Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Got to love… “The pitch! And that happened. Apparently it was an S according to the board…” and many other great moments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrrx5CgdZaA
To be fair, the English commentator is doing a direct translation of the Japanese commentator… of course with how popular Baseball is there, I have to wonder how the Japanese commentator got his job. [...]
Posted in General on Mar 27th, 2008
No, not “Scooter” Libby, but scooters as in a type of motorcycle. I remember twenty years or so ago, thinking that getting a scooter would be a cool alternative to driving a car all the time. You would save on gas, insurance and all that. I never got one obviously.
Now they are coming back in [...]
Yet Another Music Video of the Moment.
Blood of Eden by Peter Gabriel, accompanied by Sinead O’Connor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA_lmSTqet0
From the Department of Misunderstood Lyrics that You Didn’t Know Were Misunderstood comes a contestant hopeful on Bulgaria’s, Music Idol (think Pop Idol or American Idol in Bulgaria) singing Mariah Carey’s “Without You”, but she has a curious misunderstanding of the lyrics. Here is her tryout (complete with subtitles):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI
After that she was invited back to [...]
Posted in Site News on Mar 18th, 2008
You may see Google AdSense ads appear in the menu with the “Support This Site” section. I am not seeing them yet on my computer, but I think my PC blocks them, so I can’t confirm if they will be there or not…
EDIT: They are there and my computer was blocking us from seeing them, [...]
Posted in General on Mar 11th, 2008
This one works for me, as does the full list, though I don’t know enough about Hitchhiker’s Guide to comment on that one and not sure which Galatica it is talking about here. I probably would fit more on Babylon 5 than Moya, but both would be good. The way the questions were going I [...]
Posted in General on Mar 11th, 2008
I saw a car transport truck carrying two Smarts, so the Smarts must be officially here. It looks like the Columbus dealer opened on the 20th of February, not sure about the dealer in the Cleveland area. These two were headed South, so my guess is they were heading to Columbus, unless Smarts enter the [...]
Posted in General on Mar 10th, 2008
I was thinking of using Joomla! for another website that I was thinking of building, since that website wouldn’t be a full blog. Joomla! is more of a CMS, where WordPress is focused more on blogs, but works okay as a CMS. Joomla! can do blogs well enough however, and overall is more versatile than [...]
Posted in Politics, Ron Paul for President on Mar 8th, 2008
Contrary to what you may have heard reported by the mass media, Ron Paul has not officially dropped out of the race. Rather he is moving onto the next phase, which is rather vague. I for one sincerely hope he is going to make a go for it as a Libertarian candidate again, the Republican [...]
Posted in General on Mar 8th, 2008
Essential watching for anyone who doesn’t understand the threat to the Internet being raged right here in the US:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_3WnJ42kw
It is about stopping you and me from communicating with the world at large, and just like TV, Radio and mass newspapers, limiting peoples voices so only large government approved corporations have a voice.
The corporations like Comcast [...]
Posted in General on Mar 8th, 2008
For our friends and family out of state. We have a ton of snow. A ton.
I left work early Friday with my manager’s permission/encouragement due to how much snow was down and coming. I left not long after getting all my work done. Typically I would go to the warehouse and help out there, but [...]
Posted in General on Mar 8th, 2008
Remember to reset your clocks this Sunday. That is, change it before you go to bed tonight (the 8th of March).
Posted in Ari Update on Mar 8th, 2008
We had a parent/teacher conference at Ari’s pre-school the other day. The short of it is that Ari is brilliant, doing very well, fits the Montessori method, and is a delightful addition to the class.
He still needs work on going up and down stairs, mostly going up since going down takes longer anyhow. Specifically he [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 8th, 2008
I saw this the other day, but I’ll just make a quick comment. Bush is going to veto a bill that would ban waterboarding, because torture, he says, is essential the security of the United States. The bill would limit the CIA to the same interrogation techniques the Army is, which itself somehow didn’t get [...]
Posted in Religion on Mar 8th, 2008
While from a neo-Christian perspective I may have wondered from the path (for reasons stated below and others that I’ll hold to myself), I think I can still speak on a Christian subject, hopefully with a more open mind than when I was in full God mode.
Posted in Ari Update on Mar 7th, 2008
A reminder to all friends and family, Ari will be four this Satuday the 8th.
Posted in Site News on Mar 7th, 2008
Thanks to the wonderful people at my host, A Small Orange, we are back online after a few sketchy days.
A reminder, the site will be down for a little soon as I upgrade to the new version of WordPress once it comes out. It should be out the 10th, though I may wait until that [...]
Posted in General on Mar 6th, 2008
I noticed at work the other day that the new version Microsoft Word had some cool bibliography tools and when I got home I checked out if OpenOffice had something similar. OpenOffice is like Microsoft Office, nearly as powerful and full featured, but free. For 99.99% of users out there, OpenOffice will fit their needs. [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 5th, 2008
Clinton won both Ohio and Texas. To be fair, she was expected to win both by a large margin, and her margin in Texas wasn’t much and the caucus isn’t counted far enough yet to see how delegates are distributed. None of the news organizations seem to agree on exactly how the counts are distributed, [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 2nd, 2008
I saw a comment from the Clinton camp the other day that if Obama doesn’t sweep all four states on the 4th by a large margin, than he in fact lost. Odd spin on the facts since prior to her statement, I was under the impression that Texas and Ohio were guaranteed wins for her, [...]
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