Monthly Archives: May 2005

Comment of the week

Found on the Unofficial Apple Weblog in response to photographs of Steve Jobs’ Gulfstream V being published… i bet even jobs has to use a tape adapter to play his ipod over the stereo on that thing… Posted at 3:14 … Continue reading

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Things I Like – Memorial Day edition

1. Sightseeing via GoogleMaps satellite photos. (yeah, I know I mentioned this already) (triangle bombing target in Nevada) 2. Insane Colombian drug lords that use their profits to build a zoo decorated with concrete dinosaurs. 3. The final resting place … Continue reading

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H. Arrrr…

You would think that the personnel department (I hate hate hate the phrase “human resources”) of a major national corporation/conglomerate would have their act together enough to actually follow through when they say “we’ll contact you the day before the … Continue reading

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Trendy Music Meme – Part II

via here and lots of other people… Total volume of music on my computer: 7682 songs, 19.5 days play time, 35.22 GB The last CD bought: Sleater-Kinney – The Woods Song playing right now: Golden Dawn – “My Time” Five … Continue reading

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Trendy Music Meme – Part I

Open up your mp3 player and list the first song in each letter of the alphabet. Hey, if everyone else is doing it… “A-11″ – Johnny Paycheck “B Is For Brutus” – The Hives “C. Bones” – Masha Qrella “D-Bar-2 … Continue reading

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Nevada nukes nuke plate

Via the Memory Hole… Department of Motor Vehicles Director Ginny Lewis, backed by Gov. Kenny Guinn, decided to cancel the plate because its design prominently features a mushroom cloud, a familiar sight to longtime Nevadans who once watched the atmospheric … Continue reading

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Thurl Ravenscroft R.I.P.

Though all the obituaries are namechecking Tony The Tiger and the Grinch, I always remember Mr. Ravenscroft for three things: 1. Being the narrator of the Laguna Beach Pageant Of The Masters. 2. The “No Dogs Allowed” song from Snoopy … Continue reading

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Organ Stop Pizza

I’ve been looking up Arizona ephemera recently and one of the things I crossed paths with was Organ Stop Pizza in Mesa. Apparently, you needed gimmicks to get people to go get pizza (isn’t good food enough?) so enter the … Continue reading

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Goin’ mobile

I hate CDs. Actually, I’ve disliked them for awhile but there really wasn’t anything I could do about it until existing desktop tech made it feasible to replace large sections of my CD library with digital copies. Before going any … Continue reading

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Google Map tourism

Between GoogleGlobetrotting, Google Maps Mania, Google Sightseeing, Scavengeroogle, Interesting Google Satellite Maps, and Sprol you need a separate blog to keep up with the GoogleMaps blogs. Anyway, my contribution to GoogleMaps sightseeing is the site of Rice Army Air Field … Continue reading

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