Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Vista Anti-Smear Campaign
This made me LOL:
So apparently, thinking Vista is a piece of shit is the same as thinking the Earth is flat... sounds reasonable.
So apparently, thinking Vista is a piece of shit is the same as thinking the Earth is flat... sounds reasonable.
Monday, July 14, 2008
John Mayer - Merriweather
I think it's obvious that I have what you might call a man crush on John Mayer. I recently got his live bluray dvd which I actually had to turn off half way through because he embarrasses me as a guitarist. He's super talented, funny, and rich... pretty much 3 things I want o be eventually, and I only have the funny part in the bag.
So Jess surprised me with tickets to the show, although she kinda put on fora little too long that she got them for me, she's not 100% at surprises.
So anyway, we went to dinner at chevy's, and the rain started coming, and I was a little worried that she got lawn seats. I would sit through the rain no problem, but I knew she would be miserable, and I didn't want her to have to be miserable at a concert, but luckily she got pavilion seats so it was pretty nice to be dry through all that. I came up with a money idea also while there. I think they need to come up with a social networking ticketmaster. When you buy your tickets they ask you a series of questions, how old are you, how many drinks to you plan on drinking during this show, are you a dancer at shows, are you overweight, etc. Your answers to the questions will allow someone buying tickets to be able to see who is sitting around them and make an informed decision before getting their tickets. Who wants to sit in row b if they will be surrounded by 22 year olds who like getting their drink on and dancing like idiots around them... the answer is other 22 year olds who like to get their drink on. If you are 26 and hate all that shit, they should have a section for you with older people who just want to enjoy the music. I have to work on a few parts of this, but I think it's genius.
Anyway, the show was amazing. Other than our annoying seat neighbors. John proves to me again that he is amazing. I think his best guitar song was Mercy. His solo was out of control. I was surprised during the show to see him use a gibson and a PRS throughout the show, as opposed to Fender only which is how he usually plays.
Vultures
Waiting on the World to Change
I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
Bigger Than My Body
Crossroads
Mercy
No Such Thing into Why Georgia
Free Falling
Belief
Say
ENCORE
Who Did You Think I Was
Panama
Gravity
I think the highlight for me was the cover of panama by van halen. His black rhythm guitarist sang during I don't trust myself, and I was like, man that guy can sing... He should just do his own thing. So during the encore, John came out alone and did who did you think I was.. when the song was over, he was talking about how he never gets the opportunity to just take his shirt off and play guitar and have someone else hold the show down, so the black guy came out and sang for him while they covered panama. It was amazing. I was surrounded by people that had no idea what the song was, but it was great.
Another highlight was a girl had a sign that said "John, I'm legal in 2 years" and John said "Well, I'm a pervert now".
He also introduced his band like a 1920's radio announcer.
I know I read that he was thinking of doing a standup thing, and I think he could do it.
Anyway, you can check out an awful pic I took with my new iphone on my mobileme gallery. This link will take you there... As I take more pictures with the phone, they will be uploaded there right after the pic is taken so you can check that out for real time updates when I'm doing something cool.. I'll write a review of the phone soon, as well as a review on the John mayer signature strat I just bought. Happy early birthday to me!
So Jess surprised me with tickets to the show, although she kinda put on fora little too long that she got them for me, she's not 100% at surprises.
So anyway, we went to dinner at chevy's, and the rain started coming, and I was a little worried that she got lawn seats. I would sit through the rain no problem, but I knew she would be miserable, and I didn't want her to have to be miserable at a concert, but luckily she got pavilion seats so it was pretty nice to be dry through all that. I came up with a money idea also while there. I think they need to come up with a social networking ticketmaster. When you buy your tickets they ask you a series of questions, how old are you, how many drinks to you plan on drinking during this show, are you a dancer at shows, are you overweight, etc. Your answers to the questions will allow someone buying tickets to be able to see who is sitting around them and make an informed decision before getting their tickets. Who wants to sit in row b if they will be surrounded by 22 year olds who like getting their drink on and dancing like idiots around them... the answer is other 22 year olds who like to get their drink on. If you are 26 and hate all that shit, they should have a section for you with older people who just want to enjoy the music. I have to work on a few parts of this, but I think it's genius.
Anyway, the show was amazing. Other than our annoying seat neighbors. John proves to me again that he is amazing. I think his best guitar song was Mercy. His solo was out of control. I was surprised during the show to see him use a gibson and a PRS throughout the show, as opposed to Fender only which is how he usually plays.
Vultures
Waiting on the World to Change
I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
Bigger Than My Body
Crossroads
Mercy
No Such Thing into Why Georgia
Free Falling
Belief
Say
ENCORE
Who Did You Think I Was
Panama
Gravity
I think the highlight for me was the cover of panama by van halen. His black rhythm guitarist sang during I don't trust myself, and I was like, man that guy can sing... He should just do his own thing. So during the encore, John came out alone and did who did you think I was.. when the song was over, he was talking about how he never gets the opportunity to just take his shirt off and play guitar and have someone else hold the show down, so the black guy came out and sang for him while they covered panama. It was amazing. I was surrounded by people that had no idea what the song was, but it was great.
Another highlight was a girl had a sign that said "John, I'm legal in 2 years" and John said "Well, I'm a pervert now".
He also introduced his band like a 1920's radio announcer.
I know I read that he was thinking of doing a standup thing, and I think he could do it.
Anyway, you can check out an awful pic I took with my new iphone on my mobileme gallery. This link will take you there... As I take more pictures with the phone, they will be uploaded there right after the pic is taken so you can check that out for real time updates when I'm doing something cool.. I'll write a review of the phone soon, as well as a review on the John mayer signature strat I just bought. Happy early birthday to me!
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Apple's Mobile Me - Awful Logo Decent Product
I've been a member of Apple's overpriced suite of tools dotMac for almost a year now. I knew it was overpriced when I first got my iMac about 18months ago, and turned down the discounted rate after my month free trail. Back then it was 1gig of space shared for web pages, and e-mail.
About a year ago they updated the product. The promise of IMAP e-mail, and the addition of the web gallery which is seamlessly tied to iPhoto was what helped me make the jump. the syncing of my contacts was also a benefit, and having a place to put things to be easily accessible of the web helped as well. They also bumped the storage from 1gig to 10gigs.
Shortly after my purchase, I noticed a few things. Number one, the web gallery couldn't be slower. I liked the interface, I liked the idea of people being able to add to the gallery, but the speed was terrible. I've noticed a similar issue with picassa though, so it's not only mac struggling to keep speedy galleries. Number two, Gmail began offering IMAP email for free. Plus the dotMac email system is ridiculous. It looks like yahoo mail looked in 1998, and it automatically logs you out after 10 minutes, which sucks for people like me who are used to keeping their gmail open all day. I also found dropbox (which I will blog about soon) which is a money alternative to dotMac's iDisk. I can store 2gigs for free of files that are shared to any computer I want them to, and also all changes I make to the files are synched as well, in case I need to go back to an old file. I have the ability to easily share files, and they have a much faster smoother (yet with less features) web gallery option.
With all these shortcomings, it was easy for me to decide to drop dotMac when I needed to renew in August.
Of course, that all changed, as usual with Apple, when they announced that they were dropping dotMac for MobileMe. The logo is awful, it reminds me of Windows ME, and we all now how well that Operating System ran. But the demo showed serious promise, a much nicer looking email, new servers could mean speedier galleries. But the killer for me was the ease of syncing between my iphone (which I'll buy) and my computer. Over the Air syncing of contacts, calendar, and e-mail is a great feature, and well worth the 100 bucks.
Currently My web contact list still lists Dave (our new drummers) phone number as his old phone number that he changed 4 months ago because I haven't synced the contacts from my phone to my computer to the web yet. This would happen automatically with mobileme. Another example is last year while we were playing a lot of shows, my cell calendar often was different than my at home calendar making it difficult to book shows while on the go in case i booked something that didn't sync back to my phone, this is another thing that won't happen with mobileme.
They are transitioning to the new system in mid July, which will give me about a month of free use before I decide if it's worth keeping, or if I should just still drop it. I'm sure I'll post about it once I get to use it.
About a year ago they updated the product. The promise of IMAP e-mail, and the addition of the web gallery which is seamlessly tied to iPhoto was what helped me make the jump. the syncing of my contacts was also a benefit, and having a place to put things to be easily accessible of the web helped as well. They also bumped the storage from 1gig to 10gigs.
Shortly after my purchase, I noticed a few things. Number one, the web gallery couldn't be slower. I liked the interface, I liked the idea of people being able to add to the gallery, but the speed was terrible. I've noticed a similar issue with picassa though, so it's not only mac struggling to keep speedy galleries. Number two, Gmail began offering IMAP email for free. Plus the dotMac email system is ridiculous. It looks like yahoo mail looked in 1998, and it automatically logs you out after 10 minutes, which sucks for people like me who are used to keeping their gmail open all day. I also found dropbox (which I will blog about soon) which is a money alternative to dotMac's iDisk. I can store 2gigs for free of files that are shared to any computer I want them to, and also all changes I make to the files are synched as well, in case I need to go back to an old file. I have the ability to easily share files, and they have a much faster smoother (yet with less features) web gallery option.
With all these shortcomings, it was easy for me to decide to drop dotMac when I needed to renew in August.
Of course, that all changed, as usual with Apple, when they announced that they were dropping dotMac for MobileMe. The logo is awful, it reminds me of Windows ME, and we all now how well that Operating System ran. But the demo showed serious promise, a much nicer looking email, new servers could mean speedier galleries. But the killer for me was the ease of syncing between my iphone (which I'll buy) and my computer. Over the Air syncing of contacts, calendar, and e-mail is a great feature, and well worth the 100 bucks.
Currently My web contact list still lists Dave (our new drummers) phone number as his old phone number that he changed 4 months ago because I haven't synced the contacts from my phone to my computer to the web yet. This would happen automatically with mobileme. Another example is last year while we were playing a lot of shows, my cell calendar often was different than my at home calendar making it difficult to book shows while on the go in case i booked something that didn't sync back to my phone, this is another thing that won't happen with mobileme.
They are transitioning to the new system in mid July, which will give me about a month of free use before I decide if it's worth keeping, or if I should just still drop it. I'm sure I'll post about it once I get to use it.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
wussha drank?
when did this become an acceptable way of asking what you would like to drink while at a drive through. And it's not like I can complain, because it happens at EVERY drivethru (except Chic Fil A). Checkers, Wendys, McDonalds, BK, Hardees, if they have a drivethru and some sort of combo option, I can guarantee you've been asked "wassha drank?"
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
surprisingly enough, they guy who made this is richer than me
why can't I ever think of anything like this?
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