So I just found an old friends MySpace page, I had to share the goodness herein, so linked and available for download to the music device of your choice are some classics from the childhood.
Bishop Bruce Graham singing our favorite’s -
The baseball song (if you want to download it, right click here and choose save as)
The cat came back (if you want to download it, right click here and choose save as)
Kiss a telephone pole (if you want to download it, right click here and choose save as)
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 10:56 pm. 4 comments
So I don’t know if ’s the fact that I’m watching this in my quiet office at 1:30am, or that I’ve been privy to much of the emotion portrayed in the shots below, but I really thought this was an interesting project. The guys over at slate (via bb) setup a flickr pool and asked their readers to send in photos of the economic recession. There’s quite a few photos in the pool already and makes for an interesting visualization of what we’re going through.
Check it out -
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 5:26 am. Add a comment
so I’m obsessed with my classical music right now. It’s nigh unto 2am and I can’t seem to make myself turn off my Andre Rieu DVD that just came from Amazon yesterday, it the one in the Royal Albert Hall. Quite fantastic. And I’m loving it because of the sheer happiness that overcomes people as they are moved by music, I love that old men find youth again as they waltz around with their wives, and that people’s clapping drives them out of their seats…. all from classical music. It’s amazing to me. I wish that I could have his job, that I was a brilliant musician who just practiced so I could play for people and make them smile like that. I need that job.
One more bit on classical music, I have been trying to verse myself a bit more in what we all take for granted, I’m speaking of the great pieces of classical music that have stood for hundreds of years as masterpieces but are largely overlooked by my generation. I picked up the top 100 classical greats, and have to say, I’m shocked at how familiar many of them are, but at the same time, bothered that I don’t know who did what or what they mean. I will make myself be a skosh more cultured. But it’s not just culture, it’s appreciation for what we have, I saw a ted.com bit on this by Benjamin Zander (check it here) and came away thinking, we really are richer than we deserve, and it’s so fun to see people come into that appreciation. So yeah, I’m just loving the masterpieces of the music world right now.
that is all.
thx.
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago at 10:17 pm. 3 comments
So I just found this pirated trailer of tron2 or tr2n, and let me just say “YA DANG RIGHT BAYBEE!” I am stoked, it looks so good, and the buzz around it is fantastic. If you’ve never seen the original, shame on you. Playing this game as a kid was a huge part of my appreciation for all things geek, which eventually chose my school and career, so pretty much, I owe my life to tron But seriously, I loved this as a kid, and am so stoked to see it getting some attention now. It’s very geeky though, and makes me happy. so….. Continue Reading…
I will share a guilty pleasure I have…. cooking blogs. I have never in my life made a recipe from one, but I love to look at them and see the ideas and dream of owning a kitchen one day. How can you not with recipie’s like THIS!
oh pickypalate.blogspot.com how I love thee.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago at 4:50 am. 4 comments
So a few years ago, shoot like seven years ago, a friend of mine while in Ukraine had recommended to me a book called Coming out of the Ice that he had read and said it was inspiring and thought provoking, and yada yada yada. Well at the time I didn’t think much of the recommendation, but as I came to respect this friend more, the book he mentioned stuck with me and I decided I would give it a read someday. Well, seven years later, I finally got around to it. The book is “Coming out of the Ice – An unexpected life by Victor Herman” which I picked up from amazon for around 50 bones (it’s out of print) and went to work.
After charging through this book in a matter of about a weeks worth of evenings I can say it is one of the most perspective changing books I’ve ever read. Well actually, I’m not sure if perspective is the right word, maybe inspiring, maybe gratitude inducing, I don’t know exactly what role it played in me these last few days, but I find myself oddly moved by this mans true story. He tells of struggles he faced in Russian prisons, wrongfully charged and committed and the story is how he lasted through an ungodly amount of time under these circumstances, and how he found his resolve to go on. It caused me to look at the struggles I face and realize how terribly easy it should be for me to just persever, to just suck it up and power through. It makes me much more grateful for the opportunities I have and life and freedoms I’ve enjoyed. I don’t know exactly why it stuck with me so, perhaps its the Russian politics, mentality, and mannerisms that he describes that can only really be understood through experience, or the fact that it’s just a good man book to read, but it is very profound to me.
Honestly I read a ton of books each year, many good ones, but I can’t tell you when I last read a book that gave such insight and actually moved me. I hope you all get the chance to read it at some point. Be forewarned though, it deals with issues that are a bit unsettling some of them, and theres about a dozen swearwords to watch out for through the course of his story, just so you know. But I would recommend this to anyone.
I don’t know why I’m on a review spree either, it won’t last, but enjoy it while you can.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago at 8:54 pm. 5 comments
This is a summary of a “Last Lecture” from Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon. He is a pioneer in virtual reality and CA techniques, and did pretty amazing stuff relating to technology and IT. But he has contracted cancer, and after trying everything he could, the cancer remains, so a few weeks ago, he gave his last lecture to his students, and any last lecture is a poignant showing of who someone is, but it’s even more so when it’s death and not retirement knocking at the door. If you have time, watch the full version here, or just watch the 10 minute summary after the jump Continue Reading…
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago at 6:58 pm. 2 comments
A comic I read frequently, xkcd, posted this today and I laughed out loud…. seriously I lol’d. I do sometimes go on a crusade to argue, it’s the lawyer blood in me that wants debate, wants to be challenged, and I will troll till I get it. I’m getting better, it’s called growing up I think, but still, nothing is quite as satisfying as internet arguments….. riiiiiight. :>)
I also watched a documentary called King of Kong about two guys competing for a world record on Donkey Kong. It’s like a little window into my world, that was disturbingly accurate.
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago at 1:21 pm. 2 comments
so I just need to share in my joy, the other day, I have my two dirtiest finals of all time, ENG 315 H and HIST 201, both had just finished our class on Friday, and had papers due that night, then Saturday was busy pulling things together, so I was up early, like pre 6am which for me is a skosh too morning for the tastes. I’d been studying all morning, took one final for 4 hours, turned around 1 hour later, and took another 3 hours of pretty durn intense final action. So I’m exhausted, it’s about 6 o’clock, and I come home to grab some dinner.
As luck would have it, I have some POG juice and raising bran, not much of a victory dinner, defeated, beleaguered, and deflated, me and a buddy sat down to watch a movie.
