Floyd – Darkside of the Moon
Buffett – License to Chill
Floyd – Darkside of the Moon
Buffett – License to Chill
Floyd – Darkside of the Moon
Buffett – License to Chill
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Playlist for the manic depressant
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I want to work for me!
This is one of those dreaded days were working for the other guy just seems like such a drudgery. I would really like to be working on one of my own prjects today.
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Oops. Whose Tea Was That?
When you are sitting at your wife‘s computer watching the children so she can bathe, and you accidentally drink her tall glass of ice tea, do you:
- Refill it from your glass
- Refill it from the pitcher
- Leave it empty so she thinks she finished it
- Blame the toddler
- Draw attention to it with a blog post
Update: Apparently she had taken her tea into the bathroom while implies I must have stepped into the bathroom, been overwhelmed with her beauty, picked up the tea, returned to the computer, and drank it in a spellbound daze.
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No Condoms Allowed
Does the religious right want to do away with contraception?
Widespread availability of contraception absolutely reduces the number of abortions, as does comprehensive sex education. The Netherlands has the world’s most comprehensive sex education curriculum, offering contraception and pregnancy and STD testing not only freely but anonymously as well. The result: the rate of teen pregnancy in that country is 1/7th the rate of American teens, and so is the rate of abortions among teens.[Source]
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To the politicos
Welcome to the visitors from Glenn Greenwald today! And to all others of course! If you are looking for some interesting reading, you might check out Public Submission Ritual, a Friday post that is quickly sliding down the page. Although it starts off with a description of sexual behaviors, it is worksafe and may surprise you in the end.
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Olbermann! Olbermann! Have you listened to Olbermann?!
I implore you! Take 10 minutes and 31 seconds of your life and listen to Olbermann(WMV and QT). You might just find yourself breaking out of the trance Bush, Instapundit, The Huffington Post, and main stream media has placed upon you. Wake up and save our nation!
The nation’s freedoms are under assault by an administration whose policies can do us as much damage as Al-Qaeda; the nation’s “marketplace of ideas” is being poisoned, by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would’ve quit.[Source – Crooks and Liars]
Btw, some fact checking on the Clinton interview.
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Unable to help the children
I feel sad for my daughter. She is 13 and in the 8th grade. Here that is middle school. Next year she will be in high school. At her bus stop, a high schooler waits for a different bus but sits on the other side of a busy street. Once Sarah’s bus arrives, Sarah crosses that busy street and gets on it. I have given her permission to cross over and socialize with the high schooler. Ok, uncool! But social networking is a terribly important concept to learn for success in life. However, after creating different encouragements for her to meet this high school girl and pointing out some of the benefits, like already knowing an upperclassman when she enters, I gave up.
This morning she was late so I offered her a ride to school. Instead she just wanted a ride to the bus stop. As we approach, there is another girl waiting on the right side of the road. I’m surprised and ask Sarah if she is always here and I get a wishy washy answer about "sometimes." I ask her name and Sarah doesn’t know. I encourage her to find out then Sarah gets out of the car and walks to the left side of the street. I roll down the window and ask, "how will the two of you talk if you are over here?" She replies, "I always wait on the left side of the street."
My wife’s response will be to tell me that she is just a teenage girl and to butt out for a few years. I want to help my shy, obsessive compulsive girl break out of her shell. I know she has her own path to walk and I will let her walk it but I will continue to offer forks in the road, puzzles, challenges, and mind expanding opportunities.
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Iraq was no threat pre-9/11
This video shows Powell and Rice in February 2001 and July 2001 respectively stating that Iraq is not a threat. This does not say they didn’t have anything to do with 9/11 (training, funding, etc) but does show that the weapons of mass distruction was a total ruse.
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Iraq War News Comes From 9 People
Remember the embedded reporters? Yeah, Geraldo, that’s right. So, where does information about the war in Iraqi come from?
You’ll see that of those 9 reporters, 3 were from the Armed Forces’ Stars & Stripes, 1 from AFN (Armed Force Network), 1 from the Charlotte Observer, 1 from the BBC, 1 from the AP, 1 from RAI, and 1 from Polish Radio. All the rest of the "coverage" of the Iraq war on that day came from reporters hunkered down in the hotels and other locations under the rubric "Baghdad News Bureaus." [Source]
This chart shows the nine’s reporting locations on September 19, 2006.
Thanks to Instapundit for the link.
(Not thrilling audio. Just a simulcast of the above text to get my feet wet with audio.)
[audio:http://blog.siliconholler.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/embeddedreporters2.mp3] 00:01:17.06
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Walken – walkin’
It’s people like Christopher Walken that make me want to quit computers and join Hollywood. Such talent!
Update April 2, 2009: The embed has been pulled but the video still exists on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs. I highly suggest watching it!
Walken helped choreograph this video. Can anyone else catch the film cart in the mirrors? There is something about this video, maybe the suit, that makes me feel like I am watching my grandfather on my mother’s side dance.
Walken initially trained as a dancer in musical theatre before moving on to more serious roles in theatre and then film.
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Walken was George Lucas’ second choice for Han Solo after Harrison Ford.
[Source]Here is some details about this video:
Walken had a notable music video performance in 2001 with Fatboy Slim’s Weapon of Choice (lyrics). Directed by Spike Jonze, it won six MTV awards in 2001 and also won best video of all time in April 2002, in a list of the top 100 videos of all time, compiled from a survey of musicians, directors, and music industry figures conducted by a UK music TV channel VH1. In this video, Walken performs a tap dance around the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles. Walken also helped choreograph the dance. [Source]
Remember Walken for President 2008? You know, walken2008.com? Review this post and this one.
Thanks to Newscoma for the link. See also The Work of Director Spike Jonze and the lyrics. There are some tribute videos out there. These guys deserve some credit for their remake!
Update April 2, 2009: A great write-up and review of the Weapons of Choice video can be found here.
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Thought we were done with this 40 days thing
Heavy rains. Basement in turmoil. The untreated wall hath sprung a leak! Fortunately Cathy’s watchful eye caught it before major damage occurred.