Minus The Bear has the best song names out of any band I listen to. Sure they don’t make a whole lot of sense, but they are great fun. Here are some of my fav’s from the amazing Highly Refined Pirates:
Thanks For The Killer Game Of Crisco Twister; Hey Wanna Throw Up?; You Kill Bugs Good, Man; I Lost All My Money At The Cockfights
Botch is a close second with its national inspired names on An Anthology Of Dead Ends:
Spaim, Japam, Framce, Vietmam, Afgamistam, Micaragua
Modest Mouse wins for best album title with Good News For People Who Love Bad News. Any
Anyone want to buy my N-Gage QD? I got it for review and have enough material–review should hit Monday or Tuesday. Looking to get $150 from it–retails for $199. It has no scratches and has been used with care. If no one here wants it I will pop it on eBay.
It will be getting a positive review. It’s the cheapest Symbian device you can buy, but comes with a MMC slot so you can load up about anything. Bluetooth works really well, very long range (so it can be used by multiplayer).
If you have any questions, ask in the comments.
I would say about 3/4 of mobile phones are launched by US carriers without a press release, or more accurately a press release at the time of launch. (I don’t know how many time I have posted about a phone now shipping and then days later see the “launch PR”). Here’s my question: how hard is it to write a PR that says your company is now shipping device XYZ?
Phone makers seem to be able to do it, so I know it’s possible. Verizon Wireless writes full press releases about new store managers so I know they have the time…
Until they get up to speed with the PRs I will stick to manually checking what phones are available from who. Lame.
So the storm that all weather types said was coming right to tampa took a surprise right turn and we got nearly no wind (it wouldn’t have blown out a lighter) and a drizzle of rain. Obvs I can’t really say that “someone was watching out for us” because that would mean that someone really has it in for Punta Gorda. Our dues are coming, we know that.
One of the best parts of the surprise turn was complete CYA mode on local stations from about 1PM on. Denis Phillips, the local ABC weather man was screaming “I told you!” (which he never ever did) pretty much all afternoon. Sometime inbetween these lies he muttered that the storm turned 190 degrees while he motioned 10 degrees. I think I may hate him now.
But I don’t hate him as much as one of their reporters, Don Germaise. He was at a Holiday Inn down south a bit orgasming over what looked to be minor cosmetic damage. It was the epitome of lame local news hype (and its not even sweeps!). He was in climax for a good three minutes of his report, screaming sweet love about fallen leaves and how he was the only one there.
There’s not even a whisper of wind outside. Talk about eery. Here’s about where I live, if the storm comes up through the Bay I will be here to meet it.
Why do a single shot when you can do a double? We’re getting ready for a 1-2 punch. To be honest, I’d take a hurricane over an earthquake any day–we know it’s coming. That and I’m not the owner of a beach house that will become drift wood. If we get a direct hit, I’ll post pictures.
If you didn’t already know: I live in Tampa, FL.
If you’re up for awkward-funny, check out Napoleon Dynamite. I never stopped laughing. I saw people I knew reflected in Napoleon, which made it all the better. Here’s the high quality trailer.
Update: How’s this for a review quote (from IMDB):
‘Dynamite’ is an end product that is so deadening, unfunny, and ultimately loathsome, one might start to worry about the mental health of people who actually find this movie funny.
Whatevs.
Sometimes after months of use you find a hidden feature in software… Today is my day. If you have tabs open in FireFox you can jump to them by pressing Command (probably Control in Windows) X. X is the number key for the tab you want to go to–they start at 1 at the left and go as far as 9.
Since you can’t skip tabs with command arrow, something I would really like, this is sweet.
Somehow I think everyone else knew about this. Is there anything else obvious I have missed?
Kill Bill 2 is getting released tomorrow, and it’s outselling Jesus. It has actually been on top of Christ for quite some time, but that’s to be expected because Beatrix Kiddo fans are pretty dedicated.
Besides being super lame, is it illegal to film your own (fake) beheading? I wouldn’t say so, but the FBI is investigating the not-really-beheaded hippy who got put all over the news this weekend. If they charge him with anything it should be for not putting on clothes before being interviewed by the AP. What the hell?
And if this is somehow illegal, there a lot of people involved in Lord of the Rings and Kill Bill that need to go to jail. I have seen Ork heads fly, not to mention what Uma did to the Crazy 88.
