movie doesn’t seem like a comic book movie. #

New music weekend

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Aaron Traffas and Trevor Burgess
Aaron Traffas and Trevor Burgess, live at Bobby T’s in Manhattan, Kansas, on Valentines Day, 2009

New music now available from the Valentines Day show at Bobby T’s with Trevor Burgess. Enter: The Wind has been available for some time, but today I’ve posted the rest of the originals from the show. They’re listed in the order they were played.

Archipelago
Fence Post
Singularity
What’s Wrong With Me
Enter: The Wind
Patronizing Smile
Red Dirt Farm
Getting Over You Again
Republican
24 Feet
200 Miles Away

Remember that you can find the lyrics, guitar chords and other information about each song in the songs section of this website. These songs and others can be found in the downloads section. Pictures from this show and others can be found in the pictures section.