New York Times – QUOTATION OF THE DAY -
“I was tempted, I bought it, but I never used it.”
- THE REV. TED HAGGARD, a leading evangelical, on the methamphetamine he bought
from a male escort.
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Question: Has anyone ever sought out meth and thrown it away? Me thinks this is a suspicious claim…….
I just found this neato music service. It’s called SpotDJ. It hooks up with iTunes and lets you record a DJ spot about the song you are listening to. If there is already a spot, you get to listen, you can also add your own even if a song has a spot. It’s a chance for everybody to be a DJ and share that with the world. I’m having a fun morning, I’ve already spotted three songs. I’m DJ evoljennifer (as if you couldn’t guess that!).
And it’s definitely adhering to all social media principles, because when I joined I got to be a featured new member on the home page.
home page of SpotDJ after I signed up
And if you squint real hard, you can see my latest spot in the lower left hand corner.
Smoke and mirrors. It’s not real. All the images you see that make you feel like you aren’t one of the beautiful people, are fake. Nobody is one of the beautiful people.
I found this article about my cell phone company today. (Skip down to the second paragraph) You can get a service for your cell phone to get unlimited data downloads. However, if you read the story of Cringely, you’ll find that ‘unlimited’ to the cell phone company has a different definition than the dictionary.
I consider Princeton University a fairly reliable source. A study was just conducted there about the Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine and they don’t have too many comforting things to report. The good news is it can be fixed, but, it needs to be fixed or something else might end up fixed.
We don’t have cable. We don’t have DirectTV. We get to give all that money to Apple. YAY. We went to the store tonight and an amazing show call ’30 Days’ was available there, for free. I personally would have paid for this show, but it was free!!!!
OK.
The show is Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me Fame. The concept is that someone lives ‘a mile in another’s shoes’ for 30 days. This episode was about a Minuteman who went to live with a family of 7 illeagal immigrants in a one room apt. in LA.
Wow.
Watching this put the story together. This is inhumane. Keep them out. Send them home. Do the people saying that have any idea where they are sending these people? This is human suffering for no good reason. To me, that’s not worth it.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that this is something that should be remembered.
From Cluetrain Manifesto
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You are human
‘Scary isn’t it? Good. You ought to be scared. That’s a realistic reaction. You want comfort? Invent your own. Exhilaration and joy are also in order. But face the facts: the tracks end at the edge of the jungle.”
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I remembered the words from the song. Two of the parts of the 4 part round. Remember this is grade school.
Part One: (Kind of a chant) This is the land that I love, I love. This is the land that I love, I love.
Part Two: (A lilting choral part of the round.) I hear America singing, I hear her singing, varied carols I heeeeaaarrr.
Part Three: ?
Part Four: ?
Does anyone remember this song? Or am I making it up and thinking it’s a memory?
I had a memory earlier today. It was about grade school music class. We were being taught a song that we were to sing in rounds. All the rounds were about how America was great. ‘My country rocks…’ etc. It was a fine song and all but propaganda none the less.
Hmmmmm. So many influences guide us. It’s hard to say how we become what we are because some of it must be unconscious. These experiences that seep in unnoticed because we are young or for some other reason. It’s a good example of why it’s not such a bad idea to question what you are being told.
I loooovvveee Amanda congdon. NOt so much that I love her, it’s just her performance on RocketBoom. It’s so funny, quirky, silly, demonstrative, kitcshy and diverse. If you haven’t seen this video blog and you like quirky, you must see it.
This content is also available via TIVO. Way to go Rocketboom.
