Elliance Pittsburgh2050 Party webcast
January 31, 2008
The Elliance Pittsburgh2050 party – broadcasting live now on ustream. If you’re in the area, come on down. 
Badass 80’s Music Video Thursday – 2@ The Fixx, 1@ The Smiths
January 31, 2008
Ladies and Germs, there is an answer. A solution. Not a Cure, but a Fixx.
From their smash album, Reach the Beach, I give you “One Thing Leads To Another,” by The Fixx.
But wait, there’s more! The poster disabled embedding, but if you go to the youtubes, you can also watch “Saved By Zero,” another Fixx hit.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=swzK7Q8teSM
And it gets even more better! Especially for my good friend Brian McNitt, I present to you the one – the only – “Girlfriend in a Coma” by The Smiths. Strangeways, here we come!!
Rapcat – meow meow meow
January 30, 2008
“You can trust me: I’m a record executive!”
State of the Union 2008
January 28, 2008
Driving to work this morning, I listened to a bit on NPR about two previous final State of the Union addresses. The host was interviewing the speech writers responsible for the final addresses by presidents Reagan and Clinton. Reagan was a thematic president, the one contended. Clinton was less so, went the story. They agreed that SotU addresses are boring, clunky laundry lists, they agreed that a president in his last year of his final term may not have nearly as much trouble capturing the audience’s attention as one might expect. They agreed about everything.
In the wistful peace of these previous opponents’ agreement, a space opened up. A creative space, wherein I heard the faint rumblings of GWB’s speech this evening. It was filled with the usual assortment of malapropisms – bungled compound sentences, clearly misunderstood and misused euphemisms, and mispronunciations of everything from “nuclear” to “mom.” He couldn’t decide if the economy was strawng or strugglin’. He urged us, when considering the recession, deficits, debts, wars, education and production losses, etc, to “try to keep yer prospective,” because ya never know – things could get better. …”they usually do, right?” He turned around and asked Cheney, “How’m I doin’ Dick?”
By the time the NPR spot had ended, I was in stitches. I had thoroughly amused myself with a tiny internal satire which reality will, I fear, closely resemble. I thought of Will Ferrell’s parodies of our fearless commander in chief. They’re so close to reality.
Stay tuned for tonight’s “big event.” And in the meantime, enjoy the Ferrell parody on global warming found at the link below. It’s wicked good. Just like nucyular energies.
Lagniappe Badass 80’s post for @ArielWaldman
January 24, 2008
Just can’t get enough, especially for @arielwaldman and @mcnitt. Tweet tweet.
Bad Ass 80’s Music Videos – Week 2
January 23, 2008
After I forewarned Brian McNitt that today’s 80’s Music Video was to be Camouflage’s breakout hit “The Great Commandment,” he chastised me via twitter:
@gmailgeoff you started the depeche mode revival. why not stay w/it? post http://tinyurl.com/2vx666 and @arielwaldman will dig you for it.
Thusly I’ll acquiesce to his exhortation: The full 8:00 minute original 1984 video for Blasphemous Rumours. It’s long. Real long. Long enough to love for a long, long time.
Thanks Bri. More 80’s to come.
Pownce goes public
January 22, 2008
No longer in private Beta, Pownce opened its virtual doors to the whole wide world last night. The desktop app is revised and improved, even though it sports a bug or two to be squashed. Congrats to Pownce developer Leah Culver and all three cofounders (Leah, Daniel, and Kevin) on the successful launch of a great service. Now, with my fingers crossed that it scales gracefully…
Best.419.scam.sender.ever
January 21, 2008
It doesn’t get any finer than this. SUPERFINE.
Hello,
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If you can be a collaborator to this transaction, please indicate your positive interest immediately for us to proceed. Remember this is absolutely confidential because my Bank does not know about it.Your contact phone numbers and name will be necessary for this effect.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Warmest regards,
Mr. Corin Superfine
Royal Bank of Scotland.
Andrew Square,
Edinburgh, EH2 2YE.
United Kingdom.
P2P: Picard vs. Palpatine
January 21, 2008
If you, like a lot of totally hopeless geeks out there, ever wonder which galactic force is more formidable – Star Trek’s Federation or Star Wars’ Galactic Empire – then you’ve come to the right website. Thanks – oh so many thanks – to whomever posted this on Youtube. I think it puts the issue to rest once and for all. Hailing frequencies:
Badass 80’s Music Video – Major Bonus Friday, Major Tom
January 18, 2008
What a way to kick off the weekend than to jam out to this hit from Peter Schilling – Major Tom. It’s pure bonus, dude. Totally rad.
Look forward to more 80’s awesomeness next Thursday.
