Archive for October, 2008
October
28
It’s amazing what kind of music I like now… well not really amazing, just interesting. It’s just like food tastes, I used to only like french dressing on salads, now I can’t get enough vinagrette. In high school I hated country music, but now I still don’t like it… so that hasn’t totally changed. But I do like the fringes of country. (bluegrass, alt-country, cowpunk, etc.) Country music is like tomatoes, I don’t like them by themselves, but I like everything made out of them (salsa, pasta sauce, etc). I just got an album from The Beat FarmersW and it’s totally awesome. I’m a little behind the times because it came out 13 years ago and 2 of the band members have died since then. But it’s just really good music, just enough country, just enough rock.
I’ve been on a very alt-country kick recently.
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27
I didn’t post the Ron Howard/Andy Griffith/Henry Winkler ad because while I thought it was good, it just wasn’t that funny. They spent too much time explaining things and not enough time entertaining.
But this is different. The guys from the Budweiser “Wasssupp” ads made a new one for Obama
McCain inspires no one
Later!
No commentsOctober
24
Emily Perkins wrote…
As a Christian, I am often frustrated by the media only choosing to show extremists and wackos as opposed to those who actually follow the teachings of Christ. I can’t imagine, however, how it must be to be a Muslim in the United States today, where the term itself is used to try to disqualify and smear a presidential candidate. I pray that the voice of Muslim-Americans across the nation will be heard as clearly as any other. Freedom of religion is supposed to be a fundamental of this country. Maybe we will live to see the day when this is a reality.
via CNN.com
I don’t think it’s that the users of that website are more intellegent than others, I’ll bet its that the comments are more heavily moderated because they are a very visable website. I don’t know what website has the best community of commenters but if I had to list the bottom 3 it would be…
- IMDB.com
- Youtube.com
- Fark.com
Wretched hives of scum and villany
Later!
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23
Just surfing around the Webernet and I think I found the first thing people are going to cut to save money..
Artisan Cheese.
I would sell all your stock in high quality cheese right now!
Later
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23
I found this video on Boing Boing today. It’s Big Bird preforming a song at a memorial service for Jim Henson. It’s really touching, It makes me think back to all those Henson produced shows I loved as a kid (and still do!). It’s funny that I know there is someone inside that suit, but I’ve always thought of Big Bird (and all the muppets) as their own people. Laurel and I went to a Jim Henson exibit at the Ripley Center in the Smithsonian this summer. It was a brief retrospective of his career, from high school through his death. It was amazing to see his early works and the creativity that drove him. It really inspired me to get creative, since then I’ve tried to make something, anything, every day. It’s not the easiest for me because as the youngest child in my family I don’t have the drive my older sisters do. But I am trying!
I’m totally watching Fraggle Rock when I get home
[via] Boing Boing
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21
October
21
Billy Schlotter is dominating our league. His record may only be 6-1, but lets not kid ourselves… In any game where money is on the line AND luck is involved we are all underdogs to…
SCHLOTTERIZE
… and yes BigTroph, people can go to your site to get other fantasy football logos.
No commentsOctober
21
I tried to set up a Ubuntu box about a year ago and became frustrated with the experience very easily. I don’t know if it was just the difficulty of switching from a Windows mindset or if the software has really progressed that much in just the last year or so. But Its actually pretty easy now to set up a computer with older hardware that can do pretty much anything my XP laptop can do.
In about 2 hours I had done the following.
1. Installed Ubunto 8.04 from a cd (including formatting the 60gb drive)
2. Added 3 external usb drives (2 formatted NTFS and one a Mac Drive formatted HFS+)
3. Configured the built in FTP server to allow access to all the drives from outside the network.
4. Configured SAMBA shares for the computer for Windows networking.
I remember back in college spending hours just trying to get network access from Charlie’s Windows 2000 box to my XP box across the hall. I do have to admit that I have a little bit more experience than the average user, but since I have almost no Linux or UNIX experience I’m basically coming at it fresh. It’s been great so far!
I’m ready to call Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) ready for prime time*
Later!
*but not quite ready for mom’s and grandparents to use… unless you lock down all the settings.
No commentsSince my team is getting a little better (4-3, whoo!) I thought they deserved a logo.
The Magic Elves.
And other assorted wackiness.
I spent the weekend camping with “All the Freaky People in the World“… well not all of them. Just the ones on the middle of the east coast. From New York to North Carolina the freakies gathered on a small beach like plain in Delaware to celebrate the coming fall at the phenomenon know as “Playa Del Fuego“.
And it was awesome.
This is not part of the liberal media attack. This is not part of the radical right wing agenda. This is part of the freedom of American expression. 1000 people gathering to have fun and party from Thursday to Monday… twice a year. Chocked full of fire and spirits. I have to admit it was all very hard to take in for a couple of first timers. The date really snuck up on us and we didn’t really know much about it before hand. But that’s the way Laurel and I roll… we’re the explorers. We’re like the seal team of awesomeness, we go in first, scope the place out, and then call in the reinforcements. Next year I promise we’ll bring more to share and more people to share it with.
Also, I want to thank the guys from “Whiskey and Whores” for putting up with me on Saturday night. They know who they are!
Later!
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