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Awesome song.

11/ 3/07 21:25 permalink discuss

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Hongyun wanted to watch some debates to see how the movers and shakers of the political world handle debates. You see, in China, there are no political debates. ever. Candidates generally just make a speeches promising the world and going backstage to plan out their new 800 sqft solid marble bathrooms for after they are elected. Hongyun's mom tells us in the past they would just put photos of the guys up for "election" on the ballot and you would pick based on how they look. This explains why her mom feels that President Hu Jin Tao is a good guy since she saw a video bite of him making dumpling with a common person. She said it shows that he's a down to earth kind of guy. Nope...that's not a staged display of handshaking or baby-kissing...yeah right. Anyway:

The Democratic debate schedule from Vivian J. Paige
September 26, 2007: NBC News/MSNBC** in Hanover, NH
October 30, 2007: NBC News/MSNBC** in Philadelphia, PA
November 15, 2007: CNN* in Las Vegas, NV
December 10, 2007: CBS in Los Angeles, CA

The Republican debate schedule from Lead Us Forward
# September 17, Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Sky Angel - Value Voters
# September 27, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland - PBS
# October 14, 2007 Manchester, New Hampshire - ABC News
# October 21, 2007 Orlando, Florida - FOX News
# November 6, 2007 Ames, Iowa - MSNBC
# November 28, 2007 St Petersburg, Florida - CNN, with YouTube and Google
# January 5, 2008 Johnson County, Iowa - Iowa Public Television
# January 30, 2oo8 Los Angeles, California - CNN

Hmmm, I guess the elephants have more to talk about...

* Avenue Q = HILARIOUS *

Avenue Q in San Francisco Aug. 7 - Sept. 12
Originally uploaded by Steve Rhodes.

Last night we headed over to the Orpheum in San Francisco to watch Avenue Q. The show was unsurprisingly brilliant. I say unsurprisingly because I've seen a couple of video clips and heard some of the songs before hand so I knew it was going to be really good. I'll leave the spoilers out, but let's just say I don't recommend anyone bring their kid to the show.

So after the show, I thought to myself, "man, I'd really like to get the music from the show in MP3 form." So here's what I don't want:

I don't want someone to physically ship me a CD so I can rip it and then sell it off again. How globally-unPC is that?

I don't want a DRM'd version since I work for Zing Dell and use several different media playing devices (including an iPod every now and then still).

I don't want to bittorrent it since I actually enjoyed the music and want to pay the people who created it for their awesome tunes that have brought me joy.

I don't want to buy DRM tracks, burn them to a CD-RW, then rip them again...wtf?

So there you have it. I have my money waiting in hand (actually on my Amex card) and no way to get what I want: DRM-free Avenue Q.

Nevertheless, I encourage you to go see Avenue Q...you'll like it.

08/15/07 16:48 permalink discuss

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* Content Cost Analysis *

How much do you spend for TV, movies, and the like? Me personally? Very little. We don't have a cable TV subscription (we get some cable channels free by some freak of university bureaucracy) and pay for Tivo. Outside of that, we get movies from various libraries for free. Once in a while, we head to the movies which is nice. I really hope they get the whole concerts, theater, and other stuff up and running for movie theaters. We'd go a lot more if they did.

Anyway, it's nuts to see that people spend about $1000 on content per year!! We pay about $240 for Tivo and that's that.

If we didn't get have our few cable channels, we'd probably just get a Netflix account since they're only like 20 bucks a month.

Ins and Outs: Is buyshifting the future of television? (part 2) - Engadget

05/25/07 11:59 permalink discuss

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* The Silver Arrow *

The Silver Arrow
Originally uploaded by titaniumtommy.

I just saw this and am absolutely going to get one (if ever I find myself with way too much money than any normal human should have). First, I'll convert it to full electric drive because, you know, I can. Then I'm going to gold plate it because, you know, if it's hip hop...it's gots to be gold.

Link.

05/23/07 10:27 permalink discuss

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* Reverie Sound Revue back! *

Holy cow...I can't believe they're back! Well, maybe they were never gone, but I've been listening to their tunes from a cd I got over the internet two+ years ago and I have never gotten tired of it. Never. That's how good it is. Yep, that's right, I've listened to their songs at least once a week (usually much much more) for more than two years and haven't gotten tired of them. Now that's good music. Am I going to buy their CD when it comes out? I hope they ship it in good old digital format so I don't have to contemplate the carbon impact of the CD's raw materials, production, delivery and all that jazz. Plain old digital will be just fine thank you very much (hold the DRM). Thanks.