A New Blog Profile Picture...

... from one of my recent conquests.

 

Wii are going home to play.

Some Random Tracklist

For those of you who were fortunate enough to receive a disc of 18 random tracks of my collection. Here is the tracklist:

1) Noah's Dove, "10,000 Maniacs", Our Time in Eden
2) New Genious (Brother), Gorillaz, Gorillaz
3) Spies, Coldplay, Parachutes
4) Amy Hit The Atmosphere, Counting Crows, This Desert Life
5) Razzle Dazzle Rose, Camera Obscura, Let's Get Out of This Country 6) April 29, 1992 (Miami), Sublime, Sublime
7) Brothers On A Hotel Bed, Death Cab For Cutie, Plans
8) Perfect Hair, Dangerdoom, Mouse & The Mask
9) Pretty Good Year, Tori Amos, Under the Pink
10) This Love, Maroon 5, 1.22.03 Acoustic [EP]
11) Jesus Walking on the Water, Violent Femmes, Add It Up (1981-1993)
12) Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia), The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
13) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise), The Beatles, Love
14) Bedlam, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, The Delivery Man
15) The Abandoned Hospital Ship, The Flaming Lips, Clouds Taste Metallic
16) Truckers Atlas, Modest Mouse, The Lonesome Crowded West
17) Circus, Tom Waits, Real Gone
18) Dark Center Of The Universe, Modest Mouse, The Moon And Antartica [Bonus Tracks]

My MII likes to think too.

T-Mobile Disses Opera, Says "Get Less!" - Gearlog

I admit that I only made it halfway through the comments of this post because I was turned off b the signal to noise ratio but, I thought that it was post worthy because I have been personally bitten by this on more than one occasion.

Those who know me know that I am an early adopter and one to use more than the standard 2% of a phones features. It may be just me getting lazy but, I have all but given up on trying to make a mobile phone do what the feature set and specifications claim that it can do.

I have only recently been able to use Gmail and Google Maps on my Motorola handset. It was network blocked by T-Mobile until about 6 months ago and by the sound of this article it may be blocked again in the future.

T-Mobile Disses Opera, Says "Get Less!"

Herschel the cage fighter.

Finally a sign.

Breakfast in chattanooga. IT IS SNOWING!

Yeah baby.

Of Montreal w/ Elekibass!!

Please note that according to the Of Montreal website they are touring with Elekibass. Click on Shows and note the "***".

P.f'n.S. I will most likely be on my way home from IL/MO and not be able to make it.

Guess what fits in the garage again...

...this makes me happy.

Wii Would Like to Play

Well the coverage, so far, of this momentous event has been over at SchlenkerDoodle's Blog [1,2] but, I figured that I would add my POV.

Late last Saturday night I became one of "those guys" who is willing to camp out for a video game system.

E and I were over at Team Chambers' until about 1:30 and since we were close to Target and I knew that they were supposed to receive a shipment, I figured that we could swing by on the way home. There was absolutely no activity, we found out later that other Targets had received some but not Athens.

The big blue box was just up the road so we stopped by there too. I counted 9 brave souls. On the way home I made up my mind to drop of E and turn around and come back. I had planned to wake up at 6 or 7 and head straight there but, I didn't want to miss this shipment and have to wait another month.

I dressed warmly and made a pot of coffee. I put 1/2 of it in a travel cup and the other 1/2 in a thermos. I grabbed a lawn chair and off I went. I sat down at 2:30am as number 11 in line.

There wasn't much activity inline until sunrise: people trying to sleep, the Racetrac guy offering us free coffee, iPods, books, etc. It was cold but, not unbearable. After sunrise we got more chatty we compared stories and kept each other company.

The first guy in line was there before the store closed the night before and had been told that there would be 30 available. The first BB employee got there about 6 am (a full 5 hours before the store opens) he was very professional and told us that he would confirm the number and let us know as soon as he could. He posted within the hour that the number was indeed 30 and gave us details on how they would be distributed.

The 30th person got in line at about 9:00. At about 10:45 the BB manager handed out numbers to the first 30 people in line. When the store opened at 11:00 they marched us into the employee breakroom and called us 2 at a time to run through the "buffet" of games and accessories and to the registers. By the way that people were grabbing things guy number 30 probably had some slim pickings.

H and A came over and we each created a Mii and played for a couple hours but, after having stayed up all night, I fell asleep, literally, in the middle of playing Zelda.

In the days since I have played a good bit. I consider it well worth the wait and effort. My family is coming up this weekend to play.

Thanks to Mom for the Christmas present and E for being my SAG Wagon with breakfast in the morning.



P.S. If we know each other in meatspace and you have a Wii send me your "Wii Number".

The wait is over.

I can now sit at the cool kids table that is Beta Blogger. Perhaps my posting hiatus will now come to a close.

Happy New Year 2007

Happy New Year 2007

Fun hat poker.

Girl takes pic of herself every day for three years

This one is for herschel.

We found a kitten who had been hit by a car on the way to work this morning.