Lacking any truly brilliant ideas for original content, I decided to look back at what I was writing about in previous Septembers. 2001: I really didn’t write much about the events on 9/11/2001. Only 3 posts, of which this one was sort of prescient. What better way for the government to get what they want […]
ChristianCollegeGuide.net sent us a 32 page full color glossy magazine full of ads for small Christian colleges across the land. (We are ignoring the target marketing fail here. That is a whole ‘nother post) Check out the Photoshop job on the back cover. The back cover! I used to work in printing. That is the […]
Amazon S3 is Amazon’s cloud storage service. At .15 per gigabyte, 50GB will cost me $7.50 a month, versus $20 for Dropbox or UbuntuOne. And odds are those services are planting your data on Amazon servers anyway! It’s a damn good deal for redundant storage. Both of these services give you 2 GB for free, […]
This is meme making the rounds on Facebook. But as long as I wrote it, I might as well use it here too. The rules: Don’t take too long to think about this. List 15 albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. Tag some friends, including me, because I’m interested in seeing what […]
He is 35 years into his incredible career, and this album absolutely has to go down as one of his best. Armed with only a single mic and a 1950s era reel to reel tape recorder, Mellencamp laid these tracks down live from historic musical sites throughout the south. In this era of auto tuned, […]
Clocking in at over 70 minutes, Iron Maiden certainly doesn’t cheat their fans from lack of effort. The Final Frontier continues the prog-metal direction that Maiden has taken over the last couple of albums. For a lot of fans, I suspect it may be a little too much in that direction. I like it, but […]
43 BC – Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul. 1812 – War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname “Old Ironsides”. 1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, […]
I’ve played this EP about 5 times this weekend. You can download it for free from their website. I strongly encourage you to do that, because all 4 songs on the EP are terrific. They hail from NC, so hopefully we’ll see them in Richmond or DC soon. Worst Intentions by Gossip Grows On Trees
This article at Slate about books sparked a memory about record albums. Yeah, my brain is weird that way. The article makes an interesting point about first impressions. Back in the day, I definately made snap judgments about people based on their record collection. It was the teen / 20 something equivalent of snooping in […]
Flat screen TV’s are coming down in price, which is a good thing. I saw a 42″ HDTV at WalMart last week for under $500. The downside of this is that they are everywhere. WalMart was the first that I remember when they put TVs in the checkout lanes to bombard you with advertising in […]
