So I heard from a guy at work that James Brown was playing the Hollywood Bowl. The Godfather of Soul. The Funky President. Singing standards backed up by Christian McBride's big band. That's like Pantera playing show tunes with Raffi. I heard about this and my head almost exploded with awesome ( Read more... )

Some people sure do put a lot of effort into denying reality. What's the point? Young-Earth creationists try to make their message palatable by reconciling a diluvian six-thousand-year-old Earth with modern science. This requires them to refute, among other things:

• Geology and plate tectonics
• Physics, including relativity, quantum theory, and ( Read more... )

AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

*wheeze*


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Public BathroomsSo it's, like, ten A.M. on a Monday, and you go to take your morning constitutional. You're feeling pretty good, adequately caffeinated, you've got a newspaper or some terrible periodical ("Journal of Packaging Design", "Structural Digest", a six-year-old "Time" with Ken Starr on the cover); it doesn ( Read more... )

Went to the Hollywood Bowl last night to see Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride, and Joshua Redman. To see the three of them headlining a show is pretty spectacular, so there was no excuse to not go. I brought a bunch of guys from work, plus Sarah's in town, and Meg came at the last second since I had a spare ticket ( Read more... )

Two for the price of one, since I've been too busy to proof them.

Canoe trip '06: the Moose River (CANOOEEEEEE TRIIIPPPPPP bah buh bah buh bah buh):

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I haven't posted canoe trip (CANOOEEEEEE TRIIIPPPPPP! duh dah duh dah duh dah duh) photos yet because I haven't even had a chance to proof them all yet. I'm programming all week because I'm way behind on coding for the light, and somehow I'm going up to Mammoth this weekend, unless I don't fix the bug I'm working on, in which case I'll just shoot ( Read more... )

The BMBF was the stuff of legends. It was epic. It was: a generator, three car batteries, a huge stereo, huger old box speakers, three tables, five coolers, two grills, two big bags of charcoal, assorted tents & camping gear, a generator, an inflatable party barge, and ten wooden shipping pallets for firewood. It was thirty or so kids rocking out ( Read more... )

I just got home from work:

SAM (from the kitchen): Did you know squid only have one eye?
ME: What?! They've got two eyes.
SAM: Oh. I couldn't find the other one.
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ME: What animal do you know that has only one eye?!
SAM: Arrrrrrr.

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