NJHB-Cricular Logic
Posted on 2024-11-17
DJ Hairy Larry Presents NJHB Playing Circular Logic
From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-11-17
https://sbblues.com/2024/11/17/dj-hairy-larry-presents-njhb-playing-circular-logic/
Thanks Marty. Today we’re going to hear jazz from NJHB recorded at the very beginning.
I was planning on starting the New Jazz In Jonesboro concerts at TheArts@311 in 2013. It was Christmas break so I scheduled a session on December 29, 2012, with the founding members on NJHB.
I was rolling tape but I wasn’t really expecting to record an album. Turns out we played pretty good and we did. We recorded live in the studio, with just two mics recording the room, and we did it the NJHB way. We improvised the arrangements. We recorded four songs. I think I was the only musician there who had ever played them before. As I usually do with NJHB songs I made a radio mix for Arkansas Roots.
In our favor we had a room full of outstanding musicians.
Mike Lovell – guitar
Garrett Tyler – drums
Matt Jackson – bass
Hairy Larry – Fender Rhodes
Cody Ballard – tenor sax
and
Joseph Curtis – trumpet and flugelhorn
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Posted on 2024-11-17
Andrew (Television Executive), @ajroach42@retro.social, has a thread up on Mastodon about why you should own your own platform. It is directed to small businesses (the wave of the future) but it applies equally well to hobbyists, collectors, fans, etc.
I am embedding the thread here.
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Amy Helm-Silver City
Posted on 2024-11-16
Something Blue - Goodbye - November 15, 2024
https://sbblues.com/2024/11/15/goodbye/
Melissa Carper - Borned In Ya
https://www.melissacarper.com/
Amy Helm - Silver City
http://www.amyhelm.com/
Angie Owens - Blue Pearls
https://www.deltaboogie.com/deltamusicians/owensa/index.htm
https://www.reverbnation.com/angiecampbellowens/songs
Anna and the Tanks - Blues Fest October 6, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ovV_VZmxM&t=3s
Lady Day and The Prez
https://archive.org/details/hl2018-05-13.LadyDay
Eilen Jewell Live at The Hamilton on 2024-07-25
https://archive.org/details/eilenjewell2024-07-25.vwmule
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Josh Parks At The Biscuit
Posted on 2024-11-09
Something Blue – Burning – November 9, 2024
https://sbblues.com/2024/11/09/burning/
This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring Josh Parks, John Shepherd, and Phil Lesh and Friends. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.
Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.
Josh Parks - KASU Bluesday Tuesday - April 17, 2018
https://soundcloud.com/joshparks-heavyblues
John Shepherd – Blues Fest – October 6, 2024
https://hairylarryland.com
Phil Lesh and Friends – Terrapin Crossroads – July 15, 2018
www.phillesh.net/
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Posted on 2024-11-09
Delta Boogie Newsletter-Gamerplus News - November 2024 - Blues Fest Reprise - The Dragon's Egg - Embedding Mastodon Threads
Music
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On September 29 we all showed up at the Craighead Forest Bandshell for Blues Fest and there was no electricity. Fortunately, I had my JBL Eon One Compact to use with Bebop Beatniks and it has batteries.
We ran the whole day one that amp. After Bebop Beatniks we heard The Spencer Brothers and Doug Butler. All the performances were great. I'm already playing some of the songs on Something Blue.
https://sbblues.com
Here's a link to Splendour.
https://bandwagon.fm/671ea6ae81a54aa7579a4c78
And here's the Bebop Beatniks video on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXeH69cZuHc&t=2612s
On October 6 we had bands. Blues bands. Rock bands. We moved to another location at Craighead Forest Park that had electricity. Thanks to Doug Butler for putting on the show and all the extra work he had to do. Thanks to Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians, Mike McLeod, John Shepherd and, the host band, Anna and the Tanks for playing. I recorded video and audio of all the acts and will be linking to the performances in this newsletter as I get them done.
Besides Bebop Beatniks, a jazz quartet, I am working with two other bands, Jazz Buskers, a vocals group, and United Gospel Trio, piano, organ, and bass, playing jazz from the hymnbook.
I went to The Biscuit in Helena. I played a lot of music. I visited with a lot of friends. I had a great time. Hat tip to Brent, Pat, Mayor Mike, John, Josh Parks, Diamond Jack, Elan, Bilbo King, John Shepherd, Jeremy Burnett, Gregg Cook, and The Emporium Orkestra with Rhode Island Red, Pinky Lee, and Mark.
Tell me about your music and your festivals. I will share on Delta Boogie and in the newsletter.
Gaming
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I wrote a TTRPG called The Dragon's Egg.
https://home.gamerplus.org/permalink.php?fname=The_Dragons_Egg.txt
At noon today I'm going to Library Game Day at the Jonesboro Public Library, which is hosted every month by NEA Gamers Guild. I'm going to play some RPGs and I may get to play test The Dragon's Egg.
Free Culture
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I wrote a program called Embedding Mastodon Threads that makes it easy to embed a conversation on Mastodon in your blog or website. I had some help. I want to thank.
@jeff@soapbox.hackdefendr.com
@conniptions@mastodon.social
@EcksDy@techtoots.com
@malin@dice.camp
These are their Mastodon addresses. They helped me, on Mastodon, to write an addon program for Mastodon. I write about the whole experience here.
https://home.gamerplus.org/permalink.php?fname=Embed_Mastodon_Threads_Comments.txt
And you can check it out here.
https://home.gamerplus.org/Embed_Mastodon_Threads/index.php
The program is licensed GPL.
I am working on two more Free Culture projects now, Indie Archive, an archive solution for indie shops who really don't want to lose their digital creations, and ExifGal, an addon to one of Malin's projects where he uses a Gitlab repository and exiftools to store and catalog Creative Commons and Public Domain images.
My music and games are also licensed Free Culture. I use the Creative Commons Attribution license, CC BY. Just like WOCs SRD but I did it before them and nobody had to twist my arm.
If you're not on Mastodon yet, you are welcome to join Gamer+DBN, Gamer+ and the Delta Boogie Network, here.
https://gamerplus.org
So, stay in touch. Let me know what you're doing and I will mention it in this newsletter.
Please share. Forward this email to your friends and share this link.
https://home.gamerplus.org/permalink.php?fname=Delta_Boogie_Newsletter-Gamerplus_News_-_November_2024_-_Blues_Fest_Reprise_-_The_Dragon%27s_Egg_-_Embedding_Mastodon_Threads.txt
You can subscribe to the G+DBN monthly newsletter at Delta Boogie.
https://deltaboogie.com
Thanks,
Hairy Larry
@hairylarry@gamerplus.org - address on Mastodon
https://gamerplus.org/@hairylarry - Mastodon link
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com - email
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Posted on 2024-11-06
Honing In On Exif Metadata for Exifgal
So far these look good
Artist - Image creator
Copyright - Copyright information, license, optional license verification link
DateTimeOriginal - Creation date
DocumentName - Document from which this image was scanned (optional)
ImageTitle - Title
ImageDescription - Description
UserComment - Keywords - comma delimited tags
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The description of Copyright says to also include rights. I could also add a verification link to the rights. So.
Copyright by John Doe 1955, CC BY, https://verification.link
Created by Arthur Rackham 1917, Public Domain, https://gutenberg.link
I don't like overloading data fields but everything except the verification link is in the spec.
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DocumentName can generate a gallery of all the images that are from this book.
NewSubfileType can be used for a Gallery Title and would generate a gallery of all the images with this Gallery Title. This fits with it's description. A general indication of the kind of data contained in this subfile.
Tags or sets of tags can also generate galleries.
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Posted on 2024-11-06
Exif Metadata Key Fields For Exifgal
Artist - image creator
Photographer - a more specific Artist key field
Copyright - Copyright information (and license)
DateTime - creation date and time of image
DateTimeOriginal - may be better than DateTime for creation date
DocumentName - the document from which this image was scanned
ImageDescription - the title of the image (and description)
The description of Copyright says to also include rights. I could also add a verification link to the rights. So.
Copyright by John Doe 1955, CC BY, https://verification.link
Created by Arthur Rackham 1917, Public Domain, https://gutenberg.link
I don't like overloading data fields but everything except the verification link is in the spec.
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Also available
XPTitle - title
XPComment - description/alt text
XPAuthor - artist name
XPKeywords - comma delimited tags
XPSubject - gallery collection (ties image to a specific gallery)
Is there a reason to use/not use the windows Keys listed above.
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GPSTimeStamp - could be read to find DateTime key field
GPSDateStamp - maybe even better that GPSTimeStamp
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Posted on 2024-11-05
The Dragon's Egg
A System agnostic TTRPG by Larry Heyl
Licensed CC BY
The goal of the game is to steal the dragon's egg.
The game includes exploration, combat, and puzzles.
Exploration
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The DM adjudicates actions and decides when the dragon is going to attack the party.
When not in combat the party travels together to try to find the dragon's lair so they can steal the dragon's egg. The DM chooses the rules for exploration using any published system or their own system. The players make a character sheet for the chosen system.
The players encounter NPCs who can be good or bad on their travels who they can talk to. They also encounter animals or monsters on their travels that are more difficult to talk to. Every encounter should contain clues to the location of the dragon's lair.
The players act in any order saying what they would like to do and the DM adjudicates their success. The DM might use dice rolls to determine the difficulty of the action or the DM might not need dice rolls for this.
The DM just says yes you can do that or they can tell the player what to roll to suceed in the action.
The DM never says you can't do that. Instead they say that will be really difficult. To do that you'll have to roll a critical success and if you don't roll a crit bad things might happen.
And the story begins.
You are all drinking in a tavern called The Dragon's Egg. You've been staying here for over a week partying every night, sleeping in every day. It's already dark when you realize you don't have enough money left to pay for a room for the night. You call the barkeep, Olaf Cranberry, over to the table and explain your situation. You've been good customers and he doesn't really want you sleeping in the common room so he says, "You've been good customers so I'll put your room on the tab for tonight. But on one condition. I'll wake you early in the morning and off you go to steal the dragon's egg. After you sell the egg you'll be rich so you have to promise to come back and settle up with Olaf." You're all drunk so you agree and after one more round you trundle off to bed.
At the crack of dawn there's Olaf, waking you up and putting you out. Oh no, you think, barely remembering what you had agreed to do last night. Once Olaf has you out of his tavern he says, "Go north. All the dragons are in the north."
All of the above are just suggestions. It's totally up to the DM to decide how they are going to run exploration and start the story.
Combat System
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All players start with 5 d6 dice. The dragon starts with 5 plus the number of players d6 dice. Other antagonists will have fewer d6 dice to start with.
A Turn
The players attack in any order. They describe what they are going to do and they roll all of the dice in front of them. If they have n dice left they have to roll 3n to hit. If they hit the dragon puts one die in the middle of the table. If a player hits, the dragon shoots a firebolt at that player. If the dragon rolls n dice, a total of 3n or better hits. If the dragon hits, the player puts one die in the center of the table.
After the players roll the dragon uses her breath weapon. If the dice roll is not critical all players move one die to the center of the table.
Critical success is all sixes. Critical success gives double damage. Two die go into the middle of the table. If there is only one die left a six is a critical success.
Critical failure is all ones. One die goes into the middle of the table. If there is only one die left a one is a critical failure.
Combat ends when either the players have no dice left or the dragon has no dice left.
There is no death in combat. When a player has no dice left they are unconscious. If all the players are unconscious they wake up imprisoned in a dungeon. If the dragon has no dice left she flies away.
Combat with NPCs or monsters is the same except when their turn comes at the end of a round of cambat they attack with whatever weapons or spells they have.
If the players win the NPCs or monsters are unconscious and the players can safely leave without fear or worries about being followed. Their defeated enemies will not strike again because they don't want another whooping.
If the players lose they wake up where they are with no money, food, or weapons except knives, daggers, walking sticks, or other small weapons. Anything from a crossbow up is gone. Magic users still have their staff, books, and scrolls.
Imprisonment
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If the players wake up in a dungeon they must escape the dungeon before they can continue the quest. Every dungeon is a puzzle.
(Sample dungeons should be included. Also a way for people to submit their dungeon puzzles. The dungeons can be as simple as a three room dungeon with a monster guarding the exit to classic logic puzzles or magical runes and lore.)
The End Of The Game
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The final combat is in the dragon's lair. If the players win the dragon flies away, the players steal the dragon's egg, and they win. Now that they have the egg they can Rule The World but they don't really want to do that so they sell the egg and party until they run out of money.
If they play again they are on a quest to steal another dragon's egg.
If the dragon wins the players wake up in the dungeon under the mountain and it's the end of the game.
If they play again they must escape from the dungeon under the mountain, an even harder puzzle. The dungeon under the mountain is a cave with no entrances or exits so when the players solve the puzzle they are teleported to an unknown destination. From there they continue their quest to steal the dragon's egg.
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Josh Parks At The Biscuit
Posted on 2024-11-04
DJ Hairy Larry Presents Josh Parks Playing Part Time Love
From The Archives Of Something Blue - 2024-11-03
https://sbblues.com/2024/11/03/dj-hairy-larry-presents-josh-parks-playing-part-time-love/
Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear an Arkansas Blues Man play a song about relationship problems.
I went to the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena Arkansas, in October, 2024, camping for the first time since before the pandemic. My friend Brent and I went down to the main stage on Wednesday night and we saw Josh Parks jamming the blues.
Josh had been jamming with The Emporium Orkestra at the Downtown Bar And Grill five years back and we had visited at the campground then too, so I really wanted to see him again.
Well, at the biscuit Josh is a busy man. I kept looking for him at the campground, I even got directions from some other campers, but I couldn't find him. Then on Friday night I was playing some music with my friend Pat and he asked if I wanted to go play with Josh. Well ... of course!
Pat and I had a great time jamming with Josh and with my new friend John who I met at Mayor Mike's campfire. I also got to meet Josh's friends and family. Some of them even older than I am.
So when I got back I was checking for recordings at KASU and on my hard drive. I found this show from a KASU Bluesday Tuesday, recorded on April 17, 2018.
I contacted Josh about the show and he filled in the personnell for the concert.
Josh Parks - guitar
Lance Womack, drums
Stewart Bear, keys
Jerry Bone, bass
All fine outstanding Arkansas musicians.
Now Josh plays in the style of Albert King and Michael Burks, also both from Arkansas. I have had the pleasure of hearing them both play many times and I just love the sound, all the way around.
The song I'm featuring is "Part Time Love", written by Clay Hammond. Little Johnny Taylor sang the number one hit in 1963. Taylor was born in Gregory, Arkansas.
So now, here's The Josh Parks Band playing "Part Time Love" recorded at KASU Bluesday Tuesday.
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