Drinking the Tigris: Adjusting the TV :: 02. 5.09
Wow. Looks like Fox News is having a really hard time adjusting to the new admin. This crap is unreal. I like the part about 'let's not even debate it, let's just rush it in on an emergency' that's kinda of how the Patriot Act happened right? WTF gives:
TED :: 02. 6.09
Here's a great video from this years TED conference. It's nice to see Africa treated as more than one big place. Watching this professor make data dance also makes me worry about California where for the first time ever, we'll spend more money on the criminal justice system than on public education and the university system. Seems like a bad omen in a time when we need innovation more than ever. Whooooaaaaaaaa, that's bad.
Music: Paul's Boutique Turns 20 :: 02.26.09
I bought the Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique CD at the Navy Exchange in Adak, Alaska the summer before I started 10th grade. Their first album came out when I was in Junior high. At that time, kids were listening to Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, Quiet Riot had a huge hit and I was memorizing LL Cool J lyrics, daily.
License to Ill wiped them all clean when it came out in 1986. LL sounded like an antique after that and Ice-T was never the same either. I remember standing in the bleachers at a basketball rally with one of the cheerleader's pompoms on my head screaming along with "You've got Fight". Every kid in the place was screaming the lyrics even though the rowdiest party we'd ever been too was straight Doughboy pool and Oreos. I really thought Brass Monkey was about a Brass Monkey. The whole record was kind of cryptographic challenge to my eight-grade dome piece.
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