Official Hiatus
Posted on April 27, 2008I been busy lately with work and everything else, and haven’t had much to put here in a while, so I think it’s time I (temporarily) shutter the blog. Maybe for a month or so, so I don’t have to worry about it, and can “recharge”. Meanwhiles, you can keep up with me at Futurabolditalic, Twitter, and Flickr. And I’ll be back eventually.
Daily Tidbits
Posted on April 21, 2008Modern Drunkard has a list of the best drunks of the old west, including this awesome story about Wild Bill Hickock.
…One of the ruffians asked Bill if every bumpkin on the plains picked his teeth with a Bowie knife. Bill tipped his hat back and said, quite calmly, “No, but we all know who our mothers are.†… The five hooligans rushed Hickok, he doffed his hat and turned his pool cue heavy-end-up. About 15 seconds later, Hickok stepped across the five broken, bleeding thugs, and resumed his drinking, picking up the story he’d been telling right at the point he’d left off.
Autoblog posts about a Fiero that’s also a boat. What can’t the plucky little mid-engined Pontiac do?
Jim Cramer, who’s show Stop Trading I watch even though I don’t understand the stock market, has this to say about a possible Apple product:
Cramer also said that a new Mac product, Conversation, will bring Apple to the forefront of instant messaging. He said the product will be similar to the iPod in its impact. “The analysts don’t see it because the analysts don’t use it,” he said. “I think this is a gigantic product.”
Cramer, not normally known for starting Apple rumors, may be talking out of his ass here, or maybe just discovered iChat on his MacBook and got confused.
Finally, Nebraska’s favorite band, Loup River Waltz & Street Choir, will be playing a show with the Bellflowers at the Zoo Bar tomorrow night. I will be sure to be there, with camera in tow. It will be awesome.
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Daily Tidbits
Posted on April 18, 2008Pingmag has an interesting interview with the inventor of the Tenori-on, a sort of light box midi sequencer.
Today’s Diesel Sweeties knows the power of a good mustache.
Autoblog today points out the Chinese-built Lifan, a (very ugly) MINI knockoff. It’s got an 87hp 1.3l engine, five doors, and even rips off the MINI’s wheels.
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Posted on April 17, 2008At Francesco Explains It All, we reminisce over beloved ’70s tv episodes.
* Already in trouble for trying to bootleg a Doobie Brothers concert, Rerun is forced by bullies to illegally record a KC & The Sunshine Band show while Raj and Dwayne are left to wonder why only the whitest bands in America come to play South Central.
* Battlestar Galactica emphasizes its Egyptian mythology parallels with an awkward cameo from Anwar Sadat.
There’s a new Charlie the Unicorn. Shuuuuuuuuuun. (In case you missed the original.)
Boing Boing linked to an Arts Journal weblog post about the most unwanted song ever. Synths, tubas, bagpipes, kids, holidays, an advertisement for Walmart, it’s got it all. And it’s kind of catchy. The post links to a couple of mirrors of the mp3.
Free mp3! For a short time merge records has available an mp3 of She and Him’s “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here”. She and Him is a project with my future girlfriend Zooey Deschanel and some unimportant guy. It’s a catchy song.
Finally, at work, we got a bottle of root beer schnapps (the wrong kind of root beer schnapps, too, so we have to send it back). I put the call out for recipes and DB came back with the Glass o’ Shit. Thanks for that DB.
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iTunes Stats
Posted on April 12, 2008My Top Ten Played Songs in iTunes
4th Avenue Jones – Fabulous Dramatics (53)
Tiefschwarz & Matty Safer – Warning Siren (43)
RJD2 & Ric Ocasek – Through the Walls (42)
Buck 65 – 463 (37)
The Decemberists – 16 Military Wives (33)
Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend (32)
Berlin – Erotic City (30)
10cc – I’m Not in Love (30)
Miri Ben-Ari – Sunshine to the Rain (29)
David Bowie – Space Oddity (29)
Looking at my iTunes library, I notice a weird trend in my most played songs. A lot of them make sense (The Decemberists, Bowie, or RJD2, for example) but others are songs that I wouldn’t expect. 4th Avenue Jones, I haven’t listened to in months that I can recall. The same goes for Miri Ben-Ari. And I certainly wouldn’t have expected 10cc to make the list, catchy though they may be. It may be a matter of songs/sounds I once was really into have now fallen out of favor, or perhaps I was just in a mood then. Except for that Berlin track. I’m not sure what’s up with that.
Nintendo DS
Posted on April 7, 2008
I picked this up last week because I didn’t have much to do. It’s a neat little device. I got an iPod White model and a copy of Super Mario 64 DS. A repackaging of the Nintendo64 game, it’s pretty much consumed my free-time for the past few days. In the game you play as Yoshi, Mario, Luigi, and Wario, and the goal is to collect 150 gold stars by solving puzzles and defeating enemies. To put some scale to this task, after playing for nearly a week I’ve collected 24 of those stars. I’ve already had to check GameFAQs’ walkthrough to figure some stuff out.
On top of that, I picked up Brain Age 2 and Assassin’s Creed today. I haven’t tried Assassin’s Creed yet; it’s a spinoff of the very cool looking console game designed for the DS as a prequel. I look forward to trying it. Brain Age is a massively popular game in Japan that is catching on here in the states. Designed by a Japanese neuroscientist to improve mental acumen, the game measures your brain’s ability to think and response using a quotient described as your “brain age”. I’ve already done my first day of Brainaging, and my brain age is a sad 44. However, through the games daily training programs (you start with three and are able to unlock more as you progress) you are supposed to improve that ability. It seems to have some affect at least, after a little bit I did become quicker at the exercises. Maybe it’ll make me smarter or something, we’ll see.
The DS is a neat device, and I think it’s proof that Nintendo remains an innovator in gaming. Sony and Microsoft may have the advantage in pure processing power, but Nintendo is able to explore what’s fun and different in gaming.
Date Night at JTK
Posted on April 1, 2008Don and I are both bartenders at a very upscale restaurant in the Lincoln Haymarket, JTK. Monday nights the restaurant runs an excellent special known as the “Date Night”, which consists of:
- An appetizer for two
- Soup or salad
- Two entrees
- A dessert for two
- A bottle of wine
All selected from a limited, but excellent, menu. Being as we both had the evening off, Don and I decided to take advantage of this offering. In a totally hetero way of course. And I brought the camera.
We started the evening off with a nice glass of amber Laphroaig 10yr, of which I keep a private supply behind the bar:
So delicious and smoky. Naturally this led to a discussion of scotches, a common subject for us.
Next up, our lovely waitress Amber brought out the appetizer. We decided on the caprese:
Slices of tomato and mozzarella cheese, drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette. Sooo good, and so very simple.
Amber then brought out our wine. We selected the Stump Jump, a blend of shiraz and grenache:
An excellent basic wine from d’Arenberg in Australia, it’s not as strong as most shirazes (Shiraces? Shirazii? I’ve had this discussion before…), and is maybe a little fruitier and more balanced? I dunno, I’m usually talking out of my ass when it comes to wine, and I was already half lit up from the scotch anyways.
I should probably put a jump in here, because I’ve got a bunch more photos to go.
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