America’s Got Talent…??? Not on this show…

25Jul07

I don’t know who’s worse…the judges or the contestants, but overall what a load of crap this show is. I watched last week and this week to see the 20 finalists, and I gotta say…if this is the best that America’s got to give on the talent side, I fear greatly for the artistic [...]

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Web 2.0 names annoy me

20Jul07

Seriously. Of course this is my own opinion, and it’s not new; there are tons of sites that make fun of web 2.0 names.  Take a nonsensical poobot of a word and start a web 2.0 company with the money you weaseled out of investors who got sucked in by your dumb name. [...]

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Crazy From the Heat…

16Jul07

“I wanna live it up, wanna quit my job,
tell the boss to go to hell.
I ain’t complainin’, you do the best with what you got.
I know you’re laughin’ ’cause it’s easy to tell
I’m goin’ crazy, goin’ crazy,
oo, from the heat. “
Goin Crazy, David Lee Roth, Eat em and Smile
 
Yeah, not just anyone can whip off [...]

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Soundtrack 07/11/2007: Nine Inch Nails “Year Zero”

11Jul07

Shame on us, doomed from the start
May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts
Shame on us for all we have done
And all we are worth is just zeroes and ones
“Zero Sum” Year Zero
 
 
Over the past few albums Nine Inch Nails has gotten more and more rock and roll, and a little bit away [...]

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Make a comment, help some kids!

11Jul07

The Chief is running a cool contest over on his blog.  This was actually begun over a week ago, but I was travelling a bit, then behind the 8 ball a bit, and then just plain lazy for a bit.  So, I’m linking it now.  I’m generally not a fan of promoting contests that are [...]

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In Pursuit of Excellence…Where does inspiration and motivation come from?

06Jul07

**Warning – Somewhat fluffy and self indulgent post that will tread into somewhat personal territory…don’t read it if that annoys you **
 
“And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want it to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks?
Would you find yourself
Find yourself afraid to see?“
Nine Inch Nails, [...]

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Oh, the places we’ll go…

04Jul07

I was going to comment here how I haven’t written much because I’ve been doing a bit of travelling.  But then I realized I haven’t really done that much in the past couple of weeks, and frankly I’ve just been lazy.  Then I started thinking about all the places I’ve been in my life, and [...]

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