Author: josh

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Yesterday I sent 87 separate emails. I’m not talking about sending one email to ten people, and counting that as ten emails. I’m saying that I sent 87 completely different email messages. That’s one every 12 minutes, since I was awake for about 17 hours.

That has to have been the emailingest day of my life.

Need the Info

Sometimes I start to wonder about stuff and I can’t make myself stop. For instance, this morning I wondered how they get the soda into the aluminum soda can. The can is sealed and it has no removable cap! I’m sure it’s a simple answer, whatever it is, but I don’t know what it is. I’ve got my guess, though.

Anyhow I’m hoping someone actually knows the answer for certain without having to guess, or can find it on the Net. Anyone?

Experiments in Sound and Video

ABC Family is becoming so artistically progressive lately, I tell ya! A couple hours ago, I turned on the TV and was flipping channels when I came to rest on what appeared to be 7th Heaven, and I was hearing some kind of voice-over. It looked like they were doing one of those effects where time stops briefly and we hear the thoughts of the character before they unpause time and we continue. And then the voices kept going, and the video (that shot on the side there) stayed still. For 30 seconds. Then a couple minutes.

Then the scene (in his mind?) changed, and went on for awhile. If this was Space Ghost, I wouldn’t have given it another thought, but as far as I know Space Ghost hasn’t crossed-over with 7th Heaven. Then the voice-over changed again and said, “New Johnsons’ Soft Lotion is for grown-ups!”

At this point I realized that something was seriously wrong. I said, “Steph, look at this!” Her response was a simple, “Oh yeah, it’s been like that since yesterday.”

Yesterday.

Wait, let me flip back there now and… yep. Still stuck. Now he’s staring at the floor, holding his pool queue, and wondering, “How did we get the Government’s highest safety rating?” Either someone at the station has locked themselves in and is having a little fun, or the guys running that place are morons. I wish I knew which it was.

Great Article

I don’t know how many of you know it, but Apple has a very healthy (or unhealthy, depending on how you see it) group of rumor and news sites surrounding it, which is totatly disproportionate to their marketshare. There’s one site, called Crazy Apple Rumors Site, which occaisonally has stuff that is quite funny, and today they posted this. Check it out. It’s funny. And true. It’s funny and true.

PS> Neal, I’m posting this from the largest library West of the Mississippi, and you totally missed out on a great library! (More on that later.)

Kid A (New Yorke, New Yorke)

I first heard Kid A recommended in the narthex at my church. I bet not many people can say that. Because they don’t know what a narthex is. Anyhow, a group of people were talking about Radiohead, and I said that I owned and liked OK Computer, and didn’t have their other stuff. One of the guys in the group, evidently the most Radiohead-friendly, seemed just a little bit disappointed by this. He encouraged me to check out Kid A as quickly as possible, and so a couple weeks later (after listening to a streaming copy at work) I picked it up at Wal-Mart while visiting Minnesota.

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