{"id":37,"date":"2004-01-15T20:29:56","date_gmt":"2004-01-16T00:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2004\/01\/15\/singing-while-blogging\/"},"modified":"2004-01-15T20:29:56","modified_gmt":"2004-01-16T00:29:56","slug":"singing-while-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2004\/01\/15\/singing-while-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing while blogging&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a41'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I was&nbsp;playing doorman for the MIT folks coming in out of the 1 degree&nbsp;cold&nbsp;to our <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0106327\/2004\/01\/07.html#a114\">blogging class<\/a> tonight, a <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mudcat.org\/MIDI\/FROZLOGR.MID\">catchy old&nbsp;tune<\/a> kept running through my head&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Then I realized what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudcat.org\/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6338\">the song itself<\/a> was, &#8220;The Frozen Logger.&#8221; \n<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve written one (obvious) letter to launch a parody that<br \/>\nanyone reading this is welcome to complete&#8230; Just add a &#8220;b&#8221;to<br \/>\n&#8220;logger&#8230;&#8221; and you&#8217;re on your way. \n <\/p>\n<p>Considering the coffee mug symbol on RSS feeds, all we need is an<br \/>\nicy thumb to make some &#8220;no one but a blogger stirs his coffee with his<br \/>\nthumb&#8230;&#8221; variation.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, the Thursday Harvard blogging meeting and those of us who<br \/>\nhad been off evangelizing MIT, were reunited in the <a href=\"http:\/\/staticfree.info\/blog\/meat\/cellcam\/2004-01-15_21:50.comments\">warm basement of a<br \/>\nMexican restaurant<\/a> (with Steve&#8217;s phonecam)&#8230; while the temperature dropped to two degrees<br \/>\nbelow zero outside&#8230; \n<\/p>\n<p>Boston.com&#8217;s weather corner says the 24 mph wind gives a &#8220;real feel temp&#8221; of 34 below. Time to button up our vests&#8230; (Incidentally, thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.clearlight.com\/~acsa\/intro.htm\">Grateful Dead<\/a>, who never really did the song, here&#8217;s what appears to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.clearlight.com\/~acsa\/introjs.htm?\/~acsa\/songfile\/FROZENLO.HTM\">original lyric, complete with six-foot-seven waitress.<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<p>PS Please do check out the mostly-folksongs &#8220;Digital Tradition&#8221; lyrics database at <a href=\"http:\/\/mudcat.org\">Mudcat.org<\/a> The keyword lyric search can be quite surprising when used with terms like &#8220;Harvard,&#8221; &#8220;MIT&#8221; or &#8220;computer&#8221; or &#8220;bawdy&#8221; or&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.mudcat.org\/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=6338'>Singing while blogging&#8230; &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was&nbsp;playing doorman for the MIT folks coming in out of the 1 degree&nbsp;cold&nbsp;to our blogging class tonight, a catchy old&nbsp;tune kept running through my head&#8230; Then I realized what the song itself was, &#8220;The Frozen Logger.&#8221; So far I&#8217;ve written one (obvious) letter to launch a parody that anyone reading this is welcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1090,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stepnostories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}