Huckabee Shows Glimmer of Sanity

When this guy comes across as reasonable you know the rest of the GOP is just fucked.  (Or, we all are, in any case).

"'Birthers' fade after passage of law against them"

Someday, many years after 2016, I will go to Hawaii (I hear it's beautiful) and I will stop by the appropriate government's records office and I will ask for a copy of Barack Hussein Obama's birth certificate..... and I will have it framed.

(link goes to article)

Tanzen Macht Frei

A 'final solution' survivor does a Gloria Gaynor at various holocaust sites with his daughter and grandchildren.

Who knew Malcolm Tucker was a scientist?

I played Scrabble online tonight

Turned out to be a person from Australia I was matched with.  Learned the hard way.

She put down "czars" on a triple word (48 pts) and I said "ok fu" [which is my way of saying "great move!"]

The she says [AG=Australia Granny]

AG: "are you kidding me?  how old are you?"
ME: "36"
AG: "I'm a granny from australia..  Such talk."
ME: "Didn't mean to upset you".
[a couple of more moves go by]
ME: "How did you get this far without a little bit of trash talk thrown at you?"
[a couple of moves go by]
AG: "Where are you?"
ME: "New York"

[blah blah game ends]

It only occurred to me after that perhaps she would have wanted to chat further, but that also the only two things I would have to say to her are:

"Hey, I saw 'On the Beach' recently... do you like that movie?"

and

"Hey I was in Australia once.  I ate kangaroo.  Do you like kangaroo?"

My House, Time-Lapsed

Using one of these

http://www.amazon.com/Wingscapes-WSCA04-Timelapse-PlantCam/dp/B002M2TLLI

(tied to a tree) I shot some time-lapse footage (1 frame every five minutes) of my new house under construction.  Here it is:




No-one will be seated during the exciting May 1 - May 7 sequence when fuck-all nothing happens.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon QUADROPHONIC Mix

 

My Favorite Thing This Year (so far):

There is a QUADROPHONIC mix of Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (done by producer Alan Parsons in 1973 at the same time he did the the regular -- stereo -- mix).

If you want to download it via torrent search on google for "dark side of the moon 5.1 torrent" (it's 3.5GB).

 

(or click here) 

Just finished listening to it.  I didn't know my ears could do that.  It's like listening to the album for the first time (after maybe 1,000 times the stereo one over the last 20+ years).  Just make sure you sit in the center of the room, with no distractions.  (Don't bother if you don't have a surroundsound setup -- it would be like watching a 3D movie without the glasses).

I'm very happy Google allows me to customize my background picture now

The Funniest Dilbert Evert

Hunter Davis is Ian McKellen

(click and close your eyes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrQqUQY9d3g

and is in charge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBi9ikTCC6c&feature=related

and popeye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1doHEBx-o&feature=related

(post link goes to his youtube channel which has a wider variety of stuff.. hit & miss)