| A suggestion |
[Oct. 8th, 2009|02:06 pm] |
If you plan to have offspring, do not name them any of the following:
| Aayden | | | Bayden | Brayden | | Cayden | Crayden | | Dayden | Drayden | | Fayden | Frayden | | Gayden | Grayden | | Hayden | | | Jayden | | | Kayden | Krayden | | Layden | | | Mayden | | | Nayden | | | Payden | Prayden | | Qayden | | | Rayden | | | Sayden | | | Tayden | | | Vayden | |
You'll be doing them a favor.
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| Andy Samberg |
[May. 6th, 2009|09:37 pm] |
If you haven't seen, watch:
I'm On a Boat
and
Like a Boss
Probably not safe for work, unless you are using headphones or keep the speakers low... or you have awesome coworkers! |
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| Happy Birthday Felix! |
[Feb. 3rd, 2009|08:19 am] |
Today is the 200th Birthday of one of my favorite classical composers, Felix Mendelssohn.
He composed Octet in E-flat Major when he was 16 years old. Many modern music critics and composers consider him the greatest child prodigy composer ever.
The Mendelssohn violin concerto is a rite of passage for aspiring violin virtuosos and considered to be one of the greatest pieces of music ever to be written for the instrument.
Perhaps the reason he is one of my favorite composers are his chamber works, small ensembles have long been my favorite type of classical music and he wrote for them with an unrivaled intensity.
If you've never listened to Mendelssohn, give him a try! His music his intense and energetic, and does a lot to dispel the stuffy notion many people have of classical music. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 24th, 2008|10:34 am] |
Fall has finally arrived! I'm savoring the cool, crisp air with extended bicycle adventures every night.
Its official! We will have a keg of Spaten Munich Oktoberfest at the wedding. Only 17 more days... |
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| Anybody know this guy? |
[Aug. 28th, 2008|08:48 pm] |
This little guy showed up on our porch about a week ago.
Tonight, he made his way from one of the porch pillars to the the ashtray/candle stand on the porch.
There is a little 9V battery which is wired to the lamp. The first time I noticed it on the pillar, the battery was dead and the lamp was out.
Somebody apparently put a new battery on it and moved it to the ashtray/candle stand.
Its awesome, and a little bit creepy at the same time.
Anybody know where it came from?
-Justin
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| from setiweb@ssl.berkeley.edu - need $4 million to continue operations |
[Jul. 9th, 2008|02:04 pm] |
Dear justin,
Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope and the source for
the SETI@home data that your computer analyzes, faces massive budget cuts that
will END its ability to continue the search for life beyond Earth. The decision
to ensure full funding currently rests upon votes in Congress on Senate Bill S.
2862 and House Resolution H.R. 3737. These bills desperately need more support.
Please take a moment to help us SAVE ARECIBO.
Clicking the link below will direct you to a web page that allows you to print
out letters prepared for your Senators and Congressional Representative urging
them to support Arecibo. Printing and mailing the letters is really easy, too!
You will also have the chance to add a few personal thoughts, if you wish, to
let your Senators and Representative know why this funding is important to you!
And if you're really feeling passionate about saving Arecibo, please use these
letters as the basis for letters you write yourself, urging your congressmen
and women to vote to save Arecibo.
Because our representatives in Congress rarely give much attention to all the
email they receive, printing out and MAILING these letters via standard U.S.
Postal mail remains our best option for contacting them and our best hope for
saving Arecibo (The second best option is to call your representatives). Your
42 cent stamps on these letters could help us get the millions of dollars
needed to save Arecibo.
Our search cannot continue without the necessary support. Your work, as
SETI@home participants, represents an indispensable resource for conducting the
search. Now, we need your help to ensure that our other most valuable resource
- our eyes and ears to the cosmos - can continue to probe the universe as we
seek to answer the question: Is there anybody out there?
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/arecibo_letter.php
Thank you for your help,
The SETI@home Team |
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| Happy Birthday Grandma |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|10:03 pm] |
Today is my Grandmother's birthday. She is living near my uncle in an assisted living center in New Orleans.
I miss her living in Tulsa, it was always fun to visit. I was going through some scanned photos and news clippings and found this one; I never knew she started med school at 19! Coincidentally, the clip was published on my birthday (28 years earlier). She's a brilliant lady.
Happy Birthday, Grandma! |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 30th, 2007|09:30 am] |
Bad movie accents: A pet peeve I share with the author of this article.
He rips on some very well respected movies, but I can't say I disagree with him. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 13th, 2007|02:51 pm] |
How do you load a server with 8 cores, 16GB of RAM, and attached Fibre Channel SAN?
Run Virtual Server 2005 as a deployment test environment with 3 copies of Windows 2003, 2 XP Clients, and 2 Vista clients on it!
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| Kunek Show this weekend |
[Aug. 24th, 2007|01:25 pm] |
I'm playing with Kunek this weekend in a string trio for 2 songs. The show is at Joe's on Saturday, but its outside which means its all ages and won't be super crowded like it normally gets inside.
$5, 8PM, all ages. Hope you can make it!
Flyer |
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| Justin's 2007 Diversafest Picks |
[Jul. 25th, 2007|10:41 am] |
Diversafest 2007, better known as DFest, takes place this weekend (July 27th & 28th) in downtown Tulsa.
$20 buys a wristband good for getting into any show at 13 different venues both days. With 6 bands playing at each venue each day, thats a grand total of 78 different unique musical performances to choose from. What a deal!
( Read my picks! ) |
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| Weekend from hell! |
[Jul. 2nd, 2007|02:42 pm] |
For the past week or so, we've been working on getting a property ready for renters to move in by July 1st.
Thursday: Skylar, Jennifer, Dave, and I painted the entire house in just under 4 hours. Quite a feat!
Friday: Dave works with some guy named Wayne to get most of the carpet installed; there are still a few smaller areas (small hall, closets, etc.) left to be done.
Saturday: Dave and I went back Saturday to finish up laying brand new carpet and replace the old linoleum in two bathrooms, a kitchen, and the entryway. Scraping and cleaning up the old tile is hell. I set a personal record for amount of hours spent working on a rent house in a single day: 11AM-5AM. That is correct, we were there for 18 hours (with no running water, had to either use the yard or drive to a convenience store for bathroom breaks and drinking water)
Whats worse is the new renters (and parents, from both the husband and wife's side of the family) kept dropping by to 'check up' on things. Basically, checking up meant wandering around the house and bitching about stuff. These things included:
1. We really wanted to start moving today (this in on the 30th, they were told the house would be ready the 1st, not before) since its not raining. They ended up putting a bunch of boxes in the garage anyway, which got in the way of cutting carpet.
2. The dishwasher doesn't match the countertops.
3. The stain on the woodwork is too dark.
4. The stove is old. (There is nothing wrong with the stove, it functions perfectly. However, it is about 15 years old; its not a new stove)
5. The old linoleum is ugly. (Yes, the stuff we are in the middle of replacing)
6. There is no shower curtain in the bathroom
They were driving me nuts! I was right on the verge several times of telling them off, saying something like this:
"Look, if this house isn't up to your standards, feel free to look elsewhere, we can refund your deposit. This is a 2 bedroom home with a fenced backyard, central heating and air, dishwasher, wood-burning fireplace, 2 bathrooms with showers in both, a garage, new paint in all the rooms, new carpet, and new tile in both bathrooms and the kitchen, WITH PETS ALLOWED for $550 a month. We can rent this house to somebody else in a day if you don't want it."
But I didn't, I just stayed quiet and went about my work. They came back at 10:45 PM to look around and see how things were coming, then told us "they were calling it a night."
Annoying as they are, I imagine they will take care of the house better than the last residents. The last tenant's dog urinated all over the carpet and was never cleaned up (I don't know if the dog simply wasn't potty trained or if they were never home to let it out, probably the latter.) Apparently, they started locking the dog in back bathroom when they were gone as it was extremely dirty and reeked of dog. People like that shouldn't be allowed to own animals. |
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| Post-Texas Music Review |
[Jun. 20th, 2007|10:33 am] |
This past weekend, Jennifer and I journeyed to East Texas to visit her father. On long road trips like this, I try to burn off as many new (re: not yet listened to by ME) CDs as I can. Here are my reviews for the discs enjoyed this previous weekend:
Bjork - Volta (2007) -
Homogenic (1997) is still most certainly my favorite album, though this album certainly takes second place. At times, the soaring vocals seem strangely mismatched to almost industrial beat backbones and ambient noise. Perhaps the most 'experimental' of Bjork's work to date. The guest vocals by Antony (of Antony and The Johnsons) makes a nice addition.
The New Pornographers - Challengers (2007) -
Not near as high energy as Twin Cinema. Whiny, slow, and lyrically trite indie rock. I only make it about 3/4 of the way through this album before pulling it out of the CD player. Not recommended.
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (2007)-
I'm not a Queens of the Stone Age fan, but I've been enjoying this album. The guitar work nicely compliments strangely haunting vocal melodies. Its rather hard to describe this album... Perhaps the best I can come up with:
"If one was going to remake The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this album would make the perfect soundtrack."
St. Vincent - Marry Me (2007) -
As much as I love the track "Paris Is Burning", the rest of this album isn't doing it for me, yet. Don't get me wrong, its not BAD, I'm just not to an 'enjoying it' stage yet. Perhaps repeat listen will reap reward. Do yourself and listen to "Paris Is Burning" on her myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/stvincent
White Stripes - Icky Thump (2007) -
This was a fun album, but I predict little replay value. The entire album doesn't have much cohesiveness, its more a collection of random and unrelated songs. The instrumentation is bare and simplistic (exactly what we want in a White Stripes release!), but the drum beats are extremely catchy. I found myself focusing in on Meg's daft manipulation of the bass drum. There are a plethora of genre-themed songs (An irish jig, a country song, a standard issue folk song, punk song, middle-eastern song, etc.)
Unkle - War Stories (2007) -
I've been an Unkle fan for a long time. Anyone who was into the 90s electronica scene (the serious stuff, not pop artist techno remixes) has probably heard of them, and I'd have to say they continue to excel at what they do. Constant collaborators with a wide range of artists (both well known and unknown), they sound changes drastically with every release. My previous favorite album of their, Psyence Fiction (1998), had a large amount of hip hop influence. This particular album enters into a new sound I would describe as 'ambient rock'. Highly recommended for anyone looking for a fresh sound rife with synth influence electronic beats. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 1st, 2007|11:04 am] |
Somebody left this on my door yesterday:
Its a perfect specimen of the phenomenon known as "Southern Baptists"
Only on a doorhanger inviting you to a Southern Baptist church would you see a bullet point "emphasizing the role of obedience to coaches"
I just don't understand Baptists. If Jesus is the most important thing in your life, wouldn't you do a bit of academic/historical research about it? Most rural churches don't require any sort of formal education to become a preacher. How are you supposed to teach people about Christianity if you don't know squat about it yourself? Most Baptists can't even tell you what language the bible was originally written in.
The whole literal interpretation of the bible idea really irks me too. Quote an obscure from First Timothy forbidding women from being ordained while systematically ignoring the entire book of Leviticus. |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 23rd, 2007|05:04 pm] |
I've been doing research and designing my portable XY Stereo Mic/preamp. Sample recordings to come soon.
I'm thinking about making it use rechargeable batteries. I always wondered why alkaline batteries aren't rechargeable, and I finally found the answer:
THEY ARE RECHARGEABLE! However, Energizer and Duracell would lose a lot of money if you recharged alkalines instead of throwing them away.
Best pictures of the day:
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