I got a buy one get one free Big Mac/ Quarter Pounder & a free small Mocha Frapp (which I've NEVER had before). The total was $9.37, but with the coupons it was down to the price of a Big Mac and 23 cents tax. The McD's I went to opened in 1971 and it has the original menu on the wall from 1971. There wasn't much on the menu at all compared to today, but the Big Mac was on it for 55 cents! The Big Mac I paid for yesterday was $3.39, which would be just over 6X what it cost nearly 40 years ago. So if gasoline was 6X as much that'd be $1.80 a gallon or so which seems to be the case this week, ROTFLMAO!
Anyway the Frapp sipped through a straw started out kinda warm, then it went arctic cold on me and it froze my innards so bad I had to stop eating for 5 minutes until the ice cold PAIN went away!!! WOW!!!! Then I heard Enya on the store loudspeakers with her new hit single, which I found on YouTube several months back; I did miss play-listing the interview of her that was floating about my inbox...and McD's is trying to remind me of that!
A few days ago I was watching Married With Children reruns and one of them Al Bundy goes to find his record collection has melted next to the furnace in the basement. He becomes obsessed to remember which song it was that went "hmm, hmm, Him". Later they heard it on the radio station that plays 5000 songs in a row, but the announcer neglected to say what the song was, and we the viewer only heard 2 seconds of the last of it, so we don't know.
Anyway, I walk into Rite-Aid today to pick up a prescription for my Dad who just came home from spending 4 days in the hospital getting knee-replacement surgery (and maybe he had stroke symptoms while there), and while waiting around I hear this early Beatles song that has "Go With Him" as a refrain. This Rite-Aid store just had a Grand Opening yesterday, brand new store, yet the store radio is harping on a MWC show I watched just days prior to the stores' opening.
This is not coincidence folks.
Friday, March 13, 2009
120 hz HD TV's make the 60 hz HD TV's look like crap, sorry.
I'm getting older now and need to use reading glasses much more frequently. My eyes just don't focus without them it seems. So I'm getting used to watching my 16 year old 26" TV, with reading glasses on...and I'm thinking, well, the tuner is busted on this thing and the economy is about to go into the crapper so what should I be looking for in a newer flat screen TV. I just went up to BJ's and saw four 42" HD TV's lined up in a row and then a little program came on that said Motion Roll 1080i (or 24p). So I'm interested in this Westinghouse TV for $649 because it seems like a good price point for me, but this Motion roll DVD/BR program sold me on the virtues of the 120hz technology on the 4th TV in the line (a Vizio for $999). There was one little section where a merry go round spins up and 3 of the TV's without the 120 hz technologies went all blurry, whereas the 120 hz Vizio didn't go nearly as blurry (by far). Yeah, I've seen crap simulations of 120 hz at Best Buy and that didn't seem real, but this BJ's demonstration proved that I've gotta wait for a 120 hz TV to hit my price point. However, I've read somewhere that 240 hz and 480 hz TV technology was on the way, but I haven't seen that on the store shelves yet. The 120 hz TV technology wasn't perfect, no it wasn't, and a 240 hz TV might be a vast improvement over the 120 hz technology; so I've gotta wait until I see side by side comparisons in a BJ's store about that...maybe next year after the economy has crashed and nobody is selling TV's at all anymore.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
MySpace EDM thread of the day: Do you believe the spirit communicates through music?
Triphi wrote:
Hi,
following the new rules, I'll start this with a question.
Do you believe the spirit communicates through music among other things? Do you even believe in the spirit? If so, what sort of spirit.. the christian holy spirit, the spirit realms mentioned in the eastern religions?
I've just written a track called 'Spirit' and I invite you to listen and then answer this thread with your opinion on the subject. :)
www.myspace.com/trippytriphi
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Stuart wrote: I stopped by your page got my ears around "My colurful Friend" which is a top, top tune,, serioulsy, it is tight enough, if anything, i would add to it , make it a little longer it skips along fairly decently, got some interesting sounds across the entire piece, well written, arranged, and yeah thumbs up,, regarding your theory with the Spirit, absomotherfuckinlutly 100%,,i feel, i am convinced, music releases part of us which is dormant or cowed, and basically shaminic rites etc, are part of our collective history,, hopefully the thread police wont delete this but you never know,, regardless, keep belting em out..
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Alterna wrote: I think all art is a spiritual connection
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Brian Winter wrote: i think music communicates to us on a different level than standard speech/text/vision. It appeals to our deepest portion of "self". Creating art is an expression of something intangible. A need to share something that we cannot otherwise express in a conventional manner.
A strange old hippy once pulled me out of a crowd and said to me "Creation is a flowing river, and we are al tributaries to it". Its strange when wisdom is imparted at random, but its important to recognize it when it happens.
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Alterna wrote: so he wasn't just an old hippie he was a shaman
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disasterpastor45 wrote: My old computer's internet audio stream used to cut out when I flung my foot around or exercised my toes. But that's just more psycho-kinetic audio obstructionism than actual spirit except for my artful use of occasional lack of catatonia to induce yet another profound sonic dropout emanating from my computer system.
I've since upgraded from a USB 2.0 connection to a network cable connection and a new computer, so I'm not exposed to that as much anymore; but there were several power blackouts from the rain last night.
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Alterna wrote: I'm sorry I may not be following you but how does this relate to the subject of this post ?
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Triphi wrote: I just posted a blog on my page which describes my interpretation of the spirit. a bit deep to post here on the forum so if anyones interested check it out.
Aside from that, did anyone listen to my 'spirit' track? What if there was only one spirit and it had a recognisable sound? This is what I'm trying to get at.. and find out if people can detect it in what I've made.
My 'colourful friend' track is liked because it has hints of this energy in it.. but the 'spirit' track is the one I think has the more spiritual essense. But this could just be my perception.
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color farm wrote: I think people who find spiritual connections through music smoke too many drugs.
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triphi wrote: fair enough, this is the great thing about opinion.. we can all have our own and eat them too...
how old are you color farm? are you an atheist?
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color farm wrote: No, I'm not aethiest.
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dEFFEN wrote: are you a republican?
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PLP - Chicago wrote: r u A replicant?
Hi,
following the new rules, I'll start this with a question.
Do you believe the spirit communicates through music among other things? Do you even believe in the spirit? If so, what sort of spirit.. the christian holy spirit, the spirit realms mentioned in the eastern religions?
I've just written a track called 'Spirit' and I invite you to listen and then answer this thread with your opinion on the subject. :)
www.myspace.com/trippytriphi
***********
Stuart wrote: I stopped by your page got my ears around "My colurful Friend" which is a top, top tune,, serioulsy, it is tight enough, if anything, i would add to it , make it a little longer it skips along fairly decently, got some interesting sounds across the entire piece, well written, arranged, and yeah thumbs up,, regarding your theory with the Spirit, absomotherfuckinlutly 100%,,i feel, i am convinced, music releases part of us which is dormant or cowed, and basically shaminic rites etc, are part of our collective history,, hopefully the thread police wont delete this but you never know,, regardless, keep belting em out..
*************
Alterna wrote: I think all art is a spiritual connection
*************
Brian Winter wrote: i think music communicates to us on a different level than standard speech/text/vision. It appeals to our deepest portion of "self". Creating art is an expression of something intangible. A need to share something that we cannot otherwise express in a conventional manner.
A strange old hippy once pulled me out of a crowd and said to me "Creation is a flowing river, and we are al tributaries to it". Its strange when wisdom is imparted at random, but its important to recognize it when it happens.
************
Alterna wrote: so he wasn't just an old hippie he was a shaman
************
disasterpastor45 wrote: My old computer's internet audio stream used to cut out when I flung my foot around or exercised my toes. But that's just more psycho-kinetic audio obstructionism than actual spirit except for my artful use of occasional lack of catatonia to induce yet another profound sonic dropout emanating from my computer system.
I've since upgraded from a USB 2.0 connection to a network cable connection and a new computer, so I'm not exposed to that as much anymore; but there were several power blackouts from the rain last night.
*************
Alterna wrote: I'm sorry I may not be following you but how does this relate to the subject of this post ?
**************
Triphi wrote: I just posted a blog on my page which describes my interpretation of the spirit. a bit deep to post here on the forum so if anyones interested check it out.
Aside from that, did anyone listen to my 'spirit' track? What if there was only one spirit and it had a recognisable sound? This is what I'm trying to get at.. and find out if people can detect it in what I've made.
My 'colourful friend' track is liked because it has hints of this energy in it.. but the 'spirit' track is the one I think has the more spiritual essense. But this could just be my perception.
*************
color farm wrote: I think people who find spiritual connections through music smoke too many drugs.
*************
triphi wrote: fair enough, this is the great thing about opinion.. we can all have our own and eat them too...
how old are you color farm? are you an atheist?
*************
color farm wrote: No, I'm not aethiest.
*************
dEFFEN wrote: are you a republican?
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PLP - Chicago wrote: r u A replicant?
Revealing Tweets from yesterday, pt 001
from KarenAlloy:
@xsamanthanicole um.. cuz ur wanted by the FBI & you owe me 5 bucks?
@ijustine only suckas "buy" those flowers. I punch the guy in the throat and run away with "Free" flowers.
from NatalieTran:
Almost finished my script! Zo my gawd. step1 sleep with director; step2 apologise and say your script is better than sexual performance
Yo peeps. Creepo I chased down faces court tomorrow. Booyah. Sucks for him. Little did he know he picked on a super athlete *flexes*
attention
@servantofchaos one day I'm going to come and move all the chairs away. Internet security man
from Ashton Kutcher:
dude you no longer get to rep sweetness. that's crazy tallk
A quote from my teacher "Religion is 4 people who are afraid of going to hell; spirituality is 4 people who have already been there."
packing for 3 months away from home. essential question.. what can't you live with out?
[(why would anything be there when he got back?)]
from AwkwardGirl:
(typo from Hell, or Phoenix): @kristinahorner oh good! We wouldn't want you to have to sweat to God! Now would we?
@xsamanthanicole um.. cuz ur wanted by the FBI & you owe me 5 bucks?
@ijustine only suckas "buy" those flowers. I punch the guy in the throat and run away with "Free" flowers.
from NatalieTran:
Almost finished my script! Zo my gawd. step1 sleep with director; step2 apologise and say your script is better than sexual performance
Yo peeps. Creepo I chased down faces court tomorrow. Booyah. Sucks for him. Little did he know he picked on a super athlete *flexes*
attention
@servantofchaos one day I'm going to come and move all the chairs away. Internet security man
from Ashton Kutcher:
dude you no longer get to rep sweetness. that's crazy tallk
A quote from my teacher "Religion is 4 people who are afraid of going to hell; spirituality is 4 people who have already been there."
packing for 3 months away from home. essential question.. what can't you live with out?
[(why would anything be there when he got back?)]
from AwkwardGirl:
(typo from Hell, or Phoenix): @kristinahorner oh good! We wouldn't want you to have to sweat to God! Now would we?
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Bangladesh Bans YouTube
Bangladesh Bans YouTube
March 9, 2009 2:15 p.m. EST
AHN Staff
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - The government of Bangladesh banned the website YouTube on Monday after a meeting between the prime minister and army officers was posted on the popular video sharing portal.
The video footage was taken two days after a mutiny by border guards which caused the death of over 70 people. The recording ran for 40 minutes out of a 3-hour meeting. It showed the anger of Bangladeshis military personnel over how the government handled the crisis.
Zia Ahmed, chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunidations Regulatory Commission, said the government decided to block YouTube and another website esnips, because the footage they showed may worsen the situation in the country. "The government can take any decision to stop any activity that threatens national unity and integrity," Ahmed was quoted by BBC.
The meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took place after the mutiny at the Bangladesh Rifles office two weeks ago where 54 army officers died. The footage showed over 2,000 solders shouting at the prime minister, "We want answers".
She attempted to reply, but her voice was drowned by the jeers of the soldiers. There is no definite date when will YouTube be unblocked.
Meanwhile, a team from the FBI will help the Bangladeshi police probe the mutiny. Of the 1,000 border guards involved in the uprising, 36 suspects have been under arrest.
Bangladesh has a history of successful coup attempts, with 21 so far successful. All the coup tries were made by the military.
March 9, 2009 2:15 p.m. EST
AHN Staff
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - The government of Bangladesh banned the website YouTube on Monday after a meeting between the prime minister and army officers was posted on the popular video sharing portal.
The video footage was taken two days after a mutiny by border guards which caused the death of over 70 people. The recording ran for 40 minutes out of a 3-hour meeting. It showed the anger of Bangladeshis military personnel over how the government handled the crisis.
Zia Ahmed, chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunidations Regulatory Commission, said the government decided to block YouTube and another website esnips, because the footage they showed may worsen the situation in the country. "The government can take any decision to stop any activity that threatens national unity and integrity," Ahmed was quoted by BBC.
The meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took place after the mutiny at the Bangladesh Rifles office two weeks ago where 54 army officers died. The footage showed over 2,000 solders shouting at the prime minister, "We want answers".
She attempted to reply, but her voice was drowned by the jeers of the soldiers. There is no definite date when will YouTube be unblocked.
Meanwhile, a team from the FBI will help the Bangladeshi police probe the mutiny. Of the 1,000 border guards involved in the uprising, 36 suspects have been under arrest.
Bangladesh has a history of successful coup attempts, with 21 so far successful. All the coup tries were made by the military.
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