Everyone’s seen it. Mostly I just wanted to capture what an amazingly clear and beautiful day it is.
So I guess most of them have gone down south to breed, but a few younger, non-breeding ones hang out year round. Still cute though, even if there are only four.
Party Downers, Sweet Cobra, Frontside Five @ The Empty Bottle
Friday , 29, June 2007 Music Leave a comment
Last night, The Party Downers, (remember? beer rock?) played the Bottle with Frontside Five and Sweet Cobra. It was a great show, and they finally got back to their roots and played a cover. (“We’re an American Band” by Grand Funk Railroad.) I didn’t get any pictures of them because I was too busy screaming at Grant, but I got some classically red and blurry shots of Sweet Cobra.
As I sit here, on a plane to Houston from Chicago. I can’t think of anything but how much I’d rather be eating the dinner I had last night. It was great… Well the salad was the standard mixed greens and honey mustard dressing, but the other two were more interesting experiments. The pepper was stuffed with sauteed onion, garlic, tomato and breadcrumbs, then topped with cheese. The stuffing was good, but frankly I didn’t much care for the pepper. The success of the night, however, was the potato casserole. I am pumped on it because I was totally winging it AND it was good. Potatoes, diced, with chopped onion, mushroom, and garlic, then covered with a can of split pea soup, with a bit of cheddar cheese on top. And a glass of white wine. My sister is not aware that I am coming to visit. Like I said, I am currently on a plane, so I can’t send this. I kinda want to send this as soon as I land, that way it’ll be sorta a reward if she checks my blog in the tiny time window…
Just when I thought she couldn’t get any less likable, Clinton picks a Celine Dion song as the official campaign nauseator. Granted, maybe I should wait to judge it until I figure out what Obama’s chosen. I’d hate to make fun of Clinton, only to have to make excuses if whatshisname picks something worse. Actually, nevermind; there’s no way Obama finds something worse. I officially am making fun of Clinton for her stupid song.
I just read something rad. Basically, back in the early 80s, they would encode video games onto vinyl. You’d make a recording of the sounds on the vinyl, and then load the sounds, via a cassette, onto old computers that could work that way. That sorta blows my mind with its technological sweetness. I’d say it would be something worth repeating in 2007, but only if you still had the weird step with the manual transfer from audio->disc-> computer. Wow. You gotta read the whole article, it’s… just so cool… Just so cool.(h/t).
…and all I’m going to do is link to this page. Don’t worry about any of the words, just check out the pictures. They are awesome.
Sandwich on wheat bread. Fried tofu, chipotle cheddar cheese, grilled red pepper, lettuce, honey mustard.
Perhaps you weren’t aware, but I’m now an expert in php. By expert, of course, I mean I know how to use includes and I wrote some sweet code in php and now I’m calling myself an expert. But seriously, php is rad. I feel like someone who just started listening to the Shins when Garden State came out. Like this is rad, how come it took me a billion years to figure this out?
I’ve been working on a website for a film- Indestructible. I won’t spoil it, well… I can’t spoil it, because I still haven’t seen it. But check out the site. Actually, as I post this, the site I’ve written isn’t published yet, but I’m sure I’ll link to it again when it’s up. I had to redo the site like 5 times. I originally did it all in regular html, then Colin suggested I do it in PHP. So I did. Then Colin pointed out that I coded it like a weirdo, so I had to completely re-do it. But it wasn’t that bad. I still want to learn about XML, even though I don’t really know what it’s for, but that’s for another day.
So… yeah. Here’s some of the code that I’m more proud of, cause I’m a geek, and I don’t think this is terrible. This code creates a bar of 8 random images from a selection of 64:
<?php
for ( $counter = 1; $counter <= 8; $counter += 1) {
$images=”<td height=\”50\” width=\”97\”><img height=\”50\” width=\”90\” src=\”images/random/”;
$images.=rand(1,64);
$images.=”.jpg\”></td>”;
echo $images;
}
?>
What’s the best part about this code? Not only is it totally sweet, BUT if you cut and paste it into AIM, it finds some sweet emoticons in the syntax:
So that’s pretty fantastic. (Now that I’ve published my code, I’m a little embarrassed. What if some all-star programmer sees it and thinks less of me cause it’s sloppy and semi-retarded?)
So I didn’t really flesh out why I liked Obama, other than to say that I don’t like anyone else.  I don’t want to get into the policy stuff yet, mostly because I’m lazy. But the character thing is important. He’s a self-made man type, who made it to all teh fancy schools as a result of pretty much kicking intellectual ass. John Edwards makes a big deal about how he grew up poor and was still successful. I think that’s fine, and it’s still more impressive than someone like George Bush, or even John McCain, who grew up in a very well connected political family. That said, Edwards didn’t make the decision to go into public service until after he’d made millions. then, after losing the election in 2004, went back to the private sector and again devoted himself to making a ton of money. Obama’s decision to work for the community started early. Obama’s career has actually been quite similar to Bill Clinton’s: Clinton graduated from Yale, I believe, and then went on to become a law professor and the governor of Arkansas for more than a decade. Obama went to school, taught at school, worked in the community, worked for the state, worked as a senator. That’s a long term dedication to public service, not an opportunist thing, nor a politics-as-retirement-hobby that you see with a lot of millionaires. So that’s that. Of course, there’s really no point in proving Obama is better than Edwards. That’s fairly obvious. The weird thing is how many people are actualy into H. Clinton. That boggles my mind. I imagine a big part of it is her being a woman, because other than that she seems super unlikeable.  But I suppose there’s something good I’m missing about her. I’ll look into it. In the meantime, I’m going to write about something less important… Levity.