Brilliant

Rush Limbaugh needed Barack Obama to become President. Nothing brings out the best in Rush as an administration with opposing policies who also appear to be losing their footing (see: Clinton). I've always found Rush entertaining, but sometimes his commentary really bothered me, so I didn't listen much. Having Obama in the White House, though, has me tuning in more often.

He's taken to referring to everything the President says as "what Obama's telepropmpter told him to say." Honestly, the first time he said it, I just did a double take, but the second I laughed so hard I thought I was going to run my hybrid off the road.

Now, Obama's teleprompter has a blog.

If we can avoid universal health care and much damage to the economy, this is going to be a very entertaining 4 years.

I find populism oddly arousing

Awesomesauce.

Now, something a little lighter

Upgrade

As of last night, I can announce it is possible for the coolest thing ever to get even cooler.

Sonos upgraded their software; I downloaded it last night. The system now loads local radio stations into the system based on my location (which I can change), and there are more than 10,000 stations and shows.

Sonos is, without a doubt, the single best purchase I've ever made, and the favorite thing I own. If you love music and want it everywhere in your house, this is an investment you must make.

Elle Em Ay Oh.

Awesome

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, 2008

I think the runner up should have won:

"Hmm . . ." thought Abigail as she gazed languidly from the veranda past the bright white patio to the cerulean sea beyond, where dolphins played and seagulls sang, where splashing surf sounded like the tintinnabulation of a thousand tiny bells, where great gray whales bellowed and the sunlight sparkled off the myriad of sequins on the flyfish's bow ties, "time to get my meds checked."

Another good one, the Romance winner:

Bill swore the affair had ended, but Louise knew he was lying, after discovering Tupperware containers under the seat of his car, which were not the off-brand containers that she bought to save money, but authentic, burpable, lidded Tupperware; and she knew he would see that woman again, because unlike the flimsy, fake containers that should always be recycled responsibly, real Tupperware must be returned to its rightful owner.

Another one:

The day started out as uneventfully as any other, and continued thus to midday and from there it was nothing at all to ease into an evening of numbing, undiluted monotony that survived unmarred by even the least act of momentary peculiarity-in fact, let's skip that day altogether and start with the day after.

Frustration

I would like to use my DVR to record the Olympics. Not ALL of the Olympics, just specific sports that will be on while I am not sitting in front of my television. I understand NBC wants to force me in front of my television so I don't skip the commercials, but that's not how things work any more.

Unfortunately, I can't find out what time certain sports are on television, I can only find out what day, and at what time of day. For example: The superheavyweight weightlifting final is on MSNBC sometime between 5am and 5pm on Tuesday the 19th.

I'm not recording 12 hours of stuff I don't want to see.

Great news for talk radio listeners in Baltimore

But maybe not so great for Ron Smith and WBAL.

Ed Norris, is moving from midday to drive time, getting the 3-6 slot on HFS. Don and Mike are apparently gone from the lineup (their show is syndicated, and apparently Don is retiring, so HFS is dumping the new 'Mike' show. I honestly never got Don and Mike, anyway).

The awesome news is that Brian Wilson is returning to radio in Baltimore - I've read he'll be on at noon, with Troy Johnson on from 10 to Noon.

I'm not sure how I survived

Over the past year or so, I've been able to enrich my life in several ways. Some of them, I don't understand how I lived without for as long as I did.

High Definition Television

Ok, seriously, I don't like golf. I don't watch it. I have zero interest. The day I got my high def TV, I spent an hour watching golf. Just because it looked that good. Watching non high def tv now hurts my eyes.

DVR

Up until we got the new TV last May, we relied on a VCR to record programs we really wanted to see. Given how awful television is, and living for a year with a little tiny TV 2 floors away from the kitchen, we weren't recording much of anything. Now, I've discovered a host of great stuff. Anthony Bourdain's No Reservatons, The Office, and reruns of The Tick. I honestly fell off the sofa watching 'That Mustache Feeling'.

BJs Membership

So the local Safeway has been where I get my food for the better part of 7 years. It's always been OK, but expensive. This year, we joined BJs. Honestly, I think we've already saved the $45 membership fee in meat alone. The prices and selection are fantastic. If you are a lifter and eat like I eat, you need to belong to a place like this.

Sonos/Network Attached Storage/MediaMonkey/Sansa

Yes, I've posted about Sonos before, but I finally got all my music stored on my Buffalo Linkstation (500G) as FLAC (lossless) files. I then put a lot of it on my 8G Sansa MP3 player, after using MediaMonkey to convert the files to MP3s. I'm rediscovering things I haven't listened to in years, along with new stuff via internet radio (my latest love is Radio IO Blues). I have a great selection with me all the time, an at home, the music is limitless.

Mandatory Smiling

Richard Martin. Someone we can all stand behind.

Goo!

Hilarious

Art in a new age

A few weeks ago, I posted a video that I thought was a great example of a new age of art, combining visual images with music and mathmatics.

This is another example of super cool human art/acting by Improv Everywhere. The reactions are priceless.



Via The Agitator

To be productive at work, I have to be well rested.

This is awesome.

Not safe for work because of language. If you don't like words you can't say on television, don't click on this.




Edit:

Here is the first one:

The Post Apocalyptic Workout

I've internet known Nina (of The Slack and TheSlackDaily) for years. She probably doesn't remember me, but we corresponded regularly via the newsgroup misc.fitness.weights many years ago.

(Remember the Great Doughnut Jihad?)

Anyway, she's got a fantastic new blog/project called The Post Apicalyptic Workout, wherin she prepares for the end of the world, and the zombies who (that?) will inhabit it.

Great stuff, and a great way to orgainize goals.

F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2)

This could possibly be the coolest thing I've ever seen. I'm a huge music fan. Tool is one of my favorite bands, and Lateralus is one of my favorite songs.

This video combines Lateralus with images from the Hubble Telescope, and points out the relationship of items in the song with the Fibonacci Number Sequence.

Lateralus sends chills down my spine when I listen to it. This video did that, and brought tears to my eyes as well. This is art in the new age.

Ride the spiral to the end.



Via Reason.