Lonestar: somewhere in the Ford Galaxy.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Inspection Blues
The Saturn flunked inspection! Bummer. They failed it over the rear
tires so we are out getting new ones. It'll take an hour. Then we
will try to get reinspected.
tires so we are out getting new ones. It'll take an hour. Then we
will try to get reinspected.
OS3 update
There's an iphone update. Plug in yer phone and get it.
Gee I hope it fixes the slowness-everywhere bug.
Gee I hope it fixes the slowness-everywhere bug.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Another nice thing about www.alonetone.com is that you can play music from it on your iPhone. You can't use the play function but you can use the download function. When you press the link it will load the file in a QuickTime player (just like firefox does). It can only handle one song at a time, which sucks, but if you Absolutely must hear that one song like right now it will work for you.
iPhones freakin' rock!
iPhones freakin' rock!
ListenApp!
There is this site, right, called alonetone.
It's a music site geared toward musicians. It's more than just another place to post your songs so folks can hear them, it's a community. Lots of songwriters/performers/recording artists hanging out and listening to each other's work.
I started posting there a while ago... probably over a year at least. The site was very new and the community very small and I dumped the few 8 track recordings I had done back in 2007 there. It's a very clean and simple site. No clutter, no garbage. It does what it does and I really like it.
Now there is a tool for people who want to just listen to music, rather than plug their own. It's called ListenApp!. It's an iTunes looking web application that will play music hosted by alonetone. It's also brand new and pretty buggy. I am a Firefox user 99% of the time, but I couldn't get it to stream anything so I tried Safari and it worked. (I know the creator of alonetone uses Safari, so when something seems buggy to me I use that browser to see if it's just me or not.)
Anyway, if you're looking for someplace to go to listen to some music that you've never heard before and probably won't hear anywhere else give this new site a try.
It's called ListenApp! and in case you're wondering, my stuff is under the name Robert James.
It's a music site geared toward musicians. It's more than just another place to post your songs so folks can hear them, it's a community. Lots of songwriters/performers/recording artists hanging out and listening to each other's work.
I started posting there a while ago... probably over a year at least. The site was very new and the community very small and I dumped the few 8 track recordings I had done back in 2007 there. It's a very clean and simple site. No clutter, no garbage. It does what it does and I really like it.
Now there is a tool for people who want to just listen to music, rather than plug their own. It's called ListenApp!. It's an iTunes looking web application that will play music hosted by alonetone. It's also brand new and pretty buggy. I am a Firefox user 99% of the time, but I couldn't get it to stream anything so I tried Safari and it worked. (I know the creator of alonetone uses Safari, so when something seems buggy to me I use that browser to see if it's just me or not.)
Anyway, if you're looking for someplace to go to listen to some music that you've never heard before and probably won't hear anywhere else give this new site a try.
It's called ListenApp! and in case you're wondering, my stuff is under the name Robert James.
Photo Shoot
Yesterday just after I pulled out of the office's driveway and stopped at the nearest light I saw two people having a little photo shoot on the grass next to the road. I sneaked a picture with my phone.
I wondered how many random passers bye have smiled while snapping a picture of me taking a picture of Jen. Has that ever happened?
I kind of hope so.
I wondered how many random passers bye have smiled while snapping a picture of me taking a picture of Jen. Has that ever happened?
I kind of hope so.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
It Sort of Continues
I can see the tweets from the people I follow, but I can't actually post anything myself. So the twitter problems continue for some of us.
Now Mashable is reporting that the problems facebook had earlier today were also due to a denial of service attack.
Let's sum up...
The two sites that people generally go to these days when they are bored or have lots of time to kill or just plain don't wanna work are twitter and facebook.
Some one, some where, was so bored with the places you go when you're board that he/she took the time and energy to architect their temporary destruction.
Talk about having too much free time!
Myspace worked fine though. What does that tell ya Rupert Murdock?
Now Mashable is reporting that the problems facebook had earlier today were also due to a denial of service attack.
Let's sum up...
The two sites that people generally go to these days when they are bored or have lots of time to kill or just plain don't wanna work are twitter and facebook.
Some one, some where, was so bored with the places you go when you're board that he/she took the time and energy to architect their temporary destruction.
Talk about having too much free time!
Myspace worked fine though. What does that tell ya Rupert Murdock?
The Crisis Continues!
As I sit here I am watching firefox try to load twitter... and it just failed.
A few minutes ago I even had problems loading flickr! Oh no!
(myspace looks fine, but who really cares?)
Here is that song by The Who I referenced in the last post. "Another Tricky Day" from Face Dances.
I tried to use myflashfetish.com for the mp3 player but that site appears to be a mess today too. Coincidence? (yeah, I think it is) I found this little one song embed here. It'll do for now.
Of course... twitter just loaded for me. So I guess it's over for now.
For now.
Addendum 12:47pm - Twitter is down again. My post is relevant once more.
A few minutes ago I even had problems loading flickr! Oh no!
(myspace looks fine, but who really cares?)
Here is that song by The Who I referenced in the last post. "Another Tricky Day" from Face Dances.
I tried to use myflashfetish.com for the mp3 player but that site appears to be a mess today too. Coincidence? (yeah, I think it is) I found this little one song embed here. It'll do for now.
Of course... twitter just loaded for me. So I guess it's over for now.
For now.
Addendum 12:47pm - Twitter is down again. My post is relevant once more.
Apocalypse Right Effing Now!
What are we going to do? The end is here! Run for your social networking lives!
Twitter has been down since just after I got to work, around quarter to nine.
Facebook has been really slow all morning too. I've seen pages fail to load and I've gotten network connection errors that are definitely not on my end.
Twitter's status blog says they are defending themselves against a denial of service attack. Two things of note there. First, I think defending might be overstating the fact given the 2+ hour outage. Second, anyone find it giggleable that Twitter's status blog is on Tumblr?
Mashable has commented on the ongoing social crisis (which just allowed a The Who song to pop into my head. "This is no social crisis, just another tricky day for you." Mashable is fast becoming my online bible. I get so much good stuff from them. Granted, none of it is anything that I can actually make use of for anything other than talking about Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites. Still, I could live on that site if I had to... as long as I had Blogger and Facebook and Twitter (oh my!).
While I was typing this I went to Mashable's home page to get the link because I am too lazy to write it out myself and therefore must copy and past it here. Their latest article is about twitter's announcing their denial of service attack. If only I'd typed this post out quicker... I could have scooped them! I got that info from Twitter's Tumblog (hehe) something like 10 minutes ago. Damn!
Hang onto your hats social networkers. We can make it through this. We can survive. We can still go to myspace. (heheh just kidding) Leave comments here to discuss how you are dealing with the situation. We'll get through this together.
Good luck!
Twitter has been down since just after I got to work, around quarter to nine.
Facebook has been really slow all morning too. I've seen pages fail to load and I've gotten network connection errors that are definitely not on my end.
Twitter's status blog says they are defending themselves against a denial of service attack. Two things of note there. First, I think defending might be overstating the fact given the 2+ hour outage. Second, anyone find it giggleable that Twitter's status blog is on Tumblr?
Mashable has commented on the ongoing social crisis (which just allowed a The Who song to pop into my head. "This is no social crisis, just another tricky day for you." Mashable is fast becoming my online bible. I get so much good stuff from them. Granted, none of it is anything that I can actually make use of for anything other than talking about Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites. Still, I could live on that site if I had to... as long as I had Blogger and Facebook and Twitter (oh my!).
While I was typing this I went to Mashable's home page to get the link because I am too lazy to write it out myself and therefore must copy and past it here. Their latest article is about twitter's announcing their denial of service attack. If only I'd typed this post out quicker... I could have scooped them! I got that info from Twitter's Tumblog (hehe) something like 10 minutes ago. Damn!
Hang onto your hats social networkers. We can make it through this. We can survive. We can still go to myspace. (heheh just kidding) Leave comments here to discuss how you are dealing with the situation. We'll get through this together.
Good luck!
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Stumbleupon Pads My Stats
So I added a bunch of my pictures from Flickr to Stumbleupon. Yes, I am a hit count whore. I thought it would bump up my hits a little... A little. I now have over 20 pictures with over 100 views. The previous high was 80. The current high is 785. Still low numbers compared to most users, but I don't care. Three digit view counts rule.
I made a slide show... that required me to make a set... which is even more narcissistic back patting, but who cares. I am, as recently stated, a hit count whore.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
I made a slide show... that required me to make a set... which is even more narcissistic back patting, but who cares. I am, as recently stated, a hit count whore.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Hot Tuna on Minnesota Public Radio 8/3/09
I got this one from the source, Jorma Kaukonen on twitter. Hot Tuna in studio on Minnesota Public radio yesterday morning.
They are playing electric in Lowell next month. I marked it on my calendar but probably won't be going. Hopefully the embedded player works and you can enjoy this. It runs about an hour. the actual program doesn't begin until about two minutes into the stream. Most of it is interviews, but they do treat us to three songs.
They are playing electric in Lowell next month. I marked it on my calendar but probably won't be going. Hopefully the embedded player works and you can enjoy this. It runs about an hour. the actual program doesn't begin until about two minutes into the stream. Most of it is interviews, but they do treat us to three songs.
Annoying Drivers Annoy me.
Yesterday, morning commute. There was this woman on a motorcycle who was driving me crazy. She was going as slow as possible. There were times I thought her bike would fall over because she wasn't moving fast enough to keep it balanced. On rt 126 in Wayland I cut out early to jump over to rt 27 at the first of the crossing points I know of. Of course when I reached the rt 27 end of the second crossing she pulled out in front of me again. I was steamed.
Fast-forward to the evening commute. I was stuck behind a huge truck on the smallest residential street imaginable.
This guy was almost as bad as the motorcycle had been, but with the added bonus that cars coming in the other direction had to pull off the road to let his dumb ass go by.
After a mile or so I turned off and the truck didn't. Thankfully... or so I thought. I pulled up behind this.
Can you guess who that is? It's the same friggin' motorcycle I was pissed off at during the drive into work. There she was again. Pissing me off once more. Talk about dumb luck.
Once I got home it was all better though. Jen suggested going out to eat. We went to the 99 in Salem and had a nice dinner. Afterward I got to take a rare summer iPhone astrophotography picture.
After we got home we ate some cake that Jen made while I was fuming at the assholes in front of me on the ride home. So it all worked out in the end.
Fast-forward to the evening commute. I was stuck behind a huge truck on the smallest residential street imaginable.
This guy was almost as bad as the motorcycle had been, but with the added bonus that cars coming in the other direction had to pull off the road to let his dumb ass go by.
After a mile or so I turned off and the truck didn't. Thankfully... or so I thought. I pulled up behind this.
Can you guess who that is? It's the same friggin' motorcycle I was pissed off at during the drive into work. There she was again. Pissing me off once more. Talk about dumb luck.
Once I got home it was all better though. Jen suggested going out to eat. We went to the 99 in Salem and had a nice dinner. Afterward I got to take a rare summer iPhone astrophotography picture.
After we got home we ate some cake that Jen made while I was fuming at the assholes in front of me on the ride home. So it all worked out in the end.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Monday Morning Blues
Ahh those mean old Monday morning blues. I've got 'em bad.
Not really, I just wish it were still the weekend.
In reference to this post here, we failed in our attempt to make cookie dough cupcakes. We don't own a cup cake pan. Damn, we thought we did but we didn't. So the cup cakes were a Fail.
We made a cake instead. The cake had cookie dough frosting.
Win Win Win Win Win.
Oh so good. Oh so very very good.
We all helped a little with various parts of the baking process, but really all the delicious credit goes to Jen. That is one damn good cake. Unfortunately we have been asked by one of the kids to save some for the next time they stay with us. That would be Wednesday. That means I can't sow down the remaining cake until Wednesday night at the earliest. That's two full days of non-cake eating.
I hope I can hold out.
Not really, I just wish it were still the weekend.
In reference to this post here, we failed in our attempt to make cookie dough cupcakes. We don't own a cup cake pan. Damn, we thought we did but we didn't. So the cup cakes were a Fail.
We made a cake instead. The cake had cookie dough frosting.
Win Win Win Win Win.
Oh so good. Oh so very very good.
We all helped a little with various parts of the baking process, but really all the delicious credit goes to Jen. That is one damn good cake. Unfortunately we have been asked by one of the kids to save some for the next time they stay with us. That would be Wednesday. That means I can't sow down the remaining cake until Wednesday night at the earliest. That's two full days of non-cake eating.
I hope I can hold out.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Wow, Look at the Time!
It's almost 5:00pm and I haven't posted here yet! What's the matter with me? I don't think I've missed a day since I started this ridiculous waste of time back in November. What a shame to miss a day now.
What have we done today?
Sleep.
After coming home from the emergency room late last night (she's fine, we just didn't give the medicine enough time to bring the fever down and got a little scared) we went to bed and were all so tired we managed to sleep a little bit late.
Once we got up I started laundry, then I played a hard hitting game of Mouse Trap with the kids. After a few on-demand cartoons Jen and my step son went grocery shopping while the sick girl and I stayed home and watched Freaky Friday... the Lindsy Lohan version. How do you spell, "ouch?"
Then we had lunch, followed by a very competitive game of Life. After all these years I still think it's the best board game in the known universe.
After Life the kids wanted to sit on the living room and play games on our laptops. Now Mom is making us an Indian food dinner. After that we'll have some more of the cake we baked yesterday.
Did I mention we baked a chocolate chip cookie dough cake with home made cookie dough frosting? I had one bite and my heart rate increased by 20%. Bliss.
It's been a long, busy weekend that some how barely involved us leaving the house. It's been a blast.
What have we done today?
Sleep.
After coming home from the emergency room late last night (she's fine, we just didn't give the medicine enough time to bring the fever down and got a little scared) we went to bed and were all so tired we managed to sleep a little bit late.
Once we got up I started laundry, then I played a hard hitting game of Mouse Trap with the kids. After a few on-demand cartoons Jen and my step son went grocery shopping while the sick girl and I stayed home and watched Freaky Friday... the Lindsy Lohan version. How do you spell, "ouch?"
Then we had lunch, followed by a very competitive game of Life. After all these years I still think it's the best board game in the known universe.
After Life the kids wanted to sit on the living room and play games on our laptops. Now Mom is making us an Indian food dinner. After that we'll have some more of the cake we baked yesterday.
Did I mention we baked a chocolate chip cookie dough cake with home made cookie dough frosting? I had one bite and my heart rate increased by 20%. Bliss.
It's been a long, busy weekend that some how barely involved us leaving the house. It's been a blast.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Right Move, Bad Timing
We seem to have picked the wrong night to get scared by an eight year
old's fever and go to the emergency room.
old's fever and go to the emergency room.
The fever was down two degrees at check in and that was two and a half
hours ago. When the doctor finally got here 30 minutes ago the fever
was just about gone, but in the interest of ruling out even the most
unlikely causes she is getting an X-Ray.
Given what we know now we could have waited untill morning, but coming
here and putting our minds at ease was the right thing to do... Even
if we're still here at midnight. It royally sucks, but it's the right
thing to do.
She's fine.
Amoxicillin
>scratch scratch<
So my Dentist put me on the antibiotic Amoxicillin.
>scratch scratch scratch<
Did you know that Amoxicillin can have side effects?
>scratch scratch<
Did you know that one possible side effect is itchiness?
>scratch scratch scratch scratch<
Might be time to self un-medicate.
>scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch<
So my Dentist put me on the antibiotic Amoxicillin.
>scratch scratch scratch<
Did you know that Amoxicillin can have side effects?
>scratch scratch<
Did you know that one possible side effect is itchiness?
>scratch scratch scratch scratch<
Might be time to self un-medicate.
>scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch<
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